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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-07-03, Page 1celebrate Dominion, School Names Cochrane spoke welcome on behalf | tremendous potentiality. •’ No w J taro hftvfi •* vnina in i -n.fi r? aw nl _ the official by Group Captain W. commandingI < Don Southeott, G/C • pressed his pleasure a chance behind a barra- > asked to open the celebration. ’ He snoke of Canada on her Official Grand Champion after a fjirious g con- Earl I A record crowd of 3,000 saw Reeve Camnbell score two bill ’ Eightieth Year EXETER, ONTARIO. THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1952 Township Reeve Campbell was dubbed “Munici- ■ Heeve^Campbell score^two bull’s- pal Egg Thrower” and hilarious egg throwin;, test at the second annual Exeter Kinsmen Dominion Day Celebra tion Tuesday. AF Centralia trumpet and drum band and the Bannochburn Pipe Band. A squadron of RCAF per sonnel led by Squadron Leader Goodall stopped in front of the band stand during opening W. Bean, O.B.E.; officer of RCAF Centralia. Introduced by Kin president. Bean ex- at being WAVES 1-------------- Hay township, holds on high a rooster after he won the celebrated egg-throwing Right behind him is Deputy-Reeve ROOSTER — Champion Municipal Official Egg Thrower Earl Campbell,CHAMP reeve of contest at the Kin Dominion Day Celebration Tuesday. Wellington Haist of Stephen township and on the extreme left is Reeve Verne Pincombe of Usborne, Actually rooster was Hensail Reeve Alvin Kerslake’s "booby” prize. —J. Doerr .ENJOY PARADE Children with their decorated vehicles enjoyed the Dominion Day parade Tuesday. Here, photographer Jack Doerr catches a group of them as they ride up. iOS1 Create New Huron Riding, increase Voters Redistribution of federal el- ectoral districts will erase Huron North and increase by almost 50 per cent the number of voters In Huron-Perth. This major change will prob ably pit Andrew Mae.Lean, Lib eral MP for Huron-Perth against Cardiff, PC, for Huron in the next election. whole riding of Huron will disappear into three ridings — Huron-Perth, and Wellington North. the Elston North The North other Bruce Huron-Perth will get the major share. Close to 18,000 new vot ers will be added to the riding, now to be known as Huron By 50% This increase will include towns of Clinton, Goderich and Wingham; the villages of Blyth and Brussels and the townships of Colborne, Goderich, Grey and Morris. At the same time, Huron loses Mitchell and the townships of Logan and Fullarton to Perth riding. Bruce will get the of Ashfield, West and wanosh. which go Officer Decorated Group Captain W. W Beau, O'.B.E., commanding officer of RCAF Station Centralia; has been awarded the Canadian for ces decoration, it was onnouueed last week. The Canadian forces decora tion in awarded for 12 years ser vice in ' ' reserve purely type. either the permanent or fqrces and is the first Canadian award :>f its it.” day iian- savy Uirges Residents Conserve Water Exeter P.U.C. Manager Ken neth Lampman urged townsfolk to “conserve as much water as possible and not to waste Continued hot weather and and night production at the ning factory have made a In ■drain on the water supply. Mr. Lampman said his depart ment, was "pumping everything we could but we weren’t able to maintain the pressure Wednes day evening.” Consumption rose to 450 gallons a minute Wed nesday afternoon. “We couldn’t draw on our reserve,” he said, "It’s as low as we can let it.” Average daily consumption is from half a million to 600,000 gallons per day. in the past, that was a peak load for an individual d.a,y tn the summer, every day jg taking that of water, it is cutting into the supply. Mr Dampman l<o avoid wasting water use only what, during this temporary townships __r _______ East Wa- Wellington North will take over the townships of Ho- wick and Turnberry. .'Other constituencies affected in Western Ontario worth, m and. The Huron lows: follows Towns Clinton Exeter Goderich ....... Seaforth ...... Wingham ..... Villages Blyth ......... Brussels ..... Hensail ........ Townships Colborne ...... Goderich ...... Grey ........ Hay ............. Hullett ...... McKillOp ...... Morris ......... Stanley ........ Stephen ....... Tuckersmith Usborne ...... Perth County Mitchell ........ Fullarton ..... Hibbert ...... Logan .......... are Went- 3ranfcford and Haldi- Playground Popular Exeter’s Kinsmen Playground has been attracting upwards to 75 children each day since it Opened on Wednesday. The children have been enjoy ing a varied program from active sports to quiet periods. Softball, volleyball, games and track are the principal story-telling, and a large comprise the Jean Taylor, senior supervisor, said the children seemed to be enthusiastic about the program. Several parents have visited the playground. Aiding Miss Taylor with the program are Donald Taylor, John Dyne, Trudie Pickard and Joan Thomson. active sports while sand box playing variety of crafts quiet periods. i Top Scholars A list of awards and shields won by pupils of Exeter District High School has recently been released. Students who quali fied for these awards are as fol lows: Lions Club Awards: aggregate marks Marilyn Tuckey; Joan Thomson; Kathrryn Hunter; Nancy Tieman. Grade nine Awards, Board of Education—English and French, Carol Thiel; History and Geo graphy, Alexia Lostell; Math, and Agr. Science, Kathryn Klopp; Home Economics, Irene Beaver; Shop, Charles Kernick. Grade ten, Board of Educa tion — English, French and Latin, Marie Hodgson; Mathe matics and Agricultural Science, Raymond Corriveau; History, Geography, Katherine Kalb- fleich; Home Economics, Mavis McBride; Shop, Joe Green; Com mercial, Mildred Ballantyne. Grade eleven, Board of Educa tion—English History, Martha Gossman; Mathematics and Agri cultural Science, Beth Taylor; French and Latin, Mary Mar garet Essery; Commercial, Bob Wade; Shop, Don Welsh; Home Economics, Audrey Coates. Grade twelve, Board of Edu cation — English and History, Peggy Rowcliffef Math and Agr icultural Science, Joan Ellering- ton; French and Latin, Mar jorie Taylor; Commercial, Jean Taylor. Commercial, Board of Educa tion — Stenography, Gertrude Ziler; Accounting, Margaret Bray. Shield winners are as follows: Grade nine Academic — Mari lyn Tuckey, Kathryn Klopp, Marilyn Marshall, Robert Mc Laren. Grade ten Academic — Joan Thomson, Katherine Kalbfleisch, Raymond Corriveau, Marie Hodgson. Grade Kathryn Essery, Beckler. Grade Nancy Tieman, Joan ton, Peggy Rowcliffe, Taylor. The most outstanding Athletes were: Boys—Glen Schroeder, Ken Moir, John Hicks, Neil Taylor. Girls—Jean Taylor, Dorothy Pooley, Patricia Hopper, Julia Dunlop. Citizenship shields -— Robert Wade, Tom Easton, Charles Cowen, and Lee Paul Durand. Highest —Grade nine, Grade ten; Grade eleven, Grade twelve, eleven Academic — Hunter, Mary Margaret Beth Taylor, Barbara twelve Academic — Ellering- Marjorie Total new- wili electoral district of uow appear as fol- 2,547 2,547 4,9.34 2,118 2,642 665 813 713 V' 1,136 1,608 1,967 2,641 1,855 1,713 1,675 1,9504 - ■ 3 1 561 .280 .667 979 548 562 232 42,594 Now that amount heavily asked r was uei jsklents and to pessary Isis Loses Fingers Veteran Canadian C a Employee Jack Elliott a badly mangled hand on Mon day, It was his last day at work before retirement. His hand was caught in a belt and th tips of two fingers had to be pital, An plant u n e r 8 suffered atnputaed at Victoria Hos- London. employee at the local for more than 25 years, he was recently presented with a watch in recognition of his long service record Directors To Meet Soon To Consider New Feed Mill Insurance adjustors began sur veying the wreckage at the Ex eter District Co-Operative mill Thursday to determine the dam age caused by ning fire. Damage has set at $50,000 stricher, president of the Co- Operative. He said insurance would cover most of it, As soon as the adjustors make their reports, a meeting of the directors will be held to see if the plant will be rebuilt. Mr. Oestricher said he “fairly certain" directors approve of rebuilding. The early morning blaze de stroyed the mill in less than two hours. Over 4,000 bushels of grain and feed were lost. i The co - operative has 335 i members. Two new water lines, installed less than a year ago, were a • "Godsend" to firemen who fin ally controlled the blaze which threatened to destroy the Exeter District Co-Op warehouse aftei‘ the $50,000 plant burned down early Monday morning. Fire Chief Bill Chambers said the two hew six inch mains gave his men the water they needed to keep the fire from spreading. The mains were installed by the P.U.C. on Victoria and Wolling- the Monday mor- been tentatively by W. C. F. Oe- felt would P.U.C, on Victoria and ton streets last year. The blaze was too vanned for firemen to $50,000 mill but they adjoining warehouse by play water on the fire door and the I tig far ad- save the did eave the building partitions. Gause of the brilliant early morning fire is still unknown but it was well in progress be fore it was noticed. William Hun ter, night watchman at the Can adian Canners plant turned in the alarm around 12:30 a.m, Mr. and Mrs. Stan Dinney had spotted the fire about the same time an<l rushed to the fire hall to sound the alarm. When the fire brigade arrived the flames were shooting in a brilliant mass from the building. The light attracted travelers from as far away as Lucan. Aluminum roofing melted like wax under the intense heat. The roof caved in shortly after fire men arrived. Fifteen other blaze it. A until The ago at housed ing 45 high. The but there is little building without demolishing them, Melvin "Bob Luther Reynolds had been at the plant, around noon Sunday to feed kittens and all was well then, they said. The kittons suf focated In • the fire. Besides a large amount of mo- macliinery and storage silos 4,000 bushels of grain and were lost. firemen and many volunteers battled the for two hours to confine skeleton crew kept watch nine in the morning. mill, built several years a cost of $50,000, was in a concrete block build- by 80 feet and 30 feet walls were left standing hope of re Edwards and detn over feed 1 eyes. Runner-up was Fred Dobbs, i reeve of Biddulph. Challenger, Mayor W. G. Cochrane, was well spattered but missed out on the laurels. Other contestants were Deputy Reeve Wellington Haist, Ste phen; Reeve Alvin Kerslake, Hensall; Reeve Verne Pincombe, I IJsborne. Dressed as clowns, each i took cade with only his head vulner- • He spoke of able to the onslaught of fresh < eighty-fifth birthday as having eggs. ' „ ‘ . ! Twelve dozen eggs were used j we have a voice in international ; in the battle and spectators I affairs which is greater than our standing directly behind the! size. We cun be proud but we screen were well marked by high can’t afford to he too self-satis- misses. Reeve Kerslnke was ! fied.” awarded booby prize, a White j v„wU1.Leghorn rooster. ! Strength Aeedert Record Attendance The crowd which i ' ‘ I afternoon festivities was topped by at least 1,000 more at night. Some their late tions until crowds to eter Community Park. That num ber was crowned by 1,000 Tues day night. At 1:30 p.m. with a colorful parade of floats, decorated cars, wagons, bicycles and tricycles came the Exeter Band, the RC- 1,300 free milk, drew then children claimed ice cream and ehoeo- Last year’s celebra- nearly 3,000 persons, one of the largest be assembled at Ex- ........jgtii areueu ' He told of the need for de- J velopment and protection. “We watched ‘ need strength," he said, ‘•moral, and military. Canada ready to maintain a protection indefinitely can’t afford to let it with economic stability economic must be state of but she interfere in the country.” He pointed out the tremend ous and rapid development al ready taking place in Canada. “Perhaps,” he commented, “we are too close to it to see.” G/C Bean congratulated Kinsmen on their work in creating a celebra tion for Canada’s birthday of confederation 'Never Won Anything Before' Too Excited To Drive Car Mrs. Charles Bush, of Scot- [ Mr. land, Ontario, was too excited to drive her “one-dollar” 1952 car home Wednesday night af ter she was presented with the keys by Exeter Kinsmen. According to .her husband, she’s been too excited to do any thing since she knew she won it. Mr. Bush made all the arrange ments to pick up the car. Even he was tumbling incomprehen sible words over the telephone. “Our daughter-in-law got the news over the phone,” he said, “while we were in the field pick ing strawberries. She came run ning out of the house and talk ed for five minutes. I couldn’t understand a thing she said. When we finally found out, we quit our work and went into the house to celebrate.” Mrs. Bush's repeated comment was: “Never won a thing before in my life.” . Bush purchased five tic kets on the car in Brantford. He just stuffed them away in a dresser and forgot about them. It didn’t take him long to re member, ho weve r, when he heard the news. President-elect Ray Frayne, of Exeter Kinsmen, presented the keys to Mrs. Bush. Although she has a licence, she refused to drive the car so her sou took it home. Winner of the record player was Kincardine. Randy Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Ted ter, and Jim Miller, bachelor of Staffa, captured the mixmaster. The draw was held at the close of the Dominion Day Cele bration. Joyce Wells and Doro thy Lane, of Detroit, performers in the vaudeville show, drew the lucky tickets. console radio Irene Irvine of young son of Jones, of Exe won the washing machine eligible young Mayor W. briefly in a of the town to the people who came to help ' ' T_ .D Day in Exeter. He extended con gratulations to the Kinsmen for their work in making the cele- j bration possible and for their work in arranging for supervised I playground for children of the | town. Parade Winner* Prize winners in the parade name before rhe grandstand af- | ter a lively game of beachball ; rugby by 12 clowns. Winners of ' best decorated floats were High land Hill ” ' Club Dairy, Exeter Ball and Larry Snider Motors. I Best ears decorated were sub mitted by McKnight & Walper, {McKenzie General Store and I Brady Cleaners. W. G. Simmons & Sons won first prize for the most humorous entry. Kenneth Haworth, David Hons- berger and Jack Harvey won prizes bicycles Dorothy kej* had Prizes went to Smith and Donna Bridges. A special prize was awarded to four girls who paraded in Chin ese ’ costumes and a sulky cov ered to represent a rickshaw. The parade was lead by Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Crocker, who rode their two palaminos. Meringue Beards Fifteen youngsters, bearded i with meringue, stuck to the pie I eating contest until three win- n.ers were announced. The boys were fed lemon meringue pies by 15 girls and the three pairs finishing first were Kalvin Mc- Kerral and Grace McKenzie, Mel vin Finkbeiner, of Anne Gronyn of Ceryl Blommaert Neil. As greased pigs for the most decorative and Greg Harness, Bower and Larry Hoc- the best tricycles. for decorated wagons Teddy Wilson, Kathleen Donna Bridges, awarded Crediton, and Clandeboye; and Janice were led to the track, small boys dived in the dust trying to catch their bacon on the hoof. Best catch was made by Terry Wade in 35 seconds. Harry Schroeder was second with 38 seconds and Bill Pincombe, third, 41 seconds. With an ideal breeze for flying. Bill Pollen sailed craft across the northeast for first prize. During the afternoon, kite his field four Harvards from RCAF Centralia, led by F/O the grounds cision stunt came when Ramblers daring on motorcycles. Please turn to Page 12 Bob Ayres buzzed in spectacular pre flying. More thrills the Thames Valley demonstrated their 4 ite.,-. ' -.a- • • • ■' SAVE WAREHOUSE - - Firemen play water on the end of the gutted mill owned by the Exeter District Co-Operative to save the adjoining warehouse during the fire early Mon day morning. The blaze, cause of which is still unknown, was too far advanced after the alarm was sounded for firemen to save the plant. Aluminum roofing on the building willed like tissue paper under the intense heat. Estimated damage was $50,000t mostly covered by insurance. • Robert Lunt, Photo 14