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LUCKNOW
LOOKING BACKWARDS
THROUGH THE SENTINEL FILES
WITH MARGARET THOMPSON
-10 YEARS .AGO
AUGUST 1964
At a special meeting of the
Village: Council construction and
installation of new lighting was
approved on Canipbell Street
from Havelock Street to the East-
ern limit of the municipality. Es-
timated
cost was $3,451.85 for
material and $3,060.00 for labour.
The major single item of the road
and bridge program was the con-
struction of a new bridge on Wil-
loughby Street south of the busi-
ness section. Owen King was aw-
arded the contract, being the low-
est of three tenders.
Bruce County Mutual Air Fire-
men's Association, concerned
about the misuse of firecrackers
and fireworks within the county,
made a motion to be presented to
Bruce County Council calling for
a county -wide by-law preventing
the sale of firecrackers and fire-
works.
In a continuous all -day opera-
tion a permanent re -enforced
concrete floor was laid in the loc-
al arena. This was the final stage
of.the artificial ice installation,
which had been a major project
of the Lucknow and. District Lions
Club involving a total expenditure
in the neighbourhood of $38, 000.
30 YEARS. AGO
AUGUST 1944
"The Sound Arm" , the plant
news bulletin of the Lucknow
Maple Leaf Aircraft Corporation,
made its debut. The first issue
was an interesting five-page
mimeographed volume containing
a variety of fact and fun. Ir was
to be published semi-monthly.
August was ushered in with a hot
wave that sent the mercury soar-
ing to 92 degrees. The following
day the temperature
reached 94 1/2 for the hottest day
of the summer.
"Spare the milkweed" was a
request from the Agricultural
Supplies Board, the reason being
that milkweed floss was urgently
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APPEARING THIS
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, SEPT. 6 AND 7
Little England
N.F.U. NEWS
The federal Minister of Finance
or , if necessary , the Cabinet
should overrule the governor of
the Bank of Canada on recent in-
creases of interest rates, and roll
back interest rates as a counter in-
flationary move.
These are the views of Blake
Sanford, Region 3 (Ontario) Co ,
ordinator of the National Farmers
Union, who said today in Guelph
that 'surely it has become appar-
ent to the governor.of the Bank of
Canada , and the federal govern-
ment, the practice of continuing
to raise interest rates is creating,
not curbing inflation".
"It's a vicious policy. lt'/s like
trying to put a fire out with gaso-
line, at today's gasoline prices,
and has been, totally ineffective in
reducing the rat., of inflation."
Mr. Sanforca said farmers are
particularly hard hit by escalat-
ing interest rates because most
depend upon borrowed money for
needed by the. United Nations for
buoyant waterproof fibre to re-
place kapok in life preservers.
for the armed.:forces. The Board
had an objective for 1944 of
250 hoop bushel bags of milkweed
nous and paid 20¢ for each bag of
dried pods. Collection was to
begin the first or second , week in
September.
50 YEARS AGO
AUGUST 1924
Thereunion of the Webster fam-
ily, first of pioneers in the
vicinity of Lucknow , which took
place in 1923, proved so success-
ful' a second reunion was held in
August 1924. Two greatly beloved
members present were Mrs. David
Anderson, age,84 and Miss Eliza-.
beth Webster , age 82, the only
surviviors of the original Webster
family that settled in Ashfield
Township. Also present was Mrs.
Webster age 83, widow of the
late Robert Webster who accom-
panied her husband when he with
his parents, the late Daniel and.
Susan Webster , first,came to this
sec tion.
Daniel Webster ,with his wife and
three eldest sons, James, .Robert
and Thomas left their home in
Tipperary County, Ireland, in 1837
and settled on the site of the vil-
lage of Norval in Halton County,
In 1853 his family, now
grown to ten, five sons and five
daughters, made a prospecting trip
to this section, and where he pur-
chased 400 acres of land , 200 on
the 12th concession and 20u on the
Goderich Rdad (which at that time
had not been opened all the way
through). A part of the latter por-
tion in 1924 was within the wester-
ly limits of Lucknow.
It was reported that Mr. Webster
felled the first tree on the site .
of the village. When he came a
swamp and the original bush cover•
ed the entire area,
Having arranged with a nearby
settler to, build for him a log
shanty and to clear ten acres of
land, Mr. Webster returned home .
to bringhis family.
The Webster families were am-
ong the first and most active sup-
porters of Methodism in Northern
Ashfield and among the first of
the circuit riders to minister to the
settlement was the Rev. James
Caswell, who came to the Goder-
ich Circuit in 1859 and had as out-
lying appointments the small log
churches at Hacketts and•Zion.
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WEDNESDAY, SEP1EMEER
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PHONE 528-3S32 . LUCKNOW
operating costs of 'machinery, fer-
tilizer ,
er-tilizer, repairs, andbuildings,
but are not in a position to include
the added cost to their finished
product. They, .like the vast
majority of the working public
are stripped of their earning power,.
"Other industries," he said, "are
able to include increased costs to
the end product, price, and do so
regardless of whether they use bor-
rowed capital."
"Increased interest rates create
a snowballing effect and have in-
strumentally imposed inflation on
great numbers of Canadian people
who have no counter" action, while
at the same time setting the stag
for exorbitant profits for banks,
financial institutions and large -
corporations who are financially
buoyant."
The revisions to the Bank Act,
proposed in 1965 , and lifting the
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ceilings on interest Cates, su
edly so the banking instal
could become "more comps
ould well be labelled asp
t e initial culprits to inflati
anada.
Mr. Sanford said that loll
a substantial roll -back din
rates then a -ceiling should a
be imposed.
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