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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-12-24, Page 9Wingham, Ontario, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 1963 SECOND SECTION "LUCKY BUCKS" CONTEST Mrs. Art Edgar Is Winner Of $300.00 in Final Draw Five weeks of lucky draws, sponsored by the Wingham Bus- iness Association were culmin- ated Monday morning of this week when the draw for the big prize was made by Mayor R. S. Hetherington at the town hall. Mrs. Art Edgar of the first line of Morris was found to be the winner of the $300 grand prize. During the five weeks each of the participating stores gave free draw tickets with each $1.00 spent in purchases. These tickets, bearing the names of the shoppers were collected each week and a draw was made on each Monday morning. In the first week there were five winners of $10.00 each; sec- ond week, seven winners of $10.00 each; third week ten winners of $10.00 each; fourth week, one $50.00 prize and this week the draw for the $300.00 was made. A great deal of interest was stimulated among shoppers by this means, and merchants generally report the Christmas trade as being excellent this year. LONG THE MAIN DRAG $y The Pedestrian OLD-FASHIONED KIND— Friday brought the first real blizzard of the winter, when some six inches of snow was dumped on this area, accomp- anied by winds up to 30 or 35 miles an hour. Result was all but impossible driving condi- tions until later on Friday after- noon. Dozens of cars were tied up in a traffic snarl north of Clinton. School buses were sent on their return journey shortly after lunch and even then some of them took several hours to deliver all the children safely to their homes. By Saturday the weather trend had reversed and there was a light rain late in the afternoon and early eve- ning. 0--0--0 DON'T AGREE— Residents and hospital boards at Chesley and Hanover appar- ently are not in agreement with the announced plan of the On- tario Hospital Services Com- mission to erect a district hos- pital at Walkerton which would serve all three communities. Hanover Hospital board has stat- ed it will proceed with plans to erect an addition to its present building. O. H.S.C. was pro- moting a plan to put up a 150 - bed hospital in Walkerton. 0--0--0 BEAUTIFUL SIGHT— Don't fail to take a trip around town some evening dur-, ing the holiday season. Dozens of homes have been beautifully decorated for the Yuletide and some of them are real works of art, 0--0--0 ROOM FOR MORE— If you are one of those men who really enjoy singing you may be interested to know that here is a need for more voices join the Harmony Men. This group has been practising for several months and the public has greeted their efforts with enthusiasts, Particularly need- ed -.tenors and baritones, al- t ;h any and all male voices will be extremely welcome. If you would like to work out with the singing group, join them at the town hall on Tuesday eve- ning, January 14th, at eight o'clock. Car and Christmas Gifts Are Recovered One Wingham family spent an anxious night at the week- end when, for a time Christ- mas promised to be a rather sad affair. Mrs. Bruce MacDonald had parked her car in front of the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Keating on Edward Street, Going out about 11 o'clock she found that the vehicle, which contained about $35.00 worth of Christ- mas presents for the family, had been stolen. The car was found by John MacNaughton of Wingham the following morning. It had been abandoned just off Highway 86 east of Bluevale near the farm home of Tom McGlynn. Ap- parently the thieves had run out of gas in that area„ It is be- lieved that they stole diesel fuel at the McGlynn home and that the car had only gone a short distance in the second getaway attempt. Fortunately for the Mac- Donald family the Christmas gifts were all intact. They had been moved from one seat of the car to tiie other, but none were missing. —Mrs. William Henderson received word Saturday night of the passing of her sister, Mrs. J. Denham (formerly Jeannette Cornyn of Wingham) in San Diego, Calif. MARRIED 60 Yl~ARS�--MR. AND MRS. ROBERT JOHNS— TON) MINNIE STREtT, WINGHAM, WHO CELEBRATED THEIR DIAMOND WEDDING A WEEK AGO. THE OCCA- SION WAS MARKED BY A FAMILY DINNER. --PHOTO BY JOHN STRONG. SANTA GOES TO SCHOOL --THERE WERE SOME TRULY HAPPY CHILDREN AT THE GOLDEN CIRCLE SCHOOL FOR RETARDED CHILDREN ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON WHEN SANTA CLAUS VISITED THEM AND DISTRIB— UTED GIFTS AND TREATS. MOST OF THE PARENTS WERE ON HAND AS WELL. —A—T PHOTO. Fred Porter's Home Gets Top Award Former Mayor Wearing Cast R. E. McKinney of Toronto is spending the holiday season in a plaster cast from ankle to knee. He expects to wear the extra equipment for six weeks. Last Tuesday evening the former Wingham mayor under- took to place some colored lights around the front door of his Toronto home. As he was about to descend from the step ladder on which he had been working the ladder slipped on the icy sidewalk and he twisted his ankle in the resulting fall. Taken to Western Hospital by ambulance, Mr. McKinney was found to have a nasty frac- ture. Three-quarters of an hour in surgery was required to set the bone and he was released the next day to get about on crutches. "Mac" says we won't see him around Wingham too often in the interval, since he doesn't think his crutches would work too well in our snowdrifts. *The three young children of Mr. and Mrs. Guenther Heitrl are in hospital with pneumonia, and will be there over Christ -- ma s. The top award of $15.00, for best decorated home in Wingham went to Fred Porter, Leopold Street. Judging of the Christmas decorations was done by a committee of independent persons appointed by the Legion, which provides the prizes for the annual event. The judges remarked on the fact that the Legion's efforts and interest are certainly bear- ing fruit, for the number of homes decorated and the cali- bre of the decorations is in- creasing each year. There were so many excellent displays that judging was a difficult and time-consuming task and final decisions were hard to make. The second prize of $10.00 was awarded to Jim Lee, Sum- mit Drive. Five dollar awards were allotted to Perry Holmes, Summit Drive; Charles Lloyd, Patrick St.; Harry McArthur, Boland St.; G. W. Tiffin, Josephine St., and Roy Bennett, Patrick St. Receiving honourable men- tion were the homes of Roy Manuel, Jack Bateson, Allan Bumstead, Louis Readman, Sacred Heart Church, G. W. Cruickshank, F. R. Howson, W. Hodgkinson, Dr. W. A. Mc- Kibbon, Cameron McTavish, Lloyd Taylor, Dr. B. N. Corrin, Frank Hopper, Scott Reid, David Burgess, Charles David- son and St, Andrew's Presbyter- ian Church. There are many more homes in town worthy of admiration and the Legion sincerely ap- preciates the interest which is being shown by townspeople. —Mr. and Mrs. Edward For- gie of Toronto spent the week- end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Forgie. PROCLAMATION At the request of a number of citizens I hereby PROCLAIM Thursday, Dec. 26, 1963 BOXING DAY As a Public Civic Holiday FOR THE TOWN OF WINGHAM shed 1 hereby call upon all good citizens to observe the same. R. S. HETHERINGTON, Mayor.