Don Lindsay Tops Acton In Warmup Versus Kitchener Mayfair
Acton Ys basketball suffers a 32 to 66 defeat to visiting Kitchener Mayfair in a final warmup before Canadian finals. Don Lindsay led Acton with 11 baskets, while Stewart McDonald added six and Don Price five.
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Acton Y
Kitchener Mayfair
Kitchener
Woodstock
Brantford
Toronto
Acton
Don Lindsay
Stewart McDonald
Don Price
Peter Lawson
Peter Newtom
Wayne Wilson
Brian McCristall
Bill Shannon
Dave Fleming
Frank Mariscali
Wolfgang Lorenz
Six District Highway Deaths During February
The Ontario Provincial Police report for February records 1 938 motor vehicle accidents with 51 fatalities. District 3 covering Halton Dufferin Wentworth and Norfolk saw 246 accidents six deaths and 65 injuries. Of 9175 safety checks in the four counties 2030 warnings 1312 charges and 5834 stickers. Sixty six speeding charges 195 defective equipment and 136 for road rules.
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Ontario
Halton
Dufferin
Wentworth
Norfolk
South Halton Schools Hold Music Festival
Fourteen urban schools in South Halton competed in Oakville for top honors as the first festival round began. Early elimination contests included Glenwood Nelson Brantwood Westwood Oakwood Central at Oakwood public school and Munns Lorne Skuce Linbrook Maple Grove Palermo and W H Morden at Linbrook public school. Adjudicator was Miss Glenn Dawson, Supervisor of Music at Hamilton.
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South Halton
Oakville
Glenwood
Nelson
Brantwood
Westwood
Oakwood
Central
Oakwood Public School
Munn’s
Lorne Skuce
Linbrook
Maple Grove
Palermo
W. H. Morden
Linbrook Public School
Glenn Dawson
Hamilton
Knox Ladies Aid Chooses Vestry Decorating and Chair Roles
At a Knox group meeting hosted by Mrs Rh Parker, the Ladies Aid organized a two year term limit for presidents, elected Mrs McCutcheon as advisory leader, and named W McLeod and A M McPherson as officers. They planned minister vestry floor coverings and improvements, plus readings, an action skit, and a song contest.
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Knox Ladies” Aid
Rh. R. Parker
Park Ave
J. A. Robinson
R.H. Armstrong
F. J. McCutcheon
R. L. Davidson
McCutcheon
S. Matthews
Doug Mason
D. Mason
Parker
G. Somerville
Magistrate Court Records Six Convictions Last Week
Six convictions two remands and one dismissal were recorded at Magistrate C A Thoburn's court last week. A local man paid 20 dollars plus costs for two Liquor Control Act charges. Another man fined 60 and costs for driving with a suspended license. A Fergus district youth faced 19 dollars plus costs on two Highway Traffic charges, and a Toronto man was convicted of liquor in an illegal place.
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C. A. Thoburn
Fergus District
Toronto
Programs of Music At Friendly Circle
The March meeting of the Friendly Circle met in the United church school room on Wednesday evening March 21 with president Mrs Verna Bean presiding. Miss Jean Rowe invited the Circle to cater for the Explorer’s Mother and Daughter banquet in May. Easter hymns closed the session.
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Friendly Circle
The
United Church
Verna Bean
Jean Rowe
Helen Waterhouse
Mary McKenzie
H. Waterhouse
Mary
Jesus
Edith Dean
Sunday School Library
Miss Laughlin
Miss Goodwin
Faye Garner
Anniversary Booklet Marks Legion Progress in Acton
A 30 page Acton Branch No 197 Canadian Legion booklet celebrates 25 years since the 1931 charter bid. It highlights building purchases in 1945 and lists the building committee members including Wright Chalmers Middleton Finlay Coon and Davidson. The volume features photos of Magma Carta week parade Decoration Day and local cenotaphs along with former secretaries and leaders.
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Acton
Canadian Legion
B.E.S.L
Plains
Ontario
Legion
Gunner
Billy Gould
Fred Wright
J. M
Bud” McDonald
Jim Chalmers
Billy Middleton
Bill Finlay
Bill Coon
Earl Davidson
Rockwood
Nassagawega
Jack Chapman
R. M. Storey
Albert Mills
FE. E. Harrop
Gordon McCutcheon
W. Coles
Easter joys and a day of shopping memories in old country tone
The writer reflects on Easter’s spiritual renewal and memory, then recounts a busy four hour shopping trip with grandson Dave. They cope with chilly wind and a long day, share travel between streetcar and stroller, and note suburbia’s rough roads and odd visitors on a tense Saturday night.
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Robert Browning
England
Old Country
Fane
Dave
Toronto
Daughter
Mummy
Grandma
Rave
Oakville
Bob
Joy
Hamilton
Here
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Cresh
Florida
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Kellogg's
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LUX Liquid “Detergent Giant Tin
Motorola
Denier
IGA Quality Meats
Lean
O-P.p
Pollock and Campbell
Water St
North Galt
Knox
Peter Murray
James Smith
Robinson
A. M. McPherson
Wilbur St
Wright
Insuror
Magistrate's Court
Stelco Has
Stelco
Canada
Montreal
Gananoque
Ginger Farm
Wipe Acton
Gwendoline P. Clarke
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