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the georgetown herald wednesday evening april 11 19 page 2 this is scratch yes scratch the place from which you will have to start if fire or other disaster destroys your home and everything in it would your present insur ance give you the help youd need to rebuild from scratch let us help you to moke sun now john r barber insurance and travel agency john r barber freeman kersey what council did purchase town truck from maveal motors maveal motor sales got the nod from council monday when three ten ders were opened for purchase of a oneton truck for the town council decided on an international at a price of 2159 there was little interest from any dealer in taking in the present truck on trade and council are undecidcd whether to sell it or keep it as an aux ihary for street sanding and similar jobs council okayed a request of the hospital committee thai mayor arm strong sign letters which are going out with lottery tickets for the draw on a house donated by delrex develop ments john ord appeared for the hospital committee to suggest this saying he felt the public would have more confidence in a project if it had such endorsation from the town coun cil requesting that the town share costs with sunbeam property owners of beautifying the district with trees sid hardie was told that there is talk of a horticultural society being form ed and such an organization might adept this a sa project triangle 73521 council wives have dinner see home show members of georgetown council entertained their wives last wednes day when they went to toronto for dinner at the seaway hotel then at tended the home show at the cne grounds as guests of rex heslop they were particularly interested in viewing the display which delrex developments had in the show a familiar georgetown scene was eye catching a large 4 foot coloured picture taken from the 9th line bridge at hungry hollow delrex also had on view plans showing houses and industrial sites in the new part of georgetown mr and mr heslop entertained the group at their home when they re turned to town asking for permission to erect oil and gas storage tanks at the rear of their highway property halton co operative supplies were given no an swer until the town planning commit tee investigated the hospital committee was gran ted used of the park on may 21st when they arc planning a gala day to launch hospital fund raising the town will donate 200 to a i eg ion sponsored fireworks display which will be held that night at 103 has marriage tips advice for married couples who want to stay that way don t gtt into an argument before breakfast this word to the wise comes from george hemstreet a man who has stayed happily married to the same woman for nearly 75 of his 103 years mr and mrs hcmstrctt are canada s oldest married couple mr hemstreet took time out from preparations for his 103rd birthday party last week to pass on this added advice to younger coupks dont marry someone that you re not completely satisfied with and then try to change them latter condition yourself to each others wishes don t ixpcct too much from each othir dont nag don t nag have a strong will speak your piece and forget it don t be selfish marry someone who is like your self someone with similar interests the heimtrcets both went to the same united church in milton they both taught sunday school classes during courtship about before breakfast arguments george hemstreet explained its easy to argue on an empty stomach but it s hard to forget it it s a poor way to start a day we had two girls it depends how am hik 1 1 p no real seer 1 1 ui i n hrm ii mt many children a man and wife need no real srr mrs hemstreet said she and george had no real secret for their happy and long marriage we were too hdppy to wonder why we just fell in love and stayed in love she said shell be 101 on may 22 the hemstreets have a formula for long life too in their combined 204 years they never smoked drank or drove a car rcavsctor spmgeisl trapped 3 hours car plunge in credit presence of mind of marion stod d rt 16 of georgetown saved hir life and that of norman ki id 21 inik wood of the 1st line taledon when their car plunged through a bridge washout fnda nijht into mm feet of water in a branch of the credit river the spent three ho irs wa imf in kneedeep hoods and milint for re seue tlu were trapped on an is land formed when two bridges washed awa and hid to be rescued b boat the car with the two youne people still in it was swept 50 feet down stream hi fin it came to rest against the timbers of a bridge which had been sw pi aw a here the front end belin to sink dragged down b weight of the engine marion had the presenee of mind to warn kidd not to roll down the front win dows then under water and they scrambled into the rear scat and out a rear window into the ic water they climbed into shallower water and managed to reach the road where the water was only a few inches deep they began walking south but un known to them a second bridge over another river branch had been wash ed out and they would not have seen it in the darkness fortunatelv a car was approaching from the opposite side of the river the driver spotted the demolished bridge and stopped he saw the couple wadinj towards the river called to them to slop and went for help the dmer charles fleming al ton went fr help at the scriee sta tion of rrtl filings at highway 10 ind the inutwood roa j the unj ouplc wire left alone kntdeep in waur f r thru h urs b fore their restue lthoujh lhe were njt in sen us ianjer they were irappe j belwen the tw wash id- ut bn jes an i the only way thej eould be reaebel was by boat injjewood lire brigade was called two brigade memoirs stiwart nedy and jaek arm n n bornwil a hi it and headed fjr ibi nvir with ml froti others the effect 1 a diftcull resiut kidd said his car dnppc 1 and was win vt silewajs with iut a sec ond f warning ii praise 1 miss stddits presenee of mind in stop 110 him fr in opminj the win low n the submerged tar ii the tune thej were brought to fcafc t ihi road approachine thi spot was ittornmf impassible pc s w ferns an hickinebottom of port credit oop travelled by cruiser as far ds possible and then continued by jeep toward the spot to offer help anglican ladies at pioceson w a annual a number of members of the local anglican woman s association at tended the annual diocesan meeting yesterday and today m hamilton bishop w e bagnall was celebrant at holy communion in christ s church cathedral and the sermon was given by canon cecil swanson of st paul s church toronto music was provided by the liturgical choir of the diocese directej by rev h f thomasson in he afternoon life members of the w a assembled at the parish hall and were guests of mrs w e jack sod wife of the dean of the cathedral the evening session convened it the parish hall of the church of the ascension under the chairmanship of diocesan president miss georgina cbeckley the speaker mrs r h soward dealt with the 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