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Intertown grand champions
Members of the Exeter ladies bowling club, winners of the area
Intertown ladies grand championship are shown above with their
team trophies. Front, from left: Lila Smith, Georgina Webster,
Top award winners
Members of the Usborne Central School double trio that took one Allan Taylor. From left: Mary Prance, Terri Paul, Karen Rodd,
of the top awards at the North Middlesex music festival last week Janice Morley, Grace Paton, Judy Mayer and Mr. Taylor.(T-A photo)
are admiring their trophy along with the school's music director
Verla Smith and Audrey Zachar. Back, Peg Hunter-Duvar, Barb
Sauder, Diane Brock and Grace Farquhar. (T-A photo)
Weekly editors hear
of Centennial plans
MARK 55 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Steeper
of RR 8 Parkhill celebrated their
55th wedding anniversary Sunday.
Their family gathered for the
occasion having a dinner. The
table was decorated with a three-
tier cake and a dozen red roses,
a gift from the family.
The couple have six children
Muriel, Mrs. Clare (Virlee) Sad-
ler, Mrs. Wes (Marian) Mitchell,
Oswald, Robert and Rayburn.
They have fifteen grandchildren
and eight great grandchildren.
PERSONALS
Mr. & Mrs. Milton Pollock
visited Sunday with Mr. & Mrs.
Carl Pollock and family in Tor-
onto.
A junior choir is being or-
ganized in the United Church.
Practice will be held for the
first time Thursday at 7:30 pm.
Mrs. Ed. Stewardson spent the
weekend with relatives in Hamil-
ton and Burlington.
Mrs. Fred Bullock was hostess
Friday evening for a shower in
honor of her niece, Miss Carol
McLinchey, a bride of this week.
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Christman
and family of Leroy, N.Y. spent
the weekend at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Bus Lagerwerf.
Mr. Donald McPherson and
Ricky of Hamilton visited Sunday
at the home of his father, Mr.
Walter McPherson.
Accidents don't just happen.
They are caused.
Next year the foreign press
corps covering Expo 67 will also
travel to other parts of Canada
to report on what the country is
really like, an official of Expo
predicted Saturday.
Bruce Croll, director of news
services for Expo, said in a talk
at the London City Press Club
that Expo will attract newsmen,
but it will not be the only thing
correspondents report on.
Mr. Croll spoke to 26 weekly
newspaper editors and their
wives from Blenheim to God-
erich and east to Delhi.
Mr. Croll showed colored
slides of progress on the Expo
pavilions.
Ontario Agriculture Minister
Mrs. William Wright
Mrs. William Wright, 75, of
Sanders St. W. died suddenly in
St. Joseph's Hospital, London,
Sunday, May 15.
Mrs. Wright was the former
Lena Mason of Stephen Town-
ship. Following her marriage
she and her husband farmed in
McGillivray Township. They have
been living in Exeter for the
past ten years.
Surviving besides her husband
are sons, Stewart, Chatham,
Douglas, Glencoe, Fred, Exeter,
daughters, Mrs. Harry (Edna)
penhale, Port Credit, Mrs. Ross
(Marguerite) Johnston, Zurich,
Mrs. Clifford (Marjorie) Hunt-
er, St. Marys, Mrs. Thomas
(Doris) Ellerington, Mrs. Har-
old (Marion) Clarke, Mrs. Lloyd
(Barbara) Miller, both of Ex-
eter, Mrs. Gordon (Donna) Sut-
cliffe, Wingham, Mrs. Gerald
(June) Keller, Chatham; 26
grandchildren and five great-
grandchildren; two brothers,
Charles Mason, Lucknow and
Harold Mason, London; four sist-
ers, Mrs. William McGuire, Lon-
don; Mrs. Roy Hodgins, Stephen
Township; Mrs. Henry Hodgins,
Parkhill; Mrs. Lorne Zuffley,
Windsor.
Funeral services were con-
ducted by Rev. R. S. Hiltz at
the Hopper-Hockey funeral home,
Exeter, Tuesday, May 17 with
interment in Exeter cemetery,
Pallbearers were sons-in-law
Tom Ellerington, Lloyd Miller,
Harry Penhale, Gordon Sutcliffe,
Gerald Keller and Ross Johnston.
Flower bearers were grandchild-
ren, Robert Johnston, R o nal d
Hunter, Robert Hunter, Bobby
Clarke, Tommy Ellerington, Bill
and Donald Wright.
Girl injured
with bicycle
Police are still seeking the
identity of two girls who knocked
down a five-year-old Crediton
girl last week with their bicycles.
Sharon Lynn Witteveen suffered
a broken arm in the accident.
Someone received a Surprise
recently when they attempted to
break into the Stephen Township
School. They were met byalarge
German Shepherd dog who man-
aged to tear the culprit's shirt
and other articles of apparel be-
fore he managed to escape.
Area OPP investigated four
minor aceidetit over the Week-
end. An accident in Zurich last
Thursday caused damage esti-
mated at $180, an accident on
county road 15 caused $250 dam-
age Saturday evening, Saturday
night a deer was hit by a car
on Highway 84 west of Zurich.
W, A. Stewart, an honorary mem-
ber of the club, also spoke to the
editors. He outlined his ideas on
the job a weekly newspaper must
play in its community.
Mr. Stewart also spoke briefly
for Premier John Robarts, an-
other honorary member of the
club. Mr. Robarts was unable to
attend the gathering because of a
Progressive Conservative rally
at Hamilton.
Mr. Croll was introduced by
Mel Howey, an assistant city
editor of The London Free Press
and thanked by Hugh Bremner,
news director of CFPL Radio.
Attending from Exeter were
Mr. and Mrs. Val Baltkalns and
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Kerr.
Rev. F. E. Clysdale
Rev. F. E. Clysdale, 82, a
former minister at Main Street
Church, died in St. Joseph's Hos-
pital, London, Sunday, May 15.
He and his wife lived on Garfield
Ave.
Mr. Clysdale was ordained in
Stratford in 1911 and served in
Methodist churches and, after
1925, in United Churches in Ford-
wich, Exeter, Atwood and Ridge-
town. He was minister at Thorn-
dale before moving to London in
1950 to become supply minister.
Besides his wife he is sur-
vived by daughters, Dr. Judith
Brigham (Mrs. N. Burnett Ma-
gruder) Louisville, Ky., Mrs.
Claud (Evelyn) Turner, London,
one sister and three brothers.
Funeral service was held Wed-
nesday, May 18, with burial in
Blyth cemetery.
William L. Street
William L. Street died sud-
denly at his home in Burlington
Monday, May 16. His wife, the
former Amy Johns of Exeter,
predeceased him May 5.
He is survived by two sons
and four daughters and 16 grand-
children.
Funeral services were con-
ducted at the New-Roseland fu-
neral home of Dodsworth & Brown
Burlington Wednesday, May 18
with interment in Greenwood
cemetery.
Accident victims
are transferred
Three of seven persons hurt
early Saturday in a two-car crash
on Highway 4, south of Clinton
have been transferred to West-
minster Hospital, London.
One is in serious condition.
LACs Richard Burton, 24;
Malcolm Matheson, 21, and Don-
ald Scheidegger, 21, are in the
London hospital. Two other air-
men from Canadian Forces Base
Clinton — LAC Clarence Lund-
rigan and AC2 Bernard Pasula,
both 21, were admitted to the
base hospital.
LAC Lundrigan has been dis-
charged, air force officials said,
and AC2 Pasula is to be released
shortly,
Mr. and Mrs. Harold R, Sch-
midt, of Clinton, occupants of the
second car involved, were re-
leased after treatment at Clinton
General Hospital. All the injured
were first taken to the Clinton
hospital.
Both LAC Scheidegger and LAC
Matheson were reported ih satis-
factory condition last night, LAC
Burton has two broken legs and
possible internal injuries.
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