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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1953-08-20, Page 10XLhe ^xeferWimes-Aioocafe Eighty-First Year THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1953 No Green all a have been employed called for debentures 20 of arose from a com- a chicken house on a Grand Bend identified her saw walking visiting the walking along card at the woman came check on the indicated it Call Debenture Bids Discuss Tenders are being the sale of $80,000 in for-the four-room addition to Ex eter Public School. Exeter council gave the deben ture by-law its final reading at a special meeting Monday night. " " ‘ ' been received Municipal Full approval has from the Ontario Board. The debentures years and yield an interest five percent. The call has been sent to brokerage houses in the province and the date set for the bids to be in is September S. are for Huron Beauty Seeks Crown For the second year in a row, Miss Barbara Brandon, 18-year- old Bayfield brunette, is Miss Huron County. She was chosen Lions Club Frolic night. Now a veteran contest field, Miss Brandon will be one of the favorites to win the Miss Western Ontario title at Windsor in September. Last year, she placed sixth among 25 other contestants. Second in the Huron County competition was Donna Taylor, also 18, of Brucefield. She, too, has one title to her credit, that of “Princess” in the Clinton Cor onation contest this spring. of Brussels, placed third, ’AU three girls are ■eligible to compete in Windsor for the Western Ontario laurels. Presentation of prizes was made by Lion Herb Turkheim, who handled the beauty contest. Miss Brandon, the winner, is five feet three -inches tall and weighs 117 pounds. She is in fifth form at Clinton High School and has a boy friend. Judges for the contest were Mrs. Hugh Simpson, Orlando Brace! and Johnny Dash, all of Windsor. Over 2,000 people attended the frolic, which included games of chances, professional entertain ment and dancing. Winners in the parade were: Decorated car: Gordon Bloch, Zurich. Businessman’s float: Hess Elec tric, Zurich. Industrial float: Dietz Flour aud Feed, Zurich. Children’s prizes: bicycles, Bill Dinnin; tricycle, Cameron Witmer; animal, Marilyn Erb. Comic: Leapin’ Lena by Herb Turkheim. Judges were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Scott and Mr, and Mrs. Illsley. at on in Edith Rinn, 15, the Zurich Wednesday the beauty Bingo To Benefit Floor Two thousand dollars in prizes will be given away monster bingo in Exeter Arena on Sept. 4 to aid the floor fund. The bingo, put on by the Ex eter Legion, Lions, Kinsmen and other organizations, will feature a “super special” game with a prize of $1,000. The Public School Board can not let the construction contract until the debentures, are sold. Discuss Zoning Council discussed zoning the first time Mon-the town for day night. The topic plaint about Albert street. J. A. Scholey, 204 John street, submitted a written complaint concerning odors and insects said to be coming from the barn used as a chicken house on Albert street between John and Sanders street. The building is owned by Reeve R. E. Pooley. Mayor W. G. Cochrane said there was nothing which the council under Action Huron condemned the building for health reasons. Reeve Pooley said inspectors from the Unit had visited the ■barn regularly and found it in satisfactory condition. He said the building -was cleaned regular ly, had been fumigated and at tempts made to deodorize, The reeve said he intended to tear the building down sometime in the future. Reeve Pooley suggested a zon ing by-law could be passed to regulate the use of buildings. Mayor Cochrane said the prepara tion of a zoning by-law would be expensive since, to do the job properly, town planning experts should be hired to submit recom mendations and advice. Councillor thought the enough to be ' Councillor council could Building permits were issued to McKnight & Walper for a storage building and to William Chambers, renovating house, was nothing which could do about the barn the present regulations, could be taken by the County Health Unit, if it R. D . Jermyn town wasn’t large zoned. Dinney said not afford it. the DON WHITE UNIFORMS Fwo young women Huron Hospital since its opening, were recently promoted front ward aids to at the South .. . -- nurses’ aids. They are now allowed to wear white uniforms., Shirley Dixon, second from left, and Marion Tinney have received six months' training from Superintendent Miss Alice Claypole, right, and her assistant, Mrs. Jack Delbridge, left. —Jack Doerr, Exeter Cardiff Edge Cut To 953 Final returns of the election in Huron riding give Elston Car diff, Progressive Conservative MP, a 9 53 majority over A, Y. McLean, Liberal MP, Returning Officer J. K. Hunter said on Wednesday. The total votes for each can didate were: Cardiff 11,045, Mc Lean 10,092. There were 19 4 ballots re jected. Total number of votes cast was 21,331 out of the 26,183 eligible. This is 81.47' ^percent. Service vote record was: diff 83, .McLean 327. T-A Vacations, Cancel Issue Members of the staff of The Times-Advocate will enjoy their annual vacation next week. There will be no paper pub lished and the office will be closed. Correspondents are asked to get their news in early for the issue of September 3. Police Escort Local Trucks Identity of the woman’s body found in the Aux Sable river at Grand Bend remains a complete mystery to the police. Coporal N. R. Chamberlain, head of the Grand Bend detach ment, said Wednesday there are no clues available which might lead to identification. A province-wide search is be ing conducted in an attempt to discover any missing person which might fit the description of the body found in the river near the lake. ‘ A post mortem conducted on Wednesday morning ruled out any suggestion of foul play in the death. Pathologist Dr. C. N. Parting ton, of Sarnia, said the woman died from drowning. His autopsy suggested that she had suc cumbed less than 24 hours be fore her body was found. This, coupled with the fact that the woman’s watch was ' _ _ ' 10:30, leads police to believe that she drowned time Monday night. Cpl. Chamberlain said two per sons have identified the woman as one they saw at hotel. Others have as a woman they along the street, Penny Arcade, and the pier Monday night. A young couple, who declined to be identified, stated they noticed her on the piei’ around 10:30 p.m. She was wearing a navy blue lightweight suit, sweater and a white blouse. A registration hotel indicated the from Chatham. A address, however, was false. Locals Tangle stopped at about that Broadcast From Exeter The CKNX Barn Dance Reg. at a FUN AT CENTRALIA — Personnel at RCAF Station Cen tralia enjoyed the hilarity of a donkey baseball game between the officers and the corporals last Wednesday. The game end ed in a 1-1 tie but the corporals won in the donkey race held to break the deadlock. Above player is trying hard to get on. South Huron Hospital Promotes Ward Aids San- Wil- Ste- Van- Two young women who have been employed at South Huron Hospital since its opening, are very proud of |heir promotion from ward aids to nurses’ aids. Marion Tinney, 2i0-- year - old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Tinney, of Exeter, and Shirley Dixon, 19-year-old daughter of Mr. and M£s. Wilfred Dixon, of Clandeboye, have received six Car Hits Bridge, Youths Injured Two youths are still in hos pital suffering from injuries re ceived early Sunday morning when their car rammed a cement bridge near Mount Carmel. Roy McCurdy, of R.R. 6, Marys, driver of the car, , is St. Joseph's Hospital With broken jaw. ..Owner of the c; Reg. Morrison, of Kirkton, recovering from multiple abra sions In South Huron Hospital. The vehicle, travelling west on th© Mount Carmqi road, the bridge the village. The cement buttment cut a “V" in the middle of the front end of the car. The youths were discovered ly ing unconscious in the car around motorists, what St. in a ar, is Struck three miles east of 8 a.m. by passing police do not know at the accident occurred. Damage to the car mated at $'Z00, Provincial Constable bons Investigated, Down From ’52 Only one accident was report ed by the local detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police this week. In a similar period last year, four crashes were recorded. This contributes to the general trend of a lower accident rate this year than in '52. time months' training under the super vision of Miss Alice Claypole and Mrs. Jack Delbridge. Classes in theory and practical experience on the floor were included in thg course. Received Training As ward aids, dressed in green uniforms, the girls learned hos pital housekeeping and the care and arrangement of flowers. They have now been trained in the making of beds, closed and occupied, and anaesthetic beds. They have learned how to bathe and feed patients and care for their hair, teeth and mouths and can now shampoo the hair of bed patients. As nurses' aids they know hpw to avoid pressure sores, how to take temperatures,!, apply mus tard plasters and use correct temperatures in hot water bottles and ice bags. And quite as necessary as the practical knowledge they have gained, the girls have had a course in hospital ethics which is equally important. Perhaps the thing that has brought the biggest thrill to the girls is that they now wear white uniforms and caps. Miss Claypole and Miss Del- Ijridge who are proud of new nurses’ aids, expect to training two more in the future. Spend Week At Camp Jack Robertson, Tedd/ ders, Dean McKnight, Paul son, Vernon Heywood, Jack phan, Bob Skinner, Renus dernuet, Peter Frayne and Wayne Bowen spent the past week 'at the United Church Summer School Camp north of Goderich. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Sparling were the conductors. was esti- Cecil Gib- their begin near Need More Names For Usborne Drain Usborne council at its August meeting decided to take no ac tion in regard to a petition for a municipal drain on Lot 26 S.T.R. Concession until such time ns more sigliaiuves were secured. A by-law prohibiting the run ning of dogs at large during the dear season was passed. Canadian Visitors To Tour Country At the close of the seventh triennial conference of the As sociated Country Women of the World which met in Toronto August 12-22, delegates from other countries or other pro vinces will be given an oppor tunity to tour different parts of Canada. The Federated Women’s institutes have arranged tours that will take the visitors from the east coast to the west coast. Special thought has been given to giving country women from other lands to visit typical Can adian farm homes to see some thing of out customs and stand ards and to become better ac quainted with our people. Three Ontario tours have been arranged, a Capital City tour, a Toronto to Windsor tour, and a tour to Northern Ontario. Visitors not wishing to make the tours may enjoy the hos pitality of a farm home instead. On Sunday, Hamilton’s Rock Gardens and McMaster Univers ity Will be visited. At Brantford, Pauline Jobson’s and Alexander Graham Bell’s homes will be points of interest. Tea Will be served at Albia College, St. Thomas. On Monday, Jack Miner’s Bird Sanctuary and the industrial city of Windsor Will be visited. Tuesday, August 25 will bring the delegates to London to see Western University; then on through Stratford, Kitchener and Gait then to St. George to visit Adelaide HoodlbSS’ Oil Wednesday, and heat Toronto the delegates. Gang, “Canada's Largest Travelling Barn Danc’e”, will make a radio broadcast from Exeter’s newly renovated arena on August 29. The program will start at 8 o’clock sharp and dancing on the trap rock floor will follow. The CKNX Ranch Boys provid ed the music for the second dance on the arena's new floor last Fri day night. Proceeds from both events will aid the trap rock floor. Provincial police have been escorting Guenther Tuckey Trans ports Ltd. trucks during the past week as the strike of transport drivers in Western Ontario con tinues. Drivers for the local company, a non-union firm, have been menaced and threatened by the strikers patrolling the roads. One Guenther Tuckey truck was held up at a farmhouse near Sarnia and stoned by seven car loads of strikers Wednesday. The truck had been given police escort out of the city but the policeman was called away to a serious accident. When he left, the strikers crowded the truck off the highway and damaged it considerably with stones. A number of trucks left for Toronto Monday with police escort. Drivers are travelling in groups. Wrestling Tonight The first professional wrest ling exhibition in Exeter held at the Arena (Thursday). Two main bouts will tured in the program. “Masked Zebra”, will be tonight be fea- 315-The pound heavyweight, will tackle “Chief Sunny War Eagle”, 246 pounds. Joe Miach, Canadian Olympic Star, will tussle with Tug son, of Omaha. Car- With Mitchell Mitchell Legionnaires, champ ions of the Huron-Perth, and Exeter Legion Mohawks are duel ing for the league’s "C” honors in a best-of-seven The winner will OBA ©laydowns. First game of played in Mitchell i night. The second in. Exeter Friday night. Over the regular season, the teams were evenly matched. The Legionaires have a slight edge over the Mohawks because they won the league championship. However, they finished only one point ahead of the locals. Mitchell had. 11 wins, series. advance into wasthe set on Wednesday game will be five losses and no ties. Exeter won nine, lost four and tied three. The two teams split in their home-and-home series during the regular schedule. Mitchell won on its home diamond 6-3 but Exeter defeated the Legion- aires 10-6 when the return game was played on the local diamond. Lays Complaint About Youths, Charged With Bootlegging A man who entered magis trate’s court here Tuesday as a complainant in a minor case left the chambers as a defendant of a more serious charge. Walter Dibold, of Shipka, who had laid a complaint against two youths for damaging a door at his farm home was charged with bootlegging after the case was heard and dismissed. The youths, Ken Baynham and Russell Kirk, told the court they had purchased beer from Dibold the night of June 25. After drinking for awhile, Dibold cut them off and an argument fol lowed resulting in the young men returning - later that night *and damaging the door. Provincial Constable Cecil Gibbons investi gated the incident. Magistrate Dudley Holmes dis missed the case and Crown At torney H. Glenn Hayes entered a charge of selling intoxicating liquor, contrary to the C.T.A., against Dibold. The latter plead- wased not guity and the case adjourned to September 1. Fined $50 & Roger Bedard, Hay township, who was convicted three weeks ago of selling intoxicating liquor contrary to the C.T.A., appeared again to answer charges of con ducting a common gaming house at his residence. During a raid on his premises July 25, in addition to liquor siezed, Provincial stable Cecil Gibbons saw a machine which he seized displayed in court. Bedard testified that he _ the machine from a company he presumed was from London. He was told it did not pay off and was only for amusement. It was seized three days after he got it. Magistrate Holmes ordered the destruction of confiscation of posed a fine of in default, two Bedard. the Con- slot and got the machine and contents and im- $50 and costs, or weeks in jail, on Jury Finds No Neglect A coroner’s jury, investigating the electrocution of a worker at' a Hensail manufacturing plant, | Mitchell Cops First Gaine found no person negligent but recommended that more care be taken in keeping electrical ap pliances in working order. The jury, meeting Tuesday at Hensail, found that John Leitch, 22, of R.R. 4*, Denfield, died ac cidentally by electrocution at the Clipper Coach Manufacturing Company, Thursday, August 13. Leitch was working with an electrical drill on top of an aluminum trailer when he was electrocuted, him failed. While the to determine was the result of negligence on the part of anyone, it felt more care should be taken in keeping electrical appliances in working order in manufacturing plants. Nine witnesses including Hydro officials, were questioned by Crown Attorney Glen Hayes, of Seaforth, Coroner Dr. F. G. Thompson, of Clinton, presided. Members of the jury were W. B. Cross, foreman, Robert Drys dale, Jack Tudor, Ed Munn and William Brown. Efforts to revive jury was not able that the accident Grows Mammoth Petunias Mr. George Penfound, Sr.,of Grand Bend, has petunias in his garden five feet high. fill • * / •* .’ ? lliili ' "1 III ■!!?-' ' ' .. » • » ••’•••• ' l|l ' * 3 -A .■ house, hostesses id will entertain Mitchell Legionnaires copped the first game of the best-of- seven “C” playoff series with Ex eter Wednesday by an S-2 score. Mohawks took a 2-0 lead in the second inning but Mitchell came back in the third to score four. The Legionnaires added single tallies in the fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth. Steve Mitro started on the hill for Exeter but he lost control in the third and was replaced by Jack Fuller who * finished the game. Bob Sadler went the route for the winners, allowing only four hits. Bill Gatenby and Sadler both hit two safeties to lead the Mitchell team at bat. Lome Hqugh and Harry Holtz man hit doubles for Exeter, while Steve Mitro and Jack Elson col lected singles. The body was first noticed by 12-year-old Allan Adams, of De troit, who saw it floating in shallow water near the south pier. Police, assisted by Law rence Mason, Clarence and Bruce Tiedeman, recovered the body, using Tiedeman’s boat, around noon, Tuesday. May Be From U.S. There is some , reason to be lieve the woman may have come from the United States. Police said her clothing had been pur chased ‘ " One tigated woman It was vestigation that the "woman had. come to Grand Bend with a man and they rented a cabin. Inves- gation found the cabin emj>ty, with all clothes removed, theory was definitely ruled however, when the woman identified by others. One possibility police are sidering is that the woman have stumbled down of the pier in the Steps from the top of ment to the water are ed in the cement for persons to get out of boats. Cpl. Chamberlain of the investigation, assisted by Cpl. A. of Sarnia. Dr. A. M. Calder, of Forest, acted as coroner. in the U.S. of the possibilities inves- by police was that the had met with foul play, thought early in the in- This out, was con- may the steps darkness, the butt- cons truct- is in charge He is being V. Diamond, Two Purchase Local Store Announcement was made this week by T. Orville Southcott, owner of Southcott Bros, store, that the business lias been sold to Douglas Gould, of Toronto, and Ray Jory, of Hay township. The new proprietors will take possession in the middle of Octo ber and will continue the same type of business. The present staff will remain. Southcott the largest founded in sent owner, his late brother, H. O. Southcott, purchased the business from late A. J. Stewart. Both general Stewart, been in The late H. O. Southcott, who died in May, 19 5 0, spent several years as a clothing salesman in Toronto, before returning to the town to enter partnership with his brother. They first established a* busi ness in. the jstore now occupied by L f nd e n f i e 1 d's Hardware. Shortly after, they purchased the Stewart store. Bros, store, one of in the town, was 19 27 when the pre- T. O. Southcott, and the the ■Mr. has brothers learned store trade under Mr. T. O. Southcott the business 52 years. Ornaments So Popular Hobby Takes Full Time By MARJORIE STEINER j wind mills attached depict an old Mr. Isaac Lightheart, 72, who I man sawing wood, a man ham- much prefers to be called ike, j Bering, milking a cow, a woman has proved that life can begin *’......' J long after 40. For aftei* his seventieth birthday he took up a hobby which has paid off very well financially and, even more important, has given him a zest for living that would be the envy of people half his age. For 47 years, Mr. Lightheart lived in New Hamburg. Forty- one of those years were spent in one house which was a real home to him and his family. His foui- daughters married, and left home leaving Mr. and Mrs? Light heart alone, then Mrs Lightheart died last fall leaving him alone. Each of his daughters would have welcomed him into their homes, but that wasn’t what Mr. Lightheart wanted. He preferred to be independent and keep busy | Lightheart PROFITABLE HOBBY ■— Isaac “Ike” Lightheart, of JScrepta, finds his hobby of building lawn ornaments is a profitable pastime. The ^2-ycar-ofd retired handyman, who displays his novel and original ornaments on his lawn along Highway 81, finds he is not able to keep up with the heavy demand of tourists and city-dwellers and plans to expand his workshop. In ornament above, revolving fan helps farm wife churn butter. -—T-A Photo as long as health permitted. He intimated to his family that he’d like to have a little place of his own on a busy high way for he had the idea he could earn a living making and selling lawn ornaments. Ideal For Display Mrs. Norman Cowan, Serepta, a daughter of Mr. Lightheart, suggested lie come there and build a little home west of their service station and lunch bar. It was just the sort of a. location he’d had in mind, on busy 83 high way and on a little knoll, ideal for displaying his lawn nients. Last fall lie built a cozy one-. room cottage with carpenter shop 1 at the rear and by the beginning of the year he went into pro duction. With tlie use of power tools, a band saw, jig saw, cross cut and rip saw and press drill he began work. At first he drew and made his own patterns but as the de mand for his work Increased, he blue prints. his neat see cats, rabbits, orna- churning and a woodpecker on a tree trunk, Mr. Lightheart re marked, “it’s the busiest you ever saw when the blows and all these people working at once.” Full Time Job Business has increased what our hobbyist expected would be a part time job, has turned out to be a full time job. He often works at night to keep his supply of ornaments replenished for often the busy weekends leave his supply pretty well de pleted. As soon as the rush is over he plans to enlarge his workshop and build a well. He has already struck water, On both sides of the lot, Mr. __i has vegetable and flower gardens which he finds time to give splendid care. A lovely plot of poppies was raised from seed Mrs. Lightheart saved from tlieit New Hamburgh gar den. Outside of being afflicted with asthma, Mr. Lightheart says he feels wonderful, better than he has for 15 years. Surely he lives up to his name and has a philosophy of life which bears out tile lines, “If in life yon keep your zest, and if from life yon take the best, no matter how the birthdays fly, no matter how the years go by, you are not old!” place wind start until began using Displayed on lawn you will storks, ducks, policemen, Maggie and Jiggs, a boy fishing and many more. An assortment of ornaments with front clogs, hens, Break Into Store But Take Nothing A bi’eak-in was discovered at Ron Westman’s sports awd Auto Supply Tuesday morning apparently no merchandise taken. Dick Watson, a clerk In stof’d, noticedl the broken ___ on the front door when he ar rived tor Work Tuesday morning. The cash register was not rifled and, as far as can be de termined, ho goods were stolen. but was the leek