The Lucknow Sentinel, 1953-09-16, Page 1(
$2.50 A Year In Advance—$1.00 Extra To U S A.LUCKNOW, ONTARIO- WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16th, 1953 : EIGHT P AGES
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DROWNED FRIDAY
AT CLAM LAKE
FOUR BOYS BAPTIZED
AT SUNDAY SERVICE
SET DATE FOR HOSPITAL
VOTE IN WEST WAWANOSH
LN HER 90TH YEAR, CAN
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Pbrcy Karl. Dickson, 27, of the
Wiarton district, was drowned
last Friday in Clam Lake; on Art
•’ Breckles’ farm in Kinldss Town-
At the morning service in
United Church on Sunday, Rev.
G, A. Meiklejohn baptized thq
following children: John . Aimer ‘
Ackert, son ofJMr^and Mrs.1 Jack
the.
ship. It is believed to be the first; SAckert of Holyrood; David James
r ■ , , jd^wning\at this, popular fishing
resort known as “Fisherman’s
cove’-. ■ •;' . •./ '4 ■
The victim is ;a married maft,
and with his Wife had spent the i
summer at- Kincardine assisting
his brother, Norman“ Dickson;
who operates the Knotty Pine
. Inn at the Lakeside town.
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Watson,_ sonofMr. and Mrs. Don-
ald Watson of Holyrood; Briari
Charles Attridge, §on of Mr. and
Mrs.. W. C. Attridge and Paul;
Ernest, Meiklejohn, -son \ of Rev.
and Mrs. Meiklejohn.
In the latter case the-minister
was assisted in the baptismal ser
vice by Mr. W. L. MacKenzie, as
Monday, October 5th,. has
been set as the date of the
vote in West Wawanosh .
Township on . the proposed
^y-law—to—grantWingham
• General Hospital $9,000 to-
wardstheburldingofaiiew
; 50;- bed;, chronic patients’
wing. Voting will be from.,
9.00 to 5200.
. • The decision will also gov-» ,
ern proportionate sums to
Goderich and Clinton Hos
pitals “as the need arises”.
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Iri the party were the two bro-i an official representative of the
thers Percy and Norman Dicksoq Board of Elders. •
and Constable Earl ’Wrightson of . . _____ _
Kincardine. It is stated that ail I k 4 A hl/ .. .
three would likely have drowned j MARK. FORTIETH
except for the rescue efforts of a KIKIIVEDCA DV
a party of American fishermen ’ N ■ V tlWAK ■
who were on the lake-at the ,,__lime in two other boats.—^d^Mrs^JW^jG. JFleed J
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The accident occurred before bfated their fortieth wedding an-
suridown and Dickson’s body was
recovered about 11 p.m. that
nighit in less than ten feet of
niversary over the holiday week
end. . ■; / '
William G. Reed and Debbie
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water. Grappling operations* had Webster were married on Sep-
been carried out from a big boat Member 17th 1913, by the Rev.
owned by Raynard Ackert, which I Ge°rge McKinley at, the home
• Mrs. Thomas Henry of Kinloss
Township was. ip. the office'• this
week to pay; for her Sentinel.
She, is in her 90th year, and is
-still^physieSRjj^and-menfaHy^-ialert
arid active. . . ‘ ‘
^^he^dqesrrher -own^hpuseworkr
at hrir. farm home, still reads arid
sews “ and in short ?is- never, idle.
] Her-eye sight is. excellent She
hasn’t had : her glasses changed
- in years, arid still threads her
sewing needles. .The only indica
tion that her sight1 “is slipping”,
is the fact she finds it. a little
I difficult, at times to, thread the
I needle on her sewing rhachine—
I but so far as other. needles ^concerned it’s no trick at all
Mrs. .Henry.
ICOUNCIL DRAFTS
I PARKING BY-LAW
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A parking by-law that vvill give.
Council the authority to order,
or haye removed, any offending
vehicle from any. street in the
Village,, was discussed at some .
length ?afTthe Monday mght ses7 ?
sion of' Council. A draft of .the ;
by-law 'will be submitted to the
Departrnent of Highways for ap- '
j prdval.«
. The by-law will restrict, the
( hours pf parking, and a’ clause
I will deal particularly with win-
iter parking, so as not to inter
fere with snowplowing. Reeve
i RobertsOn pointed out that Coun- 1?
cil did not wish to interfere with
anyone, but sirriply to have power .
to act when a riuisa:
j ated by any parked,
j Reeve Robertson i! __„
J the Department of Highways had
____ ~ribw assumed the full width of ' Dale Congram, 8-year-old son!Street. A Highways erigin-
of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Congram eer was in town last week and
of town, started back^to school was impressed with the prospects
last week—on crutches. The lad f<?r a Department-maintained
suffered a badly fractured pelvis • roadside park along Highway 86
early last February and for;in front of tbe new school,
months was'hospitalized or con-1 EayhtroUghing of the Town
fined to bed at his home. Event- ‘ Hall is a job few Workmen are
ually he was able to start mov-\ interested in, The Property Com
ing about on crutches, and while, mittee was authorized to enter
he can take a few steps now! a- contract with Art Gilmore
without them, he is not yet able who is willing to undertake it
to throw the walking aids away, i To Attend Industrial Meeting
While bedfast, Dale kept upj An invitation? was received
with his school work with thei from the Ontario Departirient of
aid of his mother and his teach- i Panning, and Development to at- r
er, Mrs. Roy ,Havens, and -at the-; tend a regional industrial pro-__
close of the term was well I motion conference in Walkerton
enough up with his work to be,on October 28. Councillor Stoth-
promoted to Grade III. ’ ”
{INJURED LAD RETURNED
| TO SCHOOL LAST JWEEK
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ice was cre-
[vehcle.. '
eported that
THAT Mr. and Mrs? Wm. Foster
. and children are residing ' in
the Gammie Apartments. Mr.
Foster js a f ireman on the CNR
passenger train between Pal
merston and. Kincardine
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THAT Mr. and Mrs. Spence Irwin
observed their 24th wedding
anniversary on Friday, Sep
tember 11th. • • ' •'
of Mrs. Reed’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. D. K. Webster.
? They have a family of six, three
sons and three daughters, Wil-
| liam D. of Auburn, Dick of De
troit, Howard of Windsor, Mrs.
Archie Nicholson of Belfast, Mrs.
Ben Brown of Port Albert and
Mrs. Bob Reid of Kinloss, and
thirteen grandchildren. One son,
Harold,passedawayinl927.— -
All the family gathered at Mr.?
and Mrs, Archie Nicholson’s home
for an anniversary dinner.
Icarried Raynard, two members of
the Kincardine Fire Department,
Donald McEwan and George Col
well. They body was sighted by
use of a jadklight.
: The three Kincardine men had
been on the lake the evening
previous in one boat and had
caught some pike. The following
evening they went out in two
iboatsrOnewaspoweredbya7%
H.P. motor with the second boat
Jri tow, in which was Constable
/Wrightsbn.
v Art Breckles, the resort .pro
prietor r was absent when ’they
went out and while he had re
turned in the meantime, was
away from home again when the
accident happened.
Details are not definitely est--
ablished and vary somewhat.
Constable Wrightson. was in the
towed boat, which upset, throw
ing him into the water. He was
clinging to the overturned boat
when Percy Dicksori is said to
have jumped, in to help him, in
spite qf the fact he could not
swim, or at least was reported
to be a very poor sWimmer. When
he came up Wrightson tried to
support him byt lost his grip.
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IS ENROUTE HOME •
FROM ARCTIC BAT POST
Bob Thompson is enroute home
from Arctic Bay aboard the
Canadian government ice-ibreaker
D’Iberville, according to word re
ceived by his family last, week
through a “ham” radio operator
at Owen Sound.
This was the D’Iberville’s
maiden voyage into the Arctic
waste. She stood off Arctic Bay
on Tuesday Of last week jjdlile
supplies were unloaded arid a
change of personnel made at the
Baffin Land weather observation
. _ r „ . outpost. The ship sailed on Wed-
The American fishermen, Fred,j nesday and is expected to dock
Paul and Han fimith nf llPtfraff ! nf ni.n^o<^_jL_the^iddle^f_Jnext_
Ohio, who were at the Westerly • week,
side of the , lake, went to their
aid: In the confusion and excite
ment of the rescue efforts' the
other boat containing .Norman
Dickson had also been overturn
ed. ■ : •;
Dari and Paul Smith were., in
a motor-powered; boat. They
reached Mr. Wrightson and he
clung td^ the rear of their boat
while they took hirri to shore.
Fred-Smith was -by- himself and
was using oars. Norman hung to
the back of his boat while. he
rowed to shore.
The, two upturned boats were
later beached.
students start
CAREER DUTIES
Students from Lucknow High
School are taking Up a variety
of courses and are scattering to
various centres of learning.
Norma' Sherwood and Mary Mac
Millan are .attending teachers’
college at .Stratford.
. Donald MacNay is starting en
gineering at Queen’s at Kingston
and Russell Barr is. taking up
engineering at Toronto Univers
ity. ' . lMurray McDonagh has started
a course' in electronics'at Ryer
son Institute of Technology. and'
Donald Thompson has commenc-.
ed his second year there in print-
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.Choosing the nursing profession
are Mary Jo Anderson and Edna
Reid who have entered Toronto
Weriterri Hospital and Ma*y Mac-.
Ifftyre who is at St. Joseph’s,
London.
'■ ’Arndrig. .those teaching in dis-,
trici schools are Betty Johnston,
Shriley Ru^eh<
ENGAGEMENTS
. Mrr and. Mrs. -W. J,-Turner
announce; the engagement of their
: oldest daughter. Ethel Joan, to
Austin Martin, only son of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Martin, Luck-,
now, Ontario. The marriage y/ill
take place at Westside United
Church on Saturday,. September
26, 1953, at .3? o’clock.
, ' Tile engagement is announced
of Catherine Isab^l.f Mabel Mac-
. Innes; dauglhtei^i Mr. John Mac- i i
Irineg and the late Mrs. • Mac*; wbilo Harold Howald is teaching
. Innes, to Mr. Victor Charles Hey,' iat Oowgaftda in the New, Liskeard
son,of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hey-djstriCt ,
....-■-•Gf--Blake-.t'^he--;marria^c~iO“-4akb-
place the-Jatter part of Septem
H-—y -several—otfaqL-
f Lucknowites will, .resume their
’studies- at Western University,
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Wk qf Lucknow, Ont., wish, to . John Cri|biri n ® X.
her;
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W* Grib* ^London. »* , - medical
-$on, of Luckrio«w, Ont., -Wfeh to t John e an(j pOuglas
announce'the engagement of their studies at W IP £ .
daughter, Catherine Marie, to Mr.. A an; son. Mr. arid Mrs^wm.
John Pritchett Crocker,of 7. Tra--Alton of.Toron 0, en(,J
falgar street, St. Thomas, sen of of this Xiic.ine at Tor-Mr, and Mrs. Hgrtild J. Crocker, ;h>stth sear in- n*Jicine at Tor
The wedding will take tiTaee Oct- BHWOber 9 at 7 o’clock in the United dorters-to-be^^^
Church, 'Luetow? ' mg--courses during the summer.
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THAT Ken Chester had his hound
die of poisoning the first of
the week. The very sick dog
was discovered by Jerry Rath-
.' well near his home. Veterinary
aid failed? to save the animal.
THAT Messrs. Ernie and Jack
,. Ackert left this week by motor
: on a cattle buying trip in Wes-
; tern Canada. *They WilL prob-
ably go as far as Regina..
THAT S. , B. Stothers, Huron
County’s first agricultural rep
resentative, was scheduled to j
1 open the Belgrave School Fair’
_on Wednesday. Steve organize-d
the Belgrave Fair, as well as
several other school fairs while
in Huron.
BUYS PURDON/tiOME
Mr, and Mrs. Robert Ritchie of
Ashfield have bought Hector
Purdon’s ,residence on Stauffer
St., and obtain immediate poss
ession. \ .
The home has been unoccupied
since the Purdon Family moved
to Petrolia. Rector recently sold
his bake shop in that town arid
is now engaged in the real estate
business at Sarnia.
DISCUSS RURAL
TUITION_FEE
The increase .iri tuition,fees fo‘r
rural students' attending Luck
now Public School, was explain
ed at a meeting here .on Monday
night. Present, were members of
the Lucknow Bo^rd, Trustee
-Boards—of—Paramount—and—Grey
O»x Schools^ members of the Ash
field School Area Board and Mr.
j. M. Game,* public school inspect'
tor. .'•/•/-. ?
. The fee paid by rural school
boards ..transporting 'pupils , to
LUcknoW^Public School for their
tuition is now. $60 per pupil. This
was increased from $25.00, a fig*'
ure the local Boaird feels should
have beeri gradually’ increased,
starting long ago, in keeping with
the increased icoSts of educatiori/
Gross, cost, of- education at
Lucknow Public School is close
to $100.00 per pupil.
RUi'al Trustee Boards receive
provincial grants on the $60.00
fuition fee. Lucknow’s provincial
grants are supplemented by $16
for each rural student 7 ’
Monday’s * meeting officially
.cleared up several points, which
rFad been under discussion in the
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ers, who was back at the Board
' after a summer absence while
i in the West, proposed that the
entire Board attend the confer-
»ence.
George Irwin of/the Blqckj This invitation gave rise to an
Watch Nova Scotia Highlanders {industrial discussion and ways
is spending twjo weeks embarka-' and means of focussing attention
tion leave with his parents, Mr. ion Lucknow’s industrial prospects
and Mrs. Spence ^Jrwiri.^ .They I and Opportunities were voiced,
will sail from Seattle for Korea T* "rA<*
as an occupation unit.
George has been at Wain
wright, Alta., and came east ori
an army troop train , that reached; suggested that a brochure be pub-
Toronto Sunday. Another districtilished carrying information of in-'
irianonboafcd_wasFrancis?Hewat;terestto_jndustrialists.^__ ______
of Blackhorse. He was met at J Councillor Smith advocated a >
definite industrial policy, but it
was pointed out by Reeve Rob
ertson that there are limitations
to Council’s authority in offering
concessions.-to_industry.-____ ____
It was decided to submit a
questionnaire to the Department
asking for information in regard
to , industrial fixed assessments,
which question will be dealt with
at the regional confererice.
ON EMBARKATION LEAVE
Toornto by his wife and other
relatives and George accompan
ied them to Lucknow, /
CULBERT family
HELD REUNION
An interesting Culbert Family
reunion was held oil Sunday, |
September 6th at Sunny Acres
Tourist Camp, on the Bluewater
Highway south ofKincardine. A
< gathering of somg, sixty relatives
and friends were present for the
reunion dinner.
The event featured .the 25th
Wedding anniversary of Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Ashton of Detroit. Mrs.
Ashton was formerly Velma Cul-
| bert; eldest daughter of Mrs. Ef-
fie Culbert arid the late Aridrew
Culbert. Mr. and Mrs. Ashton
were rharried in Detroit a quart
er of a century ago and spent
It was pointed out that there >
are good industrial sites avails—-
able, apart from the idle furni
ture plant. Councillor MacSweeri
THAT. Donald Blue has been
elected by acclamation to fill
a vacancy on the Riplejf coun
cil board. He had. previously
served on the Council before
his election to the House of
.Commons.
POLE REMOVAL
WORK ADVANCES
er of a century ago and spent Lucknow’s main street is tak-
their honeymoon iri Ashfield with l ing on a new look- as. a result ? -
the bride’s grandparents, Mr. andJ-Of the removal .of hycjro poles
Mrs. John Johnstone, who have i and overhead lines.- Work bn the
now passed on. The attendants | south side of the street from '
at their wedding1 were Mr. and Finlayson’s corner (Ross St.), to ;
Mrs. Frank Griffin. ' (
Friends arid rdlativ6s were pre-..week,
s’erit at .the reunion from? Detroit, T’.?.
Loridpn, Clintprij
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Outram St. was completed .’last.
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Loridpn, Clinton^ Windsor, and being attached to the buildings on'
Ashfield, iand Mr. and Mrs.’A^sh-I the north side and .when wires \ -
ton Were nappy to have their son astrung along the buildings, /
present. He is stationed at Fort l/he pole line will be removed-. ?
Knox, Kentucky, With the^U.S. !' . Improved street lights on a /
army./ * , j long extending. arm are Suspend*
Mrs? Culbert, was surf bunded -bd from metal; standards that fitt
by her; family, of five sons. anc/.tight to the buildings. . •. ’/ '*■ '
I The removal of the ’poles gives//
a wider street and.
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boulevard. In order to widen The ’
Inglis fp-Outram, trip removal of
three daughters, Mrs. y Ashton j •
(Velma), Mrs. Ed Smith (Ila), the. effect of g
MrS. Harley McIntosh (Peggy) of , a much more
Detrqit; Andy of Windsor, Bor- -—I.. ~—..
den arid Elmer of Detroit arid. Al* street on the' north side \from
lan.aind Herb at hoirie. Tnghs to-Outram, the removal of
AUrits and,uncles present were trees in ftWlt’ of the Bank of
Mr. and Mrs-. Jim Culbert; Luck- Montreal arid easterly, is being 1
how; JMfn . arid Mrs* Harry Fowler,now; Mr. and Mrs* Harry Fowler, corisidered. The - maintenance of
Clinton; Mr. and Mrs. Albert! the full width of the street, has'
Oempbellr^dMr^erid-M^A’ta'beerif "trie De*'-
MacDonald/ Ashfield. \ • ’ ■ par tri-ich/of’.'highways.
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