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Free Press Woodstock Bureau-
' seven -member community cen-
FOLDEN'S CORNERS — A�,'
the board was established by
$3,100 provincial grant for Fol-`
West Oxford Township coon-
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den's C o r n e r s Commumty
oil yeaterda to supervise op-
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erations of a relocated com-
Centre was received yesterday
munity centre, now being re-'.
by West Oxford Township
- novated here. ._
council.
Reeve Vernon Cuthbert, Ox-
The community .centre, a
ford County warden, COtln.
former Forester's Hall was
C Max Franklin and Mrs. W!l- '.
for '
moved to a four -acre park set-
t._.. bur Jellous were appointed
tfng a year agor
the balance of the year.
± Mrs. Keith Hammerton and
Clerk-treasUrer L. B. Curry
Norman Dorlan were appoint
said remodelling of the hall
ed for 1967 and 1968; and Wil
has yet to be finished.
\
llam Johnson and Bert Somers
In other business, council ilt-
tor ItG, '6s and 's9.
creased its 'payment in a fire
protection agreement w i t h
R!�—sp
Meathrell
Beachville. The township will.
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pay $50 for each fire call for;
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tenders Called
thefirst hour andeach -
hour after that, rather than
WOODSTOCK — Tenders
the previous $50 for each fire.' _
have been called for the J. N.
Mr. Curry said an alterna.
MeathrOl Bridge which will
live would have been $100 for
span the Thames River atthe
each fire call.
I n ge r s o I 1 waterworks two
miles west of Ingersoll
Closing date is Dec. 20. Esti-
mated cost is $120,000.
The Nridge will replace one
more than 60 Years old.
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Man, 74, fined
after death crash
WOODSTOCK -s E l m e r
Heeney, 74, of RR5, Ingersoll, i
was fined $200 Thursday by !
Magistrate R. G. Groom on a
careless driving charge laid 52
after a Feb. 25 accident.
Mrs. Heeney. and Bruce
Walter Ruby, 21, RR 1, Tavis-
t.ock, died of injuries suffered in the accident at the junction
of Highways 59 and 97 at
Hickson.
Mr. Heeney, who was seri.
ously injured in the accident,
was found guilty Sept. 12.16 S -
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zraDers Limited at 16 - 18 Brock Street, Woodstock, Ontario
Kerry G. Lambie, Managing Editor
JUNE 19, 1968
Merchant Navy?
' Marchand
dition was that the merchant
'in wanting
marine would be a strong right
hant navy
arm to national defence, training
,t held just
the men who would man the fight -
he would
-ing ships in time of war as well as
a to solve
providing the means of trade in
sfactorily.
peacetime.
'eased his
Conditions remained stable for
as he ad-
a time with high freight rates
1 hundred
helping ships to operate at a pro-
Ut to lose
fit. But, in time, ships became un-
hipyard in
economical to operate in competi-
City, has
tion with those of other nations.
i Orders. It
Dropping freight rates and other
)yard to be
conditions — including increased
Canada in
operating costs — caused a sharp
drop in the number of post-war
that a na-
vessels in the merchant marine
vily on the
which fell from 173 ocean going
n da does
types to 27.
merchant
This is hardly consistent with
ears even
urns that
Canada's position as an exporting
nation, with eight of her ten prov-
JAMES CHARLES .and robbed 'by two Farmed bandits head and ordered him to lie
Nellie Correy of Sweaburg I t m . One of the robbers down on the living room
sat around their kitchen table In ed a shotgun at James' floor.
today telling of how they were
'1--��d Pair Rob
burg Family,
Two masked bandits last night ing room and made them He on ed it at his head and told him
held three elderly Sweaburg the floor. to go into the living room and
- people at gunpoint and robbed Almost $900 of the money, be- lie on the floor.
them of about $1,000. - longing to Charles, was kept in "I looked at that shotgun and
The three, two brothers and a a wallet in an upstairs room. I went in and day on the floor,"
sister, were forced to he on their The thieves took a purse be- he said.
living room floor and tell where longing to Nellie which contain- Two burlap sacks and a length
they kept their money. ed around $30 and forced James of rope the thieves brought with
James Correy, 64, Charles, to hand over $8 from his over. them, apparently to tie the Cor-
167, and Nellie, 62, said the men alls pocket. - reys with were not used.
iwere wearing cotton masks John McCulloch of the On- A third brother, Warren, was
which completely covered their tario Provincial Police, Wood- out of the house at the time.
faces except for hales for the stock detachment,said there. is.: —It's a good. thing 1 wasn't
eyes and mouth. One held a shot no indication of how the thieves home. I had about $275 in my
gun and the other brandished a made their getaway. The Cor- pocket and they would have got
tire iron. I reys did not see or hear a car that, too," he said.
The two entered the small red start up after the robbery. Charles, who earns his money
'insul-brick Correy home through The Correys said they were doing odd jobs around farms,
,the kitchen about 8 p.m. and told to remain quiet. James said said he kept his money in $20
'.forced the Correys into the liv- Ithe man with the shotgun point. bills
After the thieves left James
bran to neighbor, Vernice Ruth-
erford, who called police. The
I Correys do not have a telephone.
All area police have been
asked to be on the lookout for
the two men. One is described
- I as six feet tall, slim and weigh-
ing about 180 pounds. The sec.
-- and is said to be about five foot
j six inches tail, heavy set and
weighing about 150 pounds.
"They took everything we
had," Nellie said, 'even my
pocketbook and wallet."
I James smiled a little and said,
it"Almost everything. They
missed a. pocketbook I had in
another room. All they took
Ilfrom me was the old one in my
overalls with $8 in it."