Ontario Hydro Crews Working on Plans Related to Seaway Project
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—If the Indian Lands —Experience is what you start booming, maybe the have left after, you’ve redskins will want ’em lost everything else. back. The Glengarry ISew ONE OF CANADA’S AWARD-WINNING WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS VOL. LXIII—No. 1 ALEXANDRIA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7th, 1954 SINGLE COPY 7e TEST DRILLING EXCIT HUI RESIDENTS Found Just In Time Mother Of Rector Major Rock Chicks Minto Follies To Be Seen At Ontario Hydro Crews Working On After Breaking Hip Dies At Martintown Wintering In Bermuda Christmas in Bermuda via Glengarry Gardens, February 5th Plans Related To Seaway Project T.C.A.—sounds like something Darkness was falling, Tuesday Rev. John D. MoPhail, rector of r afternoon, when a 69-year-old 3rd St. Finnan’s parish, here, chanted we’d all like to do, and when Two Diamond - Drilling Teams Working Kenyon resident, William J. Hohus, the Solemn Mass of Requiem this 400 of your pals go, too. What Start Making Artificial Ice In was discovered by a passerby, lying morning, at the funeral of his fun! Local Arena Today Though Still Round Clock On Farms South Of at the rear of his home with a frac- mother, Mrs. Rbderiek MoPhail, That was the experience of Apple Hill In The Indian Lands tured hip. He had slipped on his Island1 Road, Martintown, whose 400 chicks from W. J. Major’s Uncertainty As To When Sheet Will Be Ready back steps and suffered the frac- death occurred suddenly, Sunday North Lancaster Major Rock evening. The funeral was held at Farm. They were put aboard a The Minto Follies of Ottawa,, featuring one of the finest ice spec- TWo diamond - drilling teams are working round the clock testing ture three hours earlier. He un- doubtedly would have suffered ■10 o’clock this morning from the Bermuda-bound plane at Dorval tacles extant, will come to Glengarry Gardens on February 5th. Arrange- rock formation on farm land 2% miles south of Apple Hill, and residents severely from exposure had he not family home to St. Andrew’s Church on December 23rd, consigned to ments were completed yesterday with Follies officials and it is understood of the area are excited at the prospect that their district will benefit an island Arm. been found before dark. and cemetery. the complete show will1 be on view on the new artificial ice. The fifty directly during the years of construction for the St. Lawrence Seaway The only hitch — they’ll never The elderly man had been living His Excellency Most Rev. Rosario performers will include 'that comedian on skates, Arthur Nellis, who has project. Thirty men, reportedly Americans, make up the drill gangs Brodeur, DID., Bishop of Alexandria, come back to Glengarry. We alone In his home on Highway 43, wouldn’t like that. played in the Barbara Ann Scott and Sonja Heine shows. working on eight farms in the Indian Lands, on the border of Glengarry four miles west of Alexandria, since was present In the Sanctuary and chanted the Libera. Many members o —— Test frosting of the pipes was and Stormont. * the death of his wife a year ago. underway Wednesday and workmen Nothing is known officially of After his fall about 1:30 p.m., he of the diocesan clergy were present as well as a very large number of expressed themselves well satisfied 'ultimate plans and perhaps because Is 91 Today tried in vain to attract the atten- Dan MacKinnon Dies with the first tests, very few leaks relatives and friends. Camerons Of B.C. ■of the blackout of news, speculation tion of passersby on the highway, being found. is rife in the area. The drilling John R. McMaster, one of Alex- 200 feet distant, until 4:15 when a The death of Mrs. McPhail oc- At Grand Forks, B.C. Ice making starts today but there could be but part of the extensive andria’s older citizens, marks his passing Quebec trucker heard his curred with startling suddenness at Warmly Welcomed John H. and Alex. 'MacKinnon, is no guarantee when the new plant testing being done by Hydro en- 91st birthday today. Mr. McMaster call and stopped to give aid. A call her home, at 11 o’clock Sunday 9th Lancaster, have received word will be declared ready for use. First gineers to locate suitable construc- remains In comparatively good was put in to Dr. M. Markson from evening. A rousing Glengarry welcome was of the death of a brother, Dan Mac- ice may take from three to five days, tion materials. But one area resi- health and he will have the best the home of Wilfred Sabourin and Mrs. McPhail was born in the tendered Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ewen Kinnon, 76, at Grand Forks, B.C. but Gardens officials are hoping it dent sees the possibility of a cement wishes of many friends on this new he went to the scene with the Mar- Ninth Cbncession of the Township Cameron ■ and sons, Alex, and Jack, Mr. MacKinnon was ill when here will be in use by Sunday. plant or other such producing in- milestone. coux & Morris ambulance. of Cornwall, a daughter of the late holiday visitors in the Fassifern o In October to attend the golden Plans for a grand opening are ■dustry rising in the district. After preliminary treatment at Mr. and Mrs. William Chisholm, area after an absence of 24 years wedding celebration of Mr. and Mrs. being delayed until there is certainty It is known, however, that On- the scene, Mr. Hobus was conveyed her maiden name being Mary Jane in Western Canada, at a party in John H. MacKinnon, and he appar- of ice. tario Hydro engineers are testing to Hotel Dieu Hospital, where it was Chisholm. She had resided on the Lochiel Township Hall, Monday Business Of Former Island Road, Martintown, for more evening. ently never recovered from the Officials have set their fees for for suitable material for dike con- found he bad suffered little from his strain of the trip. struction and the drilling near lengthy exposure. He is being than 50 years, being held In the Friends from all over Glengarry, ice rental at little more than was Born in the 9th Lancaster, Mr. Aifple Hill could be related to this Board Discussed treated for a fracture of the right highest regard by everybody who as well as from Montreal, ‘Ottawa, being asked for natural ice in years project. hip. had the pleasure of her aequaint- Detroit and Cornwall, filled the hall MacKinnon taught school in the past. The rental fee will be $7.00 to welcome the Camerons on their area and later completed a com- per hour for skating, broomball, The eight farms, encompassing A meeting of the old Glengarry Mr. Hobus came to the 3rd Ken- anee! She was a faithful member return. The couple and their sons mercial course before going to hockey practice or school-hour skat- ' 2,000 acres, on which Ontario Hydro High School Area Board, with rep- fyon from Montreal some four years of St. Andrew’s Church, St. An- resentatives from the Department drews West. She passed peacefully were piped into the room by a Grand Forks, where he had resided ing. Hockey game guarantees will has taken drilling rights are in the ago, when he purchased the James for 50 years. of Education and the heads of all away, fortified by' the last rites of nephew, Gilbert Cameron of Hunts- be $25,- during the week; $50 for Sth and 10th concessions Indian R. McDonald farm. ville, Ont., and from then on the Lands, in both Charlottenburgh and Glengarry municipalities was held the Roman Catholic Church. His wife, four sons and two Saturday nights and $60 for Sunday spirit of Glengarry hospitality took Cornwall Townships. The land is at the High School, here, December Surviving to mourn the passing daughters survive as well as three afternoons. over with Highland dancing,, piping, reportedly somewhat - sandy with a 31st, to wind up the business of the of a devoted wife and mother are brothers: John H. and Alex., 9th Arrangements have already been step dancing and piano and violin good rock base. Eight holes have Board which had been extinct for Now Director Of her husband, three sons and five Lancaster, and Ranald, in Mont- made by the Public School Board music. already been drilled and samples of a year., Also present were Osie daughters — James A. McPhail, real. for school rdntal from 4 to 5 p.m. Infantry Training It was one of the biggest gather- rock formation are being taken as Villeneuve, M.PJP., and accountants William McPhail, Miss Margaret Interment was at Grand Forks. each Monday, Wednesday and Fri- ings ever seen in the hall and among ■deep as 80 or 90 feet. from the firm of MacDonald, Currie, Col. D. C. Cameron, D.S.O., who McPhail, Miss Bernadette McPhail, o day. The High School Board is wait- the 300 or more guests were Col. D. ing for word on the ice before com- Farmers who are said to have re- which carried out the special audit. visited his mother, Mrs. R. W, Cam- Miss Mae McPhail, all at home; The meeting had been called at Rev. John D.. McPhail, rector of C. Cameron, Ottawa; Gordon Mac- ing to an agreement and no ar- ceived $200 payments for drilling eron, here, over the week-end, is Gillis, Rev. C. F. Gauthier, Dan Ottawa Couple rights are Duncan Christie, George the insistence of some of the muni- now director of infantry training at St.