The Wingham Advance-Times, 1965-04-01, Page 1Partnership
Purchases
Drive-in
It was announced this week
that the Riverside Drive-in at
k the north end of town, owned.
and operated by W. and Mrs.
William Lockridge, has been
sold to the partnership of Don*
41,1d Cameron and Eric Walden.
The business was started, two
and a half years ago by the
• Lockridge family at the corner
of Charles and Josephine Streets.
The new owners, having bought
the building and lot, will oper-
ate
penate at the same location,
The partners have stated
that they are looking for some-
what warmer weather before
Making an announcement re-
garding their opening date,
BOARD MEMBERS TO
SEEK INFORMATION
Two members of Wingham's
Municipal Development Board
this week attended a meeting
of the Mid -Western Ontario
group at Goderich. They were
requested to attend the gather-
ing at a meeting of the local
board on Thursday evening of
last week, under the chairman-
ship of Don Kennedy.
Members of the board will
visit the Department of Econo-
mics and Development in Tor-
onto early in April to seek in-
. formation which will be useful
in formulating plans to be ap-
plied in Wingham.
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ALONG THE MAIN DRAG
By The Pedestrian
By Pedestrian
NOT MUCH LEFT --
Youngsters around the town
bang on to the hockey season
with grim determination. They
are still batting pucks around
• on the streets, but the game
will soon be over as far as the
arena is concerned. One more
tournament will see the end of
the season and the ice.
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BIT CONFUSING --
If you ever find entirely un-
related references to bran or
shorts in our editorial column
you can blame it all on the
Howson feed business. By some
strange fluke of electronics
the office intercom on our desk
continues to bring in snatches
of conversation between How -
son's employees from their
short-wave system. Periodical-
ly we find ourselves listening
in on orders for 300 pounds of
middlings or 10 bags of shorts.
And that's rough on a writer
who always thought shorts were
things girls put on in hot wea-
ther.
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GETTING READY --
Public school students in
town are all of a -twitter as
they prepare for their big con-
cert which will be presented in
the auditorium of the high
school on Friday evening next
week. Parents who have seen
• similar concerts in previous
years know that they have some-
thing very interesting in store
for them.
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PLAQUE FOR ZONE --
An account of a presentation
` to George Brooks in last week's
issue stated that he received a
plaque, presumably from the
branch, but it was in fact from
Zone C1.
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SAPS RUNNIN'--
• The maple .syrup season has
been delayed a bit this year
due to weather conditions, but
this week the cold nights and
warmer days should have the
buckets starting to fill.. There
are a number of area farmers
who have tapped and we under-
stand the going price 'will be
about $6.00 per gallon.
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AWNINGS WRECKED --
High winds at the end of
February and during this month
made a complete mess of fibre-
glass and aluminum awnings
which were installed at the
high school late last fall; They
were put up to reduce heat in
the classtoorris when the sun
gets warmer. From all appear-
ances the wind completely des•
troyed the installation. The
board is currently dealing with
the insurance company which
will coVer the loss.
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FIRST SECTION
Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Apr. 1, 1985
Single Copy Not Over Ten Cents
Shelve Purchase of Wroxeter School
Authority Members Approve 1965 Budget
By Cy Bamford
A record budget and two ma -
jot development projects were
approved for the Maitland Val-
ley Conservation Authority
when representatives of 29 mem-
ber municipalities attended a
Rink Corner Site
Of Another Crash
The intersection of Diagonal
Road and Victoria Street was
tt�e site of another accident at
12:15 a. m, on Saturday. No
one was injured, but about
$325.00 damage was done to
the two vehicles.
A car driven by Lorne S.
Campbell of RR 4, Brussels, was
proceeding west, down the Vic-
toria St. hill, and due to very
slippery conditions at the time
was unable to stop at the inter-
section. The Campbell vehicle
was struck from behind by a
car driven by Robert J. Taylor,
of RR 1, Belgrave, who was
also unable to get stopped on
the slippery hill.
Damage to the Taylor ma-
chine was estimated at $300.00
and to the Campbell car at
$25.00.
Constable Doug Foxton of
the local department investiga-
ted.
general meeting of the Author-
ity in Brussels.
Temporarily shelved was
purchase of a vacated public
school at Wroxeter which had
been recommended for conver-
sion to an authority headquar-
ters.
The budget calls for a total
expenditure of $6$,186. Sum-
marized it shows $26,195 allo-
cated for administration; $1,950
N,,,N,,,,N,
for conservation services and
$40, 040 for capital develop-
ment..
The total levy against muni-
cipalities in the watershed,
however, is only $25,218, an
increase of $2,573 over the
$22, 645 they contributed last
year, The Maitland watershed
involves towns and townships
from Arthur Township at the
northeast to Goderich on Lake
Morris Township to
Replace Old. Bridge
The old iron bridge on the
second concession of Morris
Township over the Middle Mait-
land River, built in 1912, will
be replaced this summer by a
new three -span structure.
The bridge has deteriorated
•with the decking and abut-
ments now in poor condition.
It was built to replace an old
span which went out in the
flood of that year.
Actually, the new span will
be the fourth erected by the
township for this river crossing,
The new bridge will be con-
structed on the site of the first
one which was built in 1863.
That structure did not last too
long and was replaced by one
destroyed in 1912.
The existing bridge is 116
feet long of the old girder -type,
The new bridge will be in three
spans, two 40 -foot sections at
each end with a 70 -foot span
in the centre. It will be locat-
ed about 80 rods up stream and
will line up with the north -
south sideroad. It will be built
of reinforced concrete.
This will be the fourth bridge
constructed by .the township
since 1956, in a program of
bridge replacement that will
eventually see all the existing
structures brought up to modern
standards.
All Under One Roof
Turnberry Closes Last of
Rural Schools This W:eek
Monday will see the opening
of a new era in education in
the Township of Turnberry as
the pupils from the six remain-
ing rural schools travel by bus
for the first time to the new
central school on Highway 86
east of Wingham. Teachers
from the rural schools will also
join the staff at the central
school.
Turnberry Central at present
handles 110 pupils and the new
move will bring in 150 more.
The schools which will close
this week -end are S. S. 2, (Kir-
ton's); S.S. 3, (Glenannan);
S. S. 4 (Bluevale); S. S.5, (Gil-
mour's); S.S. 6 (Holmes'); and
S.S. 11 (Lower Town).
The first wing of the new
school was opened in 1961,
taking in the pupils from Pow -
ell's School, the former Zet-
land section, part of the Lower
Wingham attendance and part
of S.S. No. 1. During the past
year a sizeable addition was
constructed, including six more
classrooms,auditorium, kitchen,1
principal's office, teachers'
room and storerooms. Cost of
the addition was about $146, -
000 and the work was done by
Mario Landoni and Son of Fer-
gus. Two buses will be purchas-
ed to handle the added trans-
portation requirements.
Board secretary Alex Corri-
gan states that an officialopen-
ing will be held after work on
the building and grounds has
been completed, but no date
has been set. Principal of the
school is T. R. Kilpatrick and
the staff includes himself and
seven teachers.
Huron at the southwest,
Chairman Robert Wenger of
Wingham explained that severa:
major items were taken into
consideration in arriving at the
total budget. He listed thein as
projects bearing different grant
breakdowns, capital develop^
ments and a bank balance par-
ried over from 1964.
Temporary shelving of a
building to serve as an author-
ity headquarters came as a sur-
prise and followed recommen-
dations for purchase made both
by a special committee and the
executive. The executive had
taken a two month option on
the Wroxeter school for $8,500.
Built in 1954 at a cost of $3?, -
000, the Wroxeter school is a
one -storey, brick structure, It
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Woman Hurt in
Teeswater Crash
'Mrs. Joseph Schneider, of
RR 4 Wingham, who lives just
east of town on Highway 86,
sustained a dislocated and badly
lacerated right ankle as well
as injuries to her bead, in a
car accident at Teeswater early
Friday morning. She was re-
moved to the Wingham and
District Hospital where she is
in satisfactory condition.
Mrs. Schneider was a passen-
ger in a car driven by her hus-
band, which was proceeding
south on the main street of the
village about 12:20 a. m. Fri-
day, when it was in collision
with another car driven by
Eugene Ditner, of RR 1, For-
mosa. The Ditner vehicle was
travelling east, coming from
the direction of the Catholic
Church, and had entered the
intersection when the accident
occurred.
Neither driver, nor two
other passengers in each of the
two cars were injured.
The Schneider car suffered
damage to the front end and
the right side, estimated at
$900.00 while the Ditner ma-
chine received damage to the
front and left side amounting
to about $600,00.
Teeswater police investigat-
ed.
BROOMBALL CHAMPIONS — The Wingham broomball
team took the North Huron championship on Monday
evening, defeating the 10th Line of Wawanosh in the
finals. Standing are: Bill Fraser, coach; Bob Bitton,Bob
Lunn, Jim Newell, George Kerr, Ron Beecroft, Don Fraser,
Mrs. William Fraser, manager. Front: Francis Merkley,
Lynn Hickey, Dave Crothers, Rod Hickey, Doug'Campbell
and Paul Strohg,
BIG BANKS — Ken Paterson, 86, who lives on No. 86
Highway, just east of Whitechurch, arrived home last
week, after a four-month visit with his family to find
he couldn't get in his lane. A bulldozer was called in
to clear the lane and yard with the result that Mr. Pat-
erson has snowbanks 9 or 10 feet high about his home.
He said he couldn't remember having had snowbanks
this high for many years.—A-T Photo.
Militia Will Go
To Petawawa
Militia units in Ontario will
attend one-week camps during
June and July, Headquarters
Central Command announced
this week. Most infantry regi-
ments, the newly organized
service battalions and indepen-
dent service units will train at
Camp Niagara while armoured,
artillery, engineer and infantry
battalions from Eastern Ontario
will train at Camp Petawawa.
Major-General George Kit-
ching, General Officer Com-
manding Central Command,
said the camp training will
emphasize corps subjects, basic
soldiering skills and specialist
qualification courses. The
Militia has been given four
roles to perform under the new
"forces in being" defence con-
cept.
"In the event of a national
emergency," said General Kit-
ching, "three militia brigades,
about 18, 000 men, would be
quickly organized to replace
the three regular army brigade
groups now stationed in Canada
which would likely be sent
overseas at short notice."
"The training of additional
units and reinforcements for
the overseas brigades would be
an extremely important task.
We will be putting heavy em-
phasis on training techniques
for this reason."
While at camp this year,
MOP
Offers Reward
For Hand Bell
Ken Paterson, who `lives
near Whitechurch on Highway
86, is offering a reward for in-
formation leading to the dis-
covery of a hand dinner bell
which was taken from his home
some time ago.
Mr. Paterson, who is nearing
87 years of age, said the bell
had a great deal of sentimental
value to him. It came from
one of the hotels in Bluevale
which was operated by his
grandfather. The hotel was
burned when he was a small
boy.
TAKING COURSE
Barry Fuller and Paul Jardin
on Monday commenced a six
weeks' course in electrical
maintenance with the Hydro
Electric Power Commission in
Niagara Falls. Barry and Paul
are employed by Ontario Hydro
in Toronto.
Militia units will run their own
orderly rooms, officers' and
sergeants' messes, and be re-
sponsible for their own admini-
stration. Units training at Camp
Niagara will be under canvas
while units at Camp Petawawa
will be quartered in existing
barracks.
21 -Field Regiment RCA,
with Batteries at Wingham, Lis-
towel and.. Walkerton is assign-
ed to Camp Petawawa from
July 4th to llth.
Wingham Broomballers Win
North Huron Championship
The Wingham broomball
team captured the North Huron
Championship on Monday even
ing and the trophy which has
been held by Brussels for the
past six seasons.
The league includes teams
from Whitechurch, Brussels, Bel -
grave, 10th Line of Wawanosh,
American Hotel, Wingham and
Stone School.
The Wingham lads took the
top spot in the finals ih a three"
game series against the 10th
Line boys winning the first
game 2-0, the second was tied
with no score and the final en-
counter played here on Monday
ended in'a 1-0 count. The
team was coached and managed
by Mr. and Mrs. 13111 Fraser.
The following awards were
won on a vote of all players in
the league: best goalie, Bill
Workman, American Hotel;
best defenceman, John Buchan-
an, Belgrave; best forward, Bill
Robinson, Whitechurch; girls'
league, most outstanding play-
er, Darlene Machan, Brussels,