Hants History
• The official opening of Windsor’s Heritage Memorials new manufacturing and sales facility in the Windsor Industrial Park was scheduled for June 8, 1968. A two-page spread congratulating the company appeared in the Hants Journal. It was reported that the business, founded in June 1967 by Maurice Nelson, was initially set up in a temporary building in the Windsor Industrial Park.
• Retired Martock farmer, Orland Millett, was celebrated on his 95th birthday. He was a resident of the Falmouth-based Bell Nursing Home.
• Bill Smiley’s Sugar and Spice column from 1968 started out by saying “One of the dirtiest words in the English language is ‘housewife.’” The column discusses the social stigma attached to such a term and offers a scathing take on why more women aren’t allowed to have careers.
“Take a look at your average housewife on a TV commercial. She is portrayed as being so dumb it makes you wince, as she raves over some cruddy soap or new instant coffee.”
• The Imperial Theatre in Windsor was showing a variety of movies, including a double bill featuring Country Boy and Thun- der in Dixie, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, starring Clint Eastwood, Disney’s The Absent Minded Professor, The Mystery of Thug Island, featuring Guy Madison and Peter Van Eyck, and No Way to Treat a Lady.
• In the Hants History column dating back to 1943, it was noted that small scale operations in the Wentworth quarries would resume after being halted since the fall.
In wartime news from 1943, Capt. Garnet Sexton, of the Royal Artillery and a native of Windsor, was killed in action. Pilot officer Norman Fowlow, of Windsor, was reported to have shot down a Focke-Wolfe 90 over France.
In news from 1918, the Kissing Bridge was completed and “is said to be of first class construction.”
In wartime news from 1918, Capt. Fred A. Smith, of Mount Denson, died when a steamer was torpedoed. To view more photos from 25 and 50 years ago, be sure to visit