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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-07-24, Page 1EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1952 wife had heard the escaped unnoticed Market at RCAF Sta-have been Let's Prevent Accidents} were Fined $100 police re- they con- that and pro- an have for a which > town the district to watch heavy ear seen in the saw the men from of his second-storey Con- of London, took tests only glove theft was Eightieth Year B - $ - HI L • $$ • I Thieves Rob District Store, Banker Foils Other JOB Police believe professionals blew & May store early Monday morning. One door but hardly touched merchandise or PROFESSIONAL this safe at Jones blast opened the records near it. The yegges used gloves, left no fingerprints. They were scared away before they could get any money. —Jack Doerr, Exeter Trails of two gangs of thieves who broke into district stores are growing colder, ported Wednesday as tinued investigations. All possible clues H,, ___ assembled and police are explor­ ing various tangents to discover the robbers but few definite checks are available. Yegges blew open the safe at, Jones and May general store early Monday morning but were frightened away. Thursday morn­ ing, the Dutch Boy Food Mar­ ket, at RCAF Station Centralia, was entered and $157 stolen from a cash register. There is no indication that the two in­ cidents are connected. Police believe the pair cracked the safe at Jones May general store l'essionals. Examination by Ontario Provincial Police finger­ print expert from London re­ vealed the men used gloves. Nitro-glycerine was used to blow the door open but there was little destroyed by the ex­ plosion. Even records in the safe were not extensively damaged. The two were frightened away from the store by C. E. Shaw, manager of the Rank of Mont­ real, whose explosion. Mr. Shaw the window apartment above the bank and yelled when he saw them come out from hiding after the ex­ plosion. Mr. Shaw said his wife heard the explosion during the thunder­ storm around 3 a.m. Monday morning. She detected the blast from the lightning cracks by its different sound and the vibra­ tion it caused. "We looked out the back window," Mr. Shaw said," and saw two men running from the alley way behind the store across the opening in behind Miss Jones’ garage. They stayed there for a few minutes and were still there after I called Constable (John) Cowan, Be­ fore he got there, the men came out from the building and stood behind the post at the corner of the warehouse, It looked as if they were going to go back in the store when I yelled. They disappeared behind the garage, crawled over the fence and onto the lawn behind Mrs. Milo Snell’s residence. Seconds before Constable Cowen came, I heard a car door slam on An- Approve Street Regulations To Relieve Traffic Congestion Town council authorized new street regulations Monday night to ease traffic and parking con­ gestion. They adopted the recommenda­ tions of the streets committee as submitted by its chairman, Reeve R. E. Pooley. They in­ clude: The first block of John Street west from Main to William be made a one-way street with traf­ fic running west; no parking on the north side; parallel parking on the south side. side 160 par­ side. Side 160 par- No parking on the north of John Street east within feet of Main Street corner; ‘allel parking on the south No parking on the south of James Street east within feet of Main Street corner; allel parking on north side. ■Signs will be erected to force the new regulations. 'Council discussed widening Andrew Street from Hill to the river road. Mayor W. G. Coch­ rane appointed Reeve Pooley, Councillors Snelgrove and Wit­ en- KIRKTON WINNER Marilyn Bisset, 13-year-old daugh­ ter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bisset, of Exeter, is “congratu­ lated by adjudicator Roy Goulding, of London, after she won first prize in the Kirkton Juvenile Contest. Marilyn sang "Over The Rainbow”. —Jack Doerr, Exeter drew street.” The thieves gained entrance by a second storey window at the back of the store. A ladder was found behind the building. .. taken from theNothing was store. Police in been warned high-powered, was reported Sunday night. . 'On Tuesday, provincial stable J. Aslon, finger print expert, but there were marks. Thieves . _ _,___ with over $150 from the Dutch Boy Food -- - tion Centralia early last Thurs­ day morning. Discovery of the made by John Bunjevac, man­ ager of the store. Entry was made from the south side of the building at the rear. The money was taken from the cash regist­ ers. Provincial Constable Cecil Gibbons investigated. •A mer to investigate. Deputy - Reeve Bill McKenzie, Reeve Pooley and Councillor Dinney were appointed to dis­ cuss with Rev. C. E. Eelman a building permit for a new Dutch Reformed Church. Mr. Alvin Pym was granted a building permit for a house, sub­ ject to approval by committee. For Bottle An 18-year-old Toronto youth was fined $100 and costs at Grand Bend Monday for possess­ ing a part bottle of liquor not purchased on a liquor permit. Magistrate J. C. Dunlop, of Sarnia, levied the fine at the court session Monday afternoon. The youth, flarold Gordon Ingleton, was picked up on the street by Ontario Provincial Police constables. Fined $10 and costs each for having beer on the beach were Jack Britton, Toronto, John J. Garret, of Brantford, and Gord. P. Hilliard, London. John J. Eason and John Nel­ son Tucker, both of Detroit, were fined $10 and costs each for speeding. Four Grand Bend residents were convicted of taking part in an affray at the "summer resort on June 30 and fined $10 and costs each. They were Harry Gill, Winnifred Gill, Archie and X ■■ Humidity Hits 100 Percent A warm moist tropical costs each. ___’ ~ Gill, Winnifred Gill, Archie Norman Dawe., Acting Crown Attorney Fowler, Sarnia, prosecuted.Ray­ Somebody Gambled And Lost! Traffic accidents in this district are up 50 per cent over the number this time last year, according to records at the Exeter detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police. Head of the detachment, Constable Elmer Zimmerman, says the majority of accidents happen at intersections where motorists fail to observe the simple rules of the road. “Read — and. OBEY traffic rules," warns the constable, "otherwise yon might NOT live to regret it!” Picture is second of traffic safety series. —Jack Doerr, Exeter .-• ? -• sd - W I •1 air wave from the Gulf of Mexico kept most district residents per­ spiring this week despite nume­ rous rains. The maximum relative humid­ ity reached the peak of 100 per­ cent Sunday and Monday and prior to that stayed ties. Only once during on Friday—did the go below the eighty est for the week was Monday when the mercury reached 90. Close to two and a half inches of rain The RCAF in the nine- the week— temperature mark. High- Storm Breaks Wires Heavy thunderstorms Thurs­ day night put a number of local telephone lines out of order. Re­ pairmen worked through the night and had most lines in shape by Friday afternoon. Four of the six trunk lines to London were put out of com­ mission. Exeter operators had to quote a one- to two-hour delay on long distance calls during the emergency. Airman Killed, Seven Hospitalized In Eight District Traffic Accidents Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday fell during the week, figures, Station High 81 89 79 85 S3 90 88 as recorded by Centralia, Low 60 64 70 63 68 67 66 rf Rain .41 .49 .10 1.43 are: Hum. 97 96 94 97 100 100 Mr. James Lawson is serious­ ly ill in London hospital. T-A Takes Holidays, No I ssue Next Week Members of the staff of the Exeter Thnes-Advocate will enjoy their annual vacation next week. There will be no paper pub­ lished and the office will be closed most of the week. Correspondents arexasked to make a special effort to get their news in early for the issue of August 7. A young Centralia airman died of crash injuries on Wednesday night after rescuers took him unconscious from the blazing wreck of a ditched car on No. 4 Highway. R.C.A.F. authorities identified the victim as Joseph Albert Ger­ ald Desabrais, 17, of Hull. Que. A companion hurled out of the car when it crashed, AC1 Albert Levesque, 18, also from Centralia, suffered from skull and arm lacerations. Four Londoners travelling in a car ahead of the airmen were first on the scene. Jack Lasenby, Jr., noticed the flash of lights mirror as the crashed. "We stopped farm laneway. As we were the car back in the into flames," Lasen- Next motorist on the scene went to Elginfield and phoned police and an ambulance from a gas station. The young man regained near consciousness shortly after was moved from died shortly after pital. Multiple Injuries Coroner Dr. A. he the car but reaching hos- R. Routledge said a post-mortem examination revealed the youth died from multiple chest injuries, fractures of the pelvis and ribs. Police said the airmen were southbound when their car swept across to the east side of the highway about a half-mile south of Elginfield, crashed into a tele­ phone pole and turned^, around. Police were not able to find the owner of the car until Sat­ urday. He was Willis Morri­ son, 21, also of Centralia. Teenagers Injured Gerry Kestle, 16-year-old son and Mrs. C. W. "Dutch” of Stratford and form­ Exeter, is suffering accident injuries in in his rear-view car behind and turned '.LAUGHING TRIOS —smiles after they Juvenile 'Contest won last row Bursting with third and fourth prizes in Kirkton week are these trios. Third prize winners in the bottom are Aileen Selves, Peter Simpson and Helen Dow, of S.S. 5, Eullarton, Dwayne Tinney, Margaret Wildfong and Jim Dou- gal, S.S 2, Hay. were fourth. -Jack Doerr, Exeter McGillivray Youth, 21, Drowns While Swimming Across River Funeral services for Edward J. Ryan, 22, of R.R. 6, Parkhill, who drowned in the Ausable River near Grand Bend on Sun­ day, were held Wednesday at his late residence, concession 20, McGillivray township. Requiem mass was sung at the Church of Our Lady, Mt. Carmel and in­ terment was made in Mt. Car­ mel Cemetery. The youth drowned swim­ ming across the river, about a half mile south of Grand Bend, Sunday night around 10 p.m. Two companions, Lome Houla- han, R.R. 2, Dashwood, and Joseph McCann, R.R. 3, Ailsa Craig succeeded in crossing the river but Ryan ficulty. When help, Houlahan cue but had to the victim struggled. Hearing the shouts, Milliken and David Lambert, two vacationers from the U.S.A, rushed to the scene and started diving but they couldn’t locate the body in the deep river. Dragging operations twere con­ ducted by police and the victim was found at 11 a.m. Dr. A. M. Calder, of Forest, was th© coro­ ner. O.P.P. Constablo L. G. “Bud" Bruner, Forest, was in charge of the investigation. Helping him were Constables George Poulter, Don Stephenson, Ken Holmes and Corporal Char­ les Wilkinson. Two boats, dri­ ven by Glen Brenner and Wil­ liam Sweitzer, assisted in the search. The youth was not married and lived with his “parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ryan, and two sisters, Madeline and Marilyn, who survive. The Hoffman Funeral Home, Dashwood, was in charge of funeral arrangements. ing around ditch burst by said. The four back in their car. "One man, apparently Lev­ esque, was 100 yards from the flaming wreck on the edge of the highway. He yelled there was another man car,” Lasenby said. With Lasenby were his Jack Lasenby, Sr., Nelson and Ronald Armstrong, London. Rear-End Inferno * The rear-end was an inferno and there was a man slumped sideways in tMie front seat. We pulled him out of the left door which had been torn off in the crash,” Lasenby, Jr., said. Londoners drove encountered dif- he shouted attempted a res­ turn back when for Louis Boy Celebrates Ninth Birthday By Catching 16 Pound Pike Peter Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Wright, celebrated his ninth birthday last week by catching one of the largest pike ’ever hauled from Georgian Bay, It weighed 16 pounds, two* ounces and measured 42 inches.’ Peter got the strike while he was trolling in a boat near Parry Sound with his brother, Billy, his father and Fred Heaman. It took him over half an hour to land the monster after it made five runs. The young fisherman received no help’from the others until he had brought the fish to the side of the boat. Then it was gaffed and netted. Seconds after it was safely in the the fish spit the bait and out of his mouth. Mr. and Mrs. Wright, Peter, and Johnnie spent 10 days near Parry Sound .and reported the fishing during their stay. The big pike was on in George Wright’s store Saturday night. in a turn- to us in the father, Bailey him boat, Plug Billy, about "great" display window ALMOST AS BTC This 16- pound, two-ounce northern pike is almost as big as its catcher, Peter Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Wright of town. Peter caught the monster in Georgian Bay on his ninth birth­ day. Can’t blame him for the smile, cun you*? -—Jack Doerr of Mr. Kestle, erly of severe don Hospital. He and two teen-agers rushed to hospital early day morning when their jumped the St. Mary-s road Winchelsea. They were return­ ing to Stratford from a beach birthday party at Grand Bend. The two others taken to hos­ pital were: Gloria Bell, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Bell, R.R. 1, Science Hill, with a fractured neck, and Donald Vanstone, IS, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Vanstone, St. Marys, with facial injuries. The Kestle youth is suffering from serious back and leg in­ juries. He underwent a six-hour operation on his back Tuesday and hospital authorities reported his condition as good as could be expected. He must undergo another operation onchis knee. A fourth occupant, 18-year-old Bob Nairn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nairn, of Stratford, was unhurt. His father owns the car, a 19 49 model which was wreck­ ed. The car, driven by Kestle, hit the loose gravel and overturned at the end of the St. quarter of chelsea. It Provincial and London police cruisers cleared the way to the hospital for two ambulances es­ corted by Provincial Constable Elmer Zimmerman, which brought the three to hospital. The car was one of three car­ loads of teenagers returning to 1 Stratford from the beach birth­ day party. Dr. Fred Morlook, of Exeter, was called to the scene and the injured were taken to London in ambulances from the Hopper- Hockey and R. C. Dinney fune­ ral homes, Exeter. —please turn to Page 12 from Loa­ yere Sun­ car near of the paved portion Marys road, about a a mile east of Win- was 1:30 a.m.