Orono Police Trustees Finalize Fire Dept Purchases and Road Plans
The Orono Police Trustees meeting approved buying 100 feet of 114 inch hose and two fog nozzles for firefighting access to burning buildings. They discussed motor hotel permits, sewage disposal tests, local road drainage, and entrances to the village with proposals for underpasses or overpasses and highway work with the Hon. John Foote.
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Department of Highways Division
Port Hope
Mr. Mercer
Mr. Woodyard
Department
John Foote
E. R. Woodyard
H. M. Mercer
Mill Street
Tannery Hill
Watson’s Garage
Cemetery Road
B. R. Woodyard
Mall Hill
Fifth Concession
Station Street
Woodyard
Mercer
Barraball’s Garage
R. C. Forrester
Barrahall’s
Station St
Bowmanville Rotary President Oddy Robson Dies Suddenly
Bowmanville Rotary Club announced at noon Friday that their luncheon meeting was canceled due to the sudden death of president Town Councillor Oddy Robson around 10 am. He had been in good health and was active in local clubs and council. He is survived by his wife Laura and daughters Gloria and Patricia. Funeral services were held at Trinity United Church with interment at Fenelon Falls Cemetery.
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Bowmanville
Morris Funeral
Trinity United Church
Robson
Rotary
Masonic
Fenelon Falls Cemetery
Arthur E Clemence 1876 1955 Orono mourns longtime resident
Arthur Edmund Clemence died March 16 1955 at his Orono home after moving from Seaforth in 1951. He was born January 3 1876 in Kirby, survived by sister Evelyn Powers and brother Cleave Oshawa. Service at Lang Memorial Chapel Grono March 18 conducted by Rev John Kitchen with five nephews as pallbearers.
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Orone
Arthur Edmund Clemence
J. C. Clemence
Kirby
United Church
Seaforth
Ont
C. L. Powers
Evelyn
Orono
Cleave
Oshawa
Lang Memorial
Grono
John Kitchen
Charlie and
Norgrove Clemence
Leland Ball
Douglas Barnes
Roy Powers
William Riddell
Boy Scouts Initiate Monthly Paper Drive in Village
The new Village Boy Scout Troop holds its first paper drive this Saturday April 2 starting at 3 p.m. They plan monthly drives to encourage recycling of newspapers and magazines with help from volunteers. The Orono Oddfellows stop their prior drive and Scouts offer assistance with pickup and storage. Proceeds fund Scouting equipment. On Monday evening two Scouts earned Tenderfoot badges, Russell and Laurence Sherwin, the patrol leaders in the fledgling troop.
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Scout Russell
Laurence Sherwin
Ontario picks four junior farmers for Britain tour
Four Ontario Junior Farmers from Durham County and surrounding districts will sail to England and Scotland this spring under the Ontario Department of Agriculture. Miss Marie Saunders, Miss Marilyn Parks, James Needham, and Rev S Gray were chosen from 24 candidates after interviews at Kemptville. R G Bennett will lead the delegation and accompany them on a farm study tour abroad.
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Ontario
Junior Farmers’ Association
Canada
England
Scotland
F. S. Thomas
Ontario Department of Agriculture
Ontario Agricultural College
Marie Saunders
Nanticoke
Marilyn Parks
Cooper
James Needham
Ripley
Gray Port Hope
R. G. Bennett
Department of Agriculture
Bennett
Junior Farmers’ Association of Ontario
Rev. S. Gray
Durham County
Port Hope High School
Kemptville Agricultural School
Junior Farmer Association
Durham Federation of Agriculture
Club Sh-Boom Plans Bus Trip to Royal Alexandra Show
Club Sh-Boom organizes a sequence of social gatherings to fund a bus excursion to a stage show at the Royal Alexandra theater. Members seek support and volunteers to finalize arrangements for Friday night celebrations.
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Sh-Boom
The
Royal Alexandra
Mrs Hugh D Taylor Guest Speaker At Orono Church
Mrs Hugh D Taylor will be the guest speaker at Orono United Church this Sunday for the W M S Anniversary. A University of Toronto graduate, she spent ten years in West China with her husband under the Board of Overseas Missions and later served as Overseas Missions Executive Secretary since January 1936. She has traveled extensively visiting missions in India Africa Trinidad and Asia and was a delegate to multiple international missions conferences.
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Taylor
Orono United Church
W.M.S
Hugh D. Taylor
University of Toronto
West China
Board of Overseas Missions
Canada
Overseas Missions
Woman’s Missionary Society
United Church Mission
International Missionary Council
Madras
South India
India
Africa
Trinidad
Leopoldville
Angola
Polio Immunization Planned for District Schools
Northumberland Durham Health Unit prepares clinics for polio vaccine in 82 centres for grades 1 and 2. Dr Charlotte M Horner reports consent forms signed by most parents with about 92 percent of eligible children expected to be inoculated. Clinics run two sessions per centre two weeks apart with medical staff and volunteers. missed doses cannot be made up.
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Northumberland- Durham
United Counties
Charlotte M. Horner
Fire wrecks barn and cattle at Newcastle farm
A flash fire destroyed a large barn on Bill Dykstra’s Newcastle farm injuring twenty cattle two calves grain hay and milking equipment including a new milking system valued at 1800 to 2200 dollars. Damage estimated at no less than 30000 dollars. Dykstra native of Holton married last year had been farming six years and was away shopping when fire broke out. Deputy Bowmanville chief aided Newcastle brigade as wind spread flames.
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Bill Dykstra
Newcastle
Dykstras
Newcastle Fire Brigade
Bowmanville Fire Department
Fundy Flying Club appoints Donald McLaren as instructor manager
Donald McLaren of Orono Ontario becomes instructor manager for Fundy Flying Club at John New Brunswick. He brings aviation experience from Sky Harbor Air Services and Field Aviation Oshawa and holds a commercial pilot license with a Transport rating.
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Donald McLaren
Fundy Flying Club
McLaren
Orono
Ont
Fundy
Department of Transport
Oshawa
Goderich
Don Gasedald Allin
Maritime Central Airways
Dorald McLaren
C. 8. McLaren
Ovonc
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Orono Police
Fire Department
Bruce Mercer
R. R. Waddell
Jd. H. Arnott
Princess Street
Mr. Arnott
Department of Travel and Publicity
HE. R. Woodyard
Orono Municipal
Department of Defence
Woodgerd
Dent
Church Street
Department of Health
V.C
No. 35
Orono Park
Mr. C. Robson
Newcastle Liar
Hydro
Althou
Ontario Hydro
Alice Watson
Boy Scouts
Orono Oddfellows
Great Britain
Orono Church
United Church of Canada
Asia
China
Korea
Japan
Hugh D. Tayler
United States
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Horner
Orong
Clarke
Newcastle School
Donald R. Laren
John, N.B
B. C. Yter
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