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Sixty-Seventh Year
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EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1951 Single Copy 6|f
CANNERS GET 30 PERCENT PAY HIKE
Bend Council Sets Fees,
Appoints Village Officials
Grand Bend's newly elected
council since incorporation as a
village was duly sworn in Mon
day morning by Clerk Victor
Fuller, of Bosanquet Township,
who acted as returning officer
for the election July 16.
Taking the oatn of office and
allegiance to the King were
Reeve Herman Gill and Council
lors Peter Eisenbach, William
Glenn, Eric McIlroy and Kenneth
Young.
The first order of business
was to appoint Herbert Wain
wright as clerk and treasurer at
a salary of $50 a month begin
ning July 1. The reeve and
treasurer were authorized to
sign cheques and the treasurer
will 'be ponded.
The meeting adjourned until
the evening when a new set of
governing by-laws were set up.
One of the items which creat
ed much discussion dealt with
noises, distraction and nuisances
particularly during the night.
Taboo was placed on guns, air
guns and pistols and of the use
of firecrackers without permis
sion of council.
The question of licences for
all forms of amusement also
•came in for considerable dis
cussion. Bowling alleys were as
sessed at $10 for the first alley
and $5 for each additional. The
theatre licence was placed at
$10; the dance hall at $50;
roller skating rink $25; billiard
tables $10 for the first table
and $5 for each additional;
Dodgem, merry-go-round, minia
ture .golf, etc., etc., $10.
Licencing of pin-ball machines
and music boxes was among the
first things considered, because
as the reeve said: “We have to
• attend to these things at once
as the season is advancing and
the village needs the revenue.”
Penny machines were assessed at
$5; pin-ball machines at $12;
music boxes $20.
Transient traders licences were
placed at $100; taxi cab licences
at $5 a vehicle, the operator to
be fully insured for the protec
tion of the public.
A by-law passed prohibiting
the .parking of cars on the beach,
of frequenting or loitering on the
beach between the hours of 3:00
a.m. and 6:30 a.m.
At 12:00 midnight the chairs
felt a trifle hard and some of
the councillors felt the seventh
•inning urge. At 1:30 with busi
ness far from completed it was
decided to adjourn until next
Monday evening.,
Mr. Fuller, who guided the
•council in order to start them
off right, insisted on the proper
procedure for all motions and
the reading of all by-laws. Soli
citors E. D. Bell and L. V.
Laughton of Exeter were present,
having drafted the preliminary
■by-laws.
Grand Bend Calls
Pt. Perry Minister
Grand Bend and Greenway
charges of the United Church
have called a minister to suc
ceed Rev. Kenneth Wood, who
this week is leaving to assume
a charge at Wilkie, Sask. Rev.
W. C. Smith, of Pt. Perry, con
ducted the services at Grand
Bend on Sunday last and at the
close of the service members of
the two congregations met aud
decided to extend the call to Mr.
Smith.
Mr. Smith is a man in his
early fifties and has been sta
tioned at Pt. Perry for the past
10 years. The salary has been
set at $3,200 with free manse
and summer vacation. Mr. and
Mrs. Smith will assume their new
duties in September.
Pea Harvest
One Of Largest
Pea harvest this year is one
of the largest per acre in the
history of the district, E. J.
Green, local manager of Branch
100 of Canadian Canners Limit
ed, said this week.
“The yield per acre is as good
or better than we’ve ever had.”
he said.
Mr. Green stated the local fac
tory was overrunning its quota
about 33 percent.
.String beans, corn and cab
bage also had the prospects of
bumper crops, he said.
New machinery is being in
stalled to handle the bean crop.
The equipment will increase the
capacity of the factory about 25
percent, the manager said.
Record Yield
One ten-acre crop of peas
grown in the district yielded
close to 28 tons of threshed
peas.
This is believed to be the larg
est harvest on record.
Growers have expressed satis
faction with a new method of
harvest initiated by Canadian
Canners in this district. Rather
than each farmer harvesting in
dividually as in the past, a sys
tem which caused not only equip
ment problems to the growers,
but’ also unpredictable line-ups
of trucks and delays at the fac
tory, the Canners are now going
into the fields with specially-
equippd machines and harvest
ing the crop for growers.
This system relieves the thresh
ing headache for farmers and eli
minates delivery delays.
Authority Head
Makes Statement
On Dam Proposal
“Premature statements in re
cent press reports of plans of
the Ausable River Conservation
Authority for work in the Hay
Swamp area seem to have caused
much unnecessary concern to
some residents in that section,”
J. A. Morrison, chairman of the
Authority told The Times-
Advocate in a statement this
week.
In an attempt to clarify the
situation, Mr. Morrison outlined
the position of the Authority as
follows:
“The aim of the Authority is
to improve summer flow in the
river by conserving water sup
plies in the swamp. This may be
done in two ways, by reforesta
tion, and water storage behind a
dam. Actually the whole project
is under investigation, and the
possibilities of both types of
work are being considered. Re
forestation apparently meets
with .general approval, and will
certainly be part of the Plan.
“Any other water storage that
might be found necessary would
be confined to land acquired by
the Authority, and a definite as
surance can be given that such
works would not be constructed
or operated in a way which
would cause any interference
with municipal drains on priv
ately owned land.
“Any action of the Authority
will be taken only after careful
thought, and will, we believe,
meet with acceptance in the
area concerned as well as
throughout the Ausable Water
shed.”
Union Services
The last of union services of
Main St. and James St. United
Churches to be held in James St.
Church will be held next Sun
day. Services have been held in
the morning only and good con
gregations have been present.
New Found Hope In Canada
Makes Dutch Immigrants Happy
By BARBARA GAGE
If someone suggested to you
that you pack what belongings
you could in two large boxes,
say goodbye to friends, and with
$100 as your only material se
curity, board a ship which is to
take you thousands of miles to
a completely strange country,
your dismay would not equal his
foolishness in such a suggestion.
Yet to hundreds of Dutch famil
ies, the idea brought such hope
as to make that suggestion a
reality.
These people with only the
knowledge that their country
was no longer big and strong
enough to afford proper security
for the future of their families,
many of them neither familiar
with language or people within
this country, came to Canada to
begin a new life.
Many Dutch families have
come to this district since the
war to spend the required time on
farms, some of them staying un
til they can become established
and independant.
They have been rated as the
people most adapted to the Can
adian way of life and their ap
preciation of the country and its
people substantiates this fact.
They are eager to learn, to have
their children become complet
ely Canadian, and to fit into the
Canadian scene.
Mrs. Beimers, of Kirkton,
smiled with pride as her 12-
year-old daughter, Nellie spoke
in good English and told us how
all four children in the family
have now abandoned the Dutch
names for English ones.
The Beimers came to Canada
three years ago, and now all
apeak the country’s language
fluently but the mother who, as
it was explained, has not had
the chance to meet and talk to
many people as have the rest of
the family.
“My children tell me that I
am very slow to learn English”,
said Mrs. Seitsma, also of Kirk-j
ton, and she explained how her
two sons came home every day
from the neighbouring farm,
where they are working for the
summer, bringing new ideas in
to their home. This year they
tasted corn on the cob for the
first time and pies and cakes.
Mrs. Seitsma explained “at home
we thought corn was only for
the chickens.”*
When asked about the Dutch
diet she replied that they eat a
great deal of bread and potatoes
and hardly any cookies, cake or
sweet foods. A desert popular in
Holland called Buttermilk Pop,
in English, consists of Butter
milk, flour and barley cooked to
form a thin paste.
A typical Dutch breakfast
would consist of bread, butter,
tea and perhaps an egg. There
would be coffee at 10* a.m. and
lunch at noon when they would
eat cheese, or cold meat, bread,
butter and jam. At three o’clock
time is taken for tea, and at five
dinner, including cooked vege
tables, hot meat and dessert is
served.
Dutch immigrants have left a
country which in comparison to
Canada is in the midst of infla
tion. One Canadian dollar is
worth $3.80 in Dutch money
and the prices are proportionat
ely high in comparison with
ours. Mrs. Seitsma commented
that eggs were sometimes worth
15 cents apiece.
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HEADS GRAND BEND GROUP
— Mrs. Ervin H. Rader, Dash
wood, is president of the Mary
Hasting’s Grand Bend group
which will picnic at Turnbull’s
Grove August 1’.
Times-Advocate
Go es On Holidays
Members of The Times-
Advocate staff will be fish
ing, swimming, golfing or
just, loafing next week as
they enjoy their annual holi
days.
There will be no paper
published and the shop will
be closed most of the week.
Correspondents are asked
to send in their news regu
larly and to make a special
effort to get their budgets
in early for the issue of
August 9.
After our rest we’ll be
back publishing a better
paper for E'xeter and com
munity.
We wish you a happy
holiday too!
Rev. H. J. Snell has been in
charge. For the month of Au
gust services will be held in
Main St. Church with Rev. H. J.
Mahoney in charge.
Lovers Versus Ball Crew
Quartets 'Strain7 To 1,000
A crowd of close to 1,000
jammed the Casino in Grand
Bend when two lonely quartets
representing Exeter and Grand
Bend from the expected terrible
seven appeared for the district
Lions competition Sunday night.
The contest ended in a draw
for the two and the prize, a
cheque for $50 was presented by
Grand Bend president Griffin
Thomas. The money will be add
ed to the evening’s proceeds and
donated to the South Huron Hos
pital fund. The lucky number
drawn for. a quilt was held by a
resident of Strathroy-
Bobby Downs started the pro
gram in good style with a very
fine selection of his own in
strumental arrangements, solos
by members of the band and
numbers by featured vocalist.
After the concert by the or
chestra, Bill Cochrane of the
Exeter Lions introduced the
quartets and acted as master of
ceremonies for the remainder of
of the evening
The Exeter “Plus Fours”
decked in baggy baseball trou
sers. sweaters and straw hats
were Bill Cochrane, Elmer Bell,
Eugene Beaver and Norm Wal-
per.
Off tune for Grand Bend were
Eric McIlroy, Pete Eisenbach,
Bill Schegal and James Denom-
me. They were dressed-* to re
present two enamoured couples,
a small discrepancy showing only
in the quality and pitch of the
portrayed female voices.
Both audience and partici
pants enjoyed an evening of
good fun in the Lions successful
In Plane Crash
Near Kincardine
A Harvard aircraft from Cen
tralia crashed near Kincardine
yesterday and an R.C.A.F. flight
cadet was instantly killed.
Fit. Cadet J. P. Whelan, son
of Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Whelan,
Toronto, was on a solo flight
when his machine nosedived to
the ground in an open field,
missing by some 50 feet the
farm home of Hilker Brown,
Concession 8, Bruce Township,
one and a quarter miles north,
and one and a quarter miles east
of Underwood.
The plane was out of the
R.g.A.F. base at Centralia.
Air Force officials said that
while Whelan was not an exper
ienced pilot he was well ad
vanced in one of the senior
courses.
Mr. Brown said he noticed a
R.C.A.F. plane “stunting” about
a half hour prior to the acci
dent.
Just before the accident, Mr.
Brown stated, the plane was
zooming along about 35 feet
above the ground. The plane
looped up to about 150 feet and
then plunged to the ground.
The Brown family ran to the
plane,’ but they found Whelan
dead. There was no fire, or ex
plosion, and while the plane was
badly demolished wreckage scat
tered no more than 15 feet.
Air Force officials at Centralia
said the cause of the crash has
not been determined.
The body was taken to Lon
don for an autopsy by R.C.A.F.
authorities.
County Constable Robert Nut
tall, North Bruce, Corporal J. F.
Craig, and Constable G. M. Mills
of the provincial police detach
ment at Walkerton were at the
scene.
The crash was the third acci
dent suffered by Centralia planes
in the last two months.
For Hospital
effort to produce good enter
tainment for a very worthy pro
ject.
Attending Grand Lodge of
Masons at Toronto last week
were Right Worshipful Brother
William Cann, Very Worshipful
Brother W. E. Middleton, Wor
shipful Brother Fred Dawson,
James Bowey, W. G. Cochrane,
C. S. MacNaughton, Andrew
Snelgrove and Garnet Johns.
Members of the Pinpoppers
bowling team motored to Detroit to see'the Red Sox-Tigers game
Sunday. Those attending were
Frank Creech, Doug Pryde, Ray
Wuerth, Bob Davis, Clifford
Quance , Robert and Donald
Southcott.
■iril,Boost
Allow60 Hour Rush Week
Save Those Coppers
For zMile Of Pen nies'
Something new will be await
ing shoppers in Exeter a week
from Saturday night when the
Exeter Legion will introduce a
“Mile of Pennies Parade”.
Legion members will be on
Main Street lining pennies in a
string up and down both sides
of the street.
Their objective is to reach a
mile-long stretch of pennies. Pro
ceeds will be in aid of the
Legion building fund.
Save those dirty brown cop
pers and join in the fun!
Changeover Puts
'Fat In The Fire'
1 The fat was in the fire, not
figuratively, but positively at the
Brenner Hotel, Grand Bend, on
Thursday evening when the
deep-fry electric stove in the
kitchen became over-heated and
the ingredients caught fire. The
trouble started when the stove
was turned on after the hotel
had been changed from 25- to
60-cycl^ by the Comstock people.
With some three dozen items to
be converted, many of them elec
tric gadgets used in the kitchen,
the deep-fry oven was overlooked
as it was made for 25-cycle only.
When the stove was turned
on it became overheated and
created no little excitement. The
fat caught fire. The first thought
of some of the help was for
water but fortunately was not
used as it would have been dis
astrous. Mr. Klopp, the propriet
or, hastened to the basement
and pulled the hydro switch and
later smothered the flames with
a crib mattress.IThe dining-room of the hotel,
with its large seating capacity,
was filled at the time, but few
of them realized that anything,
was happening until it was all over. 1
The following night the Bren- j
ner Hotel again came into the
limelight. With the present clean
up campaign in the minds of the
campers, rumors spread that the
proprietor of the hotel had been
held up and robbed and that one
of the robbers was behind prison
bars. Investigating the rumor,
The Times-Advocate found that
three customers had enjoyed the
fine culinary service provided by
the hotel and had departed by
a side door, failing to settle with
the cashier. The police were
alerted but the trio had made
good their get-away.
1 A new agreement between the
local canners' union and Can
adian Canners Limited will give
workers a 30 percent across the
board increase, Norman Hackney,
secretary of the union said this
week.
The pay boost, offered by the
company after the union threat
ened to strike in June, is retro
active to April 1, 1951,
The agreement was signed last
week after an emergency meet
ing of union members was called.
They voted unanimously to ac
cept the terms.
Mr. Hackney^aid negotiations
were still® underway on other
modifications of the original con
tract but that main disputes
have been settled.
The contract will give union
members:
1. A 30 percent across the board
wage increase. Minimum wage
for men is 85 cents per hour,
for women 65 cents.
2. Five paid holidays.
3. For 10 weeks of the year the
company is allowed 60 work
ing hours a week at the regu
lar pay; over 60 hours, rate is
time and a half. For the re
mainder of the year, 48 hours
will be the standard working
week.
4. All workers will be required
to pay union dues after 9 0
days employment.
A.F. Of L. Reps *
The contract was signed on
behalf of the union by Dick
Howard, president of the Local
286 of the anning and Packing
Employees of Canada: Sam Pol
lock and Bill Falls, representa
tives of the American Federation
of Labour with which the local
is affiliated, and the local bar
gaining committee composed of
Roy Webber, Everett Sims, Jack
Elliott and Louis Kirk.
Original union demand was for
a 30-cent across the board in
crease for both men and women
and a closed shop.
In June union members threat
ened to strike before the pea
pack started if their demands
were not met. They continued
work, however, under the con
dition that any increase received
through arbitration would be re
troactive to April 1.
The new company offer and
the subsequent union agreement
eliminated arbitration proceed
ings.
Local 286, the government
authorized b argaining unit for
Branch 100 of Canadian Canners
Limited, has grown in strength
since organization in 19 49 until
it now has almost 100 percent
of workers in its membership.
Miss Susan Smith of London
is a guest at the home of her
brother and his wife, Mr. and
Mrs. James D. Smith.
/Mrs. John Essery, 94, Receives
Greetings From Central America
Grandmother Essery celebrated
her 9 4th birthday at her home
in Centralia on Monday. Sur
rounded by flowers and cards,
she worked on an intricate piece
of tatting, one of the many she
has completed in the past, to
give to a friend.
Among the many tributes paid
to Mrs. John Essery on her
birthday was a telegram from
her granddaughter in Central
America. She also received a
lovely basket of flowers from the
Centralia W.M.S. of which she
has been honorary president
since 1939.
Mrs. Essery is in excellent
health and still active. A few
weeks ago, she took a jaunt on
foot to one of the meetings of
the W.M.S. Although she has a
the W.M.S. Although she no
longer does her own housework,
Mrs. Essery still gets around the
house very well unassisted.
Born in Darlington township,
she was the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. T. W. Harris. In 1881 she
was married to John Essery.
Over 30 years ago they moved to
Centralia where Mr. Essery was
an insurance agent and promin
ent in church and village affairs.
In 1941. Mr. and Mrs. Essery
celebrated their diamond wed
ding anniversary. Mr. Essery
died In 1946 at the age of
ninety-two.
Mrs. Esssery firmly believes in
moderation in everything and
I she made a happy life for those
around her and herself. To these
two things, her long life may
well be attributed.
On Sunday friends and rela
tives from Toronto, Kincardine,
Lucan, Exeter, Crediton, Us-
borne and the village called to
honor her.
HOPES TO PRODUCE CANADIAN CHAMPION WATER SKIERS -- What is probably
the only water-skiing school in Canada is conducted by Mrs. Norma Macintosh, Canadian
champion, at Stoney Lake in Ontario’s Kawartha chain, Shown skiing, left, with a group
of her students, she says she will probably have some contenders for the C.N.E. Canadian
championship tests this fall. - Central Press Canadian
Visits Sauli
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Pfaff and
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bierling Shave returned home after enjoy-
ling a motor trip to Manitoulin
(Island, crossing at Sault Ste.
j Marie and returning home
■ through the States.
William Kuntz
®Was Blacksmith
; William Kuntz, who for many
years conducted a carriage and
i blacksmithing business in Exeter,
| passed away suddenly at his
I home on Main Street Friday last.
He suffered a heart attack thei day before but previous to that
I had been around as usual. Born
I at Dashwood, he was in his
i eightieth year. He came to Exe-
| ter 55 years ago. His wife, the
i former Ellen James Eilber, pre
deceased him in 1942,
1 Surviving are four daughters
j and two sons, Mrs. George Smith | (Madeline) of Buffalo; Mrs.
| Austin Bickell (Marguerite) of
(London; Harold and John, of
Windsor; Mi’s. Ralph McDonald
(Ella) of Detroit; and Dorothy,
at home; also one brother, Louis,
of Buffalo.
i The funeral was held from the
R, C. Dinney funeral home Mon
day afternoon, conducted by Rev.
i H. J. Snell. Members of the fam-
i ily were all present as was
I Edgar Smith, of HahiiltOn. The
floral tributes were very beauti
ful. The bearers were Messrs,
Clayton Pfile, Arnold Kuntz,
Ben Smith, Clive Fortier, Nor*
man and Alvin Walper. Inter-
men was in the Exeter eeinetery»