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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 17, 1956
Page
4
On May 23 at the Orono Fair Grounds the Cadet Inspection will include Physical Education displays by the boys and girls from Bowmanville High School. Two basketball games follow with Bowmanville teams facing OHS. Cheerleaders from both schools will introduce the events and add color to the evening.
Movement of agricultural limestone under the Ontario subvention policy rose the past year by about 3 000 tons from the prior year ending April 1. Total tonnage remained well below the 1953 peak of 51 941 tons. Truck movement grew by about 7 000 tons to 26 115 tons while rail accounted for 14 400 tons. Kent County led in cars and tonnage with 43 carloads and about 2 500 tons by truck. Other counties followed in order: Welland, Middlesex, Lincoln, Elgin, Wentworth. Parry Sound District used 89 carloads. Sudbury 26. Muskoka 18. Essex 15. North Simcoe 10.
The Orono Band will lead the Drum Majorettes and Air Cadets during Cadet Inspection at the Orono Fair Grounds next Wednesday evening. A Rifle Squad of about fifteen boys under Corporal R Porter will perform rifle handling. Veterans are invited to attend. Ground limestone co op project offers affordable soil amendment to farmers through railway and agricultural departments with soil testing guidance.
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