Talent Caravan and Community Notices Highlight Local Week
Speyside pupils plan a Talent Caravan Friday evening while V's Men raise funds by selling boxes of chocolates. Town workers clear snow from side streets. Evening painting classes attract 15 attendees. Local youngsters practice skipping ropes as ice fishermen head to northern waters. Colored phones spread through town as workmen adjust dial systems. Neighbors TV show features Alf Long and his African hunting trip. Acton skating club extends Easter practice for tests on April 8 and 9. Spring date confusion remains amid weather. Acton Citizen of the Year nominations invited via Box 1961.
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Speyside School
V's
Ben
Neighbors
Alf Long
Free Press
Acton Sakaters
Seen
Acton
Acton Free Press
Chamber of -Commerce
Ottawa Report on Conservative Annual Meeting in Ottawa
Ottawa coverage details the Conservative Annual meeting with nearly 3000 delegates and alternates registered, plus 40 to 50 delegates from Newfoundland. It notes Diefenbaker’s remarks on South Africa, unanimous House approval, and proposals on China disarmament, UN support, NATO NORAD, and civil defense education.
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Ottawa
Newfoundland
Carl A. Martin
David T. Green
Milton
Mac Sprewl
Acton
Halton
Uplands
London
Diefenbaker
the Weorld
Liberal
C.clpo
Dictenbaker
House
Wats
Arautunnain
Manistee
Sagain Canada
Allegantys
Catarda
cSt
James McGrath
St Fatin
Ford
Esens Prosbinan
Ian
Vromt Esloh
Giigo
People’s Republic of China
Senate
Bers
House of Commons
Keewatin
Franklin
United Nations
NATO
NORAD
Sudden Death Shocks Churchill Community
Two well known Churchill district women died recently. Elizabeth McKeown of Acton died at home leaving seven children. Alice Storey Allan of Nassagaweva Township died at Guelph General Hospital. Funerals and interments followed in local cemeteries. Community members and relatives mourn the losses.
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Elizabeth McKeown
Albert
McKeown
Lloyd
Waterdown
Inein
Toronto
Ralph
Gordon
Josephne
Joseph Whitham
Acton
Lillian
Milton Watson
Stoney Creek
Kathleen
Duncan MacMilhin
Georgetown
Pam
Rumley-Shoemaker
Fairview Cemetery
Robert Allan
Guelph General Hospital
Alice Storey
Nassagaweva
Allan
Tlice
Robert
Hamilton
Grant
George
Riles Shoemaker Funeral Home
Fairview
Lena
Athan
Greenock
Gates Dobbie
Telph
Natmen Tummer
Columbus
Obite
Atlan
Churchill
Rockwood Social Chronicle notes weddings and events
Euchre games at Ospringe on St Patrick s Night 13 tables with Oswald Meadows winning the birthday prize. Rockwood hockey fans travel to Niagara Falls to see Guelph Royals defeat Niagara Falls 5 1. Wayward reports include weddings birthdays and hospital visits in the Acton Eramosa area with multiple families mentioned and a March social dance planned at Rockwood town hall.
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Vernon Meadows
Shirley Mortimer
Kitchener
Fred Lambert
Roy Young
Oswald Meadows
Ospringe
St. Patrick’s Night
Alex McPhedran
Eramosa Mutual Fire T Insurance Co
Today Underwriters
Y.W.C.A
Margaret Morrison
Mrooo
Wm. Harvey
North Bay
A. McKeown
Acton
John Shultis
Harvey Shullis
Hiemonthly
Cachre
Women's Institute
Oswald
Linda Fergus
Eden Mills Church and Community Club Hold Irish Supper and Social
Eden Mills United Church hosted an Irish supper in the Sunday school room on Friday. The Community Club hosted a dance and euchre in the town hall with attendees from the district.
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Eden Mills United Church
Prive Wine Ners
Tolton
Mary Milne
Georgie Wright
Mas Milne
Ross Campbell
Neiman Marshall
Guelph
Baker
George Baker
Presbyterian
County Council briefs outline open deer season talks and bylaw timing
At the County Council meeting a Department of Lands and Forests representative will be invited to discuss an open deer season aligning with neighboring counties. By law the inaugural 1962 meeting is the first Tuesday after New Year, with the regular January meeting on the third Tuesday. Other items include hospital grant payments, river improvement plans, assessment report presentation, earlier bus routes in Trafalgar, NEC wage increase to 1.50, and attendance at Windsor traffic conference. The council also endorsed Ontario Conservation Act amendments to allow admission fees in conservation areas for residential and commercial buildings.
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Department of Lands and Forests
Joseph’ Brant Memorial Hospital
New Burlington Hospital
Glen Williams
Credit River
Trafalgar
Othe Percy
Merry Home
Trafalgar Township
Ontario Coun.Vy
Senior Girls Guest Singers Attend Local Church Service
The senior girls of the local school sang three parts in harmony as guest singers at Sunday afternoon services at the local Presbyterian church under music teacher Miss Koch. Mr. Glennie delivered the sermon to a large congregation.
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Presbyterian Church
Miss Koch
Glennie
Ed. Archibald
Phyllis Archibald
Scthomberg
Monddiay
John Sim
Toronto
D. Stewart
United Church Women Meet at Mrs Force Home
The United Church Women’s Missionary Society gathered at Mrs H R Force’s home on Tuesday afternoon March 14. Mrs Force led with hymn and Psalm 147, reports were shared, Easter Thanks offering planned, Mrs Lidken’s group led worship, scripture read by Mrs Moore and Mrs Poole, Mrs Carlaw prayed, and Mrs Horton of Milton engaged as full time stenographer for clerk and treasurer offices.
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United Church Women's Missionary Society
UR. Force
Force
Lidken
3. Moore
C. Poole
St. Matthew
Carlaw
K. Horton
Milton
Platinum Known to Colombian Indians Before Columbus
The text notes that platinum was known to Colombian Indian peoples in South America before Christopher Columbus arrived and aged contact with the wider world.
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South Amtong
New World
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Canada
South Aftica
Verwoerd
Baptist Festival of Missions
James M. Rudd
Wfe
Sandra Cripps
Rockwood
Reeve
Watts
Nellie Lovell
Guelph Hospital
Joseph Oakes
J. Oakes
Eramesa
Mars
Albert Shultis
Juba. Locker
Wm. Ritchie
Woodbridge
David Armstrong
G. A. B. Moore
Port Dover
Guelph Senet Hospital
Eden Mills
W.A
Mass. Mebeda
Burlington
Davis
Herby Gilbertson
He Wright
Jack Greenlas
Janice
Popes
Meo
Will Mine
Sir Barnes and Tarmills
Brookton
Churchill Bownille
Mor
Anna Mis
Bill Mimo
Matton
Mi O
Mis
Garnet McDourall
Duncan McDoupgall
Tri Cive
Michinain
Frases
Windsor
Uctore
Dundas C
Joan Altkun
Ontario
H. R. Force
W.ms
Kraft Velvetta
Fathom
Haddock
Kraft Miracle Whip
Aunt Jemima
Cherry Hall
Tablerite Wieners Canada
Welch's
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Va Ve Hay
Sausag
Plymouth
Paramount
U.S. NO
Valencia
Niagara
BACON
BSN
Aetellane
Prenenis
Gal Benner
Pan Etrieh
Fateh
MAID
Thompson
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Fhone
Altee Houte
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