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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1963-07-25, Page 13;g0pAR. AND i4pic.g.. Dispensed, by Smiley Back to th home tow. Transite SEWER PIPE It is strong and durable, with tight positive joints. Economy 10 ft. lengths mean fewer joints in the line, Its smooth interior urface assures high flow capacity. 4" DIAMETER ONLY 59 c FT. Interior DOORS Factory seconds—ideal for the cottage or summer home. Also used for coffee tables when tapered legs are applied. BIRCH, MAHOGANY, BEECH c2 AND FIR AS LOW AS *1/%0***nko riig-a-loo Magic Irubricant Windows Stick? Drawers Stick'? tip. pars stick? Use Conklin's Jig.a.loo. Now spray away sticking and bind. ing in 101 plates with Jig-a.loo, the dry spray lubricant. Use it on drawers, doors, zippers, bicycle chains, it won't stain. Try it. ONLY* $1 39 7.02. CAN light Fixtures Famous Xamro Light Fix. tures --- Smartly styled for your porch, kitchen, !Wino room or den. Base colours in brass, chrome, white and ivory, StARAING Al $1 .75 Summer Store Hours Monday to Friday 8 to 50 Saturday 8 to 4 NO bOWN PAYMENT ON tONKLIN CUStOM CREDIT fat thainas Road, W.„, .'kxater li .Z36.1-421 Lutan'S Gift Shop , Mrs. J. 5, Radcliffe 4j k d i 227-468t Liman *. 1 'pp * ;V i Treasure Chest New Gift ARRIVING DAILY at our new iodation, in the Radcliffe drug Store ramauffstrunr • Page, 11: July 25, 1963 niesie.eren's'9-"" Lucan Phone. 227.425S cprrpop,n4•W; A40011. =1;,, ':".40Mr-11204=4=WAIst% Andrew Hodgins, left, 21-month-old son of Sgt. and Mrs. A. 3, Hodgins, is on native soil for the first time. Although he was born in France during his father's tour of duty with the RCAF there, Andrew is officially a Canadian. He's seen with his sister and brother, Susan and Michael. Boy born in France comes to native soil' ineffable )ay, Sylph-like c r e at ur e they were, slim as goddesses, smooth as butter. They have four kids, false teeth, and a, nasty habit of telling you that you're getting pretty thin on top. Or expreasing shocked disbelief that you are actually the lean, flat-stomached, thick-hair ed slice of youth who took them to their first dance. * You revisit the old swim- ming hole with your kids, and find that the green and gold oasis of clear, cool water you've so often mentioned is a dirty little mud-hole full of green slime and saucy small boys. You take your youngsters down to the bridge, to show them where you Used to make those 30-foot dives. They've either lowered the clang bridge or raised the water something fierce, because it's gni Y a three-foot dive new. You take your childreaareund to see the old family home. You look for the hUga brickmansion With the Vast porch AN the big, white picket fence. You finally find it, your kids take a long look at the dingy little hoUse with the sagging verandah and the ragged, unpainted fence, and then take a long look at you. And so it goes. It can be a soul-destroying ordeal, One you WOn't want to repeat for about 99 years. But this only happens when you've been away along time, .and have lost all sense of proportion about the old home town, which, if the truth were told, was a dump when you lived there, and still is. My family's. lucky. This does pot happen to them. In the first place, the old home town Is their Mom's, not their Dad's, and Moms are notoriously less Sentimental about this sort of thing. Women have a built-in sense of reality. They can fool themselves silly about abstract things like love and honor, but they have no illusions about concrete things like old houses and old swimming boles. In the second place, we all lived there until three year s ago. we haven't been away long enough to get misty-eyed about it. The old house looks exactly as it did. The 4414..trePt streams Still have trout in Weal, The Old gait course still baffles Asa resolt, ear annual S1arlr. Mer visit to the ,91,0 home town IS not an orkWil lAlt a .tielight. It's a leisurely progress down main street, shaking hands, asking after each other's ohil, dren, being urged to drop 'in :at the house or the .cottage,. * it's popping into the pub for one cold one and haying sOzeP. .citizens offering to buy. It's chatting about town politics, as absorbing and zany as they ever were. Vs .catching up on whose wife has run .off and whose Ns- band is running around with what lady, Cur kids love the visits to the town where they spent their childhood years, and know every dangerous ditch and perilous precipice. They meet the raIng- sters they went to school with, size each other up like friendly dogs and happily start compar- ing notes, No, they're never disappoint- ed when we visit the old home town, But they're going to get a great shock one of these clays when their father drags them back to his old home town and they discover what a big, fat liar he 1$ about his old girl friends and his old feats of daring and his old family man- sion. Sgt. A.J. (Sandy) Hodgins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hodgins of Main St. South, ac- companied by Mrs. Hodgins and two children, Susan and Michael left four years ago for France, Going back to the old home town or the old home farm for a visit is a favorite summer pastime in. this country. Each Year, after afantastic, nostalgic build-up thousands of families are dragged many long, hot miles to see the place where pad grew up. It is usually, for Dad, a poignant mixture of bitter dis- appointment and an unmistak- able awareness that he isgrow- ing old. For Mom, it is a great big Pain in the arm. For the kids, it is an exercise in sheer boredom, and a realization that the old man has been kidding himself, and them, for years. You look up boys you went to school with, had wild adven- tures with, stole apples with, dated girls with, You find them fat, fortyish and full of futility, much like the fellows you curl and play golf with where you live now. You look up girls you were once feverishly in love with, girls you kissed in the park after the band concert, girls who once gave you infinite heartache and Highways Minister C. S. lyla.celaughton, Huron MPP, nuts the ribbon to officially open Lucan's new $35,000 swimming pool during ceremonies Saturday night. From left, officials who took part in- clude G. H. Miller, community programs branch, Ontario department of education; Reeve Ivan Hearn; Tory Gregg, MC; Mr. MacNaughton, W. H. A. Thomas, Middlesex West MP; and Erwin Scott, chairman of the arena board. ^INC/ 11311JIL0IMISP AISAPITEIFRIMIL Take Advantage of Our Special Lower Prices During Crazy Days This Sale Ends Sat., July 27 Laud Lucan's enterprise at pool-opening ceremony where the sergeant was statio- ned in Metz. While there a second son was 'born, Andrew, now 21 months. Though born in France, through the NATO policy, the wee "Frenchman" will be classi- fied as Canadian. Jane, now '7, was born in Clareshoim, Alta., and 4 1/2- year-old Michael was born in St. Thomas. While they were in France, The Exeter Times Advocate helped to keep the family in touch with what was going on back home and was passed ar- ound to others from this loca- lity at the station. The joyful home-coming of the Hodgins family was some- what marred by the illness of the Sgt. who had picked up a virus and is now a patient in Westminster Hospital. The rest of the family are staying with the sergeant's parents in Lucan, Sgt. Hodgins will he stationed at RCAF Trenton upon his re- covery. Aluminum Siding Dress up your home now with all new Baked Enamel Finish Aluminum Siding — Two types to choose from—Horizontal and Vertical in six exciting colours, both 8" and 10" widths. Easy to apply yourself, or have Conklin's skilled applicators do the job for you. Features concealed nailing, interlocking panels, weep holes and Styrofoam insulated back as low as 590 sq. ft. Call us today for a free, no-obligation estimate on your house. Mother, too, likes the pool Granton home razed by blaze Last Monday night, fire des- troyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Hudson, of RR 3 Granton, together with all the family's belongings. The blaze, which seemed to have started in the kitchen, left only three walls of the two storey brick house standing. Mr. Hudson was at work in St. Marys and Mrs. Hudson in the garden. About 7 pm three small children ran out to their mother to report the house was on fire. Mrs. Hudson was unable to enter the house, so drove to the home of Ivor Lindsay, nearby, for help. Granton's volunteer firemen, though too late to save the house, unhooked and dragged away two large propane tanks from the side of the house to prevent their exploding. The three children Douglas, seven, Wayne, five, and Barbara two, were unhurt. The cause of the fire is not as yet known. Program ends vacation school The five-day Vacation Bible School, sponsored by the Pen- tecostal Holiness Church, was climaxed with an achievement day program Friday night. The program included contri- butions from each of the four departments, songs from all; a gift presentation to each mother and the presentation of certifi- cates for perfect attendance to Trudy Eizenga, David Kennedy, Brenda Gagnon, Sandra Avery, Ronnie Gagnon, Marshall Eiz- enga, Perry Logan, Janice Ab- bott, Linda Abbott, Nancy Wel- ler, Keith Logan, Hoyden Gag- non, Brian Currie and Brian Gagnon. The school enrolment was 33 with 11 non-Pentecostal mem- bers. The enrolment would, no doubt, have been much larger were not so many children tak- ing swimming lessons at the arena. Mrs. Meine Eizenga, Mrs. Rufus Thompson and Linda Cur- rie had charge of the beginners, Mrs. Jack Eizenga and Mrs. Bob Logan in charge of primary, Mrs. Clayton Abbot` had the juniors and Mrs. Howarl Currie the youth. Steel Garage Door Here's Conklin's Finest Garage Door. It has many features that make it "Canada's Greatest Garage Door Value." Come in and ask us about them. It is guaranteed to never rot, shrink, swell, crack or warp, because it's all steel. 8' x 7' ONE PIECE ONLY $49.95 Lucan's new $35,000 pool is proving a boon to bored children and harassed mothers. In pre- vious years, after the first week of vacation, children were bored stiff and nearly drove their mo- thers crazy with the daily com- plaint, "What will I do now, there is nothing to do?" This year it is different. The children spend most of the day at the arena and mothers are relieved and happy, knowing their children are safe and well supervised. With the streets almost void of children other residents, with no children of their own, find it difficult to realize school is not still in session. If a good coat of tan is a sign of good health, a child medical specialist would make a poor living in Lucan this sum- mer. Mrs. S. Harlton native of district PERSONALS Dr. and Mrs. T.A. Watson and Nancy, Mr. and Mrs. George Hodgins, Mrs. Charles Haggar and Stuart Thompson attended the Thompson-Strang wedding in Caven Presbyterian Church, Exeter, Saturday. Harold Ribson, who has been arena director at Onaping since leaving Lucan, is now director at Wallaceburg. He and Mrs. Ribson attended the big doings at Lucan Saturday. Edna Ryan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Ryan passed her grade 12 special commercial at Medway and immediately be- gen work at the London Midland Insurance Co. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ross, Lucan, and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Simpson, London, attended the pony show at Congu a Falls, N.Y. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Young and family and Judy Coughlin have returned from a week's vacation at Turkey Point, Jo -Ellen M c F al 1 s, four- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen McFalls, is holiday- ing with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W.R. McFalls, while her parents are on vacation. Mrs. Barney Welch and fa- mily, formerly of Lucan, are holidaying at Gravenhurst and joined by Mr. Welch, Of St. Catharines for weekend. At pre- isaemntily, Daisy Cobleigh of Lucan is staying with Mrs. Welch and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Simpson, Kelly and Pamela of Winnipeg, are spending a few week's va- cation with Mr. and Mrs. Er- nest Ross. Bette Jean Smith, now of Wallaceburg although she has been in three schools and has had four different teachers in the past year, passed her Grade .8 exams with 89%. Her sister Sharon and brother Fred also passed with honors to Grade 5 and Grade 4. Rev. and Mrs. E. 0, Lan- caster are holidaying at the Big Bay Pt., Church Camp. BARBECUE HIGHLIGHT The beef barbecue was a highlight which many proclai- med was "the best we were ever at". The lineup for the meal was three or four deep from the arena door to the street, starting from 5 p.m. and lasting until '7. To Mr. Buch of Blenheim goes the credit for barbecuing the meat, to the Lucan IGA for all the potatoes, cabbage salad, pickles, rolls, lemonade, Mother Parker coffee, pies and sufficient meat for 500. (The arena board provided the ba- lance of the meat). The United Church UCW as- sisted with the serving and the Anglican Guild were kept busy with a hot-dog and pop booth on the midway. A number of other dart and ring throwing booths were ope- rated by the Legion, the Lions Club, and swimming executive. A small ferris wheel borro- wed from Centralia was much enjoyed by the "small fry". Tickets were sold on two large Panda bears, which were won by London ladies. Many outlying communities cannot understand how Lucan can afford a big arena and now a modern swimming pool, with no bank loan and no debentures. The secret lies in the arena's policy of "Pay as you go" and "Don't go until you can pay" together with a great commun- ity spirit and volunteer labor. And so another of Lucan's "pay-as-you-go" projects has been officially opened as a re- minder of what a small com- munity with a big community spirit can really do. BROKENSHIRE PICNIC The 26th anneal Brokenshire reunion was held in Riverview Park, ExetereJuly 14, aridMrs. William Brokenshire Of William St., Ltica.n, has attended all 26 of them. This year she (and Mrs. Stone also of William St.) were taken by her son and two daughters, Stewart and Mrs. Harry Hill of Hamilton, and Mrs. Chas. Geo- rge of London. labor, estimated at a value of $10,000. Tory Gregg, London, was • master of ceremonies for the official opening. Speakers in- cluded Reeve Ivan Hearn, G.H. Miller, of the community pro- grams branch, Ontario Dep't of Education, Mr. Thomas; Rev. Charles Black, Ilderton, who dedicated the pool and Rev. J. Whelihan, Calgary, Alta., who blessed it. A check for $100 was pre- sented by the Bank of Montreal. Under the leadership of Peter Fowler, of the London PUC swimming program, London boys and girls presented an educational aquatic show for the crowd which assembled around the pool. Afterwards, the bath- house facilities were open for inspection by the public. OVER 1,000 ATTEND ,Officials estimated over 1,200 attended the day's ac- tivities, which started with a parade led by the Clinton RCAF trumpet and drum band. Chil- dren from the recreation play- ground program followed the band, dressed in Indian cos- tumes they had made during their craft periods. Among the floats was one by the swimming pool group depicting a five-year-old life- guard supervising a man in a bathtub; another carrying the oldtime ballplayers, scale of whom played in Lucan in 1902, along with the Negro team from London. Also in the parade were hor- ses ridden by Harold Hardy and his daughters, the fire de- partment's three trucks andthe Boy Scouts. The weatherman washed out the ball game between Ailsa Craig and Lieury but permitted the oldtimers to get in a few innings. Among the oldtimers present were Harvey and Fred Langford, Harvey Chown, Les- lie Hindmarsh, Heber McFalls, Ernie Crawley, Irvine Barnes, Duncan Ross, Bruce Hodgins and Bert Zurbrigg, BY MISS LINA ABBOTT AND NORMAN CARTER Although the weatherman frowned on the old-timers try- ing to play ball in the afternoon, the sun burst forth earlySatur- day evening to join the smiles of the Lucan community for the gala opening of the new $35,000 swimming pool. 01' Sol shone brightest for several special events during the opening ceremonies--a pre- sentation of a $5,000 check from the provincial government and the ribbon cutting by Hon. C.S. MacNaughton, Huron MPP; an- nouncement of a $4,000 grant from the federal gov't through the winter works program by W. H. A. Thomas, Middlesex West MPP; and a tribute, in the form of a portrait, to Erwin Scott, chairman of the recrea- tion committee and arena board. Mr. MacNaughton, who said he had expected to dive into the pool to mark the official opening made abetter "splash" with the Ontario gov't grant of $5,000. Receiving the check, Chairman Erwin Scott said: "We've already spent this am- ount and more. If there's any more around, we'd be happy to receive it." Paying tribute to the "enter- prise, drive and initiative" of Luc an and community, Mr. MacNaughton noted this was the fourth time the village has qual- ified for a grant of $5,000 under the community centres act. The other three were for the arena, community hall and the athletic field. "Usually," chided the highways minister with a smile, "it's three times and out, you know." Among the many tributes paid to Erwin Scott, the sparkplug behind Lucan's community cen- tre development, was the pre- sentation of a portrait Of him- self, by Ken Carter, eldest member of the board. The por- trait will be hung in the arena's "hall of fame". Mr. Scott in turn praised the people who had contributed to- ward the pool, particularly those who had &Mated volunteer CONKLiN'S THE YARD WITH ALL THE SERVICES we Can Supply Everything for Home, Farm, Industry No matter what you are looking for in the line of building materials or service, Conklin's will fill all of your requiretnentt, .JUST CALL US ON THE PHONE OR DROP IN ANYTIME Mrs. Sarah A. Harlton, 83, widow of the late Elijah Hari- ton, life long resident of Gran- ton, died in St. Marys Memorial Hospital, St. Marys, Friday, July 19. The body rested in the C. Haskett and Son Funeral Home, Lucan, until 2 pm Monday, July 22, when the Rev. W. A. Maines of the Granton UC, conducted funeral services. Interment was in the Granton cemetery. Pall-bearers included Mes- srs. Percy Hodgins, Norman Hodgins Wilmer Hariton, Ger- ald Wallis, Bruce Wallis and Stanley Jackson. She is survived by two sons and a daughter, Elmer, Arthur and Hazel (Mrs. Alton Wallis), all of Gra.nton, two brothers, Hubert Hodgins of Granton and Ekron Hodgins of Woodstock, also nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Mrs. Harltori was the former Sarah A. Hodgins, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hodgins. She was born in Mc- Gillivray but after her marriage lived on a farm in the Granton district, Upon retiring front the farm the couple lived In Granton where her husband predeceased her. For the past year and a half she was a patient in the Sthith Nursing Home at St. Marys. UCW TAKE SERVICE Mrs. T. A. Watson,preeident of the Lucan UCW presided at the 11 &clock service in the United Church and Mrs. W, H. Pike of Ilderton, was the guest speaker, Mrs. Pike as UCW portfolio Secretary of cent inunity friend- ship and visitation gave a splen- did talk On her work and of What good can be achieved by friendly visits. COBLEIGH REUNION Sunday, July 14, 51 descend- ents of the late Mr. and Mrs, ehts Of the late Mr. and Mrs, George Cobleigh of McGillivray held their two-Meal. Minuet re- Union which had to be held in the Luck% Arena, rather than at the farm Mine of Me. and Mrs. Harold Cobleigh, Con. 14 Lon- don Township, because of rabid drieSts were present from 'Toronto, London, Lattibeth, Bye ton and Udall: Mr. =CI Mfg. jack Ryan Were in Charge Of the sports which Were held on the ice Surface, ,jack Ryan of benfleld was elected president for 1984 and Miss Marjorie latiac of tendon/ SeCretery4treaStiter, PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Al Middleton of London were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brownlee. Mr. Pat Egan, who received a 29-stitch gash in his head, while swimming at Prospect Hill, had a set-back this week when the gash broke open, necessitating his taking, at least, another week's vacation. Mrs. Wes Atkinson has re- turned home after a week's baby-sitting job withher grand- children, while the children's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Atkinson of London were on vacation. Michael returned with her. Miss Judy llaskett who is working in Toronto during her vacation, spent the weekend with her parents here . Mrs. Will Haskett, and grand- daughter Brenda Haskett, have returned from a week's Vacatioe in Toronto, where they were guests Of Mr. and Mrs. Art Haskett and family. Jim and Tom Beam, 10 and eight year old sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Hearn are holidaying with their grandfather, Mr. Jim Brown of Motherwell. Among the many fernier Lit- cenites, who returned for the opening of the swimming pool were Mrs. Fred Ford and son Robert (who spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Den Downs and family) and Mr. and Mrs. Lang De Coursey, all Of Detroit, Col. and Mrs. Dunces Ross and Miss Eileen Cranston of Lon- don. Mrs. Warner McRoberts and Mrs. Irving Gibson returned on Friday evening fret') a week's motor trip as far as Corning, New York, and 'Watkins Glen. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Hodgins and faintly and Mr. Etta Hod- gins, Were Sunday guests of Mr. end Mts. Vincent Hodgins and family of Durham, Among those attending camp i<ee-Mo-Kee last week were Nancy Park, Marilyn Peen, tie tie Delieldson (counsellor) and Miss Bette Leake ((fired- tts. Gordon II. Jack of RR 1 Arva will be the guest speaker at the 86th annlVerSarY,dintter Of the North Middlesex District WI at thietten, July 25'. tlete's the board *hid) itiede Lucan's tieW pool possible and which has guided development Of the extenaiVe ebinitiutilty centre. Seated, freni lett are Reeve Marti, Clittirtheri Erwin 800d (with the portrait presented to ag Mit gittitde0)- and Mi-g, A. E. standing, Ken Carter, bet. nard Miss Bowman,Jim Jack Ryan and Nora' darter, director Of recreation. Absent were Murray llodgInsi tree:A.0'er, end .tack Steady, SectetarY. photos