HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-10-16, Page 1Eightieth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1952 Single Copy 7 J?
HIS DREAM COTTAGE — It’s no longer a dream for Phonse Payton, R.R. 3, St. Marys
— the Exeter and Grand Bend Lions’ “Dream Cottage” is his. He won ’ the prize on Friday
night at the monster bingo. Being “very much single”., Pay ton plans to sell the cottage,
use the monev to improve his 100-acre farm situated on the Biddulph-Middlcsex boundary.
—Jack Doerr, Exeter
Valued At
Usborne Assessment
Receives Special Grant
HE GETS THE KEYS — Exeter Lions President A. J. Sweitzer hands the dream cottage
keys to Phonse Payton, whose ticket was selected from 25,000 others Friday night. Watch
ing the ceremony are, left to right, Mayor W. G. Cochrane, C. V. Pickard, project treas
urer, T. O. Southcott, president of Southcott Pines, Grand Bend, who donated the building
lot, C. S. MacNaughton, project chairman. Bill Gossman, Dashwood, •who sold the winning
ticket, is on the right. Pie receives a television set. —Jack Doerr, Exeter
The assessment for the Town
ship of Usborne has increased
$13,264.00 the past year, it was
revealed at a recent council
meeting.
The new 19 53 assessment, sub
mitted to
Assessor H. H. G, Strang, totals
$2,671,400. This is made up of:
Land, $1,608,997; buildings, $1,-
086,450; ” '
$29,897;
$5,850.
Court
Monday,
Assessor
present.
Approve
Council approved a grant
$202 from the Department
Finance, municipal grants- divi
sion, for wear and tear on town
ship roads hauling gravel to
Centralia airport.
A special meeting of council
was held on the evening of Sep
tember 22 for the purpose of
dealing with the Ausable River
Improvement drain at which
time the court of revision on the
drain was formally closed, the by
law was adopted and the con
tract let to McKee Construction
of Stoney Creek for the tender
price of $3980.00.
In business arising out
minutes the clerk said he
received any reply from
council by Clerk-
woodlot
business
of revision
Octobei’
exemptions,
assessment,
will he held
20. County
A. A. Alexander will be
Grant
of
of
of the
hadn’t
____ R. L.
Beattie regarding the comple
tion of the Miller drain but
■council was advised that a start
had been made; McKee Construc
tion had advised that they ex
pected to be on the job right away.
The road superintendent’s re
port was heard and adopted and
road accounts to the total of
$519 6.82 including a payment to
C. Looby Construction on bridges
were passed.
Council were advised that
Dellei* & Son had completed de
livery of tile for the Jeffery
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Close to $350,000 worth of
construction is taking place in
Exeter. Most of the building will
be used for municipal or com
mercial purposes.
Included in the figure are the
$250,000 South Huron Hospital
and the $60,000 .^rena renova
tion.
Upwards to $40,000 is being
invested in commercial building.
At the hospital, workmen have
almost completed the initial
plastering of the walls. Heating
and plumbing have been in
stalled and the general construc
tion is moving along steadily.
Delays in materials have
slowed up construction on the
arena. Most of the woodwork
has been completed and is being
painted. The artificial ice plant
will be installed shortly. The
opening date has been postponed
to the middle of November.
Commercial Boom
A small boom is taking place
in industry. Many plants are ex
panding or renovating.
The foundation and frame
work for a 50x120 warehouse
and offices for Guenther-Tuckey
Transport Limited have been, completed. The building, a* quon
set structure, will be completed
in six weeks. The firm will move
from its present location on
Main Street. The transport add
ed a new tandem-trailer-truck to
its fleet this week. The largest
in this district, the truck will
carry 20 tons.
The Huron Lumber Company
is building a large warehouse on
William street behind the mill.
The cement foundation for the
32x70 structure was poured this
week.
Marshall and Murray are com
pleting a new 38x50 cement
block building on Nelson Street
to house their machine shop.
Mathei’ Bros, are constructing
a 48x24 showroom addition to
their north end garage.
An ’extension measuring 42x24
is being added to the Lakeview
Hatchery building at the north
Two Grand Bend Ratepayers^
Take Case To County Judge
,:7£t^bnd of town.
Hospital, St. Marys Man Profit
From Cottage Draw And Bingo
■Exeter and Grand Bend Lions
and Exeter Legion m embers
smiled happily through a cloud
of dust that rose in the arena
Friday as 2,500 persons went
home after an exciting “.give
away” evening.
The Lions easily reached their
$10,000 objective on the dream
cottage and the Legion made
over $4,000 on the night. All
Fair Cabbage Crop
At Canadian Canners
The local branch of Canadian
Canners Limited reports a “fair
crop” of cabbage this year. The
pack is about half completed.
Workers have been picking
pears from the Canners’ 23-acre
orchard on the east side of
town. The crop is “good” and
the quality “excellent”.
The pears will be shipped to
Fonthill for canning.
Take Part In Pageant ,
The young people5 from the
James Street United Church, Ex
eter who took part in the presen
tation of the “Triumphs of Faith”
in the Beal Technical School,
London, last week are to be
congratulated on the excellence
of their performance. The “Tri
umphs of Faith” is a. pictorial
presentation of the great work
that .the United Church is doing
at home and abroad and is being
produced in the larger centres
across Canada. The scenes de
pict John Knox before the Lords
of the Congregation; the Pil
grims and the Mayflower; John
Wesley Preaching; Canada; The
New Frontier; A Day in Africa;
a Day in Japan and a New Fam
ily being Welcomed to Canada.
The scene of the New Frontier
was presented by the Exeter
young people with Mrs. Gordon
Farrow; Carfrey Cann and Doh
Welsh taking the loading parts.
proceeds go to the South Huron
Hospital.
Phonse Payton, of R.R. 3, St.
Marys, was the winner of the
cottage. A bachelor who de
scribes himself as “very much
single”, Mr. Payton took the
prize calmly and plans to sell it.
Dasliwood Seller
The winner purchased his luc
ky receipt at St. Marys Fair,
nine days before, from Bill Goss
man, Dashwood, who receives a
television set for his sale.
Mr. Payton lives three miles
from St. Marys on the Biddulph-
Middlesex boundary, where he
farms 100 acres.
The Lions informed Mr. Pay
ton of his win Friday night and
after ’that he was called four
times by friends who congratu
lated him. They kept him awake
until 2:30 in the morning.
Loudon Winner
Mrs. A. Morock, of London,
won the Legion bingo car .and
drew the lucky cottage ticket.
Mrs..Morock also sold her prize.
Miss Catharine Regis, Sarnia,
won $400. Among the winners
of the $100 specials was Mrs.
Willis Powell, Exeter.
The arena, in the midst of
renovation in preparation for
artificial ice, was jammed with
bingo players. They filled the
sides, end .and ice surface of 'the
arena and were packed into the
gym. Hundreds of Legion and
Lions members were needed to
accommodate the crowd.
Legion members Harvey Pfaff
and Fred Darling emceed the
bingo. Lion C. S. MacNaughton,
cottage project chairman, was in
charge of the raffle. •
After nearly six years at
R.C.A.F. Centralia, C p 1. Ray
Gautchiei* left this week for
Portage La Prairie, Man. His
family will follow when accom
modation has been found.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Murray
and Rena visited on Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Haveling, of
Stratford.
Misses Maxine Reeder of town
and Myrtle Reeder of London
were In Cleveland for the week
end.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jackson
ehjoyed holidays last week.
Ausable Plans
Big Meeting
An important meeting of the
Ausable Valley Conservation Au
thority will be held in Parkhill
on Wednesday, October 29, it
was announced this week.
Advisory boards have been
active during the slimmer and
will p r e'h e n t recommendations
and reports for the approval of
the Authority.
Among the major items on the
agenda are: a flood control pro
ject for the Parkhill Creek Sys
tem; land purchase in Hay town
ship for reforestation; the 1953
budget; and Others.
Six Vehicles
In Two Crashes
Two three-vehicle accidents
were recorded on No. 4 highway
this week. Minor damages re
sulted in each case.
A Hepworth man’s car spun
around the centre of the road
after its front bumper locked
with the rear bumper of a pass
ing car Monday at dusk.
Miss Jeanette Moffat, 26, of
Seaforth, was passing James W.
Atclrison, 61, of Hepworth, when
the latter swung over and the
bumpers JOcked. While Atchi
son’s car was doing an about-
face on the highway. Miss Mof-
fat careened into the ditch, pull
ed out and struck the front
vehicle, travelling in the same
direction, driven by Ernest Har
vey, 56, of Exeter.
The accident happened about
a mile and a half south of Hen
sail.
Strikes Roller
Charles Fisher, 5 6, of R.R. 3
Exeter, struck a slow-travelling
road-roller, glanced off and hit
an oncoming car in an accident
one mile north of Brucefield on
Tuesday.
The Fisher car “was travelling
north and pulled out to pass the
roller when the driver noticed
an oncoming car driven by Har
old Kerr, Wingham, travelling
south.
Provincial Constable C. E.
Gibbons investigated.
Organize Bees
To Paint Arena
Mayor W. G. Cochrane was
conducting municipal business
with a brush instead of a gavel
Wednesday afternoon.
His Worship, along with Coun
cillors Andrew Snelgrove and
Robert Dinney, Gerald Dearing
and Derry RoyL, were giving
the arena woodwork a prelimin
ary painting.
The committee plans to paint
all the new construction and old
woodwork with voluntary labor
before the opening. Painting
bees will be organized to com
plete the huge job.
In charge of the project are
E. R. Hopper and A. G. Hicks.
Navy Tag Day Saturday 7
On Saturday, October 18, the
Navy League of Canada will hold
its annual Tag Day in Exeter to
raise the necessary funds
carry on its service work.
Tag Day will be convened by
C. H. Blowes, principal of
Exeter Public School. The Navy
League’s Easter present to
every one of our boys serving
in Korean waters was a Ditty
Bag, well filled with all the
handy items a sailor can use.
to
The
Mr.
the
I.O.O.F. Elects
W. J. Smith
District Deputy Grand Master
James A. McMillan and install
ing team from Goderich .paid his
afficial visit to Exeter Lodge No.
67, I.O.O.F. Tuesday evening
and installed the officers for the
coming year. Lunch was served
at the close.
The officers are: Noble Grand,
W. J. Smith; Past Grand, Gerald
McFalls; Vice Grand, William
Chambers; recording secretary,
E. A. Howald; financial secret
ary, William E. Middleton;
treasurer, W. C. Allison; war
den, O. S. Atkinson; conductor,
William Webster; O. G. N. Pass-
more; I. G. Aubrey Tennant;
RSNG, Asa Penhale; LSNG, Alf
red Coates; RSVG, Roy Hunter;
LSVG, Gerald Campbell; RSS,
Thomas Yellow; LSS, Stewart
Dick; Chap., Robert Belling.
Accompanying the district de
puty were John Pinder,
Sparks, Samuel McNall,
Stokes and Bev. Beaton.
Ross
Thos.
A notice of appeal has been
lodged with the village council
of Grand Bend by Mrs. Gertrude
Rutherford and ““
Wilson complaining
assessments pertaining
properties are too high
assessments pertaining
properties are too low.
The demand will be
before the count judge
business assessments
years involved be corrected ac
cording to the Assessment Act
and that the 21 properties spe
cifically challenged by the above
Mrs. Marjorie
that the
to their
and the
to other
renewed
that all
for the
Celebrate New Elevator
parties be adjusted in relation
to those of the undersigned so
that arbitrary favortism be elim
inated.
The Court of Revision at its
session Monday, September 22,
reviewed the complaints and
made the following adjustments:
On the appeal of Robert Willert
the business tax and land tax
was eliminated and the building
assessment reduced from $500 to
$350.
The appeal of C, S. Bechill
was sustained.
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has
Dow
cat-
Modern Plant
Renovations and additions to
the farm of G. J. Dow and Son,
Exeter, are being completed. A
60x38 barn has been constructed
to the east of the other barns
and a new milking parlor
been added.
The construction on the
farm will permit a modem
tie housing and dairy operation.
The inside of the two older
barns has been c o m p 1 e t e 1 y
cleared of stalls and partitions
to allow an open shelter 86x55
for the cattle to roam in. The
Dows plan to install a milking
parlor which features automatic
feeding, milking and handling of
milk. It will be one of the most
modern in the district.
Takes All Kinds To Make Canada
Immigration Minister Says At Lucan
“It will take all kinds of
immigrants to make Canada the
kind of country we want,” Hon.
Walter E. Harris, Federal mini
ster of citizenship and immigra
tion, said at Lucan Wednesday.
“We need not just people from
the British Isles,
from other countries ;
we know will adapt
of life,” he said.
Mr. Harris spoke in Lucan
Community Centre during the
concert that wound up a big
celebration to mark the opening
of the new Scott Elevator.
Regardless of personal
judices, most Canadians
convinced that Canada needs a
good mixture of all kinds of
people, the minister said.
Introduced by Robert McCub-
bin, M.P. f
the visiting
the matters
partment is
a “lively
“especially since World War II.”
Head For Cities
~ Fifty years ago Canada ad
mitted about 300,000 settlers
annually, and it was comparative
ly easy to place them on farms.
This is not the case now, with
fewer farms available and the
majority of
70 per
cities.
Of the 760,000 newcomers to
this country since the war,
230,000 were from Britain, 260-
000 from Northern Europe, 60,-
000 from the United States and
the remainder from other coun
tries.
The
change
U.S. is
Harris
but people
as well who
to our way
pre-
are
for West Middlesex,
minister noted that
with which his de
concerned have been
topic” in Canada
immigrants—about
cent—heading for the
ex-
■the
Mr.
a
year. The reason for the increas
ed number of Americans coming
here, in his opinion, is that more
and more of them are beginning
to realize that Canada is “a
pretty good place to live—the
country of the future,” an idea
shared by many Europeans as
rate of immigrant
between Canada and
now , about equal,
noted-—some 10,000
Plowers Bring Home Honors
From International Match
All local competitors placed In
the money at the International
Plowing Match at Carp, near Ot
tawa, last week. They brought
home over $257 for their skill.
Lome Passmore, South Huron
champion, 1 placed fourth and
sixth in regular competition and
won ninth Spot in the special
overseas class.
Lome Ballantyne and Bob
Wildfong, the county junior
team, were judged fourteenth In
a class of forty.
The south Huron District High
School team of Don Love, - Ken
Tuckey and Elgin Hendrick cap
tured seventh place in the high
school competition. They missed
first place because" they threw
the finish the wrong way.
In individual competition;
gin Hendrick was placed in-
enth and eighth position
won the special prize for
overall job done with a
tractor.
Don Easton captured fourth
■and tenth prizes in events and
placed second in the Ford spe
cial.
Harry Sherwood, Ken Johns,
Earl Campbell, Larry Snider and
Sam Hendrick accompanied the
competitors.
, El-
« Sev
an d
best
Ford
well.
Few Deported
Of the 7 60,000 post-war im
migrants, very few have had to
be deported or got into othei’
difficulties. The present rate of
immigration is 25,0 00 a month,
and “almost everyone agrees we
can take a lot more.”
"It will take all kinds to make
of Canada the kind of country
we want,” the minister observed.
“Not just people from the Brit
ish Isles, but people from other
countries as well who we know
will adapt to our way of life.”
W. K. Riddell, agricultural
represetative for Middlesex, was
chairman for the program. Har
old Corbett, reeve of Lucan and
warden of Middlesex, comment
ing on the “healthy growth” of
the village, said Mr. Scott
played “no mean
growth.”
Toured Plant
The’
A turkey dinner was served
by the women of the community
prior to the evening program,
which also included entertain
ment by the Lucan Male Choir,
the Snelgrove dancers, Dela
ware; the Paul Brothers and
Shirley, Kirkton;
Rowcliffe, London;
man, Denfield; the
ters, Ailsa Craig;
Cousins,” Elmira; and the Lau-
rentian Mountain Boys, Brant
ford. Several draws and a dance
sponsored by the Junior Farm
ers were further features.
Mrs. James
Diane Bow-
Morton Sis-
the “Happy
Make Plans
part in
program
the plant
had
that
afternoon
eluded a tour of
addresses by A. H. Martin, di
rector of the crops, seeds and
weeds branch, Ontario Depart
ment of Agriculture; Prof. Fred
Ferguson, agricultural engineer
ing department, Ontario Agricul
tural College, Guelph; and Ivan
Roberts, chief agronomist for
Victory Mills, Toronto.
in-
and
For Hockey
Plans are being made in Ex
eter to enter an intermediate
hockey team in the district loop
this year. Several men have in
dicated they will sponsor the
team. The club will be organized
shortly.
A Minor Hockey Association is
being s^ up to handle juvenile,
midget, bantam and peewee play
ers.
A recreational hockey loop is
also under consideration.
Many Return Home, Visit
On Thanksgiving Holiday
Mr. and Mrs. James Sullivan,
Toronto, are visiting -with Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Frayne and fam
ily.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Grant
and children, Joanne and Helen,
of London, and Mrs. William
Pomfert, Jr., and son, Mr. Stan
ley Walter and daughter, Linda,
of Tweed, visited with Mr. Her-
bert 'VVciltor over the weekend#
Mr. ad Mrs. Oran Moir spent
the weekend with relatives in
town.
Mr.
called
owing
Shaw’s sister.
Messrs. Fred Newton and
Fred Dobbs are in Windsor at
tending the Chrysler showing of
new cars.
Mr. ana Mrs. Arnold Gaiser,
accompanied by Mr
Lloyd Eagleson, have returned
from a trip to Ottawa, Montreal
and down through the states of
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Michigan,
Mrs. E. M
for a while with
don, in Toronto.
Dr. and Mrs.
visited relatives over Thanksgiving weel<
and Mrs. C. E. Shaw were
to Toronto Thursday,
to the death of Mrs.
and Mrs.
Grove
her
is Visiting
son, Gor-
E.
at
S. Steiner
Rochester,
Mr. Nelson Hill, of Toronto,
spent Thanksgiving with Mr. and
Mrs. M. Becker.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Southcott,
Miss Stella Southcott, Mr. and
Mrs. Don Southcott, of town, and
Mr. Frank Southcott, of London,
visited on Monday with Rev. R.
E. and Mrs. Southcott at Oil
City,
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ford
and their two sons, Perry
Terry, of Brampton,
Thanksgiving weekend
and Mrs. Hilton Ford
Frank Brierly.
Dr. A. E. ahd Mrs.
Hamilton; Dr. Harold
Saskatoon and Mr.
Wesley Johns were Sunday visit
ors with Mr. and Mrs; Howard
Johns.
Mrs. Thomas Drover and Mrs.
Beatrice Mums, of Ohiselhurst,
visited With their aunt, Mrs.
Thomas Bell, on Tuesday of this
week.
Misses Marguerite Pickard and
Elizabeth (Madman, of Hamilton,
spent Thanksgiving1 weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Pickard.
Mrs. F. Rice, Of Brantford,
spent a few days last week with
Mr. and Mrs. R. Kestle and At
tended the funeral of Mrs. Kate
Welsh,
and
spent
with
and
and
the
Mr.
Mrs.
Johns, of
Johns, of
and Mrs