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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 17, 1956
Page
12
On May 23 the Orono High School hosts Cadet Inspection with Physical Education displays for boys then girls. Two basketball games follow featuring Bowmanville High School teams against OHS, with cheerleaders from both schools adding color to the event.
Ontario farmers under the subvention assistance policy moved 3 000 more tons than last year ending April 1. Total year 1954-58 peaked at 51 941 tons. Truck movement rose 7 000 tons to 26 115 tons while rail accounted for 14 400 tons. Kent leads in cars and tonnage with 43 cars and 2 500 tons by truck. Other counties follow: Welland Middlesex Lincoln Elgin Wentworth. Parry Sound District sent 89 cars Sudbury 26 Mussoka 18 Essex 15 North Simcoe 10.
The Orono Band will lead the Drum Majorettes and Air Cadets at Cadet Inspection next Wednesday evening at the Orono Fair Grounds. A Rifle Squad of about fifteen cadets under Corporal R Porter will demonstrate rifle handling, with members including Keith Adams Eric Carleton Alan Green Dan Hall Marshall Keast Peter Loucks Dom Meehan Albert Mitchell Milton Rainey John Tamblyn Bill Tamblyn Bill Tomlinson and Boyd Wood. Veterans of Orono are invited to attend. Ground limestone for farmers may be supplied at a reasonable cost under a cooperative program with railway companies and the Canada and Ontario Departments of Agriculture, following official testing and soil analysis.
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