Orono Baseball Team Drops Opener in Bowmanville
The Orono Baseball Club opened Lakeshore League play in Bowmanville with Bowmanville Roses, losing seven to four. Errors plagued both sides as Bowmanville capitalized on a key sixth inning, while Orono managed only five hits and committed six errors. Hooper led Bowmanville with three singles, while Orono hitters mostly struggled aside from several players securing one hit.
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Orono Baseball Club
Bowmanville
The
Roses
Orono
George Jones
Dean West
Dring
Bob Trawin
Armstrong
Ronnie West
Crono
Keith West
Cox
Worth
Hooper
Gallagher
Don Mercer
Shetler
Mercer
Wakley
Falls
Cowle
K. West
M. Harrison
West
D. West
Harrison
Cornish
Ron
Junior West
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New Ontario Road Map Redesign Unveiled for 1955
Ontario releases a redesigned official road map for 1955 with a larger foldable format. The new map uses softened colors to highlight place names and routes, adds quick facts on size population economy and recreation, and expands detailed routes through more communities. About 700000 copies are available at provincial centers and travel agencies.
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Ontario
Hydro
United St
Widow Ann Lowery Patterson Passes After Illness
After a long illness Ann Lowery Patterson widow of William John Patterson died Tuesday morning at her daughter’s home in Kirby at age 83. Born in Stark County she was the youngest daughter of John R. Lowery. She married William John Patterson in February 1896 and lived in Kendal before moving to Kirby in recent years. She was an active Kendal United Church member and leaves a son Ross of Port Credit, a daughter Doris (Mrs. William Wannan) of Kirby, two grandsons and a great granddaughter.
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Ann Lowery
T. John Patterson
Wannan
Kirby
Stark
John R. Lowery
John Patterson
Kendal
Allan maps new four lane Route 401 via Lake Iroquois shore
Highways Minister James Allan outlined a revised four lane Route 401 from Newcastle to Trenton at a Progressive Conservative nominating meeting in Warkworth. The plan follows the shoreline of Lake Iroquois through Northumberland county to Trenton, avoiding costly railway crossings and expropriated farmland. Survey work covers the eastward leg to Port Hope and beyond, with current work focused on the Trenton to Belleville stretch.
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Newcastle
Trenton
Warkworth
Lake Iroquois
Northumberland County
Allan
Port Hope
Welcome
Belleville
Cobourg
Lake Ontario
Orono Baseball Opens Home Schedule To Night
The Orono Baseball Club begins its summer schedule at Orono Park tonight hosting Cosbourg. The Lakeshore Intermediate League game begins at 6 30 p m with admission 50 cents for adults, 25 cents for students, and free for children under twelve.
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Orono
Orono Park
Cosbourg
Lakeshore
County Court House At Cobourg To Cost $400,000
Preliminary sketches for Cobourg county administration building were reviewed by the property committee and the Northumberland and Durham bar association. The county council favors a new structure to replace rented town hall quarters, but seeks changes to keep the cost under 400000.
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Counties Administration
of Counties Council
Northumberland and Durham Bar Association
Bar Association
Counties Council
Coun Jeil
W A Meeting of Women’s Christian Temperance Union
The May 17 W C T U gathering at Mrs. H Walsh’s home featured hymns including Take time to be Holy Looking unto Jesus and Faith of our fathers living still Mrs R Best reported on the Whitby Convention held April 28 and Mrs Walsh delivered an educational reading on Tobacco Trouble The session ended with Fight the good fight with all thy might and prayer
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union
H. Walsh
George Carson
Jesus
R. Best
W.C.T.U
Whitby
Orono Fire Department Extinguishes Pole Fire Saturday
Orono Fire Brigade answered a Saturday evening alarm at the back of Mrs. Morris's property where a pile of old telephone poles and cross-bars caught fire. Firefighters laid a large hose and quickly controlled the blaze, testing the new 1% inch hose and fog nozzles for the first time.
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Orono
Ontario enacts sweeping vehicle safety and bicycle laws
Bill 116 passed by the 24th Ontario Legislature imposes stricter rules on motor vehicles and bicycles. New rules raise visibility distances for clearance lights to 500 feet and headlights to 800 feet, add a front white or amber light and red rear reflector for bicycles, require pedestrians to walk on the left when sidewalks are absent, and mandate new turn signal devices on most vehicles after 1956.
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Ontario
Liberal Rally Introduces David Ford in Durham County
David Ford was introduced as the Liberal candidate at a Durham Liberal Association meeting in Orono Town Hall on May 24. Key figures included Warden Allan Beer and ex-warden George Walton, with Robert Kent as chairman urging 400 supporters to contact twenty friends and mobilize eight thousand votes. Ford, born in Ungava Bay, described as a dedicated candidate who would work night and day for Liberalism, emphasized dissatisfaction with the Conservatives and cited hydro costs and municipal funding concerns.
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Durham Liberal Association
David Ford
Orono Town Hall
Allan Beer
George Walton
Elmer Scott
Reeve
Hope
Russell Honey
Bruce Tink
Kent
Ford
Frost
Ontario
Walton
Hydro
David Ward
Ungaval Bay
Canada
St. John’s
Newfoundland
Durham
Mrs. Rolph Headlines Evening Auxiliary Meeting
Mrs. O W Rolph was guest speaker at the Evening Auxiliary held Thursday May 19. Eileen Billings opened the meeting, with highlights from Elinor Roosevelt present, readings, prayers, and meditations on The Christian Home.
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O. W. Rolph
Eileen Billings
Elinor Roosvelt
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