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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-02-15, Page 1lit 1 /■ A Sixty-Seventh Year EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1951 Single Copy B Hay Levies Two-Fifths Mill For Agricultural Federation A two-fiftlis of a mill levy on township and Alphonse Masse all farm lands for the Federation whereby the township guarantees of Agriculture was approved by; $450 for period January 1 to the Hay Township council at' their regular meeting last week. The move will double /the; grant Hay Township has sent „T the Federation in past years. The previous levy was one-fifth. The Federation has asked for increased grants to pay for high­ er costs of administration at Toronto and to increase the ser­ vices of the Federation to the farming industry. Hay Township is the first to comply with the request in South Huron. Tenders for warble fly spray­ ing in the township are being called by the council. The warble fly campaign is one of the direct results of the Federation’s work in the township. Applications for an inspector to supervise the spraying of cattle were called for by council. Estimated expenditure on town­ ship roads for the next year is $57,000. This estimate is subject to the approval of the Depart-. ment of Highways. Council called, applause for tenders for 5,000 cubic yards of crushed stone to be used from the McLean Pit. A letter guaranteeing payment for the use of the Exeter fire brigade and truck for fires in the township was authorized. Clerk H. W. Brokenshire was granted permission to attend the Ontario Municipalities and Rate­ payers Convention to be held in Toronto February 19 and 20 and two members of council were authorized to attend the Ontario Good Roads Convention February 20 and 21. Council moved that an agree­ ment be signed between the I March 31, unless lie earns more (than his hourly rate of 85 cents I pei’ hour. 1 Representation was present at ! the meeting from the Exeter Legion, Agricultural representa­ tive and the Hay Township Fed­ eration of Agriculture. Creditor) Mao Wins $5,500 Damage Suit Hugo Schenk, of Crediton, re­ ceived $5000' for damages and $500 for costs from a Detroit firm in a onef session at the Ontario Supreme Court in Gode­ rich, Monday. The action arose out of an ac­ cident on September 11, 1949 when a car driven by James A. Gillis, of Detroit, and owned by the Gorey-Buick Company, Colid- ed with the Schenk car on High­ way 81, west of Grand Bend. also First Carnival In Hensall Rink Draws Many Skaters In Costume The monster skating party held per; Audrey Walsh and Marlene in Hensall Arena Saturday night Petzlce, .Grace McLepd and Lola sponsored by the Girl Guides and' Y°^an(h' ].a<iiesJL Mrs; R. I-I, Mid- „ , , .. . , I dleton, Mrs. Russell Broderickfeaturing Stratford figure skaters and Mrs j Paterson.I dleton, Mrs. Russell Broderick was well patronized and many lovely costumes were noted. Five- year-old Nancy Stirling of Clin­ ton was crowned “Queen of the Carnival” lake and Boys, Fancy, 7 and under: Jerry Broderick, Bobby Middle­ ton; 12 and under: Bab Bayn- liam, Don Reid; gents: Charles Fee. Comic, girls 7 and under: Diane Reid; 16 and under: Jean Lavender; ladies; Mrs. J. Cor­ bett. Comic, boys, Don McLaren, 16 and under: Norminton; gents: W. J. Rogers. Best skating couple: Miss Mar­ garet Tudor, E. R. Shaddick; best dressed couple; Elaine Bell, Lois McLellan; best comic cou­ ple: Ron McKenzie, Marlin Hilde­ brandt. Best skater, girls 10 and un­ der; Margaret Moir; 16 and under: Lois Henderson; ladies: Mrs. Lillian Hyde. Best skaters, boys 12 and un­ Mary Ann Rannie; 16 and un-der: Murray Harburn and Gerald by Reeve A. W. Kers- won the big round of from the spectators; Bell and Ruth Soldan .g exhibition Gertrude won the figure skating for girls, and Charles Fee for gents. This is the first time this sport has been introduced in I-Iensall. Youngest skaters, Paul­ ine Bell (2 years and 3 months), Diane Reid (3 years); oldest skater, Mrs, James A. Paterson; largest families, Mr, and Mrs. J. Sinclair, Mr. and Mrs. George Moir. Following are the prize winners. Fancy costumes, girls 7 and under: Pauline Bell, Nancy Stirl­ ing; 16 and under: Jane Horton, i 12 and under: Wayne Forrest; Jim Orr, Ted Regele; 16 and under, Leroy Peters; gents: Charles Fee. Races, girls, nine and under: Gwen Chapman; 14 and under, Jim Orr; gents, Gerald Moir. Judges were Miss Mabel Turn- {bull and Miss Alice Duly, Sea- iforth. Dave Kyle directed races; If one pretty girl can turn a ( lived up to its boast as the “most, e. Shaddick was in charge of wicket. The .skating party arranged by Mrs. Stewart Captain of the Girl Guides. Four Hundred Mexican Girls Turn Heads Of Local Travellers young man’s head, imagine the effect of 400 sparkle-eyed can senoritas on three blooded Canadian youths Sunday night in the park. It happened to Donald quair, Eldrid Simmons and returned to weeks’ trip Mexi- red- on a Tra- Fred modern architectual city America”, has taken years and been able new planning methods. The main street provides for ten lanes of traffic and The bull one of the —Please in North building last ten city has Most of the place in the the capital to take advantage of three boulevards! fight, of course” was major attractions the Turn to Page Twelve bench on a Ellerington who just Exeter after a five io Mexico. Sitting on a park warm Sunday night they watched the gay girls promenaoe in the public square in Monterey—four hundred gay, beautiful, lively and lovely lassies flirting in their best flower-coloured clothes. There’s no douot the hoys en- -you can tell that from their eyes when they joyed it the look in describe it. But they tage of it. could speak the boys Spanish. “Sunday night,” Traquair, “everyone to the central square to walk— all the young belles and chaps between 17 and 23. The girls walk around the outside of the promenade and the boys on the •inside in the opposite direction.” The travellers laugh when they tell about the Sunday night walk. They persuaded one senor- ita to sit beside them but when she found they couldn’t speak Spanish she left. Resigned, they counted the girls as they passed and watched 378 parade by a 'break in the ated some 400 square. Tanned from the boys arrived back into town Thursday night. It took them 36 hours to drive from New Orleans where they witnessed part of the Mardi Gras celebration. Cold wea­ ther forced cancellation of the parades but the gay indoor spec­ tacles were held. They drove to Mexico through Indiana, Arkansas and Texas. First major stop was in Mon­ terey, in .northern .Mexico, “a picturesque industrial town with narrow streets and shoe shine boys”. The bootblacks, carrying their small boxes, are apparently the most persistent and familiar businessmen iu the south. Their shines are worth half a peso or six cents. The sign for the peso is the same as our dollar mark. Shirts .are priced at $35 and shoes at .$18 but their real value in American funds in actually only one-eighth of the figure. “Prices are about the same as they are here.” Food is relatively cheap but may contain a poison Which causes dysentery. Tourists are ad­ vised to eat only in the best place§. Here, steaks and frogs legs cost $1,25 to $1.50 a plate. Mexicans call the form of dy­ sentery a “toui’ist’s disease”. Only distilled water, purchased in bottles is safe to drink and common Mexican food affects northerners adversely. Milk is sold only in powdered form. Mexico city, the boys found, couldn’t take advan- None of the girls English and none of said Donald comes down before there was line. They estim- girls were on the the Mexican sun, [the was Bell, Ninetieth Birthday Observed Congratulations to Mrs. James Brintnell, who on Monday ob­ served her 90t.h Birthday. Un- | fortunately Mrs. Brintnell is not enjoying the best of health. Truckers* Vote The Ontario Labor Relations Board, in a decision handed down with respect co the hearing held on January 11th, in Toron­ to for certification of General Truck Drivers’ Union Local 938 etc., as bargining agent has directed that a representation vote will be taken of employees of Guenther Transport Limited. Employees will be asked to In-, dicate whether they wish to be represented by the Union in their dealings with Guenther Transport or whether they do not want the Union acting them. Voting is not compulsory will be conducted under direction of an official of Ontario Labour Relations Board, in Exeter, sometime this month. tor and the the and was two Ambulance, Cars Crash Two Men Injured Two persons were injured damage estimated at $1,500 caused to an ambulance and cars in a pileup on No. 4 High­ way, a quarter mile north of Centarlia, Thursday. Injured were William C. Heine, 29, London, who suffered concussion and lacerations to the head, and Cpl. T. H. Southin, of Centralia R.C.A.F. Station, who suffered a broken leg. Both men were taken to Centralia R.C.A.F. Station for attention. Later Cpl. Southin was trans­ ferred to Westminster and Heine to Victoria London. Southin’s condition night was described at the hospi­ tal as “satisfactory” and Heine was said fair by hospital authori­ ties. According to police Heine was injured in collision between a southbound ambulance driven by Everett I-Iaist, 58, of Dashwood, and the northbound car in which he was a passenger, driven by Ernest W. Lee, 28, of London. Cpl. Southin, a hitch-hiker who was being given a ride to Cen­ tralia Air Station in the ambu­ lance, was not injured until a short time later when another southbound car. driven by C. W. Leroy, London,, collided with the first car. Provincial Constables E. M. Zimmerman and W. A. Cox­ worth, Exeter, investigated. Hospital Hospital, Thursday Operations at the district high school are back to normal this week after a howling snow storm stranded two school buses on their way home last Wednesday and forced collation of classes. Drifting snow, piled up by the 40-mile an hour forced the busses runs and students in nearby houses. The South Huron school bus stalled at Eden and about 30 pupils found food and shelter at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Whiting, Coates, Coates, Essery Hunter, The bus driver, Earl Guenther, braved the fierce storm and walked 1% miles to the highway. Some of till the All winds, forced to quit their found sheltei' Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Mr. and Mrs. William and Mr. and Mrs. Harold parents did not know their children’s whereabouts the next day when plows let- bus through at five p.m. the Kirkton district tele­ phone lines were disrupted the storm. The trouble No. 4 highway onto Hurondale road. Mile In Four Hours Bucking the drifts which piled up in the wind Wednesday after­ noon, the school bus driven by Harold Schwartzentruber made one mile in four hours. The motor finally quit near the farm­ house of Mr. and Mrs. George Dunn, near Hurondale school and the busload, 22 in all, trudged through three feet of snow to shelter. Two students, Malcom Kirk­ land and John Whitehouse, walk- back to Exeter around 8 p.m. Their three-mile trip took them two hours with the wind at their backs. They slept in friends’ homes during the night. Out at the farmhouse, the students phoned their families to assure them of their safety. “The phone almost buzzed^ off the wall”, said Mabel Selves, who recounted the many "phone calls from and to anxious moth­ ers and fathers. Mary Allison said, “We sat around the stove getting warm. We had fun talking and joking.” “The students were laughing and talking”, according to M r s. Dunn. “They didn’t seem worri- North Usborne bus as soon as it turned by hit off can­ ed at all.” Before they finally took er in the farmhouse, six fought through the drifts Hurondale Public. School to get back ' warm, winds, by the Ice On “My shelt- boys to went to the barn with Mr. Dunn. Groceries By Toboggan The snowplow driven by Jack Essery, Centralia, went back at 11 a.m. Thursday. Charles Mac- Naughton a high school board member and Andrew Dixon, a teacher, who followed the plow in a truck with food supplies, had to pile the food on a tobag- gan and walk three-quarters of a mile to the house. The snowplow and bus return­ ed at 1 p.m. and took the child-- ren to Exeter where they were billed to homes. Principal H. L. Sturgis, who arranged the temporary quarters; said many residents called and offered shelter Students in Mary Elson, Jane Morgan, __ Murray Dawson, Betty McDoug^- all, Mabel Selves, Norma Beav­ ers, Labelle Coward, Joe Gowan, Marie Smith, Donna Stone, Ger­ ald Brintell, Ross Ballantyne, Arthur Harris, Robert Margaret Bray, Joanne Mildren Ballantune, and reen Stewart. into the 40-mile-an-hour It was closed, x Coming their vision was blinded whirling snow. Face face was covered with ice when I got back to the bus,” said Murray Dawson, one of the six who made the trip. “Roy Bal­ lantyne bumped into a hydro pole. We were up to our knees in the snow.” Arthur Harris said “We couldn’t see wandered off into Mr. and Mrs. them hot drinks and did their best comfortable. They huddled in chairs and lay on the floor where they could find room. “We talked most of the time” George Park­ er said. j Laughing about their experien- • ce, one of the boys told student who fell asleep chair, his head leaning on low on the door. When Mr. wanted to go out to get coal, he couldn’t wake the boy by shak­ ing him. He pulled the pillow out from behind him and al­ though his head hit the door he didn’t wake up for some time; after. In the morning the girls help- Exeter, has been seriously ill in • ed with breakfast and the boys the hospital at Minnedosa. the road and the ditch.” Dunn served and a lunch to make them of a in a a pil- Tfimn to the students, ; the bus were: Georget Parker, Doris Anderson, Miller, Mairj, Mau- !Hydro Staff Hit By Flu Flu hit the local Hydro PUC staffs this week with a heavy punch. Ten of the employ-’ ees have been absent from work. * i and Former Resident lii Mrs. Robert Moir, of nedosa, Manitoba, formerly of Min-, Built Prefabs For Sweetbriar, Local Man Wins RCAF Post Congratulations are extended to an Exeter Old Boy, William E. Balkwill, of Calgary, Alta., who was recently appointed to a permanent commision in the R.C.A.F. with the rank of Fly­ ing Officer, retroactive to the beginning of the year, as a con­ struction engineering technician. Mr. Balkwill in 19 40 started working with the Brennan Con­ struction Company on the air- port buildings at Port After the contract was t t I r When the, destroyer Sioux steamed into Esquimalt, and 25,000 persons crowded the docks to welcome the crew back from the Korean All had become fathers while they were on the art of PREDICTS ATTACK ON CANADA Caplain Edgar ( . Bundy, former U.S. air force intelligence officer in China and v^AIaska. who forecast the North Koran offensive a year be­ fore it happened, has predicted Russia will attack Canada and the United States with planes and parachute troops from Siberian bases. Captain Bundy, shown with his letter file, urges a rapid build-up of defence facilities in Alaska. Bundy said the Russians are diverting attention by moves in West­ ern Europe and Korea while preparing io descend on the Pacific coast. are having a session SIOUX GETS GALA RECEPTION B.C., war, these men had to aw/”’ nn dutv and here receive a special briefing, they care before meeting 3fl Albert. , ------ — -------,— finished early in 1941 he was employed as foreman of works with the 1 Dept, of National Defence at’ that site until April, 1942, when he joined the R.C.A.F. as works forman with the rank of W.O. 11. After six weeks at Manning Dept., Toronto, he was posted back to Port Albert and in , January 19 43 was transferred to Centralia Airport. Since that time he has been posted at Brantford and St. Hubert’s Que. and while at the latter place visited most of the stations on the East Coast with the excep­ tion of Labrador. In March, 1945, he was trans­ ferred back to. Brantford and worked on disbandment boards and releases to War Assets on 1 the following units, Fingal, Jar­ vis, Dunnville, Welland, Mt. Hope, Brantford and Port Albert. In 1946 the units were taken over by 6 Repair Depot, Trenton and the personnel was trans­ ferred to that unit. In 1948 transferred to Calgary after a short stay going to Calgary Mr. was employed on several out­ posts of the Artic including Cor­ al Harbor. The following year he was in charge of construction of married quarters on the Alas­ kan Highway, termed Sweet i Briar. The units were prefabri- ! rated in Winnipeg, shipped by ' rail to Dawson Creek and hauled up the Highway by R.C.A.F* trucks out of Calgary. Twenty houses were constructed at var­ ious units along the Highway,, the farthest one being Snag in the Yukon. The haul from Daw­ son Creek to Snag was 1200 miles one way. Some of the units were 50 to 75 miles off the Alaskan Highway and drivers would on occasion spend the night in the cabs of their’trucks on some bush road. The outstanding event of the Sweet Brier construction of a portable ed at White ed 175 miles to Burwasli Land­ ing and erected in two days. The hangar was large enough to store two American jet aircraft. Since Sweet Briar Mr. Balk­ will has been employed as a per- sonell and project co-ordinator in the office at Calgary. The unit has grown from 3 officers, a works foreman and approxim­ ately 80 men to 14 Officers, 11 works foremen and over 300 men. the personnel was in Toronto. After Balkwill- operation was the and prefabrication hanger. Prefabricat- Horse it was truck-- Undergoes Operation Mrs. W. Thompson, of Usborne, underwent an operation Satur­ day in St. Joseph’s Hospital. London. She is getting along as well as can be expected. NEW ZEALAND PREMIER IN CANADA — The Rt. Hon. SU G. Holland, centre, prime minister of New Zealand, was greeted by Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, left, and De­ fence Minister Brooke Claxton on his arrival at Rockcliff© got a bitter does of it last week when 40-mile winds drifted snow on roads. Wkrm weather Airport, Ottawa. Prime Minister Holland is in Canada for over the week-end melted much of the snow in the district. a short visit. —C.P.C, Photos QUEBEC GETS OVERDOSE OF SNOW -- I-Icaviest snowfall of Quebec City and surrounding areas plenty of exercise with ing the three-foot snowfall buried cars and* marooned homes ds of the year gave residents snow shovels. Drifts form­ shown here. Local residents On Tuesday Mt. and Mrs. W. C. Pearce were In Glencoe at­ tending the funeral of the form­ er’s cousin, Mrs. Farquhar Mc­ Rae, whose maiden name was Frances Simpson, Mrs. 0. Moor­ house of Lambeth accompanied, them.