Orono Park Board Criticized For Lack Of Action
The Orono Community Park Board met Tuesday at Kumrite Apartments with the 1955 board and four other attendees. Members reviewed finances, attendance, and unfinished projects while critics urged more frequent meetings, better policing, and clearer oversight of park improvements including bleachers and a Minnie Hall memorial.
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Orono Park
Orono
Dane
Minnie Hall
R. R. Waddell
Clarke Township
A. E. West
Orono Orphans Edge Port Hope Then Rally To Beat Lindsay
The Orono Orphans beat Port Hope 5 3 in Port Hope then trailed Lindsay 4 1 at the first period in Port Perry before a second period burst powered a 9 7 comeback. Dean West Raye West Freddie Mortimer top scorers as Orono climbs to third in Lakeshore standings with Cobourg and Bowmanville tied for first.
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Orone
Port Hope
Redmen
Lakefield
Junior West
Dean West
Irv Welch
Jim Reviere
Charles Armstrong
Freddie Mortimer
Pete Boncarde
Junior
Raye
Armstrong
Big Bob Fielden
Gearing
Orphans
Susie Turner
Susie
Don Mercer
Orono
Port Perry
Orono Orphans
Lindsay
Lou’ Hennesey
Raye West
Brother Dean
Ross McGill
Murray Davis
Orlie Crawford
Crono
Bud Edwards
Robbie Robinson
Till
Irv
Welsh
Graham
Freddie Mrtimer
Cobourg
Bowmanville
800 Leaders Expected To Attend Boy Scout Meeting
Port Hope hosts the Western Area Eastern Ontario Region Boy Scouts meeting next March with 300 plus leaders and members expected. District Commissioner Beatty called it one of the most important events in local scouting history.
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Port Hope
Ontario
Boy Scouts Association
W. T. Beatty
Seven Boys Escape at Cobourg Recaptured
A mass attempt by seven trainees from the Boys' Training School at Cobourg failed to free all members as the escape was thwarted and the youths were recaptured. The event followed the transfer of school superintendent William Little to another post.
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At- Cobourg
Traine School
Cobourg
William Little
Brampton Reformatory
Toronto
Bowmanville
Cobourg Park
James Marshlaid
Brampton
Register Stolen From Barton's Implement Shop
A cash register with a small amount of money was taken from J A Barton’s implement shop at 181 King Street Bowmanville. The till was found on Highway 40 shoulder about 30 minutes after the burglary. Police link the break-in to an out of town gang and nearby Oshawa service station thefts.
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Bowmanville
Bob Collacott
J. A. Barton
King Street
Beast
Collacott
Highway 40
Oshawa
Sidney Venton
Barton
Durham County Field Crops Valuation Summary 1955
Ontario’s statistics show total field crop value at 5 548 900 dollars for 1955 with Durham County contributing 3 233 600 dollars. Fall wheat oats barley mixed grains buckwheat corn for shelling fall rye soybeans hay and clover corn for fodder listed by yield per acre and total value.
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Durham County
Ontario Department of Agriculture
Ontario County
Township Hunting Licences Claimed A State Of Confusion
Morris Farrow of Newcastle was acquitted in police court of hunting in Clarke without a township licence. The case highlighted confusion over township licences, with lawyer John Regan arguing the open season began October 26 and officers and the public misunderstood rules. Magistrate R B Baxter dismissed the charge hoping for legal clarification.
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Bowmanville
Morris Farrow
Newcastle
Clarke
Farrow
John Regan
Ontario
Regan
Game and Fisheries Act
R. B. Baxter
Orono Fish And Hunt Plans Ice Fishing Event
The Orono Fish and Hunt Club met in the Orono Municipal Building with about twenty members present. Activities include plans for bird houses, skeet shooting, and joint events with the Newcastle Rifle Club, plus trophies for junior and senior rifle and pistol clubs.
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Orono Fish and Hunt
Orono Fish and Hunt Club
Orono Municipal
Carling Conservation Club
Carling
Wm. Grady
Rifle Club
J. C. Tamblyn
Ken Stephenson
Dean’ Corners
Newcastle Rifle Club
Thieves Loot Armstrong Store Then Dine On Bananas
Thieves broke into Armstrong Stores in the Village by a rear window and stole clothing including two overcoats two suits and two sweaters and about thirty cartons of cigarettes. After looting they ate fruit bananas and juice and likely fled in a truck seen on the county road west of Orono.
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Harry
Armstrong
Charles Armstrong
Orono
Bed Sheets Stolen From Clothesline at Harold Deans
A thief raided a clothesline at Harold Deans residence last week, taking a pair of bed sheets. Footprints were left at the scene suggesting a recent intrusion.
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Harold Dean
George Moffatt Of Maple Grove Dies At 84
George Moffatt aged 84 of Maple Grove dies in Memorial Hospital Bowmanville on December 20 after two years of ill health. He was born near Orono, lived in Orono district, and moved to Maple Grove 20 years ago. Survived by sister Elizabeth Larkin and Margaret Allen, brother John Moffatt, and four brothers predeceased him. Funeral held December 28 in Morris Funeral Chapel with Rev. T Arthur Morgan officiating. Interment at Orono Cemetery.
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George Moffatt
Maple Grove
Memorial Hospital
Bowmanville
Moffatt
Andrew Moffatt
Clarke
Orono
John
Margaret
A. Allen
Elizabeth
Missing Sheets Found After Morning Discovery
Fresh snow covered the area as a person left a car at the highway and moved toward a clothes line. The missing sheets were not discovered until the next morning.
Orono Rink Hosts Three Junior Hockey Teams This Season
The Orono Amateur Athletic Association sponsors PeeWees Bantams and Midgets with coaches John Shetler Keith West Fred Lycett and Raye Carleton. Midgets and Bantams compete series against Kendal Newcastle while PeeWees face Kendal Newcastle.
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Orono Amateur Athletic Association
PeeWees
John Shetler
Keith West
Fred Lycett
Raye Carleton
Kendal
Newcastle
Orono High School
Orono
Oshawa
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Messrs. Gordon
Cliff Winters
Eri. H. Samuel
W. H. Carman
A. A. Russell
Dane Found
Found
Boy Scout Meeting
John M. Jardine
Association
Gordon Johns
Johns
Transportation
A. B. Key Badge
G. Holland
C. M. Lancaster
Beatty
David Ford
Hope Township
Rover
Salvation Army
Martin Mellvena
J. Low
Mellvena
Kingston
Armstrongs Store
Dianne Hambly
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