HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1953-04-02, Page 1Eighty-First Year
Seek Approval
Of School Plans
Exeter Public School Board de
cided to submit sketch plans of
the four-room addition to the
Department of Education, To
ronto, for approval.
As soon as the department’s
“okay” is received, the archi
tects will prepare working
and tenders will be called,
The board met Monday
and decided to go ahead
the four-room ‘addition.
The Department has approved
construction to the tentative
amount of $70,000. If costs sur
pass this figure, the board will
request approval of whatever is
necessary.
Chairman R. E. Russel was in
charge of the meeting. Public
school inspector, G. G. Gardiner,
and Melville Boyce, of Page and
Steele, Toronto, were present.
Mrs. Marion Sanders was ap
pointed by the board to fill the
vacancy left by Mrs. Amy Mil
ner’s resignation.
The board decided to offer
teachers a slight increase
salary for 1953-54.
plans
night
with
in
Arena Floor
town
night
floor
Joint Project
Representatives of six
organization met Monday
to discuss plans to install a
in the arena.
The project is now being con
sidered as a joint effort to raise
funds for the floor, rather than
•a commitment o f the Legion
alone, as was originally pro
posed.
The Exeter Community Centre Board, which has ' jurisdiction
over the arena, will supervise the
installation of the floor.
G. K. Thompson, recreation
facilities advisor to the Commun
ity Programs Branch of the De
partment of Education, attended
the meeting.
Discussion evolved around the
type of floor to be installed.
Choice is between a cement
floor and the trap rock floor.
The former is about $3,000
cheaper but has not all the
qualifications of the harder sur
face.
Decision on this point
left to the Community
Board.
The six organizations
Legion, Lions,
a
will be
Centres
ar e the
Kinsmen,
Club, Agricultural Society and Centre Board. 4
Those attending the meeting
were Len McKnight, Cliff Brint-
nell, Andrew Bierling, Eugene
Beaver, Jack Weber, Ed Brady,
Ulric Snell, Jack Pryde, Ralph
Genttner, Ray Frayne and Ted
Pooley.
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THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1953
WOSSA CHAMPIONS —z The South Huron High School senior girls basketball team cap
tured the WOSSA Senior “B” title for the second consecutive year. The team has never.been
defeated in the 23 games they’ve played in two years. The champs are: top row, Trudy
Pickard, Marion Wildfong, Marnie Taylor, Jean Taylor, Julia Dunlop (captain), Miss Lor
etta Seigner (coach), Pat Tuckey; centre row', Beth Taylor, Katherine Hunter, Marg Wil
lard,. Jeannette Schenk, Lorna Taylor, Pat Hopper, Marg Thomson; bottom row, Jean Mc
Allister, Nancy Tieman, Maureen Stewart and Barb Brintnell. —Jack Doerr, Exeter
Churches Plan Special Services
To Celebrate Easter Season
A union service will be held
at 11 a.m. on Good Friday in
Main 'Street United Church. The
Rev. Donald Sinclair will be the
speaker and a combined choir
will lead in the service of song.
On Easter morning tlie choir
of Caven Presbyterian Church
will sing two anthems, “Jerusa
lem” and “Before the Dawn”.
The minister, Rev. Donald Sin
clair will take as the topic of
his sermon, “Meeting the Risen
Christ”. , . ’■
Holy
served
Church at two Sunday morning
services,' 9 and 11:30 a.m. Rev.
C. L. Langford will speak on
“The Risen Christ”.
At James Street United Church
the senior choir will sing “Bells
of Easter Tide” at the morning
service. Jeanne McDonald will be
the soloist. Bruce Cudtnore and
Bill Batten will sing a duet and
Mrs. Clare Greene, Mrs. M. Cuii-
more and Mrs. P. McFalls a trio
number. Rev. Snell will speak on
communion will be ob-
in Trivitt Memorial
Turnip Growers Of Province
Elect Harold Hunter Chairman__ _
Harold Hunter, of Exeter, was
was elected chairman of the tur-
andi Soil
Association,
meeting of
at O.A.C.,
March 23.
Shantz, of
has served
Price Per Copy 7£
Hensall, Zurich Areas Consider
Installation Of Artificial Ice
Pick Dry Sod Field To Land,
Flyers Avoid Injury to Aircraft
Two R.C.A.F. flying instruc
tors avoided injury to themselves
and their aircraft by landing in
a sod field one mile south of
Exeter Wednesday after
plane's engine quit.
Airforce officials termed
landing “a good show” on
part of Flying Officers Don
Lellan and Tommy Thomas
were in the aircraft. ’
picked the fairly dry field to
land in and were able to run 400 feet. Had - -
plane down_ ____, __ __
ploughed lands nearby it, would
probably have crashed.
Experimental Plane "
The two men were instructors
at R.C.A.F. Station Centralia
and were flying a Chipmunk, a
training aircraft now being ex
perimented with at the local
station.
They were on a practice flight
about 10 a.m. when the engine
stopped in mid-air and they
were forced to glide the plane
in. It has a stationary under
carriage.
the
: the
i the
l Mc-
who
They
they brought the
on any of the
The field was owned by Allan
Westcott, R. R. 1, Centralia.
The aircraft was flown back
to the base in the afternoon.
Early Morning Fire
Destroys Flowers
Fire destroyed a full stock _.
spring flowers, severely damaged
the greenhouse and the heating
plant at Bailey’s Florist early
Thursday morning.
Cause of the blaze is unknown.
It started in the heating room
between the living quarters and
the greenhouse.
Ralph Bailey, the proprietor,
said the 18x40 glass structure
was full of plants for spring.
Confine Fire
Firemen extinguished the blaze
shortly after they arrived and
prevented it from spreading to
the house.
Lloyd Parsons turned in the
alarm around 1 a.m.
of
Both Hensail and Zurich com
munities are investigating the
possibilities of installing artific
ial ice in their arenas.
No definite commitments have
been made in either
both are seriously
the project.
Enthusiasm for ice
been increased by the unusually
warm winter this year. The
arenas had very little natural
ice during the season.
Zurich Organizes
Representatives of various or
ganizations met in Zurich Tues
day night and appointed a com
mittee to determine plant and
Installation costs, operating ex
penses and potential revenue.
• One spokesman said a drive
for public contributions would
probably be organized. He felt
certain the project would go
through.
village but
considering
plants has
nip section, Ontario
Crop Improvement .
at a well-attended i
the committee, held
Guelph, on Monday,
He succeeds Harold
New Hamburg, who
for the past two years. Other
officers named were: vice-chair
man, Harry Hossefeld, Walker
ton; secretary, R. E. Goodin, of
Toronto; executive committee, R.
C. Thompson, Lynden; Frank
Strong, Guelph; Bert Culver, of
Toronto, and Harold Sliantz, of
New Hamburg.
Recommendations from the
meeting favoured organization of
grower meetings to strengthen an
Association of growers, strict en
forcement of grades on the retail
level, and further research work
on fertility, control of maggot,
and cost of production. It was
reported that deliveries of sized,
treated seed of the Laurentian
variety from the Maritimes are
not sufficient to meet demands.
Present prices to growers are
at the lowest level in many
years, yet quality of product is
at an all-time high. Tills offers
exceptionally good value to con
sumers who wish to obtain tasty,
nutritious food at extremely low
cost. Large quantities have been
shipped to the United States
again this season, with the de
mand and price being particular
ly good last fall.
the “Meaning of Easter”. The
junior choir will assist at the
evening service, singing two an
thems, “Joy Dawned Again This
Easter Day” and “Christ the
Lord Is Risen Today”.
Easter Music
The Main Street United Church
choir will present two anthems
at both services,
they will sing
Song” and “The
in the evening, um up ium
Heads” and “There Is a Green
Hill”. A male quartette will sing
“Were You There When They
Crucified My Lord?” The Rev. A.
E. Holley will take “Resurrec
tion” as his morning theme and
“His Is Risen” as his topic for
the evening service.
At the Exeter Tabernacle P.A.-
O.C. a’service of communion and
worship will be held at ll\a.m.
on Good Friday. At 8 p.m. on
Friday an Easter program of
music and slides will be given.
For his Easter morning ser
mon the Rev. H. Kendrick will
speak on “I Am the Resurrection
and the Life” and in the eve
ning at 7:30 p.m. has chosen as
his text “Rejoice for Your Sav
iour Liveth”.
Centralia United Church will
hold its Good Friday service at
8:15 p.m. Special Easter music
will be provided by the junior
and senioi’ choirs at 10:30 a.m.|
and 7:30 p.m. on Sunday.
On Good Friday at 8:15 in
Thames Road
congregations
and Thames
joint service.
Garden of Getlisemene” and “The
In the morning
“The Triumph
Holy City”, and
“Lift Up Your
United Church, the
of Elimville, Roy’s
Road will hold a
Two films, “The
May Offer Night School Again,
Registration Cost Will Increase
Ascension” will be shown. The
Thames Road choir will sing an
anthem, Roy’s church will con
tribute a quarette number and
Elimville a solo.
Sunrise Service
“* The Youth Fellowship group
of Crediton, comprising E.U.B.
and United Church young people,
will sponsor a sunrise service at
6:30 Sunday morning in
Evangelical U.B. Church.
Rev.
ham
The
ice
Organize Local
Theatre Group
About 20 interested people
met in the town hall on March
26 to form a Theatre Group in
Exeter.
The membership was formed
from the drama class at night
school who presented the play
“A Marriage Proposal” at open
house on March 12. The enthus
iasm of this group forebodes big
things for the fall when they
plan to go into production under
the sponsorship
tional council.
The executive
.Art Whilsmitli, _
ter Bentley, vice-president;
J. Hutton,
treasurer;
and Mrs. Jessie Stewart, execu
tive board members.
Night school classes may be
offered next year if sufficient
demand is
Principal H.
Wednesday.
“There is
said, ‘that several courses can
organized next year if there
enough interest shown.”
His statement followed -a meet
ing of the management commit
tee of the local night "school
Tuesday. Total expenses of
year’s school amounted to
$2,000.
Night classes have been
in the local high school for the
past two years under the joitft
sponsorship of the Department
of Agriculture and the Depart-
evident,
L. Sturgis said
S.H.D.H.S.
on
a possibility,”he
be
is
this
over
held
ment of Education, and the high
school board. The departments
'have paid for the instructors in
the various courses and the
board provided the facilities free.
Under provincial regulations, the
government sponsors the courses
only two * consecutive years in
any one community.
The committee learned, how
ever, that if the courses were
carried on, the Department of
Education would pay 50 percent
of the cost of instruction.
This would probably mean an
increase in registration fee to
around $5.00 with a rebate if the
adult attends 75 percent or more
of the lectures.
the
U.B. Church. The
Gordon Wanless of Wood
will be the special speaker,
musical portion of the serv-
will, be provided by the
Youth Choir directed by Wilmer
Wein and by a quartette of
young people.
At the regular morning wor
ship at 10 a.m. at the Evangeli
cal U.B. Church new members
will be received into the congre
gation. Sermon topics and music
will carry out the theme of Eas
ter at morning and evening
services.
Calvary Church, Dashwood,
will hold a. sunrise service at 7
a.m. on Easter morning sponsored
and conducted by the Young
People’s group. A cornet solo,
“Christ is Risen” will open the
service. A lighted six foot cross
will signify the Resurrection.
Four groups will portray the
“Road to Jerusalem”, the “Road
to Bethany,” the “Road to Cal
vary,” and the “Road to Em
maus” in 'scripture and song.
New' Life Symbols
As each member of the con
gregation enters the church, he
will be presented with some
thing symbolic of new life, These
symbols will be laid at the foot
of the cross as the members file
to the alter.
Reception of members will be
held at the morning service and
the “Easter Gospel
will be
vice.
Holy
served
Friday.
given at the
in Pictures”
evening ser-
Communion
at Id1:30
will be ob-
a.m. on Good
Centralia Flyers
Eliminate Fergus
George Pumple scored within
one minute of the final bell Wed
nesday night to give Centralia
Flyers a 5-4 win which ousted
Fergus Steelworkers from the
playoffs.
The airmen won the series
three games to one and now’ meet
the Durham Huskies in the semi
finals of the O.H.A. Int. “B”
playdowns.
Flyers took a 3-0 lead in the
first period but Fergus fought
back to tie the score at the end
of the second. Both teams count
ed in the first half of the third
and were deadlocked until the
final minute of the game.
Ray Embury fired three goals
for the Flyers with Johnston
and Pumple sniping singletons.
Don Gear sparked Fergus with
a hat trick. Emslie scored
other counter,
On the Zurich committee are
Delbert Geiger, chairman of the
arena board and also chairman
of the artificial ice committee;
Earl Campbell, reeve of Hay
township; Milford Shilbe, arena
board member; V. L. Becker,
representing Dashwood; Ray
Fisher, member of the Chamber
of Commerce, Zurich, and Herb
Turkheim, member of Zurich.
Lions Club.
Legion Initiates Discussion
Citizens of Hensall are also
investigating installation of an
ice plant.
The Hensall Legion initiated
discussion on the project and
several meetings have been held,
A public meeting will be held
on April 8 to discuss the for
mation of a recreational council
for the village.
Rev. W. H. Rogers is chair
man of the organizing committee.
Both Hensall and Zurich arenas
were built only a few years ago.
Since then the winters have be
come milder and, during the past
season, there was ice for little
more than two weeks.
Under these conditions, the
buildings are neither paying for
their upkeep or providing recrea
tion.
J. /"
SPECIAL EASTER SERVICES Churches in the district
are preparing special services for the celebration of Easter.
Among the events this weekend will be Good Friday services,
sunrise meetings and special cantatas and Easter songs. Pat
Cann and Marlene McBride, above, will be two of the many
children singing about the Resurrection. —Staff Photo
Oil Companies are competing
in this area to purchase petrol-
eum rights on farm land, an un
identified spokesman for one of ! the interested
day.
He declined
companies
where they
rights, or what price was being
paid.
Oil rights to most of the land
in the northern section of the
county were purchased last year.
Imperial Oil was one of the firms
interested.
firms said Tues-
to state which
were negotiating,
were buying the
of
by
Hensall Firm Ships
50 Tons Of Onions
One hundred and fifty tons
onions have been shipped
rail and truck to Ontario, the
Maritimes and Newfoundland, by
Steele Briggs Seed Co., Hensall,
Mr. Art Kilner, head representa
tive. of Toronto stated today.
Over 400 Will Compete
At Local Music Festival
WOSSA WINNER—Shirley Pear
son, grade 12 student at S.H.D.
H.S., will compete in the provin
cial verse speaking contest at
Toronto next week. She won
highest marks at the WOSSA
competition in London recently.
—Jack Doerr, Exeter
The executive of the South
Huron Music Festival are very pleaded with the number of
entries received for the festival,
to be held in Exeter on April 20
and 21. These entries number
well over 400, thus assuring the
best music festival in this area,
to date.
This year, schools from Stan
ley and Tuckersmith under the
direction of Miss Ellen Love
A.R.T.C. have joined in the com
petition with Usborne, Stephen,
Hay, Grand Bend, Hensall and
Exeter.
The Huronia Male Chorus is
very much indebted to various
organizations for their financial
aid in helping to make this
festival a success.
The adjudicator, Mr. F. W.
Halton, is Supervisor of Music
in Brantford City Schools and
his recommendations are very
high.
In addition to the many vocal
and piano selections, there are
also ‘
solos this year.
PUBLIC SPEAKER — Ken Flear,
S.H.D.H.S. student, placed second
in the recent WOSSA public
speaking tournament at Toronto.
Ken’s topic was “Communism To
day”. He lives in Grand Bend.
—Jack Doerr, Exeter
Brothers Go Overseas
Sgt. Alex Ellis, who has
cently been stationed at Petawa-
wa, is now en route to Korea.
. LAC Peter Ellis, of White
horse, is spending leave with his
family prior to leaving for an
RCAF station in Germany.
re-
Authority Shows
Operating Surplus
The Ausable 'River Conserva-
.tion Authority showed an operat
ing surplus of $145.14 at the
end of 1952, a financial state
ment issued this week shows.
The net deficit of the Author
ity was reduced to $1,560.31.
Close to half of the year’s
expenditures were deficits car
ried over from 1951 during
which no levy was made on the
municipalities in the watershed.
Total expenditures in the var
ious departments, including these
deficits, were: general, $1,751.-
17; organization, $1,445; mem
bers, $2,351.84; public relations,
$1,3 67.50; farm ponds, $3,618.-
95; flood control, $123.25; re
forestation, $1,274.51; parks
and recreation, $1,149.25.
The 1952 levy produced
$9,436.79. A .grant of $4,047.88
was received from the Ontario
government.
several band instrument New Exeter Bank
To Op en Tuesday
The Bank of Nova Scotia's
new branch here will open April
7 under the management of H.
W. Kelson who was accountant
and credit officer at the bank’s
London, Ontario, branch for .the
past two years.
The demand for banking ser
vice in Exeter has been so strong
that the branch will
Main Street before
are complete.
Staking Renovations
However, while ______
transacted in the completed front
portion of the building, renova
tions will be made in the rear
portion. All the latest features
in bank construction are being
incorporated. The building will
present an attractive appearance
with its large window area and
the vltrolite facing which covers
the brick front. The interior will
be finished in pastel colors and
noise will be reduced to a mini
mum by the use of acoustic
ceiling materials.
The new “Straightline Coun
ter” is designed to speed up
business transactions _
places the unsightly old-style
cages. Modern vaults and safety
deposit bokes are provided.
“Although our renovatiofis are
not complete, Mr. Kelson said,
“our branch is fully equipped
and we can offer you any bank*
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of the recroa-
elected include
president; Wai-
Mrs.
Crediton, secretary-
Rev. Donald Sinclair
Whizz Bangs 5, Big Six 2
Any chances the Big Six had
of making a playoff spot in the
Men’s Bowling League were
squelched Wednesday night when
When the Whizz Bangs won 5-2.
WHO NEEDS A ROD AND REEL? These boys
need expensive equipment to get in some early season
ing. Brian Wedlake and Philip Dzioda try their luck
wrapping string and sticks.
don’t
fish-
witli
■Staff Photo
Six New Citizens
Six babies were born at
South Huron Hospital during
past week. They included:
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Horton, of
Exeter, a son; to Mr. and Mrs.
L. T. Reginball, Grand Bend, a
son; to Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Dayman, Kippen, a daughter; to
Mr. and Mrs. James Allen, of
Grand Bend, a daughter; to Mr.
and Mrs. James Deneau, Exeter,
a son; to Mr. and Mrss Henry
McGill, Centralia, a son; to Mr.
and Mrs. John Snowden, Exe
ter, a son.
STEPHEN CENTRE TO OPEN — Stephen Township’s new coniwtUiiity centre will officially
open in a ceremony next Tuesday, The centre was constructed out of the old Crediton town
hall and over $5,000 worth of labor was contributed by district men. In this^picture.
are .shown building the new entrance. —
open at 622
renovations
business is
and fe
* » n^eiljand wc can offer you
-Jack Doerr, Exeter^ing sbryicd ybti fdquiri