Orono Park Board Faces Criticism Over Inaction
The Orono Community Park Board met on Tuesday with the 1955 board and four others present. Members criticized lax work, few meetings, and unfinished projects including spectator bleachers, a Minnie Hall memorial, and booth equipment. Regular meetings and policing were urged. finances showed 1955 receipts of 706.00 and expenditures of 463.71.
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Orono
Dane
Minnie Hall
R. R. Waddell
Clarke Township
A. E. West
Orono Orphans Rally To Top Three In Lakeshore League
The Orono Orphans beat Port Hope 5 4 and Lindsay 9 7 to climb to third place in the Lakeshore League. Dean West Raye West and Freddie Mortimer starred with multi point tallies while Irv Welch and Susie Turner contributed key scores. Cobourg and Bowmanville led the standings with Port Hope and Lindsay also contesting playoff spots.
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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
Leaders Gather for Western Ontario Boy Scout Meeting
More than 300 leaders and members are slated to visit Port Hope in March for the Western Area Eastern Ontario Boy Scouts annual meeting. District Commissioner W T Beatty noted the event as a historic milestone for local scouting.
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Port Hope
Ontario
Boy Scouts Association
W. T. Beatty
Seven Boys Escape at Cobourg Recaptured
A mass escape from the Boys' Training School at Cobourg involved seven boys who fled Monday night. The incident followed the transfer of the school's 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 stolen from J A Barton’s implement shop at 181 King Street Bowmanville. The emptied till was found on Highway 40 shoulder about 30 minutes later. Police suspect an out of town gang linked to other Oshawa and Bowmanville break-ins.
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Bowmanville
Bob Collacott
J. A. Barton
King Street
Beast
Collacott
Highway 40
Oshawa
Sidney Venton
Barton
Durham County Field Crops Valued At £3 233 600
Ontario statistics show total field crop value in 1955 at $5,548,900 with Durham County contributing $3,233,600. Durham yields listed per crop include Fall wheat 35.2 bu and 447000 bu valued at $588,000, Oats 37.4 bu 868,700 bu $607,200, and Hay and clover 1.64 tons 73,800 tons $1,093,700.
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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. He had a provincial licence but no township licence, and the magistrate said the law was in a state of confusion and dismissed the charge.
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Bowmanville
Morris Farrow
Newcastle
Clarke
Farrow
Regan
Game and Fisheries Act
R. B. Baxter
Orono Fish And Hunt Plans Ice Fishing Expedition
The Orono Fish and Hunt Club held its monthly meeting at the Orono Municipal Building with about twenty members in attendance. Plans include a bird-house project, skeet shooting, and a joint event with the Newcastle Rifle Club at the local firing range, with trophies provided 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 Premises
Thieves broke into Armstrong Stores in the Village using a broken rear window and stole two overcoats two suits two sweaters and other clothing items along with about thirty cartons of cigarettes. After looting they reportedly ate fruit and banana peels were found scattered while a partly emptied fruit juice tin was left behind. A truck believed seen on the County road west of Orono is linked to the getaway.
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Harry
Armstrong
Orono
Sheets Stolen From Clothesline in Cold Weather Theft
A thief stole a pair of bed sheets from Harold Deans clothesline last week while cold weather lingered. Footprints marked the area as investigators noted the disturbance.
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Harold Dean
Moffatt George longtime Maple Grove resident dies
George Moffatt aged 84 of Maple Grove died December 20 at Memorial Hospital Bowmanville after two years of illness and four months of bed confinement. He was the eldest son of the late Andrew and (name unreadable) Moffatt, born in Clarke Township north of Orono, lived much of his life in Orono district, moved to Maple Grove twenty years ago, enjoyed gardening, survived by sister Elizabeth Larkin Newcastle and sister Margaret Allen Orono and brother John Orono. four brothers predeceased him. Funeral December 28 in Morris Funeral Chapel conducted by Rev T Arthur Morgan with pallbearers Gordon Moffatt Allen Moffatt Harold Allen Wallace Boug hen Marshall Vetzal John Varcoe. Interment 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 Overnight Snowfall
Fresh snowfall covered the area as a man left his car near the highway and walked to the clothes line. The missing sheets were discovered the following morning.
Orono Rink Hosts Three Minor Hockey Teams In Action
Orono Rink lights up a busy winter with three youth hockey squads the PeeWees Bantams and Midgets coached by John Shetler Fred Lycett and Raye Carleton. They compete in series against Kendal and Newcastle while Orono High School and an Air Cadet team also skate locally.
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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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Orono Park
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
John Regan
Armstrongs Store
Dianne Hambly
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