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Point Anne Signs Honor Hull, page 1

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NULL "WELCOME HOME, BOBBY" says Earl Anderson, shaking hands with' Point Anne's Bobby Hull. In the background is the sign Anderson had erecte near the Canada Cement plant. £°in* A™* Signs Honor HullPoint Anne's most famous native son officially home yesterday. Bobby Hull, at his Big Island home for the past week, took a quick trip to Point Anne yes- Anderson greeted Hull in Stewart, and that it was a gift came front of one of his pet projects, of the Canada Cement Com- < terday afternoon, wife Joanne and along with two of the pair's three husky youngsters. Hull was officially welcomed to the Point by Earl Anderson, general foreman of the Canada Cement Company's Point Anne plant. Nor was it easy to keep the active pair still long enough to pose with the rest of the Hull family for pictures, wearing their Chicago Black Hawk jackets. "They call them the white tornado and his helper -around Chicago Stadium," of- fered Hull Sr. Another sign, this one the banner type, also proclaims! Point Anne as the home of! Hull. It is placed near the front of the Point Anne Lane, on Highway No. 2, and was paid for by Canada Cement plant employees. "We are all mighty proud of Bobby and the whole Hull fam- ily," Anderson said before! Bobby's arrival. "We tried to arrange for Dennis, to be here too, but be had to go to St. Catharines this afternoon," ! added Anderson. Dennis, Bobby's younger brother and also a professional hockey player, saw action with the Hawks and their CPHL farm team in St. Louis this sea- son Anderson said he expected quite a number of Point Anne people would be attending the! Bobby Hull Testimonial Din- ner, being held in Belleville's St. Michael's Auditorium on Thursday, May 12. h an eight by twelve foot sign, placed just across from the plant. "Point Anne, birthplace of Bobby Hull -- World's great- est hockey player," reads the sign. Along the bottom follows: "1965-66 scoring record -- goals 54, assists 43," and in a larger circle is the numbers "97", Hull's record point total. Anderson said he had ar- ranged for the sign to be paint-" ed by a plant employee, Jack pany. "I am honored," said the Chicago Black Hawk left wing- er. "Isn't it big," beamed wife Joanne. Little Bobby and Blake, the two older members of the Hull "kid line" were too busy talk- ing to Grandpa and Grandma. Mr. and Mrs. Bab Hull Sr., to pay mjuoh attention to the sign. Baby Brett was home with the sitter.

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