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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 31, 1957
Page
9
The Orono Police Trustees at their January meeting approved six canvas coats at 21.50 each and fifty feet of 2½ inch fire hose for the local department. They also planned repairs to the fire hall including joist and floor under the tower, basement windows, and roof leaks, with rainwater redirected to nearby cisterns when weather allows.
The Orono Hydro Commission met to discuss salary raises for staff including Mrs Norton and Mr Dent. A proposed plan includes a $100 raise for Mrs Norton in 1957 and $50 increases for three following years. For Mr Dent a pension-based increase would raise pay to about $4000 in nine years, with pension costs deducted from the manager's salary.
On Saturday afternoon January 26 the Orono Brownies and leaders held a bake sale and afternoon tea at the Orono United Church Sunday School Auditorium. Ten older Brownies served tea sandwiches and cookies while three helped at the bake table. Pies cakes cookies buns and fruit bread were sold. Net proceeds totaled 21.72.
Seven of the Orono stores will begin new hours this Friday. They will stay open Friday evening and close at 6 00 p m on Saturday.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union describes a prosperous year with ten regular meetings and twenty seven paid members. Thirty eight contestants entered two medal speaking contests, with books given and medals awarded. Over 100 Little White Ribboners enrolled and dozens of Get Well cards sent. Shut ins received eighteen Christmas cards, a charity box aided Port Hope Hillcrest Lodge, and a bank balance stood at 24.71 dollars.
The store will close Saturday evening to open a new business section. Seven stores will end Wednesday afternoon hours and keep current hours on the other days.
Sixty Durham County farmers gathered at the Orono Oddfellow Hall for a joint Can. Industries Ltd and Chipman Chemicals Ltd cash crop meeting. The panel discussed corn peas and tomatoes with detailed notes on fertilizer soil tests sprays seed and yields and prize winners Fred R Stevens and Lewis Wood won door prizes.
The Orono United Church annual congregational meeting on January 28 featured a potluck supper and worship. The minister called 1956 a good year for organization, membership, and finances with 12000 dollars raised. Recommendations included a possible 4000 dollar minister salary and adopting the 1957 report. Rev J Kitchen announced his departure to Niagara Falls and the meeting closed with thanks to the Kitchens.
The Durham Central Agricultural Society held its annual meeting at the Township Hall in Orono with twenty one present. C. W. Billings was elected president for two years and A. L. Blanchard and George Carson named vice presidents as four of five new directors joined the board. The group discussed raising prize money for Farm Products and Horse departments and referred proposals to a revision committee.
Heather Rebekah Lodge members hosted the Orono Odd Fellows anniversary banquet on January 23 at 6 30 p m with guest Rev R A Whattam addressing attendees. Veterans officials and guests from Whitby and Ontario were thanked and gifts presented. Bill Riddell organized the event and toast program.
Local readers report visits to Lorne Robbins in Mt Sinai Hospital Toronto with wishes for a speedy recovery. Mrs EB Warburton mother of Mrs A Loucks returns to Oshawa Hospital and her son Jack travels from California to visit. Sympathy extended to Mrs A Watson on the death of her sister Mrs Elizabeth Chater mother of Robert Leskard and Jane in Scotland and England.
Six Orono firefighters and over sixty visitors toured the new Millbrook Reformatory built by Ontario Reform Institutions. The facility features an enclosed perimeter, bulletproof glass, electrically controlled doors, a hospital with shock and x-ray treatments, chapel, classrooms, workshops, a model kitchen, and a 267-inmate cell wing.
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