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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1956-02-22, Page 1Oh= With which is amalgamated the G orrie Vidette and Wroxeter News WINGII,AM, ONTARIO, WERNESDAY, FEBRIJARY 22, 1956 The Aero Cushion plant, formerly a part of the Western Foundry, gets its picture taken for the press and television by local photographer Merrill Cantelon, following announcement at a press con- ference that, the Berry , Door Company Limited, ... will take over the building for the manufacture of steel garage doors. It is expected that the plant, which will employ between 35 and 40 people, will be in production by April--Staff photo, Jo 'der watt !"a" veo. Log: did* vart wet 1101 vet, dy , ' -p-i ht y it c S s, ' HONORED AT ACHIEVEMENT DAY thirVoili:17,,'Berry Steel Door Company Will North Huron Homemaking Clubs Hold Achievement Day Kinettes to Donate, Huron Music Trophy The regular m c rng of the uhg- ham Kinette Club was held on Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Len Crawford. This spring the Kinettes will donate a trophy to the Huron County Music Festival as an award to one of the junior piano classes. The motion was carried that the Kinettes assist the Huron County Tuberculosis Organization with' its' survey of the town of Wingham in preparation for the , mobile chest clinic to be held early in May. The Kinettes are sponsoring the Moffatt Cooking and Laundry School at the Wingham Town Hall, in March. The Moffatt ranges and the Bendix Automatic washer and dryer will be demonstrated, plus these added attractions; door prizes, free bags of groceries, also one electric frypan and one electric coffee percolator, donated by Burke Electric, Te small admis- sion fee of 50c entitles entry to y demonstration and all lucky draws. ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By The Pedestrian BUILDING BOOM.---A- local building boom seemed to he in the cards for Wingham, on the heels Of an announcement that the town is to get a new industry, Several real estate agents have been seen in town enqidring about the •possi- bilities of starting up sub-di- vision or two, but no development has developed so far, 0 - 0 • ROLL OUT THE BARREL— ReSidents of the north end of town' are wondering what the gaily painted barrel is doing, sitting 'out . on the ice between the CPR and McKenzie bridges, and rumors of some sort of secret weapon have been circulating around town From .vtia,t. we • can ,gather, the whole affair is to secret 'for the ,rripment, but anyone who Wants to know what it's all about is advised to query one of the firemen. Even if. they won't tell, they have the ,Answer. 0 - 0 - • FILL 'ER UP—A near tragedy odcurred at the Lloyd factory on Saturday night, when somebody ivheeled into the lane behind the building and snipped off the gas tank at the corner of, the building. A broadside on the slippery snow surface _is reported to have caused the mishap, The startled motorist looked behind -and saw the pump in flames, •but had the .preseace mind to .keep on drivilig up the lane and out of harm's way. Fire- men got the fire out before too much damage was done. 0 - 0 - 0 • NOT ENOUGH—Vie Loughlean is -having box office' troubles with his Juveniles these days. Seems that the last game on Wednesday didn't produce enough money to Pay the referees. Anyone old fash- ionedenough to still like hockey in .the flesh is invited doWn to the Wingham arena on Wednesday night, when the Juveniles will again be playing in the round -robin .series. Vic'a hoping to break even with the referees this time. COMMUNITY PLAYERS TO PRODUCE EXCERPT ^PN,4OUtt...4SP, "Crucible" • be presented by the Wingham Community Players at the actor's Workshop, to be Con- ducted by the LOke Htiron Zone Recreation Council in the Wingham Town Hall on. Friday evening and Saturday. Jack Woolfrey, Mrs. Fred Saint and Mrs, Bruce Mac- Donald will have- parts in the per- formance, abrief segment of the play concerning the witch hunts of Salem. Other excerpts to be presented through the .course will. be by drama groups from' Listowel, Dur- ham, Hanover, Kincardine,- Gode- rich and Exeter. •! The workshop will be conducted by Don Sinclair, of Guelph, who has .had considerable experience pro- ducing and acting in the amateur theatre, Mr. Sinclair attended Bradford University, graduating in ,in a' course in dramatic arts, and following his graduation he acted and directed professionally, He came to Canada in 1950 and was for two years assistant director of recreation in Guelph. He has con- (Acted many • drama courses throughout the province, and is closely affiliated with the Guelph Little Theatre, AT LEGION HOME The Ladles' Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion is holding a euchre on Monday evening, Feb- ruary 27th, at 8.15 in the. Legion Home, Goo prizes, Admission 50c Everyone welcome, F22b NOTICE **Cameron's Billiards will be open every qattirday night until 12 p.m, for 4110 convenience of the rural customers. Fr8rb THIS WEEK AT 1`11E AlRENA Wednesday, February 22nd 2.00- 4.00 Public Skating 4.00- 5.30 Hockey Practice 6.00P- 8.00 Figure Skating 8.00-10.00 Juvenile hockey Practice Thursday, February 23111 4.00- 5.30 Piddle School Skating 6.00-10.00 Open Friday, February 24th 8:30- Juvenile Hockey Playoffs St. Malrys vs. Witigham Saturday, February With 1A10-12.00 1r ignite Skating 3.00- 11.00 Public Skating 8.00-10.00 Public Siq Monday, February 27th 4.00- 640 Closed 6.00- 8.00 &Mitt and Peewee Hockey Praellee $.0040.00 Open Tuesday, February 28th 4.Q9 5.30 Public Sehoid Skating COO. 8.00 llgurc 8.00400 Public Skating WedneSdaY, Vebrinity affilt 2.600 4.O Public Slatting 4.09- 3.10 PeeiVeit Oh*, .Platire 'Skating 8.00-10:00 Open J. Kyles, of Hamilton, arehi I - tect for the new \gingham District High School, was present at a spec- ial meeting of the Wingham. Pub- lic School-Board on Monday night to ,d•iscusa with ;the. board the .ques- tion' of -building a new 4-room ad- dition, to the pablie,achoel. Ottlfir '1"`A-Ciraor hoard, presided at the meeting. Mr. Kyles outlined the work • of his firni of architects arid showed pictures and colored slides on var- ious schools on which the firm had worked. He spoke of the patt played by the school hoard in the blinding, of the new school, and told the hoard of the system of in- spection used by his associates to- The next meeting will be held at the, home of Mrs, Jim Currie, on March 12th, Receives Award at Capping Ceremony Miss Edna Agnes. Carr, daugh- ter of Alfred M. Carr, Minnie Street, was specially honored at a nurses capping ceremony at the St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital School of Nursing, recently, when she received an award for "great- est promise of professional develop- ment" at a, service in which 33 girls from Western Ontario took part. Miss Carr received her cap and the award, a two-year sub- scription to "The Canadian Nurse", from Miss H. Bernice Lewis, direc-. for of nursing, Miss Care„ who had previously Worked. at the Wingham General Hospital, was one of a, group of students Whe m11.6110:1 Septein- ber of last year at the St. Thomas hospital. Until the capping cere- mony they were allowed as "pre. hationera" to wear only the blue and white uniform. A colorful candlelight ceremony and the repeating of the Florence Nightingale pledge . were feature's of the occasion. Heads of hos- pital departments and representa- tives of the city of St, Thoreau; and Elgin County were present at the terenteny. CKNX MARKS THIRTY FADS IN RADIO• The 30th anniversary of radio station CKNX was celebrated on both radio and television on Sun- day, when an hour-long show en- titled "This Is Radio was broad- cast simultaneously from CI( X anti CKNX-TV between 4.30 - and 5.30 Sunday afteeno0n, W, T. "Doc" Cruickshank, father of radio in Wingham opened ,the program with reminiscences about the early days of radio when he first started to broadcast as a hobby, He told how he had followed instructions on building a. trans- miller is a copy of Popular Mech- anics Magazine, and allowed the first transmitter the original stat- ion 10 B.P. had used to send Out broadcasts, Mr. Cruickshank re- called the many letters he used to receive froin listeners all over the world, and mentioned by name many of the former employees who had worked at the station dur- ing its years of broadcasting., There were two masters of cere- monies for the occasion, John Cruickshank, who introduced Mem- bers of the present staff arid in- terviewed them, arid Solniny Brent, who introduced the musical guests. Rill -Stuart's .orchestra, the tarn Dance Gang, the Ranch .Boys and Harold 'Victor Pyrn provided Mus- ical interludes, A Pod proportion of the program was devoted to members of the staff net, Usually seen on television or heard on radio, whose wait took them be- hind the scenes of both, A pot-ludk Fondly Night supper wail enjoyed in the council chamber on Thursday by members, their families and friends of the Wing- ham Women's Institute, There were seventy-five members and guests present, The meeting was convened by the community activities committee. Following the supper a short lrusi- noss meeting was held. A nominat... ing committee of Mrs, J. Ernest„ Mrs, A, Edgar and Mrs. J, Schneid- er was named to .bring in a slate of officers for next year. Mrs. Ringrosp was appointed a repre- sentative to ther Cancer Society meeting, The secretary was authorized to Pay to the }gingham -General Thu.,. pital's treasurer, $800,00, this being the money.donated from the Wing- ham Institute and . the other branches in this • district. The money is to he used in furnishing :a -Mrs.- Charles Homier was- high lady, room 'in the new wing of the.hoSpi- tal. Following the business ported euchre was - played, In the - garima- . Mr. Ed.. Fitzpatrick, ..111g11. man and Mrs, Wilf. Holey was. the lucky lady; • Couple Celebrates Golden Wedding Mr, and Mrs. Robert Arbuckle celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with a family dinner at their home, 19 Endeen Avenue, Toronto, on Tuesday... Mr. arid Mrs, Arbuckle are well known to many Wingham and dis- trict residents. Mrs. Arbuckle was the former Jessie Hamilton. 44114i,:014W1 The 'question of drop tin the Ima~ el of the new addition below that of the present building was :dis- cussed, bringing up the problem of installing either stairs or a ramp :from one level to 'another. A sug- gestion 'by Mr. Kyles that four rooms might he built in - a square on the end of the present -structure, was. ilao discussed: • ' After consulting the blueprints it was found that there is 'a drop of approximately seven• feet from the floor of the present addition to the ground level at the corner -of John and Frances Streets, and hoard members seemed to feel that some sort of . split-level addition Would he necessary. A one-storey build- ing continued at the 'present level would be approximately -26 feet high, even with a flat roof, if cat-. tied out the distance of four class- rooms. May (Jost $1 , 00000 Mr. Kyles-I:Old the board that pro- bable cost of the new structure would be between $9 and $12 per sqUare '.4pot 09 the 6,00' snuarel'foist Abwever this price would not include furnishings. Herb Ful- ler, one of the board members, said that he understands that the pre- sent heating system will not be capable of handling four extra classrooms and additional heating apparatus may be needed, The Department of Education has approved grants of 44 per cent on an amount not exceeding $80,000 on the new building, but members seemed to feel that the addition may cost up to $100,000 and possibly more if expenses on a new heating plant are heavy.. If a new heating plant is neces- sary, and a plant large enough to heat a total of 16 rooms must he installed, there is a possibility that such a plant' could not be instal- led in the present basement of the old school, in which case a boiler room and smoke stack may have to he built, Mr. Kyles told the board that his organization could start work im- mediately On preliminary plans, if the hoard Mailed to retain his ser- vices. After a consultation among board members it was decided to hire the firm of Kyles Kyles to draw plans for the new building. The architeet said that the pre- liminary sketches of the new ad- dition would be prepared within the next week .or ten days, and that he would be In Wingham at that time to meet with the board, • Valentine Party Follows Meeting Following the regular meeting of Huron Chapter 89, Order of the Eastern Star On Tuesday evening, of last week, the members enter- tallied their husbands, wives and friends to a euchre party after which a delicious lunch Was served. Whiners at eudhre were; High lady, Mrs. Charles Hodghis; high gentleman, George Scott; Consolaa lion prizea, Mrs, George SOW arid William Atkell. MANY DELBATES TO ATTEND FIRST MEET OF CANCER SOCIETY ',.•Reports of the approaching citing assure us that many -town- sleps7Vialetle's" and- organizations •have "already appointed delegates to the organizational Meeting to form-,a Cancer Society branch in Wingham on Monday.' f John MeKibbort,- chairman of the Lions' committee in •charge of the meeting, invites any interested in- dividuals„ to. attend also.. Mr. John Stratton, organizer of the Perth-Huron unit from Strat- ford, will he present to explain the purpose and duties expected of this branch. The Wingham branch will be a part of the Perth-Huron unit with, headquarters in Stratford.. Anyone ,iiiterested in this work is urged to attend -the council chamber meeting in Wingham- on Monday evening, February 27 at eight o'clock.- Mt,. and Mrs, Albert, Johnston, formerly of Howiclt Township, celebrated their -58th wedding an- niversary on Sunday, February 10, at their home in Fordwich. Mem- bers of their family were present at a dinner party for the couple on the occasion. Still active at the age of 78, both Mr. and Mai, Johnston enjoy good, health and take a keen interest m life, Mr. Johnston still goes to the farm every day to help his son, Sam, on the family homestead, and until this year he made the six Mile trip on feet, Mrs. Johnston does her own houSeWork, likes flowers and enjoys a social time With her Many friends. Both at- tribute their long life to hard work and a philosophy of" "taking things as they, tohle." The North. Huron 4-13 Homemak- ing Club Achievement Day for the project "What Shall I Wear?", was • held- in th(,M Wingbarn DiStriet High School on Saturday.- Ten chi)" B e in. o r e, Bluevale, Colwanaah, Dungannon, Fordwith, Majestic, Molesworth, St, Helens and Wrox- eter, With a total of eighty-nine members, participated. The day- was -opened with regis- tration at 9.30 and the morning program - was devoted .to judging classes, reasons, planning and die cessions. Each girl judged a class of four blouses and gave reasons to the home economists for her placing. Also, a class of four' cos- tume charts suitable for church, were judged by the girls. The acti- vity comprised the choosing from ten samplea, one blot se material which would he suitable with the four skirt materials shown. - Mr, Johnston was horn 'n How- lett Township, the non of the late Mr, and Mrs, 'Sian Johnston, of Howick..Ic farMed on. the fah vim. cession with retiring to the village six years ago. mid wit.4 formerly a Well-known home buyer in the district. Mrs. Johnston was the former Agnes While, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William . While, of Howick. They were 'married 58 years ago by the Rev, M. A. Mc- Kenzie, of the •Chesley Presbyterian Church, There are two sobs and two daughters in the family, Glenn, of Howick; Sam, on the home farm; Ruth, of Toronto, and Janet Mrs. A. B, Lindsay)., of Toronto and three grandchildren. Afternoon Program Mothers, friends and Women's Institute members were cordially Welcomed - the.' afternbon pro; gram which included club exhibits, demonstrations and skits, Each club took part in this group acti- vity by either giving a three-minute talk on an exhibit or by present- ing a demonstration or a skit. Six clubs presented exhibits on the topic, "A Well Planned •Costume for a Certain Occasion", Brenda Breckenridge gave the three-minute comments for the Bluevale club, Joyce Little for Col- wanosh, Pasty Harris for Ford- wick Margaret Wallace for Lake- let, Helen Wilson for Majestic and Etaine Statia for Wroxeter. Belmore presented a skit entitled, "What . Colors Should I Wear?" Members taking part were Dorothy MoNee, Norma Harper, Ruth Fitch, June Stokes, jean West, Muriel Haskins, Shirley Simmons, Mar- jorie Kieffer,- Wilma FIaskins, Don- na Renwick, Mac Doubledee, Jan- ice Boyd, Thelma Simmons, Shir- ley Morkley and Meryl Fitch. Dungannon chose "A Planned Shopping Trip" for their skit and it, was, presented by Dorothy Rut- ledge, Elk Bakker and Elizabeth Pentland. Ethel MacMurchy, Dale iVlacMurchy, Dorothy Holmes and Kathryn Simpson from Molesworth Presented the skit, "Flow to Plan a Costume," The afternoon was brought to a close with a very colorful blouse parade. The club girls •modelled the blouses which they loot made dur- ing the' project. Ant ii rds Irma Janet I+'nrster Or I mplutow was presented with a county honor eertifivate and pin. '}'his presenta- tion is m ade to each girl who has completed six projects. Certificates of achieVetneill, pre- sented to girls who have completed two (or multiples of two) projects WPM presented to the following girls: ,lean West„lani cc, Boyd, -W 1- ma Haskins, Ruth Filch, Meryl Fitch, Elaine Kirten, lf;iy john- ston, Carol Clreig, Phyllis Elliott. Elizabeth Pentland, Jean Irwin, Kathleen Smyth, pfninii, Siefert, Pala', Jean Sieff•ri, Mar- garet 'Wallace, Dvaimp Allan, loaye jack, Betty Webber, Yvonne Poll- ard, Thelma Riley, Sharon itteniag- way. .1(1111 Smith, Marimi Heming- way, Ethel MacMurchy, Dale Mac- Murchy, Irina Ja•nvi. Forster and. Joint nomon. Eno). girl who conipleled the pro- :wet, aucceasfully received a shyer teaspoon in, the f4arden•ia, pattern. The Aohievement Day was ander the direction of Mrs, Howard singer, home economist for Huron County and she was assisted by Miss Row, supervisor of jun- ior clothing, Horne Economies Ser- vice, Toronto, Miss :lean Scott, home economist for Perth County and Mrs. Robert McKercher of Sea- forth, PROtilliKSSIVal EUCHRE Al! W.ROXIVAElt The Women's Institute, Wtom- 'act will hold a progressive euchre party on Thursday, February 93rd, tit 8.30 p.m. Novelty prizes. Adults- ARM 25 cents. Ladies please bring lunch, Come arid bring yotir Mends. 141.02b RINurrE COOKE:NO AND LAIJNOWle 8C11.001, The Wingham Xinette Club IS sponsoring the M.offatt Cooking and Laundry School ttl; the Wing- ham Town Hall on Wednesday, March 7th, at 0 pin. Moffatt ranges and the Bendix Automatic wilaher and dryer will be denionstrated, plus these added attractions; door prizes, free bags -of groceries, also one electric Itypari and one electric; pereolator, Admission to dth1,0ii. Urtain and lucky 'draws, 50e. 1.1'224 Irma Janet Forster, of St. Helens, right, was honored .at the Achieve- ment Day of the 4-1-1 Homemaking Clubs of Huron County, when she received County Honors for completing six of . the club courses over a period of three yeiirs. The award was presented by Mrs. Howard Fit- singer, left, home economist for Huron County, and consisted of an honor certificate and-pin. Homemaking Clubs from Bluevale, •;,-1olwanash, Fordwich, Lakelet, Brussels, Wroxeter, Belmore, Dungannon and Moles- worth participated in the demonstration,—Staff photo, pen Manufacturing Plant Here workmanship in the actual con- struction of the building. Problem -of Addition A discussion . of various . ways of adding- four rooms to the present structure brought -forth a number of. 4cl ee. tp,,,4,11%0A.Rarri...RoW 7ifeEtteaw:kreinteot aliite. -Mr. Kyles' pointed out that there is a definite problem involVed in adding rooms to the school as' it now stands be- cause of th,e fall of land 'away from the 1952 addition to the school. He said that it is a problem which will have to be solved on the architect's drawing hoard. A proposal by :members of the board that the present addition he. OFFICERS INSTALLED BY COUNTY MASTER County Master Walter Scott arid the deputy master and past county master attended the Loyal Orange Lodge on Friday evening. The county master conducted the election and installation of officers, which resulted as folloWs:, W.M., Earl ID, Hamilton; Milo Casemore; chaplain, Robert Spotton; marshal], Hugh Sinna-, mon; fin, secatreas„ Robert.•Golley; rec. secretary, Harold Moffatt; 1st. lecturer, Robert I-Iogg; 2nd lectur- er, Percy Hogg; tylor, John Ward. Committeemen named , were: Wm. Casemore; David Weir, J. -H, Crawford, Win, Magee and Mark Gardner, The next meeting will be held on March 2nd,, at 8 o'clock. ' There will be no reserved seats, • P.S. Board Engages Architect to Plan School's Second Addition ensure the highest standards of extended to the length of three, classrooms and a fourth classroom be built underneath was considered.. However, Mr. Kyles said that the' fourth room downstairs would be below the grade, and that he doubt-, ed if the department would'aPprove . Married 58 Years, Fordwich Couple Still Lead Busy Life A Canadian branch of the .Steel Door Corporation of 'Birmingham, Michigaivhas taken a lease on the Aero Cushion building at the Iona. - odfrY'thae”d wcoimll paatanzyt ,aprosdtueeeltion.,ptrhaee ,garage doors in April, it was announced last week. The new plant will ploy between 35 and 40 people, mostly from the local labor market, -Herbert A. Fuller, of Wingham, the first ialddivasntr eyrafpoiro ywe The new ngharrr was announced on Friday at a, press conference in the 'office of C. Lloyd & Son, which company has been largely instruMental in bringing the firm to Wingham- For the past several years Lloyds • has been the Canadian agent for the Steel Door Corporation,- hand. ; ling the sales . and distribution of the company's products from coast to coast in Canada, The' Wingham, company has been -credited with the rapid growth of sales in Can- ada to the point where it has -be, come economically feasible to establish the local operation, The - new plant in Wingharn will -.operate, under the name of the Berry Door Company, Limited, Complet,e. Assembly Line The Aero Cushion building, at one time a part -of the Western. Foundry, has been optioned by the . Lloyd organization and will be leased to the- new company. Ar- rangement,, have been made ,fer• heating, hydro and water, and when alterations have been corn- pleted the 16,000-square-foot build- ing will be equipped to handle. a - complete assembly line for the manufacture of steel croorS. Accord- ing to a plan shown the press by Mr. Fuller, fabrication of the doors will be divided into two parts, the actual assembly of the corn- ponents and the mounting of hardware and fittings. Raw mater- ials will enter the plant at one -end, a,••• pass through the two assembly linesand emerge as the .finished product, At the start of operations the plant will .manufacture only the standard 8 and 9-foot door, but it is hoped that a wider range of doors may be manufactured in '1:110tuffei-i.tiala' Of C. Lloyd and - • Ltd.,explained that the operation in }ingham would be of -consider,. able benefit, both to Lloyds aod.to the American -firm. Garage doors manufactured here will be. -dia.. tributed throughout the .country by Lloyds' trucks, simplifying the dis- tribution problem -considerably over the present system,. tinder which doors are imported from Michigan and distributed by the local Unftli eririr .Conaideration a I--ear In making the announcemeat last- week, Lloyd officials said that the'. move had been under consideration for a year, and active negtatations have been going on for :four months_ Before deciding to berate in Wingham, officials of the Steel Door Corporation investigated pos- sibilities in Toronto, Hamilton, Chatham and Kitchener, but de- cided against moving to a large centre, Lloyd officials explained. that although they had been -in favour of the Berry people moving Lo WinghaM, the decision to locate here was made by the company itself. Mayor R. McKinney, who was present at. 'the press conference, told reporters that the new indus- try would be of tremendous im- portance to the town's economic situation. He pointed out that al- though the council had done every- thing in its power to make tract new industry welcome, expenses to the town would be at a minimum because the building and some of the services to it are readily avail- able. Start Immediately Work of modifying the handing to snit, the requirements of the new company will start immediately with the installation of power and water from the feeder lines to the Westero Foundry property. 'One of the first projects will be to build an office in the building, and the, ' building will be wired for electric power. A septic tank for sewage disposal will also be built. At, the present time lumber and . plywood belonging io the Lloyd organization is being stored littliioe movedbuilding, tied it will be anothie8r Iorrtticin in the near futurr. l t expected that nuumliirtrl'y and equipment, moth of which will be shipped from the parent com- pany, will start arriving hi Wing- ham during the month of March. Steel to be used in the new opera.- Lion is already on order, and will he shipped within -the next two months.