HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1973-10-18, Page 1Harold Willert, left, of R.R.4, Hensall examines the remains fifia trailer on his farm just
north of Hensall which was flipped end over end by Saturday night's twister. The trailer was owned
by Mr. Willert's son, Richard, who planned to make it his home after his wedding on November- 10.
The remains of the trailer were sold by his insurance company to an Auburn man, Dave Kember,
who has a similar trailer which was damaged by fire and hopes to salvage some parts to make re- .
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A barn in McKillop Township owned by Harold Pr3e, R.R.1, Seaforth was badly hit by Siturday
night's storm. A steel roottin part of the barn was• ripped off and pieces were hurled around the
Pryce farm.
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Typical of the damage wrought by Saturday night's storm in
this area, especially id% McKillop, is this ;view of the farm
owned by Harold Pryce. Trees were uprooted and a partial
steel roof was ripped off . M. Prwe's bank barn. The house
on the farm, recently bought 'by Ed. Taylor escaped damage
es the high winds tore through the'farm. A piece Of steel from
the barn roof was hurled thrOugh the Window of a trailer owned
by Britin prpe, a ball mile away. -
Les Seiler, left, owner of Seaforth Creamery Limited and
Lloyd Bedard, a Creamery employee stand beside. the first
shipment of butter ever received in Canada from Ireland. The
Seaforth Creamery has to import butter to make its Elmgrove
Dairy Spread because supplies of Canadian butler are limited.
Huron Liberals
name delegates
Whole No. 5610
114tH Year
„Commttee of
adjustment is
appointed
Seaforth Council at a special
meetlng Tuesday evening ap-
pointed the nan-council members
of Seaforth Planning Board and
the Board secretary to sit as a
committee of adjustment for the
town.
Members appointed were:
John Turnbull, Lloyd Rowel ,
Ken 'Oldacre, Clarence Walden
and Gordon Riminer, and secre-
tary. Their terms will coincide
with the time left on planning
board terms.
* , Council read a report from the
Ministry of the Environment con-
cerning the ' completion of the
sewage disposal system for Sea-
forth.
The project, estimated to cost
in excess of $1,500,000 will be
subsidized by grants of 66 2/3 %
and will include all portions of
the town not presently on sewers
as well as the parts of town that
were connected in 1963 as well
as the Market Street line com-
pleted about a year ago. •
In going over the report on a
street-by-street basis, council
discovered, that there was over
100 vacant building lots in town
in the areas to be served-by the
new lines.
- It is estimated that when the
report is approved,by council and
forwarded to the ministry that at
least a year will elapse before
0 , actual work will commence on
the project.
When council first received
. the report,' it had been divided
in two projects, phase 1 being'
the larger project with phase 11
picking up small' areas on the
perimeter of ,the town.
Council felt then that'it would
be less costlrif the whole job
was completed at one time., •
Representatives of council
went to Toronto and after, talking
to officials of the ministry 'were
able to convince them that this,.
was possible.
Council' is still working mit
details on how the local share'of
the project ,will be paid for. Ano-
ther special meeting will be held
next Tuesday evening in this re-
gard., '
Deputy-Reeve Wilmer Cuthill
was instructed to probeed in-
stalling''a drain through an ease-
ment across Seaforth Distridt
Nigh School property to drain
access water from around the
arena.
A letter from •the Ministry of
Transportation and Communica-
tions was read by Clerk Wil-
liams to council in which the mi-
nistry informed council that
grants would be available to pro-
ceed with, the construction of a,
bridge on Birch Street. .
The bridge, estimated to cost
about $39,000 is planned to serve
an industrial park.
. Miehistry officials asked coun-
cil to consider delaying the start
of this project until spring be-
cause of extra expenses involved
in cement work in the winter.
Council agreed.
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SAM a year;in Advnatio
Saturday night
Twister lifts trees, tr
Miss Jane S. Pengilley has
been appointed to succeed Mrs.
John Scott (nee Kit Hunt) as
hom§a' economist for Huron
-Coulity. She is a native of
Brampton area, Peel County
• where her father operates a
frdit fairn specializing in apples.
Miss Pingiliey who has been
active in 4-H homemaking, clubs
and Jr. Farmer clubs in her •
county was educated at the
Streetsville Secondary School.
She enrolled at the College of
Family an. Consumer Studies,
Guelp majoring in family
st es. She reeeiVed her. Bach-
or of Applied Science degree
at the spring convocation this
year.
An increase of 8% in the sal-
aries of senior administrative of-,
ficials of the Huron Board of
Education was'' approved by the
Board Monday afternoon.
In addition to the salary in-
creases whictetange up to $2,400
and which are retroactive nearly
ten Months to January 1st of this
year, the board 'approved addi-
tional fringe benefits.
The 'new sald•ries with 1972
salaries in brackets are:
Director of Education, D. J.
•.Cochrane, $32,400 ($30,000); Ac-
ademic Superintendents; James
Coulter and Donald' Kenwell,
$27,000 ($25,000);Sqp rintendent
of Business Affairs; . B, Dun-
lop, $27,000 ($25,00 ; Assist-
ant Academic sup intendents,
Robert Allen and alph Smith,
$25,900 ($24,00
Effective Ottbber 1, 1973, the
. 'Board will pay '75 per cent of
the premium cost of
Blue cross drug plan and group
life insurance plea for these of-
The Board will pay 50 per
cent of the annual membership
fee far' any senior administrative
'official wishing to join the Ont-
ario Association of Education
Administrative officials.
Effective October 1, 1973, the
Board will pay 15 cents per mile
to all employees driving onboard
businesd.
Wilfred Shortreed,vice chair-
man of the Board, who was acting
chairman Monday in the absenee--
of Board Chairman, E. C. 11111,
stated, "We have a good admin-
istrative 'staff, we have to keep
their salaries in line, with our
neighboring counties."
In a pressAelease from the
Board it, was stated that because
of "the abnormally high increase
in the cost of living Which haS oc-
curred over the last several
months, the Huron County Board
'of Edudation felt that it must
bring salaries filth line with those
being paid by neighboring
boards."
In other business the ,Board
accepted the resignation of Don-
ald S. McKee, effective October
15, and approved a request frdm
Mrs. E. Merrill, teacher at Blyth
.Public School be permitted to
attend the Directors', meeting,
Federation of Women Teachers'
. •Associations of Ontario, on
Thursday, March 28, and Friday,
A twister which plew in
off Lake' Huron shortly after 10
p.M.• Saturday night cased
thousands thousands of dollars damage in
this area .?..s it rooted .up trees,
up ended a trailer, and ravaged
farm buildings. McKillop Town-
ship-was one of tie hardest hit
regions in Buren County.
The Twister struck Saturday
night about 1 1/4 miles east of
Winthrop around 10130 p.m. A
barn owned , by Harold Pryce,
R.R.1, Seaforth was damaged ex-
tensively,.. 'trees were twisted
and knocked down and hydro poles
In front of properties' owned by
Bob Regale and 0.T.PryCe were
blown over.
Ontario Hydro crews worked
all night, restoring power to the
area by morning.
"A large road grader was
called in to clear the road. Harold
pryce said he was 'away at' the
time the twister hit. The steel
roof was torn off his rn, blown
past the home of Ed
aPa
. Taylor and
part of the steel struck a trailer
about a half a mile away owned
by Brian Pryce. A sheet of the
metal roofing went, through a
window of the trailer, but the
Pryce family escaped unharmed.
Ed. Taylor who has just pur-
chased the house on the Pryce
farm, said there was no
warning; the wind 'hit and it was
all over in about 15 or 20 minutes.
Shingles were blown off the
back shed And a large branch, was
down at the back of the house
The barn with large gaping
holes where the roof was rrioved
'is only about a hundred feet back
of the house.
Steel from the roof of the barn
was scattered over a. wide area
and one plece- was at the top, of
a maple tree, about 60 feet off
the ground, at the edge of the road
in front of the pryce home farm.,'
A ood 3/4 of a mile farther
down the road at the Bob Regele
property, the tops were torn off
three large Evergreen trees on
the west side of the house, a
picnic table on the patio was
picked up, and smashed to pieces
and shingles were torn off the'
roofOf the house.
-Mrs: Regele said their clock
..stopped at 10:35. She said they
had been watching TV and did
not hear anything unusual until
the wind hit. She ran upstairs
to get the children:
When she looked out the
window, the line of evergreensat
the west were bent over4yith their
tops touching the ground.
In front avid to the west of
the Regele home and the home of
Oliver Pryce, at least a dozdn
large maple trees were down 'or
had large branches torn off.Two
Mr! and Mrs. David ,Netzke
of 42 West William Street, Sea-
forth, celebrated their 60th wed-
ding' anniversary Saturday night
at a reception held at the Sea-
forth Legion Hall,
Mrs. Netzke is the former Eva
Ke'ady, daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Timothy Keady of Ok-
lahoma. 'Mr. Netzke was born in
Mildfnay, a son of the late Mr.
and Mrs'. Ffederick Netzke,
The couple were married by
the late Rev, G, R. Gross the
Methodist Church in Mlldmay,on
,January 27, 1913. They lived in
Mildmay and in walkertOn for a
number of years, coming to live.
in Seaforth in 1936.
Mr. Netzke served overseas
large *trees were down in the
pryce laheway.
Three hydro poles were
brdken oft at The ground and for
over a 1/4 of a mile the road was
impassable..
After the grader cleared the
road, hydro crews started
the long job of .restoring power
. to the area. Crews were still
on the job at 10 a,m. Sunday
morning and the .trees still will
have to be cut up and removed
from along the edge of the road.
No estimate was available as
to the total amount of damage the
storm caused.
Other neighbors said they
heard the noise of the twister
as it passed through the area.
Also in McKillop 'Township
Nelson McClure of R.R. 2, Sea-
forth, northwest of Seaforth,
suffered damage amounting to
about $1,000 when the end of a
machine shed was ripped out, a
gi'ain auger to a silo was smashed
to the ground, a grain bin wagon
was. moved 50 feet through as
ferae; four large evergreens ina
row at the front of the house were
uprooted or broken. off. -
On the neighbouring farm of
in the First 'World War from
1914 'to 1918, and in the Second
World War, he served in Canada
from 1939 to 1945.
Mr. Netzke was employed,at
the Bell Foundry in Seaforth and
later at the former Canadian
Forces Base at Clinton, refiring
twelve years ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Netzke 'have
one daughter, Mrs, Patrick (Rose
Altman of R.R. 2, Mildmay; and
two sons, Roy of Brockville and
Melvin of Lucan. They haVe 14
grandchildren,0128 great-grand-
children and one great, great
grandchild, •
The couple were, the reci-
pients of many gifts and cards. The Huron ,(Provincial) Li-
beral Association had four can-
didates for Provincial Liberal
Leadership at its annual meeting
in Zurich last Wednesday even-
ing . . and all four men took
advantage of their visit to speak
to a large and enthusiastic crowd
of Liberal supporters in the Rid-
ing which was captured by the
Liberals in a March by-election
-for the first time in 25 years.
Robert Nixon, presently the
Provincial 'Liberal Leader af-
tended the functidn as' well as
three of his opponents; Donald
Deacon, Norman Cafik and Eddie
Sargent.
Nixon was applauded vigor-
otisly '.by those present, most of
them weariflg Nixon buttons. In
a brief but sincere speech' to the
people, Nixon asked simply for
support at the leadership con-
vention coming up October 26 tb
28 in Toronto.
He praised Hti•ort's new mem-
ber of provincial:parliament,'
Jack Riddell, and told the aud-
ience their representative had
been well-received and is already
well respected at Queen's Purk.
"The Party wants all over this
'province what Huron got in the
last election," stated Donald
Deacon. "A' win!"
Deaketi Said there are •95
Ridings in, the province which ire
not now Liberal and Said the Li-
beral team needs a' leader which
will weld, the mergers "into an
65 toot tiouSe traIXOP was 04404
40 feet, end over end, deMOlis, -
it and its contents. The $1000. trailer belonged to, ltiettare''
Willert, a son of the farm °Weer,.
Who planned on making it a nome
or. tkye bride lie- will marry in
ova ber.
n the • Village of 11%184
numerous trees • and , tree 4140s
cw:ursein.drnead •bhyytohre.oinbtelacnceouwint
of
an hour and a half. Nillage,fire-
men aided 'with tractors la clear,'
ing, the. streets.
On the farm of Jan Van Inlet, •
(Continued on Page 16) •
• effective force."
He promised if he was named
leader of the Liberals in'ontario
to organize the team long before
the election, to raise money for
the campaign and to bring out
the issues. ,
Deadon laimed there was a s
"di tatorship now in Queen's
Park" but that prime Minister
William' Davis. has "lost ground" •
in recent months.
Over the next two years, Deer
con said, the Liberals can or- •
ganize themselves into an al-
ternative,Which could win"hope-
less Riding?' and "enable the
people to govern themselves."
Called a "dirk runner from
the federal government by Dr.--
Morgan Smith who introdiked him
Norman Cafik said he was in the
race because 'the Liberals of Ont-
ario "need a wide open choice at
the convention." •
Catilt. said , a recent poll
showed the Liberal party is run-
ning second in popularity in Ont-
ario and that- the present Li,
beral leader is running third in
popularity.
The member tram the Riding
of Ontario said the progrelitiVe
Conservative's ih Ontario are
"clearly rotten, on the inside and
truly slipping badly.'
If named Leader tf the pro.,
vincial • Liberals, 'atilt staid he
Would lay doWn a- Clear policy
(Continued on Pao 4)
March 29, 1974. The Federation,
which made the request will re-
.,imburse the Board the costs of
supplying-a •teacher during Mrs:
Merrill's absence.
The Board will permit Mrs.
J. Graham, principal of Queen
Elizabeth Schools for the Train-
able Retarded, Goderich, to keep
the schools open on November 21,
1973 (a day designated for pro-
fessional activity) and close the
schdols on April'26, 197,4„to.
able the teachers in the Train-
able Retarded schools to attend
the Annual Conference for tea-
chers of these children.
CLEAR FIELD TRIPS
Four field trips for students
at South Huron District High
School were aptproved; 35 to 49
students, members of the Junior
Outers Group, for an overnight
trip' in the Exeter area on Oct-
o13er 19 to October 20, inclusive
at no cost to the Board; 25 to-30
students, members of the Senior
Outers group, for an excursion
for three days ; October 19 to
October 21, inclusive, to the To-
bermory-C-ypress Lake area, at
no cost'to the Board; 25 students
members of the Senior Outers
group for an., overnight trip to
the Maitland River area from No-
vember 10 to November 11, in-
clusiv,e, at no cost to the Board;
40 4-year students on a one-day
excursion to Greenfield Village,
Detroit, Michigan, 'on a suitable
day during the first week in No-
Vember, at a cost to the Board
and charged to the budget of the
South Huron District High School
of $105.00.
Ken Galbraith's request to
Connect a six-inch tile to the
Board's 12-inch field tile at How-
ick Central Public School at no
expense to the Board was grant-
e and' any future 'costs result-
.. in from this ,drainaare to be
born by-Mr. Galetaith.
A question of fencing en-
croachment at Wingham Public
School is to be turned over to the
• Board's sqlicitor for investiga-
tion and recommended action,
. BUSES OVERCROWDED
At a regular Board meeting
on September 17, Trustee Herb-
, ert Turkheim, of Zurich present-
ed a petition from 62 students
declaring that. Exeter Coach
Lines Bus.#4 to SouthHuronDis-
trict High School is overcrowded.
R. U. Cunningham, Transporta-
tion manager for the Board, re-
ported the bus being .used has a
manufacturers rated capacity of
72 students, but a legal capacity
according to specifications from
Ministry of Transportation and
Communications of 69 students,
of which approximately one-third"
(Continued on page 16)
We're sorry
The publishers regret that be-
cause of an equipment failure
shortly before press time it has
been necessary to hold over a
number of stories until next
week,
Lions plan
peanut drive
Seaforth Lions are com-
pleting plans !r-their annual
Peanut Drive which is set
for Monday evening.,
Proceeds from the annual
event assist the club in carry-
ing on its community welfare
program. The canvass will
continue the following evening
in order to cover homes that
may have -been omitted on Mon-
day aecordine to Bob Beutten- ,
., committee chairman.
Hurt as car
leaves road
Norman E. Boyce, 33, of 316
James Street, Clinton, was trea-'
ted for lacerations to his fore-
head at Seaforth Community hos-
pital, Saturday whan the car he
was driving left the road onCon-
cession 2 and 3, Tuckersmith
Township, three miles west of
E gmondvillea • Dar9age to ,,the car, which
struck a drainage ditch, was es-
timated at $500 by Constable Ray
Primeau, of Seaforth P.P., who
investigated the, accide it.
Netzkes celebrate
60th Anniversary
John Whyte of sea6rib,
the furnade chirnpey was knocked
down on the house still occupied,
by Robert MCMillari from whom
Mr. Whyte recently purchased
the farm.
,McClure reported a
mirror in the dining' room was
found on the floor when the
'family returned home and . she
said several 'neighbouring farms
had the barn doors ripped off.
On a ,farm owned by Harold
Willert of R.R.2, Hensall, on the
second concession of Hay Town-
ship, a mile and a half north
west of Hensall; a new 12 foot x