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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1965-07-01, Page 11.1 4• • • 4 • • AS A PRIZE VIII Patricia Mrs, Russell the Marion for having top marks in Grade Zurbrigg, daughter of Mr. and Zurbrigg, was presented with Inglis medal by school board chairman, William Harris. School princi- pal, Stewart Beattie, looks on. Patricia, who is 14, will enter the Wingham District High School this fall. MONTY TEMPLEMAN, 14 -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Templeman, was presented with a $25.00 cheque from the local Lions Club by president G. W. Cruickshank on Tuesday. The award was for general proficiency in • Grade VIII this year at the Wingham Public School. TURNBERRY AREA BOARD AUCTIONS THREE SCHOOLS s Turnberry Central School Board held an auction of two more of its now unused school buildings this past Saturday. Jack Alexander was the auc- tioneer, s • • ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By The Pedestrian By The Pedestrian QUITE A SURPRISE -- Mrs. Max McCarter, a for- mer resident of Wingham, was thoroughly enjoying herself up at the family's Lake Huron cot- tage recently. Working around the yard, she turned to address some remark to a member of the family and found herself looking into the soulful eyes of a fair-sized black bear. Need- less to say she gained the se- curity of the cottage in no time flat. The bear eventually took to a tree when it was pur- sued by dogs and it was some little time before peace was fully restored. 0--0--0 FRINGE BENEFIT -- You may be a little tired of the continuing hot and dry wea- ther, but it does have its ad- vantages. One of them is that it has, so far, discouraged the open advances of the earwigs. A few have been in evidence, but it is probable that -the worst is yet to come. 0--0--0 IT'S ALL OVER NOW -- The last classes were dis- missed on Tuesday amid great sighs of relief from the public school youngsters who are al- ways casting envious eyes at their older brothers and sisters for the final two weeks of June. 0--0--0 NICE PLACE TO SIT -- In case you haven't tried it, the park along the Howson Pond is a lovely place to spend an hour or two on these hot days, Always seems there is a nice breeze. You can even peel off your socks and dunk your feet in the water. Powell's School, S. S. No. 9, located on Lot 11, Concession 6 of Turnberry was sold to Ed Powell and S. S. No, 5, known as Glenannan School, was pur- chased by Ike Metcalfe. A bell on the school, a unique brass item, that had been do- nated to the section many years ago, brought $70.00. The previous Saturday an auction at the Lower Town school was held, but offers were not high enough and the School was not sold on the ba- sis of a reserve bid by the board, S. S. No. 6, Holmes School was purchased by Joseph Moir. The building is located on the 10th of Turnberry. The prop- erty for the school, on the Moir farm, was donated to the section by Mrs. Moir's grand- father. litte Zito, Wingham, C/mariu, Thursday, July J, 1`.11;5 Firm Becomes Stanley -Berry Ltd, Stanley Works Announces Purchase Of erry Garage Door Business The Stanley Works has pur- chased the manufacturing plant and equipment of the Berry Door Company, Ltd., Wing - ham, manufacturers of steel garage doors, garage door op- erators and cabs for tractors, combines and industrial equip- ment. The announcement was made Friday by John C. Cairns, president and chairman of the hoard of the New Britain, Conn. based company, a leading manufacturer of builders hard - Five New Teachers For Howick Central Five new teachers have joined the staff of the ilowick Central School. They will re- place five others who have tak- en positions in other centres. Coming to the school next September are Ronald Liver- more, of Clinton, a graduate of O. C, E; Mrs. Kirkby, who comes from Kingston; Mrs. Tomlin from Delaware; Miss Sheila Ross, another O.C.E. graduate and Miss Henderson, who is coming from British Columbia. Leaving are Jim Pearson, who goes to Galt; Miss M. Buchanan, who has taken a po- sition in Toronto; Miss P. Har- ris, who goes to Ottawa; Miss Nancy Neil to Kitchener and Brussels 'Man Injured when Car Rolls Over Robert Weigel of Brussels suffered multiple abrasions and contusions in a single -car acci- dent at 12.30 last Saturday morning. Weigel was travel- ling on No. 12 county road, two miles north of Wroxeter when his car went out of con- trol, went off the road, broke off several guard rails and roll- ed over going through a farm fence. He was taken to the Listow- el hospital for treatment. The mishap was investigated by Ontario Provincial Police from the Wingham detachment. Miss Shirley Brown, who has taken a school at Whale Bay in Ontario's far north. 0!d Building Comes own Al -► urke Electric Site Calvin Burke, owner of Burke Electric, announced this week that his fine will erect a spanking new building on Wing - ham's main street to replace one that was destroyed by fire on April 23, 1964. The new building will also replace the Simpson -Sears order office which is owned by Mr. Burke as well. The Simp- son -Sears building is being torn down this week, and it is expected that construction of the new building will be started early next week. The 48 by 80 foot structure will be divided with two new and modern store fronts. Simp- son -Sears will move back into a 750 sq. ft, section of the building. In the interval the order office has been moved to the corner store in the Gurney lock. The new building, a cement - 'lock, one -storey structure will provide nearly double the floor space for the electrical firm that they occupied in the old building. A cement block workshop and stock room, which was added to the old building several years ago, was not des- troyed in the fire and will be incorporated into the plans. It is anticipated the new place of rusiness will be ready for use by early September. Wilfred White is the builder. When the building is ready for use a completely new stock of appliances will be put on display with Moffat, Frigidaire, Sunbeam and General Electric, etc., as the featured brand names. Burke Electric has been op- erating under adverse circum- stances since the fire, in the old Supertest service station at the corner of Josephine and Victoria Streets. Mr. Burke said that when his building is completed it will mean much better service for his customers. Contract Is Awarded for New St. Andrew's Church At a special meeting of the building committee on Monday evening the contract for the construction of the new St. An- drew's Presbyterian Church was awarded to Tripod Construction Co. of London. Contract fig- ure, including a new heating plant, will be approximately $195, 000. The new building will re- place the former church struc- ture which was torn down last summer after it was found that a portion of the brick wall had collapsed. The building will be con- structed to adjoin and connect with the comparatively new christian education building at --Misses Pat and Barbara Hall left on Sunday for London where they have accepted po- sitions at London Life. the rear of the church property which fronts on Josephine Street immediately north of the post office. The contract price is some- what higher than originally es- timated. It was found that soil conditions on the site would necessitate piling and extra deep foundations. In addition, there has been a sharp increase in the cost of construction since drawings were accepted and a larger boiler will be required to handle the heating require- ments of the new building. A congregational meeting will be held following service this coming Sunday to acquaint all members of the congrega- tion with the details of the building program. Formal sign- ing of the contract will not take place until after this tweeting. ware, hand and power tools in Canada and the united States, Berry tines are sold through distributors and dealers through- out Canada, Tire Berry door business will be carried on by a subsidiary of the Stanley Works known as Stanley -Berry, Ltd., with gen- eral sales offices in Toronto. l lerhert E. Burgess, vice presi- dent and general manager, will continue the management of the company and will report to Clyde S. Gischel, vice-presi- dent, construction components divisions for The Stanley Works. Also continuing as sales manager of she garage door and operators division is Don- ald W. Service, and as market- ing manager of the cab division,. Miles Vokes. The Stanley Works, New Britain, Conn., founded in 1843, has major subsidiaries in Canada: The Stanley Works of Canada, Ltd. , Hamilton, and Roxton Pond, P. Q. , manufac- turers of builders, drapery and industrial hardware, hand and power tools; Stanley Steel Company, Ltd., Hamilton, manufacturers of cold rolled steel and steel strapping. In addition, The Stanley Works has subsidiaries in England, Germany, Italy and Australia. REV. HARRY RODNEY, left, was welcomed es guest speaker et a Kinsmen Club ladies' night by President Calvin Burke and his wife, Jane. Rev. Rodney is pastor of Knox Presbyterian Church, St. Thomas, and is a well-known public speaker in Western Ontario. —Advance -Times Photo. PC's Return Allister Hughes as Huron -truce President Meeting at the Wingham town hall on Friday evening, representatives of the Huron- Bruce Progressive Conservative Association re-elected Allister Hughes of Kinloss as president. Mr. Hughes has served as presi- dent of the association for sev- eral years. Dr. E. F. Shaunessy of Wingham was elected as vice-president; Mrs.Jack Lloyd of Wingham was returned as secretary and Barry Wenger, also of Wingham was re-elect- ed treasurer. A new departure in the as- sociation structure was the elec- tion lecttion of eight district key per- sons who will act as members of the executive committee and will provide liaison with the municipal chairmen. They are; Blyth, Wingham and East Wawanosh, DeWitt Miller, Wingharn; Ashfield, Huron and Ripley, Jack MacLennan, R.R. 3, Goderich; Colborne and West Wawanosh, john burn in, k. R.3, Auburn; Brussels, Mor- ris and Grey, George McCutch- eon; Howick and Turnberry, Ed Powell; Carrick and Mild- may, Rudolph Siegner, Mild- may; Culross and Teeswater, Bruce Keith, R. R. 2, Teeswater; Lucknow and Kinloss, Mrs. Armstrong Wilson, Lucknow. FARM PROGRAM Guest speaker for the occa- sion was Ron McNeil, M. P. P. for Elgin, who is a practical farmer and dealt chiefly with the legislation which has been enacted by the Robarts govern- ment and bears upon the agri- cultural phase of the economy. He was introduced by George McCuteheon of Brussels, Mr, McNeil spoke of the current session of the Legisla- ture which was just drawing to a close after sitting for 98 days, the longest period in the his- tory of that body. During that period no less than 157 Acts and amendments were passed. The speaker referred to criticisms of the rural areas which, he said, had appeared in the city newspapers. He claimed that these unfounded stories distort the view of the city dwellers as far as the rural residents are concerned, and pointed out that such a situa- tion is unfortunate for the city family is highly dependent upon the sticcessful and profit- able production of farm com- modities. Government assist- ance to agriculture, said Mr. McNeil, is not intended pri- marily to help the struggling farmer out of a tight corner, but rather to stimulate the ba- sic foundations of the entire economy. Ontario, as the lar- gest producer of agricultural products, has an important bearing on the national econo- my, particularly since the ex - One Section Only in This Issue There is only one section in this issue of The Advance - Times, The second section has not been lost in the mail. At this season of the year when ad- vertising runs lighter than us- ual it is occasionally advisable to include all pages in one sec- tion. However, this issue is an ex- tretnely interesting one for many in the community, con- taining as it does both high and public school results. We regret, however, that separate school promotion re- sults were not available in time for inclusion with those of the other two schools. A few items of news have been forced into a holdover for next week because of the school reports, port of our farm products pro- vides an important element in the country's export trade. The speaker was critical of the farm policies which are being carried out by the Liber- al government in Ottawa. He said that it seems apparent that the present federal govern- ment is using the report of the 1957 Royal Commission on Economic Prospects, chairman of which was Walter Gordon, now minister of finance, Mr. McNeil quoted from the re- port of that commission:" We would warn against any and every measure that might stim- ulate the tendency toward over -production." A further quotation: "We would have questions to ask about the in- definite continuance of govern- ment payments to agriculture." One of the most important steps by the Robarts govern- ment, said the speaker, was the establishment of the Ont- ario Food Council, which con- stitutes an entirely new ap- proach to the problem of mar- keting food products. The council has been studying the means of providing freer ac- cess for Ontario's farm pro- ducts to markets not only in Canada and the United States but in Europe as well. The speaker also hailed the establishment of the Ontario Agricultural Research Institute as an important aid to farmers. In this field scientists are work- ing along with farm people to see that the industry as a whole receives the maximum bene- fits from the knowledge gained in research. Another significant step has been the re-establishment of the Junior Farmer Establishment Act, recognition of the impor- tant part played by the young farmer and his wife. Under this act the burden of financing today's high investment in farming is shared by the govern- Please Turn to Page Two