The Lucknow Sentinel, 1962-01-17, Page 1a
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LUCKNOW,'ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, JAN. 17th, • .1962'
Single Copy l0c
12 .Pages:•
Haemorrhaging Close Car :Youth
Due : To ' :Nose :. Injury In (:Or . Accjd�nt
Bob'. Scott, `18:year.-old, son of ceived more than a complete
Mr;, and Mrs,. Jack Scott of Con- change of his own blood.
cession. ,41 Huron, .owns ip,: was ;
expected home from the hospital
on 'Wednesday, ,afte, , a narrow
brush with death.
On the . night of Friday,, Janu-
ary 6th, Bob was in' an accident
on Highwa4,86,' in:the Paramount.
• district .west of Lucknow.,, The
1960: Chev he`, was • driving ,'was
demolished when it struck .a tree
• near the farm of Grant Parrish.
• Sortie time later, .Bob was able
,...to hail the Highway Patrol:.crew
of,Ed McQuillin and Orley• Coop-
er, who brought him to. Dr:;
Corrin's office ' for treatment;'
:Bob. was able to return 'home
.and it was not until. Monday that
gcommenced e
• ' haemorrhaging c d caus-
ed by bone fragments of a •'nose
fracture'. He: was brought.' .to.
Lucknow late Monday.. 'afternoon
and_:; within :minutes, - Dr; -_Corrin -
had ,improvised his. car as an am
bulance, and .: rushed • Bob ''to:
:Wingham hospital . for blood
• transfusions. 1'
"Down 'to 'the. .last. bottle ;of,.
blood" at Wingham, Bob was
taken to St. Joseph's Hospital,
London, 'on Tuesday .where • fur
-
Aar transfusions were; given to
sustain the youth . and prepare
him' for, surgery' on his nose ' on -
Thursday.' This , relieved. the
haemorrhaging and Bob. has
• since made a • ``wonderful. im-
provement.";'
Bob's loss • of blood was so'
great,; that . ;by : transfusion , he re-.:
Lucknow Airman�
OIita,nsPronotion
Metz, ,France••;The promotion'.
' of 'Flying: OfficerLloyd Hender-
son,.
enderson . 42 • of'Lucknow, to the rank'
..of flight "lieutenant,. has, been
announced •:Air Division Head-
quarters.
Born in Kinloss' . Townshi .. &
A :No.
ed 'c
u ,ted at Lucknow; he .joined
the RCAF in 1940 add :has
.servedNo. 54
inthe RCAF ih:themobile equip -
No.,: 6..
Ment trade •.. for :more . than:` two
'decades.
' During the SeeQnd: World War,:
EKcf P. A. Murray
Reeve;Of Kinloss'
.Persistency paid off. for P. A.
"Phonse" Murray,• who was elec-
ted reeve of .the `Township of
Kinloss last Friday .in a by-elec-
tion to fill the vacancy 'caused by
.the death of Reeve Harold 'Percy:
Mr. Murray and. Wallace Conn,
two • ex=councillors not currently.
on . the Board, . 'contested the of -
flee
ffice with• Mr. Murray polling 280
votes and.. Mr. .Conn, 183.. •
Mr Conn received ,strong sup-'
port in his home polls ;'of White-
church and Langside.'•
'Mr. Murray ; received a ',big
plurality—at-the-second come
sion poll, • and at .his. :home' .poll.
at Holyrood, In additipn he re
ceived' better support than 'Mr.
Conn• at Kinlough . and' Black-
horse•�to build up an unsurrnount_,
able lead.
A year;' ago -Mr.- Percy edged.
Mr. Murray by. 33 votes. It .was
pretty much •. ;nip and -tuck.
throughout the Township at that
time, except at the Kinlough &
Langside polls .which gave 'Har
'old his, -main margin
Ther deputy returning offices
and .poll. clerk at. each subdivi
sion in Friday's vote were: -No 1,
Blackhorse, .Ivan Geddes, im
McEwan;' No, 2, ..Kinlough, .Alex^
t.
Percy, Harold Haldenby,; No. 3,
Holyrood, Mrs,. Wm. •S. .Eadie,
-on
.Jim:•Moffat• 10..' S4` ec dCon
cession, Frank MacKenzie,W J.
Irwin; No. 5, ' Langside, ,Parish,
'Moffat, Phillip Steer;.. No. 6, •
Whitechurch; Donald 'Ross, Milan
Moore.
' ' Murray` Conn
No. '1
No.
2
FAL. . Henderson served.: on " Can-
ada's East Coast, in •Ontario and
Alberta.' Before being assigned
to 3,; Fighter Wing,; Zweibrucken,
s Germany, iwhere. he. serves as a
mobile support equipment offi-
cer, he was stationed at RCAF
Station, Bagotville, Quebec.
FAL Henderson, 'son ; of.. John
Wesley Henderson, ' -Boundary
-West, and the late•Mrs, Herder -
son,.. is married to 'the ,former'
Audrey .Campbell of Albertan,
P.E.I. They have two children:
LOc' �I Lady Vohs
Niey{ On Tuesday
Mrs. .Jack.. Hamilton: of ;Luck=,
now. `observed her 90tki• birthday
on • Tuesday, January :16th. .• A
family dinner was held on Sun-•
day ' to mark the occasion: .
Mrs. Hamilton.' enjoys compar
atively good health and is busy
, every day with" her housework.
Mr. and 'Mrs., Hamilton farm
ed' on the Boundary; .'West, and
Mr. Hamilton ,was mail courier
'on R.R.' 3, Lucknow for several
years. before.. retiring :to Luck -
now. His death occurred, a' num-`
ber of ,years ago ' •
,Members• of the family are' a:
daughter Verna at. home,and two'.
sons, Carman of Lucknow 'and
Garnet of Hamilton. Another.
son, .:Lorne,, died at Iamilton a
year ago last October,.
Con g rattlations and best. Wish-
es are ex'ten.ded to Mrs: Hamilton.
yin, and Mrs Lorne ' Marzaiii
(Pretty' Griffin) of St: Marys were
among those attending' the birth-
day dinner onSundary. ' Weather
3�
;�oocliiioris preveted the Hamilj'-
;'ton folk from being•present.
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LAD "PICKS" . BIRTHDAYS'
TO SPEND IN. HOSPITAL
Allan Gardner,- son of Mr.
and Mrs. Sid Gardner of
'Lucknow is a ' patient. in.
Wingham hospital with pneu-
monia. 'Allan observed his
..13th birthday there on Wed-
nesday of last week.
Incidenrtally it•seems• to be
his misfortune 'to have spent
his past three birthdays in
the same place:.— Wingham
Hospital.
Pine River Lid..' Mill Unc9nscious frog
Inii..ries . In Freak F Highway Accident
Mrs.itervin Eckmier of ; Ping,
River ,was still unconscious; the
first of the ' week, and her•. con-.
dition serious, from injuries re-
ceived 'in a freak highway acci
denoflat; °astt wHareek, Wednesday
Pine River Cheese. factory and
accompanied by :Mrs.. Eckmier,,
was eirroute to Hamilton toat-:
tt nd ' C
e a , heesemakers convention,
Nevar Harriston: a,• tow. •truck;'
was pulling 'a car from a. drive-
way, and had :crossed, the high
Mr. Eckmier pis manager of' the wayiwith the' truck's cable'' stret-
Make Formal Application For L,pHS Wing,
No Committal ,Given Wingham School
Lucknow` District .High School
Board• met on' Thursday evening
to make form' 1 'application fo
...,; formalr
the . approved addition.to. • Luck -
now 'District ' High School;
•the aim is to have the addi-
tion ready, by next fall oto relieve
the' serious overcrowding ' ;that.
presently sentl, exists. •
The :.Board has also '.gone on;
record as opposed to commiting.
any given number • Of student's
to attend' the • proposed compo=
site . vocational school to be
built at Wingham.
Accepts Position
In Bermuda.
Miss Dorothy Alton, da fighter
of Mr.. and 'Mrs.- Lton-.off•
Ashfield has taken a position as.
food supervisor at the 'King .Ed-
WardMemorial Hospital 'in ' Ha-.
milton, Bermuda.
,Dorothy ; left by plane :from
Milton on Monday morning on, a'.
four-h;our. '.:flight to . . !Bermuda,
Wingham • had requested'- a Where she will . spend the next
sliding scale at:tendan,e . over the
next three 'years of •5, 10 and..
15% of ,ucknow's student en-
'roln'ient:
Year . at feast •
Miss 'Alton is a `•r
gaduate .of.
MacDonald; Ins:titute:'•'at' Guelph,
and '.for . the • past .year had; held
While' 'declining to 'give this the position of food ; supervisor
cominitnent, .' approval 'is' being . at ,Stratford General ' Hospital .
•'given :`'in a "letter ' of„',intent,":.r ,
ched :between the two vehicles.
Thecable was not seen by Mr.
Eckmier ' and indriving into it,.
the tow line• snapped.. It, broke
through the windshield in .the
Eckmier car and the cable whip
lash struck Mrs. Eckmier 'a sev- ,
ere blow.. Shesuffered injuries ,
to her .jaw, collar bone and
throat.
She was to P takenalinerston
hospital and' from there to .Kit-
chener -Waterloo
Kit-chener-•Waterloo.Hospital, `where
Doctors are , ' pingga-c4ose-Wa -
on her condition, hopeful of signs •
of. her regaining ' consciousness:
If . not, they may have , to re-
sort to °surgery. 'The only : 'im-
,provement in her condition 'until
the first of the week, was that.
she was' breathing a little easier
,She . has . been. running ca .high:
fever : and has beenin an ice
pack:
Mrs: Eckmier. .is 56. They .have r>,
no • children, Mr. Eckmier ` has,
been in 'Kitchener most: of the
time ;since the accident. J'
Stari
nat�e ICce I bu nndihermometer.
�Post
Off to ;a rousing start; the The donations acknowledged thia,:
Artificial lee'.:Fund stood at week are indicative ,;of generou' '•
'slightly—over ,$5,200; as of . Mon- support and, "snowballing t en
da thusiasm for the .project,which
This ' . :figure in lu es 'onlY a will r uire at the very least '
Some.: $18,000.
ti
big boost to; the 1fund is the.
donation froth: fr . omn_..:
,800 • �. the 'Ce . •
tennial Fund, authorized': by the;"
Executive,<'subject to, the appro-
val of coinrnitt ecliairmen, Which'
ha r -
now � e ceive in'
s b dwrit.:.: ' ..
in
Added ao this is ., the ...Lions • `'
Club ice fund "nestegg" oclose
-.---' (Continued , on Page 3)),
that students desiring vocational.
training at '• Wingharii, will'. have,
their transportation . and ' tuition
provided by. the; Lucknow Board:
• It is •unde stool thatthe
RiPle
y
District .Board .is:also •in'. agree
Merit w the �i his plan. this. p a
On ' Monday evening Arthur
Hodgins arid' Gerald Rathwell of.
the Lucknow Board and, Jim Ket-
claabaw" and . Bill • Harris .of,' the•.
Ripley : Board,: met .here ' with'
Wingham Board members to •dis,
cuss '' this angle of vocational.
'training:
"Letters of Intent" .are. 'requir
r a'' forthe Win
:ed, �we unde st nd, g
ham Board , to make formal ap
;:plication for. the . ,vocational
school which is tentatively ap
.proved:
•
.very few ;:,donations received. by
the corps of' Lions Club. canvas-'
sers ,who. are,' or 'will b:e, ,call�n7.
door -to door throughout ,town Sr.
country •.
These ' caller's. 'are just getting
started, with the canvass offici zi
ly just •ni°cely underway, ``, and,'
Weather conditions have'not'been
the best,:' ,..es:?ecially •::for: • rural
calls.
• •
Bernice Thompson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs, Frank' Thompson
Of 13,,rt, 1'; Holyrood', had the hon.
taut' of naming' the tiew Kinlo
Central 'Public School: Bernice':s
r.
a e 'was' picked from those en.
tore n a..' contest and: • she is
:shown in -he, picture being pre-
scn,ted With her award by l:?ard
ecretary' . Treasurer-,. Allister
Hughes, On the left
fiughes is Chairman'
Fi aser MacKinnon,
right is the `school' Pi
Bushell,
•
. nod .to
of'the Board.
and' on . •tac
i,racirtal,. J, VI,
Despite a . battle with thewea
therman for ' two : weeks in a
row, . Kinloss.,' Central.. Public
School was literally.: `•`busting at .•
.
the seams" with: interested rate.
,priyers and visitors ",at the•, official,
opening of the. new $95,000 ,school,
at • Holyrood on. Friday night: Icy
road conditions. the ; Friday pre
vious„ had : necessitated the` post
poning of• • th•e' opening.. for one
week, and. heard, 'members were
m doubt again:. on Friday last
whether • the weather would let
then' px oceed.
Heavy snow, all : day did ;not
prevent. a ` capacity .'crowd from,
attending, ' and, ' no; doubt if the
opening had been : in summer
weather the building would net'
have held : the attendance., One'.
'hundred chairs were ' originally
set up in. the assembly room
where, the 'progran7 was •held;'An ,
additional ;number were added,
and' the , halls. and classrooms
the 'building were well filled gin
addition to this.
Prior to' and, after the program
the school was inspected by'thrise
attendi'ng, with teachers & board
members meeting, the public, The
school has ' four classrooms; �s M
semb]y ' rooms children's ''wasli.
rooms, teachers' 'wash . roarns,
principal's office and • teachers'
room, All are• modernly, equipped.
with the' latest *in constructional:''
and 'educational: ideas and are
electrically heated, in addition to
the original contract of $85,000; a"
.further. .10;000 'was spent on fur-
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