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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-09-06, Page 1Sixty-Seventh Year EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1951 Single Copy Large Parade At Zurich Frolic One of the largest and most colourful parades ever seen in thia district featured the Zurich Lions Club Labour Day frolic. Led by Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Croc­ ker, of Exeter, on palomino horses the parade included many decorated and comic floats and •cars. Flag bearers were Arthur Mil­ ler and Louis Willert, Eighteen majorettes under the leadership of Kathryn Kalbfleisch and Joyce Witmer marched in front of the Dashwood Band. The Bannoch- burn Pipe and Drum Band was also in the parade Prizes went to Carol Bloch and Paul Yungblut for best decorat­ ed bicycle; Carl Fisher, best tri­ cycle; Dominion Hotel, business float; Mrs. Anne Coxon and Mrs. Anne Willert, decorated car; Ray Or twain, comic float; Lloyd Mil­ ler and Don Oakes, Clowns. Close to 2,504) persons packed the Hay Memorial Centre for the program, The show consisted of professional talent from United States. Victor Dinnin, president of Zurich Lions, welcomed the dience. Winners of the draw prizes were: Frigidaire, Earl Weido, Zurich; chesterfield suite, Ron aid Thiel, Zurich; electrio toast- George Richardson, Zurich;— - - Bay- M'TS iron, the the au- PROMOTED TO SGT. Cpl. Harold “Scotty” Musser, of the United States Air Force in Korea and a native of Dash­ wood, has been promoted to Ser­ geant. He is the son* of Mrs. William Musser, Dashwood, and is work­ ing with the combat section of the air divison. er, waffle iron, H. Brandon, field; electric tea keatle. Ed Gascho, Zurich; electric Ken Weido, Zurich. The lucky draws were by the queen, Barbara Wright: Earl Campbell, reeve of Hay township; Arthur Nicholson, War­ den of Huron County. made Students Harvest Garden Produce Students at the district high school will be harvesting their own garden produce soon and packing it in their own home­ made storage accommodation in the barn so they’ll be able to eat it in the school cafeteria in the winter months. And besides this profitable instruction - economy scheme, they’re testing various qualities of fertilizer, learning how to keep green crops, seed home. All fertilizer, learning how to land fertile by the use of manure and rotation of and growing registered which they can use at this is part of the agri­ culture course Andrew -Dixon Four garden ed last spring, the land was different types } ' being taugHt by and John Mahon, plots were plant­ in three of which supplemented by ____ of fertilizer and the other untouched. The size and quality of the vegetables soon to be harvested will attest to the quality of the fertilizers. Actually the school’s agricul­ tural ground is divided into three sections. One has the gar­ den plots mentioned above. The other has soy beans which will be turned down for green man-; ure, and the third is planted with registered white beans for seed purpose. The school is a member of the Ontario ~ and. Mr. the seed produced students farms. Half of goy beans, beans, for noculated poses. ±The healthy crop of vegetables will be stored in the air-cooled vegetable storage bin in the (Seed Bean Association Dixon intends to keep registered and as it is it will be available to who come from the each of the crops of for manure, and white seed, were legume in- for experimental pur­ in the school barn and used by the ladies in the preparation of lunches in the cafeteria. Dearing Sheep Make Best Showing Yet Preston Dearing and son, Ger­ ald made a clean sweep o*. prizes for Dorset Horned Sheep at the Canadian National Exhibi­ tion last week. They won champion and re­ serve champion titles for both ram and ewe classes and took first prize in ten events. Although Dearing sheep have taken many major prizes at the C.N.E. foi' years, this is the best showing they have ever made. Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Finkbein- er, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Holtz­ man and Charles Parsons sennt a couple of days at the C.N.E. Mr. and Mrt. Russell Caldwell And family and Mrs, Whitehead of Toronto visited over the holi­ day week-end with Mr. and Mrs John Caldwell and other friends. Miss Dolores Allison, Exeter, and Mr. John Clarke, Dungan­ non are spending a week at the Provincial Jr. Farmer Camp at Geneva Park on Lake Couchich- ing, Ont., as delegates for Jr. Farmers and Jr. Institute of Huron County. Mr, Jack Hennessey and Miss Margaret Wright, of Harrow visited over the week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hen­ nessey. District High, Exeter Public Schools Reach All-Time High Enrolments To Widen Hotel Raided At Grand Bend Seven provincial police con­ stables swooped down on the Imperial Hotel here Saturday night and report seizing a quan­ tity of liquor and beer. Constable Robert Keene, head of the Grand Bend detachment of the O.P.P., said charges will be laid against several persons following the raid- Charges will be laid under the Liquor Control Act, he said. The police raid occurred about 10:30 p.m. at Constable John and Mrs. Norry have returned after holidaying with their daughters in London. Barbara Wright, Crediton Wins zMiss Huron7 Title Barbara Wright of Crediton is seventeen, blonde, pretty and car­ ries a lovely 103-pound figure on a five-foot two frame. That’s the reason she sports the title “Miss Huron County of 1951”. Barbara was selected from a field of eight contenders at the Zurich Lions Club’s Labour Day a pink and a she won the the county in Ontario finals Celebration. Wearing strapless bathing suit Grand Bend tan, right to represent the Miss Western at Windsor, Wednesday. It was the first time the Cred­ iton miss had entered a beauty contest and she was “happy of course!” and “looking forward to going to* Windsor.” The county queen won a $35 prize and an assortment of mer­ chandise donated by Zurich mer­ chants. She is the dauhgter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Wright, Credi­ tor!, and has been working at Grand Bend for the summer. She’ll become a telephone op­ erator in Exeter bara thanks her sister and bro­ ther -in-law, Mr. aDd Mrs. Ross Johnston, of the Dominion Ho­ tel in Zurich for her success. They persuaded her to enter the contest. “It really wasn’t my idea”, she said. Second prize went to Elaine Taylor, of Hensail, the former Elaine Coates, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Coates, of Exeter. Her lovely smile and lovely figure also earned her participate in the test. Elaine, like the enter the contest either. In fact she didn’t know she was in it until she received notice dating her application was accepted. It was the idea of her husband. Bill Taylor. Rosalie Denomme, of Dash­ wood, placed third. She, too, will go to Windsor on Wednesday. Other contestants were Elva Love, telle, son, Zurich; and Nora Willis, Gode­ rich. The contest was managed by Zurich Lion Herb Turkheim and. the judges were Miss Margaret Bradford. Miss Canada 1950, Mrs. Isabel Simpson and Camp­bell Ritchie of Windsor. the right to Windsor con- queen, didn’t ; voluntarily Hillsgreen; Peggy Mar- Centralia; Hazel Sander- Bluevale; Betty O’Brien, next week. Bar- Greys Down Forest In First Play-off Bout The Exeter Greys chalked their first win in the WOAA best of three elimination finals edg­ ing Forest 7-6 in the game play­ ed at home on Wednesday. The Greys gained steadily against no score for Forest until Leggat, the fast moving Forest catcher, smashed a homer in the sixth inning. The next inning showed three serious errors for the Exeter girls allowing two more runs for Forest and bring­ ing the score to 7-6 where it re­ mained for the rest the game. All of Exeter’s six hits were singles and they were obtained by Tuckey, Stewart, Taylor, Mc- Knight, King and Hunter-Duvar, The two teams will meet at Forest on Friday to decide whe- is up ther or not a third game necessary. Taylor and Stewart, and Forest, Johnson and Leggat. Score by innings Exeter 011 3210 OOx 7 7 Forest 000 0'04 200 6 10 for 6 6 Craig Horse Wins CNE Medal Winner of the silver medal for best agriculturist’s general pur­ pose the ____ tion was Alden Craven, of Ailsa Craig. R. S. Taylor, of Little Britain Ont., won the best reserve cham­ pion award. age atmare of any Canadian National Exhibi- Over 1,000 Cattle Shipped Over 1,000 head of cattle have been shipped to Toronto stock yards this year by the Exeter District Co-Operative. Gross value of the shipments Is $265,- 936.62. The sales are handled through United Co-Operatives Limited. Roland Williams handles the tie for the local Co-Op. cat- Local Nag First In Heat Banner driven by town, won 2.28 class races at _______horse and driver it was the first time in competition. In the se­ cond heat, the horse broke when . it struck the starting gate and ' finished seventh, Grattan, Charles the first at the Goderich. and of, owned Godbolt, heat of the Labor Day For bo th i In The Money An Exeter rink of bowlers were in the money at the Elora Bowling tournament Labour Day W. E. Middleton, Russell Snell, H. C. Rivers and Ken Hockey won 11th prize with three wins plus 20. The Elora tounament is one of the biggest of the season with 164 rinks competing. The greens of Elora, Hanover and Kitchener were used. The Exeter rink was accompanied by their wives and families who enjoyed the day’s outing. They each ceived chairs. re- Bell Telephone Asks Increase Increases of 25 cents month for telephone service in Exeter and of 5'0’ cents for residence indivi­ dual lines are proposed in Bell Telephone’s application for re­ vised rates filed in Ottawa with The Board of Transport Com­ missioners for Canada, accord­ ing to C. B. Symonds the com­ pany's manager at Goderich. The proposed increase for in­ dividual line business service is $1.00 monthly and for two party business service it is .75 monthly. No change is proposed in long distance rates. A comparison of present rates for typical classes of service with proposed rates in Exeter and Crediton follows: Present Proposed Increase per two-party residence The request for higher rates is due to increases in wage rates tax levels and other costs, the company said. RESIDENCE Individual Line 3.05 3.55 .50 Two-party line 2.65 2.90 .25Rural2.45 2.80 .35 Extension ’phone 1.00 1.00 BUSINESS Individual line 5.00 6.0'0 1.00 Two-party line 4.25 5.00 .75Rural3,25 4.00 .75 P.B.X. trunk 7.50 9.00 1.50Extension'phone 1.25 1.25 Enrolment at both public and high schools in Exeter jumped to an all-time high this year as the juvenile population went back to its studies after the Labour Day holiday. The district high school wel­ comed some 340 pupils to the fold on Tuesday, compared with last year’s total of 308. The new Exeter Public School boasted a record of 345 stu­ dents as classes reached totals as high as 42. Principal H. L. Sturgis of the high school, said 130 new pupils registered in grade nine, while 100 of last year’s first form re­ turned to grade 10. Two new teachers have been added to the high school staff. They are Mrs. Jessie Stewart, of London, who will head the English department, and 'Miss Anne Kartushian, of Polar Field Manitoba, home economics teach­er. The rest of the staff includes, besides the principal, E. D. Howey, J. B. Creech, Andrew Dixon, Ernest Jones, G. C. Koch, John Mahon, Fred Meek, Glen Mickle, Albert Ness, Morley San­ ders, C. F. Wilson and Miss Lau­ retta Seigneur. Mr. Sturgis said that ciricular difficultes were being experenced wth first year pupils who are be­ ing promoted through depart­ mental supervision. “We’re try­ ing to have youngsters who know they have difficulty with English and mathematics to spend a greater amount of time on these subjects by not taking French", he said. He noted, however, that many of the parents wished their child­ ren to ta*ke the latter subject. Another trend in the early grade, he said, was to try have one teacher lecture on many subjects as possible since some students experienced dif­ ficulty with a variety of teach­ ers after being accustomed to only one in public school. Plan Reversed Public School principal Claude Blowes said that the Porter Plan for combining grades in one room has been discontinued this year. “The classes,” he said, “are too large for a teacher to do the work adequately.” They range from 36 to 42. The nine rooms, including kin­ dergarten, at the public school are all filled. to as Centralia Schoo! Opening Delayed Shortage of classroom supplies will delay the opening of the new 14-room public school RCAF Station Centralia. Construction of the modern school has been ___ pleted, but desks and furnishings have not been installed yet. Ten of the fourteen classroms will be in use this term. It is ex­ pected more will be occupied as houses are completed. No official ceremonies have been scheduled as yet but will be later. Principal of the school is John Butler. John Witherspoon is as­ sistant. Teachers are Mrs. Mar­ garet Whitmore, Miss Clare Le Sage, Miss Helen Fredrick, Miss Theresa Sullivan, Mrs. Dorothy Insley, Miss Agnes Breen, Miss Donald Adams and Miss Mary Ann Erskine. at ultra- com- Main Street Town council authorized the removal of boulevards on both, sides of main street north of Huron Street and the surfacing of the ' - - regular This last year's body but cancelled in January because the present council felt the job could be done more economically in the summer. The removal of the boulevards will widen the highway and al­ low more parking space. Council met in the afternoon so that they could leave to see the local ball club playoff with Listowel. Council instructed the county sanitary officer to check on drains entering the large drain behind Snell Bros, building and also the keeping of pigs on Wil­ liam Street property. The police committee ice signal stalled at telephone : residence. 'Clerk C. that Foote considering auditors, over received from them. Building permits were grant­ ed, subject to approval of com­ mittee, to Mrs. Harold Beaver, verandah: Snell Bros. Ltd., gar­ age; Ernest Buswell, shingling house. The balance of payment for the gravel pit was paid Arthur Bierling. street to curb, at their meeting Tuesday. work was approved by reported that the pol- light was being- in- the town hall and a at Constable Cowan's reported were re- V. Pickard and Rafuse their resignation as The matter was laid until further advice was Locals Ousted Dashwood Teacher Acquitted Of Dangerous Driving Count A dangerous driving charge against Charles W. McQuilliu, 40-year-old Dashwood school tea­ cher, was dismissed in court at London. Thursday. Centralia Planes Search Muskeg For Sportsmen Lost In North RCAF Planes are still search­ ing Northern Ontario for Toronto Maple Leaf hockey star Bill Barilko and Timmins dentist, Dr. Henry Hudson, who disappeared last Sunday after leaving James Bay hy plane. Accompanying the first Cen­ tralia-based plane to the search area on Tuesday was Times-Ad- vocate reporter, Don Southcott, who returned Saturday. His account lows.* Dakota 641 RCAF Station 7 o’clock Tuesday evening with 14 on board, including Fit. Lt. G. J. Ruston, searchmaster of what was later designated “Ope­ ration Barilkd”. Ruston’s only information at the time was that a light plane was missing sotne- where between James Bay and Porqupine Lake. Captain of 641 was F.O. Doug McLaughlin with F.O. Stewart Brickenden, co-pilot; F.O. Er­ nest Saunders, navigator; and F.O. B. A. Howard, radio officer. Search observers were Flight Cadets Jack King and Lee Strat­ ton from Clinton, Pilot officers Micheal Fowler and Deryk Green­ field, both Englishmen in train­ ing at Centralia under the NATO plan, LAC Jim Scobey and my­ self. Crewmen were LACS Ber­ nard Goodfellow, Sid Skinner and Don Bagnall. The flight to North Bay last­ ed a little over one hour and a half. Weather was fine and. the trip comfortable. Th* plane was one of Centralia’s “flying class­ rooms” from the Air Radio Of­ ficers School. Besides accomoda­ tion for four officers in the fore of the ship it has nine seats placed alongside radio instruc­ tion equipment. Treats Oh Boat’d Once in the air, the crew were free to move around the craft. Some treats, like chocolate bars, gum were available. During the flight, we spent some time with FO. McLaughlin in the cockpit. The plane was flying on auto­ matic pilot and McLaughlin was free to explain some of the maze of the instrument panel. As we flew north, the land be­ low became more and more marked with patches Of timber. The road networks became scar­ cer and there were fewer blocks of tilled soil. Through the radio connections in. the pit, we listened to music from CKNX over the earphones. This was almost too comfortable. Fit. Lt. Ruston was preparing for his job of directing the search. He was working with procedure laid down by the Res­ cue Coordination Centre at Tren­ ton. The search was somewhat frustrating—Ruston was eager to get at the job but he couldn’t until base *• of the trip * * fol­ took off4 from Centralia around start search formation. Organizing But he was action. First, of course he’d liav* ■ to get information on the lost j plane’s trip. He knew some civi- ' lian aircraft had conducted small searches in the area with-yj out success so he’d probably avoid those areas in the early part of the search. There were many other con­ siderations too. He expected that there’d be some local reports of plane crashes which would have to be investigated. Standard search procedure starts with charting the lost plane’s course of flight on a map. To establish probability area No. 1, a circle of ten miles radius is drawn around the point of de­ parture. At the destination point the radius miles plus distance of he reached and received ready to get the in­ into of the circle is 10 10 percent of the . flight. This area is the first searched by the aircraft. Under normal conditions, planes fly at 1000 feet and observers were allowed a vision distance of two miles wide on the ground. If this search fails a larger area is tackled. Fog At Bay We landed through a foggy sky at North Bay at 8:30. As the plane taxied to a stop in front of the TCA^ station there, it developed engine t r o u b 1 e—a good place for it. The oil sump pump plug in the port engine dropped out and oil was flowing out of the machine. It wasn’t a particularly entertaining thought to wonder what would have hap­ pened if we’d been in the air when this occurred. The North Bay station is in the midst program base for rons. It the large underway Hockey Star Here we learned the details of the missing plane. Toronto Maple Leaf Bill Barilko and a Timmins dentist, Dr. ____ son, They’d left Rupert House of a huge'construction designed to make a CF-100 fighter sqtiad- was an indication of expansion scheme now in the RCAF. in it were hockey star well-known Henry Hud- on James Bay Sunday after a fishing trip. Their destination was South Porcupine. They flying in Dr. Hudson's passenger, pontoon-equipped child. Weather reports showed a 58-mile-an-hour wind blowing at the time of flight and there was a possibility of a localized storm over their route. Another Dakota from Trenton joined the party at North Bay. It carried a para-rescue team ready for action if the aircraft was found. They had supplies and ready to be shute. The radio equipment, stretchers, food, tents, axes — almost everything imaginable. Ready For Active The sergeant in charge of the team was eager for some action. He told us if the missing men were found, one “jumper” would go into the area and assess the crash. By radio equipment he could signal for what supplies were required and direct rescue crews proceeding by ground. The night was spent in North Bay. Crewmen stayed late at the airport to repair the engine and 'Searchmaster Ruston was already laying out maps for this tremendous hunting expedition. Wednesday morning was full of fog. The planes were .ground­ ed until 10:30 when the ceiling lifted to 3 00 feet and the Tren­ ton aircraft took off for Kapus- casing. because fied to tions. The north with the first craft. Expand Operations While we waited at North Bay a message came through that four more planes and a mobile search and rescue radio signal van Would be proceeding north via road. This was our first in­ dication that the search was go­ ing to develop into such a large Operation. Fit. Lt. Eldridge from Trenton was appointed co-search­ master with Ruston. Dakota 641 didn’t reach the Kapuscasing base until 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Two othei1 planes were already on search— the Trenton craft and a Mitchell from Rockeliffe, (Continued next week) were four- Fair- that was their complete medical bush dropped by para­ supplies equipment included cur plane was delayed the pilot wasn’t quali­ fy under those condf- searchmaster proceeded McQuillin was charged after collision involving his car and motorcycle operated by Provin­ cial Constable Ray Davis, July 15, at the intersection of Wharn- cliffe road south and Briscoe street. Davis suffered a severe head cut in the crash and fractures of fingers and toes. He was hospi­ talized nine days and has since been on sick leave. He returned to duty Sunday. The case collapsed after six prosecution witnesses had been heard and Crown Attorney C, C. Savage, K.C., agreed there was no point in calling others. “The Crown hasn’t made out a case,” said Magistrate Donald Menzies. “Dismissed.” Davis said he was unable to remember anything immediately preceding the accident beyond turning of Stanley Street south on Wharncliffe. Siren Sounding Red blinker lights side of the headlight and his siren was on and his siren was the constable said. He _ despatched from an accident east of the city to another on Winery Hill. In fense K.C., at 6'0 to 65 miles an hour. He said he had no recollection of applying brakes. In a statement read into evi­ dence by Constable Grigg, Mc­ Quillin said he was driving east on Briscoe Street and stopped about 20 seconds before entering Wharncliffe. When he was about one-third of the way across the intersec­ tion, McQuillin’s statement con­ tinued, he noticed siren and red lights of the motorcycle—then about 300 feet from the inter­ section. He “stepped on the gas but was unable to get clear in time”.Four witnesses said they saw the motorcycle just before the crash, and three of them said they saw the car as well. But none was able to describe its position and movements before the collision. a a to go either on on were sounding, sounding, had been cross-examination by De­ Counsel W. E. Spencer, Davis estimated his speed Bowlers Visit St. Marys Fifteeen members of the ter Bowling Club visited Marys Thursday evening of last week and were entertained by the St. Marys Club, games were played changed for each Vera Fraser, Exeter of the first prize. at the close. Exe- St. Three 8-end with players game. ’Mrs. , was winner Lunch was The St.served Matys Club will pay a return visit to Exeter this (Thursday) evening. Mrs. Harry Ford and Miss Joy Whitlock visited on Thursday last with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Horton of Listowel, Mr. and Mrs. George Gilfillan and family of Blyth visited on Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Colin Gilfillan. In 3-2 Thriller Exeter made a desperate and thrilling bid to stay in the Inter­ mediate “B” OBA playoffs against Listowel on Thursday night but the Legionaires threw a double-whammy of triples against them in the eighth in­ ning to win the series with a 3-2 vctory. It was a sad one to lose for the locals who led 2-1 from the third inning of the game. They made a remarkable recovery from their 11-1 beating in Lis- towel Tuesday night. Both sides played tight, exciting ball and only one error was recorded. Young thirdsacker Bob Wado was the hitting star for the locals. He rapped two triples off leftie Bob Kropp and was re­ sponsible for one of the locals’ runs. Joe Seratore’s clutch-hit- ting double was the payoff hit that put the locals up 2-1 in the third. , ,Listowel’s John Bell cracked, two triples and a single in three trips to spark the Legionaires’ win. ,, , ,Smart fielding by the locals held the visitors scoreless for the first two innings. First man up in the game, John Bell,. singled to put hurler Joe Mitro in trou­ ble. An attempted steal failed when Lenehan threw him out at second to clear the bases. Again in the second, the Lis­ towel lead-off man singled. The second batter drove a liner to Seratore at second, who threw to first forcing the runner for one of Exeter's two double plays. Mitro retired the side without} difficulty.In the third, however, Wilson for Listowel started off with a double, advanced to third when Polci bobbled Bitton’s ground, ball for the only error of the, game. Mitro picked Wilson off at third but Bitton, after steal­ ing second, scored on a ' by Manager Griesbach. Exeter bounced into the in the last half of the Wade led off with his single i game third. ____ __ ___ first triple and Stinchcombe walked; Joe Seratore smashed a double to score Wade. Stinchcombe stole the pay-off plate for the second run.In the top of the fourth Mil­ ler singled for Listowel but was forced at second as Mitro played Thompkins’ grounder for a dou­ ble play. Polci missed the ball but Seratore, backing him up, grabbed it and caught the Lis4 towel player off the bag. Woods then singled to put two on bases. Wilson grounded to Mitro Who forced the runner at third. While Mitro was pitching to the next batter, Lenehan whipped the ball to first to catch Wilson! for the third out. Listowel didn't threaten in the next three innings but in the eighth they scored two runs on three hits. Bell clipbed his sec­ ond triple of the game and! scored on another triple by Piso- pink. The latter scored when Thompkins doubled. Exeter was dangerous in the seventh when Fred Dariihg led off with a single. Harry Holtz­ man flied out. Darling became the second out when a bunt and run play failed with Wade at the bat. Wade, however, put himself into scoring position with his second trple of the game. -Stinchcombe hit ; fly ' I out. ,___ _____ . a ion# ly hall into left for the third