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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1975-04-16, Page 1West Wawanosh Township Accept Tender For New Road•Grad er At Price Of $60,669, Only ne Tender West Wawanosh Township ouncil met for its regular session the Public Works building on uesdaY, April 1,-with all members resent and Reeve Lyons presid-g. The minutes of the March eeting were read and adopted on otion of Councillors Hickey and )ran, Three members of the Mennon- ! community were in attendance at the meeting to question Council about the severance of a piece of property for a cemetery. Only one tender for the supply of a new motor grader for the Township was received, and it was opened at this time. Motion by Councillors Hickey and Cranston: "That the Township of West Wawanosh 'accept the tender of CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 LUCKNO e • $8.00 A , Year In Advance $2.00 Extra To. U.S.A. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1975 • Single Copy 20c 20 Pages One Car Explodes In Flames Upon Impact foie Teenagers Die In Two C0r.. Hea.04)n. Collision Near,.TeesviOtOr On Weekend' (. • JOHN Van BOVEN Tragedy struck . the Teeswater and Lucknow communities on the week end as four teenagers were killed in a l flaming two-car heaclon collision. Two other young Whigham area men were seriously injured in the same crash. The two cars were travelling in opposite directions on Highway No... 4, about 3 3/4* miles south of Teeswater on the bend , at the Belmore junction, knoWn to Tees- water' area residents as being opposite the farm of Harold McCormick. The accident occurred just before midnighl Saturday'and the noise of the impact was heard by the. Paul Kennedy family who reside nearby. The Kennedys, looking ont their window, noticed a car on the North Ashfield Public School Will Close As Of June 30th, Students Win Attend Brookside Public School highway engulfed in flames arid immediately " phoned Teeswater Fire Department who were on the scene in minutes. The explosion of the gas tank on impact caused one of the vehicles to burn beyond control and be unapproachable from the time the first passing motorist stopped to assist: Chief james McBurney of the Teeswater Fire Department said the blaze had destroyed most of the car when his equipment arrived. Driver and owner of the north- bound car, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was Randolph Peter (Randy) Willie, age 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Willie .of Teeswater. One of the three passengers in his car, Bud Bruce Harvey Hogiton, 15, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Houston of RANDY WILLIE BUD HOUSTON Teeswater, died later in Victoria •Hospital, London before his par- ents arrived, at the hospital. The other two passengers in the Willie car, Wayne and . Ronnie Doerr, ages 18 and 16, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Herb ' Doerr .of R. R..2 Wingham, were very seriously' injured in the accident' and were removed to Victoria Hospital, London. They received multiple injuries. As this was written • Tuesday morning,. 18-year-old Wayne re- mained in critical condition with a skull fracture and chest injuries.. His 16-year-old brother Ron was still serious, but responding to treatment. Both boys farmed and resided at home. All four boys were first cousins to one another. Proceeding south on Highway No. 4 was the. vehicle of John Van Boven of Walkerton and containing John and his friend Stewart Mann of Lucknow. The impact of the collision caused an explosion in the Van Boven auto, engulfing the car in flames in seconds. Both John, age 19 and Stewart, age 18 were burned beyond recognition in the flaming auto and positive identifi- cation was not possible for a considerable time after the accid- ent. Both young men were believed to have been killed instantly in the collision according to passing motorists who were on the scene immediately. John Van .Boven formerly resid- ed on the 6th of Kinloss and completed grade 12 at the F. Madill Secondary School in' Wing- ham last year. The family later moved to Walkerton where he was employed by Canada Packers and where he resided with his mother, brother and sisters. His father, John Van Boven, is a resident of Woodstock. Stewart Mann is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eldon- Mann of Lucknow and had been employed after school' and on Saturday , at the Machan Hardware in Lucknow where he had made many friends and acquaintances, of all , age groups. He was in grade 12 at the F. E. Madill Secondary School and CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 extending the underground drain- age system which was used at the front of the park a number of years ago. "If we're going to drain the CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 Set Up Memoriai To Stewart Mann, Team End Season A memorial plaque in memory of 18-year-old Stewart Mann will be set up by members of the Lucknow Minor Hockey, Association in which he' was so actively involved for many years. Stewart's death occurred in a motor accident this past week end. , Donations were accepted as expressions of sympathy at the MacKenzie Funeral Home prior to Wednesday's funeral. Stewart's No. 11 sweater with Lucknow Juvenile hockey team will be retired from the team. In addition to the plaque, a Stewart Mann Memorial trophy will be donated annually to the leading scoter in the Lucknow Minor Hockey System. The Lucknow Juvenile hockey team had set up a grand champion- ship series with . Mount Forest on Saturday, and were scheduled to begin play. However., with Stewart's tragic death, the team decided to end their season and will not play the Mount Forest series. By Marian Zinn There has been considerable liscussion at the last three monthly laro'n County Board of Education neetings concerning the future of Worth Ashfield School. The Board has approved (a) that he North Ashfield Public School 'ease to operate as an Elementary school on June 30, 1975, as there vould be only 27 pupils (9 in Grade 5 and 18 in Grade 6). (b) that pupils who would normally attend such school for and after the 197576 school year be enrolled at Brookside Public School. (c) that an exisiting portable classroom be located at Brookside Public School. (d) that the inventory of furnishing, equipment and supplies,existing in the North Ashfield School on June CONTINUED ON PAGE 19 Drainage of the Caledonian Park came in for further discussion at the regular Lucknow Council \meet- ing on Tuesday of last week. At the previous council meeting, a month earlier, a decision • was reached to engage the engineering firm of A. W. Clark to do \preliminary engineering on a drainage system. . . Reeve George Joynt spoke in favour of using steel arc pipe and STEWART MANN itimumnummuinimmomminungioninwiiiiinimiimmunnumuninnimmummilinimuninininnio Park Drainage Gets Discussion At Regular Village Council Meeting, Plan For Summer Road Program "Wheels" Will Be Project Of Three Groups A meeting was held at Brookside School on April 8' to discuss plans for a Bikeathon. It was decided to hold this event on May 24 in Ashfield Township. It will be called "Wheels". It was decided that 1/3 of the money will go to the Ashfield Recreation Committee, 1/3 will' go to .the Lucknow and District Kinsmen Club and 1/3 will go to the Lucknow Lions Club. All three organizations will help to plan this Bikeathon. It was decided 'that there should be an organization meeting on Thursday, April 17 at 8.30 p.m. at , Brookside School. It is the committee's hope that all interest- ed people will be at this meeting and make "Wheels" a big success.