The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-02-04, Page 13FIRST ANNIVERSARY
Shamrock Restaurant
Feb. 9 Lucan
FREE DONUTS
and COFFEE
9 a.m. - 11 a, m.
2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
SPECI AL
TURKEY DINNER
11.50 pie and ice cream included
A door prize tp the last person
entering the restaurant before
the alarm goes off durin g the
morning and afternoon.
Then the back cockpit opened
and a vast, cherubic visage,
with a cigar in it, beamed at
us,
He came out of the thing like
a baby whale coming out of a
chicken's egg. He stood on the
wing, griming. He stuck up two
fingers in the world-famous
V-sign, but with just a sugges,.
tion of the service-man's
naughty gesture which looked
much the same but meant some-
thing quite different.
Then he waved, an embracing
wave that said, "Come on in
'anger." Our total complement
of officer pilots was almost
wiped out when the rear ranks
surged through, around end over
us, to cluster within touching
distance of the old warhorse.
He talked for five minutes,
earthy vocabulary Caesar em-
pieyee when addressing his le-
gions, And then he was off,
the incredibly toOlish and ga1-
lant old man, hopping to another
airfield, risking his skin to have
a lock at us and let us have
look at him,
And human he was! My‘avor-
ite story is the one involving
Lady Astor, the hard-nosed,
asp-tongued old aristrocrat.
She became enraged during an
argument with Churchill, and
fired what she thought was the
parting shot, “If you were my
husband, I'd poison your cof-
fee." To which the great man
replied promptly and politely,
"Madarne„ if you were my wife,
I'd drink it."
We shall not see his like
again.
Rudy Engel
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Toronto Barrie Orillia
Owing to the Presbyterial
meeting in London Thursday,
the UCW afternoon unit met
last Monday afternoon.
Mrs. T. A. Watson was in
charge of the worship service
and Mrs. George Paul took the
chapter "The Book that Talks"
from the study book "God and
His Purpose". Seventeen mem-
bers answered the roll call by
the payment of fees.
The mission Study Book on
Trinidad will be introduced at
the February meeting by Mrs.
J. W. Lockyer, who gave a
Nurse receives
cap in ceremony
Among the nurses to receive
their caps at Victoria Hospital
Friday night was Miss Coralyn
Donaldson, daughter of Mrs.
Harold Cobleigh of the Lucan
Public School Staff and grand-
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gor-
don Denting of Main St.
Coralyn's mother, grand-
mother, and sister Ilene, kind-
ergarten teacher at the Roose-
velt School London, were all
present for the ceremony.
Mrs. Jane Somerville has
returned home after spending a
few days in St. Marys the guest
of Mrs. Harold Berry and Mrs.
James Byran.
PERSONALS
Mrs. Jim young of Alice St.,
who underwent surgery in Vic-
toria Hospital last week, is
Making satisfactory recovery.
Mr. & Mrs. Earl Paton of
London Were Saturday guests
of Mr. & Mrsi. Gordon Denting.
Mr. & Mrs. Don Abbott at-
tended the Jr. Farmer's banquet
at Granton Saturday.
Dr. & Mrs. Ho J. Morrison
and family of Detroit, were
weekend guests of Mr. & Mrs.
Ralph Rummell.
Six shoppers at the Lucan
IGA won two dollar vouchers
last week, playing super-bingo;
Mrs. Gary Menders, Lucan,
Mrs. Ernest Rose, Lucan, Mrs.
Myrtle Helton, RR 2 Ailea
Craig, Mrs. Helen Carling, Lu-
can, Mrs. Omar Cunningham,
Clandeboye and Mrs. P. Mol-
nar.
Mr, Keith Kraal left Monday
for Toronto to take a week's
course in pneumatic control at
the Jelinson Service Co. He is
being sent by the University of
Western Ontario.
Harold McGueen of Denfield
was re-elected president of the
Middlesex PlOwmen's Associa-
tion. Other local names include
Clare Paton of Lucan as Second
vice-president and Ronal d
White, Denfield and Wardenlvilin
Heath on the executive com-
mittee.
Mr, & Mrs. Frank Egan and
family of Glencoe were week-
end &eats of Mre & Mrs. Cliff
Culbert and MrS. Kay Egain
Flowers In the Anglican
Church 'ware presented in Melt-
ory of 'the late Harry Secord,
Who died suddenly in London,
by his two daughters Mrs. Keith
Dickson of Lucan and Mrs.Pael
Kant Of Vancouver.
The big breakthrough in fertilizer
BY JOHN STROHM
FEDERATION BANQUET
The Ontario Secondary School
Teachers" Federation banquet
was held at the Holiday Inn,
London Friday night.
Mr. Jack Murdy of Lucan as
chairman of the Medway Board
vocation al committee, (and
Mrs. Murdy) were guests at
the banquet. The guest speaker
was the Hon. W. G. Davis,
Minister of Education for On-
tario.
DISCUSS FIRE AID
Representatives from Ailsa
C r aige Dorchester, Granton,
Ilderton, Lambeth, London and
Lucan last Tuesday evening at-
tended the Middlesex County
Mutual Aid Fire Service Asso-
ciation meeting in London's
Central Fire Hall.
Club dance March 5. Lunch
committee was Sandra Abbott,
Carol Latta, Don Coughlin and
Lois Hodgins.
With his usual superb sense
of timing, Winston Churchill
chose to die during a rather dull
winter period when it was pos-
sible to attract the attention of
the entire world without fear of
anyone stealing the scene from
him.
It was time to go. There is
nothing more pitiable than a
great man reduced to dotage
and senility. He was spared
this.
Despite the avalanche of an-
ecdotes and eulogies and re-
prints of his speeches, I don't
think there was deep and wide-
spread sorrow at his demise.
Certainly, there was none of
the heart-in-throat grief that
accompanied the death of Presi-
dent Kennedy.
It was more of a nostalgic
sadness, a sense of the loss of
an institution. One can imagine
the English feeling like this
Rec news
BY J. E. BURT
I am going to go into most of
the news this week very briefly
except for the Lucan Shamrock
3rd annual bantam hockey tour-
nament which we held here at
the centre Saturday. I will get
to this later.
In the Intermediate game be-
tween Seaforth and the Lucan
Combines Friday night, Jan. 29
the Combines blew a 5-1 second
period lead and settled for a6-6
tie.
We had a very good crowd
to our Saturday night dance
again as the weather was a lot
better even if it was cold.
Saturday morning hockey re-
sumes this Saturday again as
well as the Shamrock Squirt
league and our usual Saturday
night public skating.
And now to get to the tourna-
ment, I will not indulge into the
statistics as you can find them
in the Exeter news or on the
sports page. What I do feel is
important though is the work
done by the officials in the ex-
treme cold which prevailed in
the arena throughout the day.
I would like to thank the follow-
ing for a job well done as they
did a very good job.
First Pat Crudge who helped
Me set up the tournament and
then looked after the checking
of the teams, for eligibility to
play in the tournament and the
score cards; next the two judges
Glenn McFalls and Jack Ryan,
both of London; next the re-
ferees, Pete Shipley, George
Daunsey, Wes dolly, Bill An-
derson, Glen McFalls, Art Hod-
gins, Brian Haskett, all the peo-
ple who helped on the door; also
the 'nine boys who did a very
competent job on the scrapers
and sweeping out the rooms be-
tween games. On behalf of the
arena board and r ecreation
committee I thank every one
who helped make the day the
success that it was.
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Uses heirloom gown
When Dennis Gerard Lynch, new son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lynch,
Parkhill, was recently baptised, he was gowned in a beautiful
hand eriibrdidered eamily gown. The gown was originally used
105 years ago in thebaritisna of Dennis' great-grandthother, Mrs.
'James 'Nesbitt, tendon, and later by his grandMother, Mrs.
Thomas MOrkin, Lucan. Mrs. Morkin is shown here with her
daughter and grandeon after the ceremony in the Parkhill Sacred
Heart Church.
WOOD FOR SALE
Also
GOOD STANDING TIMBER WANTED
Special prices paid for good walnut trees.
Dry Mixed Slab Wood, Dry MixecbLimb and Body Wood
suitable for stove, furnace or fireplace. Delivered in
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Public speaking winners
Winners in the recent public speaking contest held in the Legion
Hall are shown here with Pat drudge, who was in charge of
registrations. In the top photo are the grade '7 and 8 winners.
Maureen Smith, centre, was winner and Jane Crozier, right,
was second and Agnes Steeghs was third. Julie Hardy, centre
in the bottom photo, won the grade 4 to 6 competition. Francis
Heenan, left, was second and Jeffery Culbert was third.
--Engel photos
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Mrs. I. Hodgins
former Lucanite
Mrs. Irene Hodgins, 75, of
Scarborough passed away Tues-
day, Jan. 26 in Scarborough
General Hospital.
Mrs. Hodgins was the former
Irene Ruse. Her husband, the
late Jack Hodgins, passed away
in 1954. Survivors are one sis-
ter Mary (Mrs. F. J. Stevens)
and two nieces Irene (Mrs.
George Bartley) and Miss Mary
Stevens, all of Scarborough.
While in Lucan Mr. and Mrs.
Hodgins lived in several houses
the last being the corner of
Main and Princess. Mrs. Hod-
gins was a faithful member of
Holy Trinity Church, where she
sang in the choir for years
before taking over the organ.
She was a member of the Ladies
Guild and was treasurer of the
Women's Auxiliary for many
years.
Since leaving Lucan after Mr.
Hodgins' death she has been
living with her sister. They
recently moved to a new home
at 147 Flora Drive, Scarbor-
ough.
Funeral service was held in
Toronto Thursday, Jan. 28 at
11 am by Rev. C. L. Harding
and the body was brought to St.
James cemetery, Clandeboye
for commital service at approx-
imately 3 pm.
Flowers in the United Church
Sunday were in memory of Mr.
Edwin C. Poole, father of Mrs.
Robert Stitt.
A wizard
Jimmie Benn, six-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Beim,
Lucan, and a grade one student
at the Biddulph Central School,
is a mathematical wizard. But
how he learned to handle fig-
ures as well as he does, no
one knows, not even his parents.
He can count a roll of bills of
large denominations and never
misses a count in a game of
cribbage. In this picture he's
contemplating his next move.
Last summer, before he started
to school, he challenged his
neighbor, Mrs. Roy Hamilton,
to a game of cribbage and much
to the chagrin of his opponent,
ended up on top.
CGIT to hold
sale of baking
Members of CGIT met with
the Explorer group Monday to
view a film strip Let's Visit
Trinidad, followed by separate
group discussions.
Leslie Carling assisted in
the worship service. Marilyn
Hearn chaired the business
meeting during which plans
were finalized for the bake sale
Saturday, Feb. 6 at 2 pm in
the Wraith-Storey Hardware.
The proceeds will be used to-
ward the National 50th anniver-
sary project of a Christian youth
centre in Indonesia to help com-
bat communism.
Plans were also made for the
anniversary play and program
to be presented February 26
when all members of the church
youth groups will parade to the
United Church Sunday morning
service February 7 to celebrate
Christian Youth Week.
Declare champions
in public speaking
when Queen Victoria died, after
60-odd years on the throne.
Quite a man was Sir Winston.
And just that. Not a superman,
but a man.
And that was why he was able
to seize and shake and straight-
en the hearts of the free world,
with his courage and his tears,
his defiance and his prayers,
during those days when Europe,
and the world, were threatened
with "a thousand years of dark-
ness."
Most of us have several ele-
ments in our character. Cher-
chill was a kaleidoscope of the
colors of life. He was reaction-
ary andreformer; he was earth-
ly realist and poet; he was
dreamer and doer; he was sel-
fish and selfless; he was arro-
gant and humble. He was part
pirate, part prophet; part im-
perialist and part imp. He was
ruthless, but he wept easily.
He was a hundred other things,
just as contradictory.
I was 19 when the "phoney
war" ended, and the German
legions smashed through Bel-
gium, and life suddenly became
very real. And I shall never
forget the thrill, the sense of
hope and of resolution, that
surged through us when the
lion's growl rasped over the
Atlantic on the airwaves, "We
shall never surrender." It's
difficult to realize that he was
65 then, an age when most men
are retiring from life and the
struggle.
I saw the old fire-eater once,
and was almost trampled to
death in the process. It was on
an airstrip in Normandy, in
the summer of 1944, a few
weeks after the invasion.
We were drawn up on parade
in the dust and heat, officers
in front, other ranks in the
rear, and we stood there, mut-
tering curses, for half an hour.
Suddenly a little two-seater
scout plane popped over the
horizon and squatted 60 feet in
front of us. The pilot climbed
out. We could see his air-vice-
marshall's stripes and grumbl-
ed our disgust for all brass.
UCW make aprons
and plan bulb sale
• issued in amounts from $100
upwards for 3, 4 or 5 years.
• earn the above indicated interest,
payable half-yearly by cheque.
• authorized investment for all
Canadian Insurance Companies
and trust funds.
Granton singer
stars in show
Over 140 students, including
choristers, props and make-up
crews were involved in the
staging of the "HMS Pinafore"
at the Medway School Thursday
and Friday evenings. Julia C lat-
worthy of Granton, as Jose-
phine, had one of the leading
roles.
Other local students taking
part were, Ann and Doris Cul-
bert, Margaret Smibert, Bar-
bara Stewart, Paul Revington,
Erwin Gebel, ushers, Ruth Mor-
kin, Barbara Nagle, Kathleen
O'Shea; and Barbara Park;
make-up, Roberta Cochrane;
costumes, Sandra Abbott and
Gertrude Steeghs; communica-
tion, Leroy Maguire.
Mr. Jack Murday and Mr.
Clarence Hardy and wives as
Board members were guests
Thursday evening.
The members of the Lucan
Branch of the Royal Canadian
Legion, held their annual pub-
lic speaking contest in the Le-
gion Hall Friday evening.
There were not nearly as
many competitors as usual but
they were well supported by pals
and parents and friends.
The six competitors in Group
I (Grade 4 to 6) spoke in the
following order; Anita Hodgins,
Grade 4, Biddulph school; Tom
Hearn, Grade 5, Lucan school;
Jeffery Culbert, Grade 5, Lu-
can school; FrancisHeenan,
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Anglican
Last Wednesday's blustery
we athe r, together with poor
driving conditions and slippery
walking, necessitated the can-
celling of the Guild Meeting
of Holy Trinity Church and the
card game which was to follow
in the parish hail.
BAKE SALE
As a money-making project
the Birr Anglican Trinity
Church Guild held a successful
bake sale in the Lucan IGA
Friday. Those in charge were
Mrs. Murton McLean, Mrs.
Cliff McLean, Mrs. Win. Hod-
gins and Mrs. Harold B. Hod-
gins.
United
At the second expedition of
the Lucan-Clandeboye Explor-
ers in the United Church school-
room last Monday night the new
officers, Chief Explorer Margo
Rawlings, Keeper of the Log,
Jane Hodgson, and Keeper of
the Treasure, Pat Hodgins,
were initiated by Counsellor
Barbara Park.
The expedition began with a
game of musical chairs with
Mrs. Russell Thompson at the
piano.
Counsellor Barbara Park was
in charge of the worship ser-
vice, Mrs. Ross McRobert read
the story of St. Francis, Mrs.
William Froats made the an-
nouncements and Mrs. G. W.
Sach described the parts of an
organ. The group was divided
splendid summary of 1964 acti-
vities.
Fund raising projects were
discussed and it was decided
to take orders for Bulbs from
Holland and to hold a bakeless
bake sale. A quilt will also be
tied at the February meeting.
It was suggested that a sum-
mary of each of the meetings
be sent to three former mem-
bers now at Strathmere Lodge,
Strathroy. Refreshments were
served by Mrs. Lockyer and
Mrs. Duncan McPhee.
EVENING UNIT
The UCW evening unit meet-
ing was held in the schoolroom
Tuesday with vice president,
Mrs. Ross McRoberts, in the
chair.
Mrs. G. W. Sach was in
charge of the worship service
and Mrs. Stewart Park intro-
duced the new study book on
Trinidad.
Mrs. A. E. Reilly accepted
the position of secretar y-
treasurer.
Money-making projects were
discussed. It was decided to
make aprons with pocket direc-
tions and to make and sell quilts.
It was also voted to hold a bake
sale, time and place to be de-
cided later, memo calendars
will again be sold.
Grade 6, St. Patrick's school;
Julie Hardy, Grade 5, Biddulph
School.
Speaking on "The Seven
Wonders of the Ancient World
and five Wonders of the Future
World". Julie Hardy was first,
Francis Heenan and Jeff Cul-
bert were second and third
speaking on "Our Scientific
Age" and "Baden Powell".
The six competitors in Group
2 (Grade '7-8) spoke in the fol-
lowing order: Janet Nagle,
Grade '7, St. Patrick's School;
Jane Crozier, Grade 8, Biddulph
school; Maureen Smith, Grade
],Lucan school; Agnes Steeghs,
Grade 7, St. Patrick's School;
Kathy Arnold, Grade '7, Isucan
school; Sylvia Mitoraj, Grade
8, Biddulph school.
Speaking on "My Visit to
Upper Canada Village" Mau-
reen Smith was first and run-
ners-up were Jane Crozier and
Agnes Steeghs, who chose "The
Home-maker" and "The Mu-
sician Beethoven".
The judges were Miss Judy
Haskett of Lucan, a teacher in
the C.C. Carrothers School,
Mr. Percy Vahey, retired civil
service employee, formerly of
Lucan now of London Town-
ship and Mr. Colin Brewer of
the West McGillivray teaching
staff.
Prizes were three, two and
one silver dollars, Mr. Murray
Hodgins was MC and Mr. Pat
Crudge was in charge of regis-
tration.
The Legion Auxiliary served
refreshments.
The adults Who attended felt,
as they listened to Young Can-
ada speak, that they had been
born 30 years too soon, before
public speaking contests were
ever heard of.
The two winners will go oh
to speak at the Zone contest.
Area youths
plan service
The Lucan-Clandeboye Hi C
young people were finally able
to hold a meeting Sunday after
having to cancel scheduled
meetings Jan. 1'7 and 24, due to
weather conditions.
The branch is fortunate in
securing Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Croilkite and Mr.E dwar dMe-
lanson as counsellors.
The president Carol Latta
was in charge of the Worship
service and lead in an ani-
Mated discussion on school ac-
tivities, and school behavior.
Plans were discussed as to
next Sunday's annual Youth Ser-
vice, when Bill Park, vice pre-
Sideht, Will preside, Other boys
will be ushers and a girls'
chorus Will be One Of the high-
lights of the service. Ronald
mlth of Bryanston, president
Of YPU Conference, r e p r 0-
eentative to National Council
in Alberta, UWO Lab assistant,
AM Sunday School superintend-
ent at Bryanton, will be the guest
epeaker. Barbara Park read a
thiltiren's story. Plant were
made to check at the Couple's
I'd like to tell you of the most exciting fertilizer idea
I've run across in 30 years of farm reporting.
It's an idea that's helping top farmers break
.through their personal yield barriers to such yields
as 130-bushel corn 5-ton hay , . , 45-bushel soy-
beans ... 3000-1b. tobacco.
The idea is Super QP...), a fertilizer so exclusive
you can't even buy it .. .
But I'm getting ahead of my story:
Two years ago a select group of local manufac-
turers were stung into action by a disturbing truth.
The top farmers were moving faster than their
advisers . . demanding that fertilizer companies
improve their scattergun approach to fertility prob-
lems.
So, these hometown manufacturers pooled their
strength in a giant cooperative effort. They called
in the best..scientific brains, and handed them this
"impossible" assignment:
I. Develop the best fertilizer it is humanly possible
to make.
2. Forget about price-per-ton. But be dead sure this
fertilizer will realm the farmer more net profit than
any other product on the market. We want to
guarantee it will, not just talk about it.
3. formulate it for the top farmers in each com-
munity. We'll refuse to sell it to anyone but the topl
4. ttifk it to fit a specific area . yes, even a seteffit
moisture level,
5. Make a different fertilizer for corn, for barley,
tobacco, wheat, soybeans.
6. Use the best form of nutrients for the crop—not
the cheapest or easiest for the manufacturer.
Wow! Sonic of those who were called in declared:
"You just can't get all those coons up one tree!"
But other scientists rose to the challenge. They
tested soil and moisture on top farms in each com-
munity , pored over the latest research .. an-
alyzed new manufacturing techniques, new mate-
rials. They picked the brains of ag college special-
lists, interviewed top farmers on their personal goals.
And then they created Super Q.
The Super Q program is a national effort. It has
all the efficiency and breadth of bigness . . but
with the pinpoint local accuracy to give the individ-
ual grower higher yields and profits. In side-by-
side tests on hundreds of farms with six different
crops, Super Q outyielded the best commercial
fertilizers by as much as 25%.
Successful as they have been with Super Q, the
scientists do not See their job as done. As Dr. Ray
Starostka, chief formulator for Super Q, explained
to me, "Don't memorize the numbers on a Super Q
bag; they'll change the minute we get a new test or
technique—or as local conditions demand."
I certainly don't want to give the impression that
Super Q is a cure-all. On the contrary, it will only
be sold to top farmers—the top 20% in yields and
management. They'll make Super Q pay off.
T surveyed 900 farmers in ten areas, and it was
really exciting to hear them talk of their goals.
Quite a few told me they were shooting for 200-
bushel corn . . 7-ton hay ... 600-bushel potatoes
. 60-bushel soybeans 3500-lb. tobacco — 70-
bushel wheat ... 100-bushel barley .. 25-ton sugar
beets ...30-ton silage. 135-bushel oats.
The Super Q Manufacturers arc a select group,
jealous of their reputation. Among other things, they
must agree to disciplinary a ction sheuki
they fall below the rigid standards,
They must pledge to provide soil and
crop and management services that will
help Super Qfarmcrs make more profit.
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