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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1978-02-02, Page 11.1 $12.00 a Year in Advance Single copy 2cents • , FEBRUARY 2, 100 -r 20 PAGES worked: • ...„ 'HEAVY SNOW * Last week't snowstorm' resulted in many high snowbanks around the. Seaforth area. Exadtly how high IS -demonstrated this 'phi tograph A Well-known and long time resident of Seaforth, Gordon h. at 1:15 p•m. Thursday• as the resutt of an accident. west of Walton% He „was 61.- Mt. Muegge's car became'. stuck on Hurea County road 25 one arrd a 'half miles- west of- Walton, during a blinding snow- _storm As :he:returned to his .hortie , from Douglas Point where he- .Constable Phillip Gingerich of Gederich '0.P.P. ,M.erytn, Smith, 45, Of Walton' had stopped his truck to offer My. Muegge a ide when the Stnith vehicle wa's. of snow up terthe. tree 'branchesand a few feet abode this car roof. - (Expositor Photo) (Continued on Page 20) DE1101E RONEY Whole No. 5734 119th Year - $EAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY .01••••••••••••.•*•.,.ft eaforth snow--there was just a lot of snow blowing across the roads. The ac IF snowfall accumtt, lated from the whole stain system inis area was about:16.5 Centimetres of new, snow while places like Windsor received 30 and 40 centimetres -of now. Winds, in this area were running 'from 206'30 miles an hour all day Friday. Weather conditions from this Wednesday to Friday will • be mainly sanny.with cloatclY periods and with local flurries around the Great Lakes, the forecaster said. Accidents BeSides—the accident which killed Gordon Muegge Of,Seaforth in blinding snow 'Thursday morning other accidents occurred in the. Seaftirth area the same day. ' On Thursdaf,.a Topnotch truck drivettbY.Bill Riley of Main St. S., in Seaforth became stuck' in a snowdrift ,on'„Goderich St. near Coleman' Street. . Victoria O'Rourke 4O'f Ii., R. #4, Seaforth was on her way horn, when she collided with the rear of the truck.. Total damage was estimated at abont- $800. . . PE -- Ivan Slemon of Mitchell was. Perth County snow plow on Saturday ped off the icy road but he managed to One storm related death Muegge, of 66 Jam.es Street died': ..struck from- behind by another the- former Marie Rose Hoegy,- 'Judy, (Mrs. Douglas Dalrymple). truck as Mr. Muegge 'was about they resided in Galt for several Exeter; Linda, (Mrs. Wm. to enter it Oro vehicle. The William Devereau r x v ; 2 r 3„.o n f vo R lv . e R d ,...&:tother-in•law. Mrs. Annie Hoety • litApy) London; and., Patti, at .111N/tying are wife Marie: Lendtar47-1'vonne Richard d i Sing him under the years and then moved to Soldan) 'Flensall; Leonard, • • Seaforth, London; Lois, (Mrs .„ Bill „Brown) • Orville. spring. Pallbearers were: sons Donald, otert, Richard, Leonard, son-in-, Titiv -Tftiligirs DalrYmple , nephew Howard, Hoegy. Honottrary ;Pallbearers were Aubrey Toll, Elmer Koehler, Arthur. Powell, Wilmer DalrymPle Harold Cummings, • and Alf Beuerrean. • officiating., Temporary entomb- Huron Pert h. boa rd Mausdleum, Seaforth, with meat was at Pioneer Memorial interment to follow at Maitland-. • . • bank Cemetery. Seaforth in the. lens info eetin.gs ys were 15 grandchildren. at: Born -in . Brodhagen he was a The body rested at the Whitney. son. Of. the late. -Mr. and Mrs. - Ribey Funeral ' Home • where Muegge. Mr. Muegge,. was, born funeral and committal services ' • . `,in' Briadhagen, on April 18, 1916, were held Monday at 2:00 p.m. 'FollowingliS,marriage in 1940. to ' with Rev.. • Mervyn Reuber • the scene. At the time of his death, there ., • , had some but that they weren't at • this farm, they were at his other farm down the wad. He did however knoW a closer neighbblir who lie thought might have some. Hidid• • Luckily the neighbour did. So went on my way about a.quar ter of a mile down the .road where once again my car .eam,e to -a dead stop. I looked around and-tiOticed a big gasoline truck---coming,my way and the driver stopped -- but, lie didn'thavea,ny booster ca .tiles .. I've been thinking I should have some to put in my truck'," he said. • I know just how he felt. He then drove off but- fortunately -- a good Samaritan was not far behind. As he stopped I opened his car dgrir and asked hopefully if he had any bboster, cables. He did have and. when I explained the problem of my car always stopping a little white of ter it had been charged he offered to drive behind me and make sure I kept going till,we got to Clinton, where I had decided' I was gold to stay no Matter what the cost. Good thing the man stayed behind me. He had to boost my car about, five times before We got to' Cli nton. I don't even know the man's name. I only know • his lieenee plate said "Friendly Manitoba"' :and believe That sign • from now on which is exactly What.-told Hydro. was off on Thursday, roads were closed, there were jv many accidents and severreno storms cut off normal a tivity n Seaforth and. most areas in Southern Ontario -on • Thursday, '"''and Friday. Genesco of Canada decided to send its employees home early , after ,hydro had gone off at 8:00 a.m. "since it was not expecte4 back on for some time. It was al good thing the' did too, because a lot of.people made it home that Wouldn't have otherwise. "It was really a ,blessing in disguise," said Betty Leonhardt, office manager. --- Abotif 145 people work at the plant/. and there were only • a couple of people not ,in Thursday morning." ' Tony Chir, officer in charge at the Sky Harbour 'Airport weather station in Goderich said that the storm began to intensify on the evening, of Wednesday, January 25 • and from the intensity developed .into pressure values that have never'been seen before in southern Ontario. The actual station pressure went right below 'the scale on Thursday, Mr. Chir In 'a second accident, Randy , said ' but he guessed that Alle , Wood of 25 Wilson Street, . pressiire would have been abept • stopped behind an ,.unidentified, 27.70 inches of mer ry. vehicle blocked by snow drifts en lit Cent Goderich St. at Coleman Street d. Mr. Chir said we 'were when the BoX .ambulance driven • 'fortunate e ugh to- be in the .. by Arthur McN'aughton of R. R. centre• of t e whole pressure • #4, Seaforth was in collision with system so we didn't •feel the full the rear of the Wood vehicle. e t of -th gale • te hurricane ,Total damage , is estimated at that hit other areas -roughly $1600. There/ was a [By Wilma Okel Aii -Tncreasb ' in membership fees of 5.35 per ce. _ will be'paid , .Catholic Separate Se toot board" n.t,... by Huron-Perth cou tY • Roman this year to the three . education . associations to which it' belongs. 'The fees<a.re-A follows: Ontario Separate School i'rustees' Association. $3,400.95; ..Canachae, Catholic Trustees' Association. $127,28; °Mario. School Trustees' Council; $1,157.00 for a total of $4,685.23. , ., `Special Education handbooks were distributed to the trustees so that they would be informed about the spetial education program carried on. in the 19 separate schools in.. Huron and Perth" . Information meetings will be -held' at three schools for interested parents,' ratepayers and teacherS• on leclining enrol- ments. The meetings will he held at St. Columban School on February 6 at 8 p.m.; St. Patrick's. S c,h,osg, .flykli ,Febriin ry Lat.8 p.m. and at St. Miehael's Schoph: S r a t. fo . on Febru ry at 8 p. m Meetings will be set up in ether areas at 'a later date.' All school boards in the . province are. urged not to otter positions prior to April, 1 .4 978, to potential graduates of training schools"' in order :That their programs will be substantially tooli e storm - s completed and that-the evaluation WI of teachers in"training be done. The memorandum with this , request came-from the presidents of the Ontario Association of Education• Administrative Officials and , the Ontario Teachers'. Federation. (Editor's Note: Many travellers In response to a public request N•ere stuck. en route during from the -Perth County Board of Thursday and Friday's storm. Education inviting/ written Here's a' story from one of them, subMissions concerning the gdals. reporter Debbie Rattasy) of religiOus and moral education Nobody is' likely to forget last 0' rams in the schools im Perth Thursday • and 'Friday's the board, members were snowstorm. for .aWhite, especially int rested in religious education Cml \tn tticilen. HI owiaesi. stormstayed at the (Continued on Page 3) I was down in Seaforth working , at the Huron Expositor when the . storm started. The publisher and his wife had offered me a place to •stay but,it seemed to clear up about four o'clock so I decided to head back' for m'y apartment in Seaforth. it had stayed in It really was clear when I left leftand Seaforth, ewa;osrtill'a,rin' unfortunately, wasn't. Before I/ to go. My car, e battery chargedI .1. -twice, iui d have sensed that thiS • was an omen of bad things to conic but pig headed idiot that I . r started-off.. anyway, .1 was about halfway between cvy.arysttaortaeddetoadslos Seaforth and Cli Mon when My. slow down,all the looked around to see if there . was any traffic coming my way. There wasn't. So I ran to a farm house anti asked if they had any booster cables. They didn't. They clidltoWever think another fa et. up the road had some so'l 'ran up therel4his man said he 131 , [By Wilma Okel Mike Eckert of Dublin won't be forgetting the blizzard that roared into the , area last Thursday morning when wind gusts were measured at nearly 80 miles an hour. Driv.ihg south on Perth County Road 10, 'a mile out of Staffa, in a school bus at-7:56::a.m.'Thursday, •Mr. Eckert and his bus were blown off the ice-coated road by One of the Wind, gusts. At -the, _time. -was_drivitig_down....the- "Staffa' Mountain". as the hill is 'locally known. ,when the wind caught h'im. and took ins bus off the road and onto its side in the. snow-filled ditch. • Mr. Eckert, alone .in the,-bus, When we got- to Clinton, I thanked the kind stranger as he was taking leave of• me and he 4 as . rfr- if my car 'would be i o aln 07..1 sufed him it would but as - • .• : ay I heard my car .,..9a4.N, d ol'aveltt, k. death. 1 turned the key, knowt g full.well it was a futile effort. It was. Glancing across, the road. I noticed that I was parked_ right across front a ' garage but I thought the first thing I should do was phone my mother whom I knew would be worried about me, and I knew she would be even more Worried about me when she found out where I was. - '"This same mother had just told me that very morning that I must have had rocks in my head to get out unharmed. The accident happ ed on Perth County Road.1 0 between Staffa and Cromarty. • (Photo byOke) force such as London and Windsor. Severe snowstorm. and visibility "We'll probably never see was nil at the time of both the pressure values fall that low accidents Scaforth police report, again." he said and .added that , Glen Allan Dale, of 39 Sparling for an inland storm it was- Street, got his vehicle stuck in 'a' tremendously low pressure, The .aesnew bank at the same ' place low pressure was the result of cold air, meeting warm air causing' explosive development. Franci'S Hunt of Winthrop who drOve from Clinton to Seaforth on Thrirsday morning, said it was the worst' he had ever seen. 'Mr. .Hunt, who finally Made it home 'that• •afternoon saw three ` cars in the ditch between Seaforth and Winthrop, • Friday was generally snowy and very blukery 'hut Mr. Chit. - said we didn't receive that much when i'fruck belonging' to Tree Man Ltd., 'of Acton ran into the ' rear of the Dale vehicle causing . about $400 damage to the Dale vehicle. Visibility was nil and snow was drifting at the time of the 'accident, Seaforth police report. Both the Queen's• Hotel and the Commercial Hotel in Seaforth report that• they were full during the two day storm. Greg O'Reilly, manager of the (Continued on Page 3) • ALMOST MISSING FROM the snow would have been higher after last Week's snowstorm his 'For Sale' sign might have been covered all the ayand sales. prospetts -might have gone down. 'LUCKY. ESCA driving this whenit slip Gordon Muegge of pronounced Mr, Muegge dead at GORDON H. MU,EGGE for the past six years. We've got a grek bunch of guys in the department, he said. Mr. Hak said he doesn't expect' to have an Si changes made in the department itself. , to, start with' fire prevention pro&dins., 1 feel ---- Harry Hak of 188 Main Street very important part of the job as , North in Seaforth was appointed, chief is to prevent fires," he said: new fire chief ,by Seaforth Alre•a 'For the time being he Will have Fire Board at a meeting on. office facilities set up in his home Monday night, • , so people can always reach The meeting Was called, after, he said. former Chief Don Hulley resigned Mr. Itak also 'worked for a fire on Janti'Mn31_, citing , personal,, department in Holland for a reasons and because he felt the couple of years He move job involVed too- much time. Canada in 1953 but was unable The 'varittts , levels , of join the fire'_department in government and ' the Seaforth because he was living in municipalities were making more the country. In 1972 he moved demands on the fireehiefMid-Mr. into-ttlwn - and-was-asked to:be-a Hulley felt that it .was becorang' •,volu Meer fireman.: more _than .h.ecould handle MOO. Walter chief Don Hulley had , with his fuill-tme job according to been with the department since Ernie VV ill i ams secretary 1970,. He becaine deputy fire chief treasurer of the fire !board. . on January 1, 1973 and became •, The board called the Meeting fire chief in July of that year. Monday because they wanted to keep continuity ,in the tire 'chief position,. Mr. Williams said. Harry Hak who works part time as a custodian at. St. James Scheel for the Huron Perth Roman :Cad-Vie-Separate 'School Board • has been a volunteer with the , SeafotthFire Department .for six Mr. Hak who went on dtity as of Feb. 1 says he is loolti.Ag forward; to the challenge-at allifef. "I have been interested all the • -time I was with' the, department to HARRY ,HAIK ulaiin school us K. McGregor ot, Wingham. p ,. e y , one • Cambriclac•;"Richard of Chatham; redeceas d 'b brother • drive to, Seaforth from Blyth, , although) I couldn't see ariy-- #4, 5eaforth, was driving ilL m ax . ai)d children. Betty, (Mrs. Robert home. Also surviving are• two l'A9 Beuttenmiller). Se aforth; .Donald: brothers Clarenceof Stratford and truck. • of Walkertom Robert of Martin of Mitchell. He was Huron Counts' Coroner. Dr. J. own offthe roa who escaped serious injury exaept„ for minor discomfort with his right arm, scrambled out the rear exit door as his front door was blocked in the ditch. . The bus was not damaged and was righted and polled out of the ditch Saturday afternoon by owner Leslie Habkirk of Seaforth and his crew. ' .Mr. Eckert; a Perth County school bus driver for United Trails had made his first school run at 743a .-m-.-- Thursday --and transferred his load of Pupils at. the Staffa Shed to another bus for Northwestern Secondary Shoot in StratfordA He had left the shed for his second load of pupils. (Continued on Page 3) for Repprtee 7g•otTOranded Inside this week ale Alan expositor A has emergency P. 3 Finnish Beavers Game " P.11 Snowarama raised $30,000 P.18 Snow Storm Photos • 19