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INGE RSOL� A 30-tan (sped circus elephant became
ditching machine, stuck in a stuck in the same spot 60 years
hog near Ingersoll since last agc. Rescuers threw It a
Wednesday, (was dragged nit hoavily-anchored rope with
` late Monday) with a combin- which it pulled itself out, MITI
at oI oingenuity; three eater - sturdy trunk.
Y. pillar tractors, winches, cables
• i and blocks and tackles.
The machine, a drag line own.
ed by G. W. Cattle Construction, /'�
RR 1, Culloden, had gunk to a Quicksand
maximum depth of 16 feet. "KK
The rescue operation drew
thousands of spectators and
Engulfs
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last night when the $40,000 ma-
chine was finally pulled out. ExeavatQl
Mc Cattle said most of the
credit belongs to Norman INGMSOM tCP) — A 30-
I� Brooks, a Springfield contras- ton, power shovel, stuck for
tor, for master -minding the two days In quicksand, Is
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ref �tr-I. •� ������ �� burying itself under its own
_ g , operation. weight and can't be salvaged.
The bog, on the farm of
Owned by G. W. Cattle, o[
Harry Allison, was at least 24 Ingersoll, the shovel has sunk
k i. 0h a • - e i h* ,w feet deep. "We shoved a stick 14 feet into the in on the
down (that deep)," Mr. Cattle farm of Harty Atlison, four
said. "You could do it with one
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southeast of here.
hand," he added. Driver Samuel Hansford, &I -
Workmen today were clean- so of Ingersoll, said he was
Ing the machine up. Damage on his way to dig a drainage
.„ ditch for Durham Township
was slight. The drag line atuck
white crossing the farm to when the machine became
reach a drainage ditch. An eat stuck and started to Up on its
BOG HOLDS EXCAVATOR —Soft block muck on a
farm on the Culloden Road, four miles south of, In-
gersoll, yesterday proved the undoing of a $40,000
30-ton excavation machine, which two bulldozers
were unable to budge from the sticky mud. Fur-
ther efforts will be made to recover the machine,
anchored overnight by two bulldozers. (Photo by
Longfield). Mar /D1°ef.<.ToME 23-IIIt
OPEN SEWAGE PLANT — Mayor EH S. Vance of Vance, Woodstock, a member of the CIA R. K.
Tillsonburg (centre) yesterda cut the ribbon to c/ McNeil, MPP _(EC— gin Mayor Vance, Gordon
rfficially open the towns new $700,000 sewage ,3. Ines, MPP PC Oxford), and Dr. A. E. Berry,
treatment plant while members of the Legislature fF(/Toronto, general manager and chief engineer of
and officials of the Ontario Water Resources Com- the OWRC. (Photo by Rubie)
mission looked on. From the left are Dr. J. A. _mom*�
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Founder of the community, _
H. B. Ostrander, was the first
Postmaster in 1876. His son J'..fUti J`c-1( yly41"J4%� 04"4"
was the second postmaster, 44 WSnM1,v) "a II
kecping the position in thefUMilb,'yq ` 7 / /�, ,
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