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Eightieth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1952 Single Copy 7£
X-Ray Clinics In Operation,Festival Plans
Urge Everyone To Attend
June 3
charge
J. B.
necess-
Citizens of the district are re
minded t.hat from May 29
through to June 6, a mass chest
X-ray survey clinics are being
set up in various centres in a
drive to help keep the threat of
TB from the people of South
Huron.
The survey will begin
in Exeter. Chairman in
of Exeter and district
Creech has stressed the
ity for is high a percentage of
attendance as possible. Where
canvassers have failed to find a
family at home there may be no
X-ray cards or an insufficient
number of cards. These may be
picked up and filled
centre
No ippointments
citizens may attend
in their own time,
of times and places follows. For
any additional information, Mr.
Creech mav be reached by phone
244-W.
Dashwood: Lutheran Church,
Art Willard in charge, May
i.m, to 12 noon and 2
5 p.m.
Town hall, Mr. R. W.
7 p.m.
; May 30, 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and
out at the
made;
clinics
are
the
A schedule
Mrs
*>■». 10
p. m to
.Zurich;
Risley in charge, May 29,
*» 10 p.m.;
12 noon, £
7 pm. to 10 p.m.
«Vutralia: R.C.A.F. Drill Hall,
Sarnia Schools
tin Tuesday, May 28, six
teachers from the primary de
partment of the Exeter Public
Schiol, Mrs. Turvey, Mrs. Hugh
son, Miss Seip, Mrs. Jamieson, " Jermyn,
tour of
Hannah
Mrs.
Miss* McGill and Mrs.
made
three Memorial. Durand Junior School
and Perry School.
The teachers were met by Mr.
Gilbert, principal of Hannan
Memorial, and from 9 a.in. until
morning recess, the teachers,
guided by Mr. Gilbert, visited all
the primary rooms where the
regular routine was observed.
From morning recess until
noon, Miss M. Black, principal ot
Durand St. School, explained and'
demonstrated primary methods
in her junior classrooms. The
afternoon was spent observing at
Perry ■ -School in the annexed
area, a newly opened eight room
school, comparable in size and
organization to Exeter Public
School.
After four, the teachers re
turned to the Hannah Memorial
auditorium where tea was served
and an informal discussion was
conducted by Mr. F. Fraud, the
Sarnia Public School inspector
and Mr. Rogers, Director of
Public and Secondary Education
in that city.
an observation
Sarnia schools,
a past
A.gri-
hasn’t
Fracitwres Leg
Mr. William H. Coates,
president of the Exeter
cultural Society, and who
missed a fair in these parts for
years, had a misfortune to fall
while attending the I-Iensall Fair
Friday. An X-ray revealed a frac
tured bone in the ankle and the
foot was placed in a plaster cast
Wednesday by Dr. Fletcher.
Advanced
W/C Michalski in
2, 10 a.tn. to 12
p.m, to 5 p.m.
Civilians living
~ Centralia.
United Church, Mrs.
Motz in charge, June 2, 7
charge, June
noon, and 2
close may goto R.C.A.F.
Creditor!;
R.
p.m. to 10 p.m.
Exeter;
Sturgis lu charge,
a.m. to 12 noon.
Ex'eter; Town hall, Mr. J.
Creech in charge, June 3, 2 p
to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.,
June 4, 10 a.m. to 12 noon, 2
p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 10
p.m.; June 5, 10 a.m. to 12
noon and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Winchelsea: School, Mrs. Har
old Hunter in charge, June 5,
7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
HensaH; Town hall, Mr. Riley
in charge, June
12 noon. 2 p.m.
7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
High school, Mr.
June 3,
H.
10
B.
.m.
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Plans for the November South
Huron Music Festival are under
way and the syllabus will be out
this month as a result of the
first meeting of the Huronia
Male Chorus Music Festival com
mittee held Monday night.
Special Awards
The 1952 prize list will in
clude special educational awards
for top performers in each town
ship, town and village as well as
an award for the best musician
of the festival. More encourage
ment will be given to competi
tion a m on g instruments. An
increased number of awards will
be made for brass, woodwind
and string solos.
Another township. Stanley,
will be included in the festival
which will be held during the
week of November 3. The sylla
bus is being issued early so that
students may have a chance to
work at their entries during the
summer holidays.
Huron Sportsmen Urge County
Establish Open Deer Season
Huron County
council at its
an open deer
Sportsmen of
will petition the
June session for
season this fall.
Conservation officials of the
district say the deer population
has reached its peak and tin*
beasts will be forced to mingli
with cattle for their food if they
are not reduced.
The condition could be serious,
they point out, if the deer con
tracted foot, and mouth disease
and spread it anion
Ed Meadows, district official
of the Department of Lands and
Forest, estimates the deer pop
ulation of the
creased by 200
have starved to
lack of food.
Last year an
to have 'been held until county
council banned it a few days be
fore it was to start. Some 30
cars and trucks were confiscated
; for taking deer illegally although
I some licences had been issued.
The second canvass in Exeter
is progressing favorably but is
not yet complete. A few can
vassers have not completed their
route, and they are urged to do
so this week so that a complete
list of the new subscribers can
be published in next week’s is
sue.
county has in-
per cent. Some
death because of
open season was
of the same school, and Annie Bregman, of Lumley school,
chat with St. Laurent (luring the reception. The pupils made
a tour of the city, visiting points of interest in the capital.
Usborne pupils met Prime Minis-
they travelled to Ottawa recent-
Don Fisher,
MEET ST. LAURENT
ter Louis St. Laurent when
ly. Here Mr*. L. Dixon, teacher of S.S. No. 5,
He nsall Boy
Wins Award
Jim Etherington, 13-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie
Etherington of Hensall won a
silver cup for highest aggregate
score in judging dairy cattle ai
Huron County Achievement Day
and judging competition at Sea
forth Saturday last.
He was one of 2<hi boys and
girls taking part in the competi
tions.
Girls won prizes for various
projects completed during the
year while boys’ awards were
given for judging livestock. The
judging took place on different,
f a r m s a r o u n d Seaforth and
supervising the dairy class was
Harold Buck of Perth County.
Cups were presented by John
Untie r, assistant agricultural
representative.
Local Station Few Accidents
Resumes Flights
Flying at RCAF Station Cen
tralia has returned to normal
after schedules were cut by 40
per cent because of the oil strike
in the United States.
Group Captain W. W. Bean,
commanding officer at Centralia,
said his station had returned to
full operation although restric
tions generally throughout
air force remained in force.
Flying within Canada was
tailed two weeks ago to
gasoline following the strike of
oil workers in the United States.
The situation, while clarified
and work is resuming, lias not
been settled and Canada is main
taining its curbs.
Because of the importance of
its role in national defence
loss of flying hours due to
winter weather, Centralia
been permitted to return to
schedule flying.
weekend
stay at
accidents
Marion Creery, Jim Carter
Named T-A Essay Winners
the
cur-
save
and
bad
has
full
For Holiday
Heavy rain over the
forced most people to
home and few traffic
were reported.
In Exeter the only mishap oc
curred Saturday night when a
car went out of control and
struck five others parked on the
main street.
Keith Brintnell was the driver
of the car. He was proceeding
north when his car struck an
other at the corner of Sanders
and Main, shot across the road
and glanced off four others.
Damage to all was not extens
ive. Police Chief John Norry
vestigated.
Lots Of Rain
Temperatures this week:
in
People who have not been
•called on may expect to see the
canvassers in the next few days.
The returns from this canvass
in Exeter amount to about $7,-
000 with good prospect of con
siderably more. This, added to
the first canvass, will place Ex
eter's total at close to $70,000.
The canvass in Stephen and
Usborne will commence on Mon
day next.
In the published Usborne list
of subscribers to the Hospital
Fund, Mr. L. Laverne Stone was
credited with $25 when it should
have been $50. The treasurer
and the editor regret this error.
The correction should have ap
peared in last week’s issue.
At an enthusiastic meeting
held recently at Crexiiton, the
i Stephen council and interested
persons made plans to open the
second canvass for the South
Huron Hospital Fund on June 1.
The canvass will
i Stephen Township.
I Harry Beaver
general chairman
paign.
Canvassers are:
bolt, Frank Hicks.
Charlie Rowe. William Stanlake,
Ed Lamport, Stan Hicks, Joseph
White, Wellington Haist, Charles
Green, Tupper Anderson,
Galloway, Harry Hirtzel,
Heudick, Ross Krueger,
Chambers, Urban Ayotte, Elmer
Lawson,
Sullivan,
beiner.
Pickering,
Webb, Art Baker. William Love,
Dean Brown, Wellwood Gill, Ed
Gill, Fred Walker, Stewart Webb,
Lawrence Pollock, Charles Reg-
ier, Harry Swartz. Charles Diet-
rich, and Ruehen Getz.
■•over all of
was elected
of the cam-
Gerald God-
Ray Lammie,
Jack
Ed.
Ed.
Struck By Car
Girl In Hospital
Attracted up town with seve
ral friends by the playing of
Exeter band, Sheila Bonnallie, 5,
was struck by a car on the main
street Monday night. She is in
War Memorial Children’s Hos
pital, London, suffering from a
broken left leg.
<She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Glen Bonnallie, of town.
The driver of the car was Flying
Officer R. L. Oliver, RCAF Sta
tion Centralia. Night Constable
John Cowan investigated.
Dr. Gerald St. Pierre, the new
doctor at Zurich, and Dr. M. C.
Fletcher rendered first aid.
Pat Sullivan,
Roy Ratz, Art.
Albert Gaiser,
Roy Mason,
Eugene
. Fink-
Elmer
Ezra
6,000 Chicks Die
When Building Burns
Six thousand chicks were de
stroyed on Monday when fire
broke out in a brooder building
at the corner of Wellington and
Main.
Fire Chief William Chambers
said
were
break
p.m.
done to the building.
It is owned by the Lakeview
Hatchery and Poultry Farm Ltd.
Stars and Stripes stand side by
side and the vast library in the
parliament buildings, the only
part of the original structure
left after the historical fire.
They showed the thrill of the
whole trip, pride in their country
and the capital they described
as “the most beautiful city there
is". One of the best pictures was
painted by a pupil when she de
scribed the 80 children from our
own Usborne School are, bidding
goodbye to the Honoraible Louis
St. Laurent with a rousing
chorus of, “So Long, It’s
Good to Know You."
The prize winning essay
ten by Marion Creery is
lislied on page 12 and the
by Jim Carter will appear
later date. Other essays chosen
as best from each school by the
teachers were written by: Annie
Bregman and Mary McDougall,
S. S. 10 Lumley; Angela O’Brien
and
School;
Dykeman,
Smith, S. S.
Hicks, S.
Marion Creery of Winchelsea
School and Jim *Uaiter of S. S.
5, Usborne, will each receive the
Times-Advocate award of five
dollars each for the best essays
among those submitted by Us
borne Township pupils describ
ing their recent trip to Ottawa.
From a host of accounts, well
stocked with the imagination
known to public school pupils,
the two were picked in a final
judging by the Times-Advocate
for their clarity
Teachers of prize
Mrs. L. Porterfield
Dixon respectively.
Judges confessed
close competition
pupils, in
keen sense
humor in
the trip.
In his
through the Canadian Mint, one
pupil said, “It is guarded by
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
who let us in. I guess they did
not think we were crooks’’, while
another stated, “They sure took
a big chance when they let us
in".
The i
stirred
simple
of Old
ancient
us all”.
The most
of the essays was the evidence
of the great value of the trip to
the children. Most remembered
the historical significance of
places like the Ivy Lea bridge
where the Union Jack and the
The house of Peter Durand,
north Main steet, has been sold
to Mr. and Mrs. -Gordon McKay,
of ^Hagersville. C. V. Pickard,
realtor, negotiated the transfer.
overloaded electric wires
responsible for the out-
which occured about 7
Considerable damage was
and interest,
winners are
and Mrs. L.
that it was
because the
most cases, showed
of observation as well
relating incidents of
writ
pub-
other
at a
2,000 See Hensall Show,
Cattle Average 26 Cents
Some 2,000 persons saw judg
ing and auction of the first feed
er’s calf club ever organized by
an agricultural society at the
Hensall Stock Show Friday after
noon. ‘
In spite of gray skies and tor
rents of rain the show was a
complete success. It included the
showing of horses and cattle, a
baby show, a fiddler’s contest, a
parade led by the RCAF Cen
tralia trumpet baud and 200
school children representing
eight district schools.
The fair was officially opened
by F. A. Lashley, director of
agricultural societies, Toronto.
Mr. Lashley expressed his pleas
ure in being able to open the
lair and he extended congratula
tions to those responsible for the
show and its projects in past
years.
Mentions Calf Club
He made special mention of
the calf club and said that much
credit was due to those who
organized the club “It’s great to
come to Western Ontario,” he
said, “and to see people who are
interested in the same kind of
experiments that we try to work
out."
Rev. JV. A. Young, chaplain at
OAC Gudlph and one time direc
tor of the show told the audience,
that he was pleased to see the
improvements that had taken
place since he was with the
board. He expressed his joy in
being back and wished the fair
much success in future years.
Reeve Kerslake welcomed
spectators, thanked
coming out in
weather and said
the project could
successfully from
for many more ye
Auction Sale
After the official opening, 40
calves were judged and later in
the day they sold under the
auctioneer's block for an average
price of 26 cents a pound. Top
price went to grand
winner, Harold Elder.
Hensall, who received
a pound for liis calf,
and feeding
gain in the weight of
from November to May
records lie kept showed
used only feed grown
farm plus a few concentrates.
The calves were brought from
Western Canada by the society
and drawn by the boys early in
November 1951. Their weights
and qualities were recorded at
that time so that judging at the
fair could be based only on*the
results achieved.
Other prizes were given for
finish, largest weight and show
manship and they were won by
John McGregor, R.R. 2, Kippen;
Al Hoggarth, R.R. 1, Hensall;
I Lome Warner, R.R. 3. Parkhill;
Bob Parsons. R.R. 1, Cromarty;
Arnold Cann,
Bill
rich,
: R.R.
I foot,
Bell,
I Elder.
1 Largest gains in weight
achieved by Al Hoggarth,
John McGregor, 4S0; Allan Turn-*
bull, 430; Reg. Hodgert, 420;
Harold Elder and Bill Becker,
; 410.
I
I
I
account o£ the tour
Max-. Min. Rain
Wednesday ....45 .06
Thursday ........... 68 4 6
Friday .............. 68 50 .81
Saturday ........... 60 55 1.76
Sunday .............. 60 48
Monday .............. 69 4 6
Tuesday ............. 76 50
WhalenTommy Simpson,
Marlene Towle and Roy
Elimville;
3 Usborne; Marilyn
S. 5 Usborne; Jack
Taylor, S. S. 4 Usborne and Jim
Etherington, S.S. 1 Usborne.
MyrlandMrs. L. Thomas is visiting for
week with relatives in Tim
mins.
a
William Hyde, of I-Iensall, who
will celebrate his eighty-eighth
birthday in July, has won 50
first prizes for his fiddle play
ing. He reached the mark on
Friday when he won two firsts
at the Old Time Fiddler’s Con
test at West Lome.
Mr. Hyde has taken his prizes
at various contests at Toronto,
London, Grand Bend, Thorndale,
Stratford and Walkerton as well
as neighbouring towns.
He first started playing at
contests in 1027. Now he’s get
ting his violin tuned up for the
big Old Time Fiddlers’ Contest
being staged in Hensail /Irena
Friday, June 6 by the Chamber
of Commerce, and intends to
keep on entering contests as long
as he ran pull a bow. He has
been fiddling for 76
at the age of 88 is
contest fiddle player
Western Ontario.
•Mr Hyde takes
seriously. He does not like the
variations the young folks put
into the IT A
music should be played the way
it was learned, and as the I-Ien-
sall fiddler can’t read a note of
music most of the numbers in
his repertoire haven’t changed in over half a” century.
For 50 years or so Mr. Hyde
was to be found almost any
place where there was fun and
laughter and dancing. He has
probably calld off
•dances than anyone
tern Ontario.
fu 1927 after he
Hensall for a few
one thought it was about time
they found out who the champ
ion fiddler was. Thre was a
champion plowman, a champion
woodsman, horseman and moose
eailer Why not a champion fid
dler?
years and
the oldest
in Soutli-
his musii
old tunes. Old time
more square
else in Wes-
had been in
years, some
On January 3, 19 27, the four
choice string and bow men of
Huron County met in Hensail
Town Hall to fiddle it out. '
63-year-old William Hyde
through the performance of
three competitors. It was an
nerving ordeal. But when
turn came round he played
he had never played before.
The judges announced
they could not chose between
two of the contestants named
Murdock and Bolton, so those
two would have to play again.
It looked like 'Mr. Hyde had lost
the day. But when the final
dcision was made Mr. Hyde had
won an easy first and the re
playing had been for second
place.
Like Springboard Diving
He says there is a real knack
to competitive fiddling. It’s just
like spring board diving, figure
skating or tap dancing, every
thing is added up from the
moment you walk on the stage,
the way you hold your bow,
tone, volume, quality, etc.
There are two things he in
sists upon if lie’s playing in com
petition, He likes to choose his
own tune, and he likes to have
the fiddling marked by a judge,
not by the audience. “If I win’’,
he says. "I want to win with my
The
sat
his
un-
his
like
that
Expect Approval Soon
Exeter council expects official
approval of the artificial ice by
law from the Ontario Municipal
Board this week. An early start
on the construction is anticipat
ed.
Approval has already been re
ceived from the Department of
Municipal Affairs and the by
law is !uw in the hands of the
I Board.
favorite piece, and if the other
fellow wins I want him to win
on his favourite piece. After all,
one plays his favorite number
best.’’
He is very proud of his prizes
which include trophies, cups,
medals, lamps and rugs.
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Paper
sight of historical places
most of the essayists. One
but effective description
Fort “
and
Henry said, “How
brave it seemed to
outstanding feature
25,000 Times
Before Mailed To Subscribers
What’s in the T-A this week?
That’s a question you’ve prob
ably heard often. And the an
swer will be something about an
interesting news item, a picture
of a friend or the advertisement
of an enterprising merchant.
But there’s a lot more goes
into your Times-Advocate than
the news and the pictures and
the advertisements.
This week, like every week,
the presses rolled out about 2,-
800 more papers than the one
you’re reading, Most of them
went into the mail on Thursday,
going all over the world—
away as South America,
Europe and Australia.
If all those papers
stretched out page by page,
would cover No. 4 highway
the T-A office well past Hensail
If '
sc
a
part of your bathroom.
Every line of reading matter
is set by a manually operated
machine, a line of news being
set on an individual line of type
metal by the linotype operator.
To set enough type for a 14-
page edition of the T-A, two
operators work steadily for three
producing 18,000 linear
type or about a third
of metal.
plenty of weight be-
the wordage too, be
ll of the page forms,
-as far
Korea,
wore
they
from
Blind Canvass
R.R, 3, Exeter;
Becker and Stephen Diet-
Dashwood; Ken McMillan,
2, Kippen; Stewart Broad-
Harry Armstrong,
Jack McGregor and
Jack
Ken
days
inches of
of a mile
There’s
hind all 1cause eaclB
filled with type and ready to go
to press, weighs in the neighbor-
’ '' “ *’ over
they were stacked on a
ale, they would weigh ;
quarter of a ton.
In
are 3
ing 1
and
the
of
news
paper
large
.lmost
i an average
1,9GO column
matter. Since
nows content.
-A carries about OSO inches
ading matter. If all that
was placed on one sheet of
, it would cover a
T
re
edition
inches of
the advertising
is about equal,
there
read-
good
hood of 80 pounds—well
half a ton for an edition.
What the white paper
through before it reaches
mail box is a story in
Actually over 25,000 pieces of
paper are handled by the press
and mailing men every week,
First, the paper is unpackaged
and carried to the press. Then it
is fed sheet-at-a-time by hand
while one side is printed four
pages to a side. Then the same
sheets are reversed, to have four
more pages printed on the other
side. Another set of 2,800 sheets,
containing four pages is print
ed, Single pages are printed on I
goes
your
Itself.
Totals $3,392
Final returns of the Exeter
district canvass for the building
fund of the Canadian National
Inst, for the Blind amounted to
$3,392.64, S. B. Taylor announc
ed this week.
Objective for all of Huron
County was $10,000 and this
amount was well over-subscribed.
The money will be used to build
a service centre to rehabilitate
blind peole.
Results by villages of the local
canvass are as follows: Exeter,
$1,653.55; Centralia, $69.25;
Crediton, $258.50; RCAF Cen
tralia, $280.85; Dashwood,
$253.39; Hensall, $438.50; Zur
ich, $438.60.
both sides of another sheet.
The three different sei
are fed through together
folding machine that cuts
to separate the pages,
four different folding operations
and turns the sections out quar
ter-folded
them.
When I
sembled,
on them
chine.
Many
newspaper production make in
teresting studies in themselves.-
Some of the machines used are
unique and those interested in
things mechanical
to inspect the
operation at any
or organizations
following through the
phases of. newspaper production
will he
Ice is
visit.
tions
in a
them
makes
the way you receive
the final product is as-
addresses are stamped
by a. hand-operated ma*
of the techniques of
are welcome
equipment in
time. Groups
interested in
many
welcome if advance not-
given of an impending
J
were
510;
the
for
the
that
carried on
to year
them
spite of
he hoped
be
year
ars.
champion
R.R, 2,
31 cents
His care
showed a 410 pound
................. calf
the
lie
his
the •
and
that
on
Twenty-Three Babies
Twenty-three entries were re
corded in the two classes of the
baby show. In the class up to
six months, Fay Louise Troyer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Troyer. R.R. 2, Hensall, took
first place. Angela Mary Morris
sey- seven-week-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Morrissey, of
Mt. Carmel, was second.
Best baby in the six to 12-
months class was Cheryl Louise
Mousseau, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs.
and Michael Davis,
and Mrs.
second.*
In the
went to S,
S. 7, Hibbert, and Hensall Public
School. Nelson Howe, Cromarty,
took top spot among old time
fiddlers followed by William.
Hyde, Hensall, Gerald. Smith
Kippen, and Cecil Maxwell,
Cromarty.
Livestock Winners
Winners and
horses were: A
Ingersoll, Peter
ton, and Harvey
town; roadster
ion, J. L. Wri
hackney pony,
Arva; Edward
sail; shetland
Johnston, Atwood, Marwood Rob
bins, Shedden, Layton Shantz,
New Hamburg. Ken Roth, Moss- ley, Albert Etfierington, lieiisall;
saddle horses; Ironside, Cliff
Dow, Granton, Filiner Ohappel,
Cromarty.
I - -Please turn to page 14
Garnet Mousseau, Hensail,
son of Mr.
Earnest Davis, was
school parade, prizes
S. 2, Tuckersmith, S.
of
of
ofexhibitors
D. Robinson,
Graham, Ilder-
Moore, Ridge
class and champ**
ght, of Listowel;
Sandra Ironside,
Schroeder, Hen
ponies, Elmer