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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1977-02-09, Page 1The LUCKNOW SENTINEL $8.00 A Year In Advance — $2.00 Extra To U.S.A. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1977 Single Copy 20c 24 Pages The provincial government has become alarmed at last week's snowstorm disruption in the Niag- ara-Windsor strip along Southwest- ern Ontario and some of this part of the province has been designated as an area to receive a special study to determine needs under a disaster area situation. Hip Injured During . Snowstorm Bill Forster of the 12th of West Wawanosh suffered an injured hip in the storm last week and was confined to hiS house for several days before medical attention was received. Bill, who lives alone, was working in the barn Sunday evening, January 30th. In attempt- ing to climb into .the straw mow, he fell about 4 feet to the barn floor. He was able to walk to the house with file injured hip and phone his son Lorne who lives across the sideroad to the north, but who was unable to get to his dad's becaule of blocked roads. Lorne was in contact with Dave Mewhinney, a neighbour, who was able to get to Bill's farm and who did the chores twice a day and kept in touch concerning Bill's injury, and he was also in touch with the doctors' office in Lucknow. It was late Tuesday when the snow plow opened the road to the Forster home. Lorne took his father to Wingham Hospital Wed- nesday morning where x-rays revealed a chipped hip bone and bruises. Mr. Forster was able to return home following the x-rays. A Helping Hand In The Storm The strange part of this fact is that the area has received one major snowstorm this winter seas- on and probably it• will be the only C.B.'ers Play Important Part In Storm Assistance There are many area men and women who modestly went about their day to day duties of helping people during this month's series of storms. They are the CB'ers, the people with the strange names and funny language. They operate Citzens Band radios as a hobby. Like the snowmobilers, the majority of their hobby is for fun, but when an emergency arises, they are a highly organized group who have done much to assist and were on standby duty at most any hour. We gave Wayne Jerome a call on Monday to ask him what was new in the world of CB'ers and to ask about the many fine comments we had heard about their work., Wayne, who resides on the 12th Of Ashfield, just west of the Dungannon road, is president of the Lucknow and District C.B. Club In our conversation, we learned that last week a group of radio operators had been instrumental in having an expectant mother, who had gone into labour, removed from her Port Albert area home in the midst of the storm and blocked roads. She travelled on a Skiboose behind a snowmobile and met an ambulance from Goderich at Shep- pardton. A snowplow had preced- ed the ambulance as far as Fred Crawford's farm near Sheppard- ton. The organization on this was done through Club 11 members and Circle City CB Club in Goderich, as well as snowmobilers. The expectant mother was Mrs. CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 major one they will receive this winter,, or maybe for several winters. Here in this snowbelt area, local township, county and provincial snow removal crews have been battling one major storm after another with 200 inches of snow recorded to date, approximately 17 feet. With no thaws to speak of since November, all of that 17 feet of snow is still with us in varying forms. In some areas, the grass is visible, but in others the drifts have blown up to gigantic proportions. Snow removal crews at all levels in Huron-Bruce have done an amazing job this winter, under very difficult circumstances, but possib- ly this very fact causes the province to overlook 'the financial crunch that this area has been placed, in. If they were doing a poor job, such as the ill-equipped municipal- ities in the banana belt of Ontario, they would immediately catch the eye• of the politicians at, Queens Park. However, because we, in this area, have learned to live with the snow, rarely a glance of sympathy 'comes from the ivory towers in Toronto and from the daily press who confine snow emergencies in Huron and Bruce Counties to page 42, and put the CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 A truck loaded with 32 .tons of soybean meal, unloading at Tre- leaven's, Lucknow Feed Mill on Wednesday of last week, tipped - over on its side as the trailer was raised to its full height. It is believed that an uneven snow base, or a settle in the snow, caused enough variation in the level to upsets the top-heavy load. Fortunately no one was injured in the mishap. Frost .Bitten Foot When : Snowmobile Quits KINGSBRIDGE NEWS Wayne Courtney, son of Mr. and Mrs: Joe Courtney was returning to his home by snowmobile during the storm on Tuesday, February 2nd when he had trouble with the machine. Unable to get it started, he buried himself in the snow until the visibility improved. He was able to determine the farm lights of Mr. and, Mrs. Henry Drennan. Making his way there' through the waist deep snow, he received assistance from Bernice and Henry. As the 9th concession was impassible, Cletus Dalton opened the road with his blower as far as the Township Hall where the Courtneys were met by the plow. Wayne was admitted to the Wingham and District Hospital suffering from a bad frost bite to the right foot. For those Sentinel readers at a distance, each paper in January had a story about snowstorms, and thii week is no exception. For two or three days• now, this area has been virtually free of any major winter diSturbance, but a glance at the high snowbanks along most every country road, county or provincial highway, would indicate that January has been a month to remember, and fine days, without The truck is the property of Martin Feed Mills of Elmira. The following day, Thursday, a vacuum "sucker" truck, also from Martins, pictured at work in the above photo, sucked all the soybean meal from the overturned truck before the truck was righted. Very little of the load was lost. The tractor was detached from the trailer and each righted with a CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 11~...aswaft~i~ Rev. Glenn Noble To Minister At Swift . Current Rev. Glenn Noble, minister at. Lucknow and South Kinloss Pres- byterian Churches for 71/2 years, has accepted a position as minister of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Swift Current, Saskatch- ewan, with duties to commence early this spring. Glenn, his wife Lois and 20- month-old daughter Lesley will be associated with the only Presbyter- ian Church in Swift Current which has a membership of about 225 families. Swift Current has a population of about 10,000 people. The Nobles ''..ame to Lucknow from British '..:olumbia. At that time, Rev. Noble was in charge of Lucknow, South Kinloss and Dun- gannon Congregations. The_ Dun- gannon church closed in 1973. eveleiseeseeseesolosseelleallininasols0 wind and snow, have been hard to find. Derk Logtenberg, "who resides on the 6th concession of Ashfield' Township, was one of many dozens of area farmers who experienced problems on his dairy farm and the uncertainty of losing considerable money. Derk and his family reside on the 6th, about 6 miles west of Glenn's Hill and 2 miles east of 21 Highway at Kingsbridge. When the 6th concession was finally opened to allow them to ship their milk, they had an accumulation of 9 days of milk, 14,000 pounds. Derk had high praise for the many individuals who all pitched in to get the road opened, knowing of his problem. In addition• to the many who worked round the clock in opening the road, many friends and neighbours worked in assisting him in providing various storage cans and tanks so that his milk did CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Died At Pinecrest Editorial . . . The Problem Is We're Too Efficient $5000 To $6000 Per Day For Storm Cleanup Operations In Ashfield, But Huron-Bruce Not On "Disaster" List 32-Ton Load Topples As Top- Heavy Trailer About To Unload 9 Days of Milk Milk, 14,000 Pounds, When Road Opened • Grant and Bill Chisholm, local petroleum distributors, had some appreciated help in the storm recently. A week ago last Sunday, Grant was attempting to deliver fuel to the farm of Fred Gilchrist on the 4th of Kinloss. To accomplish this, he had to travel down the 6th concession, across the sideroad to the south, and back up the 4th. While on the 6th, during zero visibility. Grant struck a parked car on the roadway belonging to Kevin Murray. The truck radiator was smashed and Grant's fuel truck, fully loaded, was towed back into Lucknow by Bill Nelson's 4-wheel drive truck. The Murray car was badly damaged. Bill Chisholm brought a new radiator from Goderich the follow- ing day but couldn't get past Nile. Hearing of the problem on the CB radio hookup, Jim Moss and Roy Hardy of St. Augustine went.to Nile with their snowmobile and Bill Chisholm and the radiator came the rest of the way by snowmobile. Chisholm Fuels was back in operation with their truck later Monday evening. The death of Miss Annie MacLeod occurred on Friday, February 4th at Pinecrest Manor Nursing Home, Lucknow. She was 87, The funeral service was held at MacKenzie Memorial Chapel, Lucknow, on Saturday, February 5th. Temporary entombment was at South Kinloss Mausoleum. Died Al Age 40 Ross Kenyon, 40-year-old resid- ent of Ashfield TOwnship, died suddenly on Sunday, February 6th. Mr. Kenyon, who lived on the former Al Irwin farm, just west of town, was born in Cheshire, England on March Sth, 1936, and was employed at the Bruce Nuclear Power Development. He is survived by his wife, the former Margaret Dukers, and three children. A private funeral service was held on Tuesday, February 8th at 2 p.m. at MacKenzie Memorial Chapel, Lucknow, conducted by Rev. George Garratt. Burial will be in South KinloSs Cemetery.