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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1954-10-14, Page 1Xlbe dExeler^imes-Ahvocafe Eighty-Second Year ___________________________________THE TIMES-ADVGCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1954 Price Per Copy BRAWL AT DASHWOOD — Although Dashwood Tigers and Orono were playing the base­ ball game, it was Zurich fans and Dashwood wood players who clashed in a brawl near the end of the second game of the OBA “D” playoffs at Dashwood on Monday. In the right background, the players are trying to restrain Tigers Manager Mickey Webb who rushed into the fray. Spectator is hidden. Tigers lost the game 2-1 and the final match will be staged at Milton on Saturday.- —T-A Photo Tigers Must Win Saturday After Loss In Second Came Rain Damage To Bean Crop Exceeds One Million Dollars Two walks spoiled Gerry Guen­ ther’s two-hit pitching eEfort against Orono Monday afternoon •when the visitors upset the' Tig- ■ers 2-1 on the Dashwood dia­ mond to deadlock the series. Guenther’s free passes set the stage for both Orono scores in the early stages of the game. Sparkling defence by the winners including three double plays, pre­ vented the Tigers from overcom­ ing the lead although they outhit their visitors. The Thanksgiving Day game provided a side attraction in a late-inning brawl. The partici­ pants weren’t Dashwood and Or­ ono players but Zurich fans and the Tiger management. Nobody •got hurt in the melee but it was hot while it lasted. Erupts In The 'Eighth Ill-feeling between the two sporting centres erupted in the eighth inning after a close deci­ sion on an infield play. A Zurich ■fan, identified as Vic Edighoffer, who had been heckling Dashwood all afternoon, came on the playing field to protest the decision and marched up to Charlie Tieman, Tiger coach at first base. Before he got there, Rudy Ravelie, Dash­ wood’s third base coach, and Manager Mickey Webb raced across the field to stop him and the battle started. Other Zurich fans and Dashwood Tigers joined the fray before police and umpires took control. Third and deciding game of the $5,000 Grant Aids Hospital The provincial government ’has a w a r cl e <1 an additional grant of $5,113.33 to the South Huron Hospital for the accomo­ dation it is providing, the com­ munity, Thomas Pryde, Huron MLA, announced this week. The grant is based on the al­ location of space in the build­ ing for outpatient services, in­ cluding pharmacy, laboratory, sterilizing room etc., and for emergency rooms. Farm Juniors Treat Parents October 6 was Parents Night at the Junior Institute and Jun­ ior Farmers meeting. “How to Look Beautiful” was the theme of the girl’s meeting. Mrs. Ruth Thompson and Mrs. Lois Ford, beauticians, gave a demonstration using Mrs. Ross Hodgert as their model. Mrs. Arthur Rundle and Mrs. Wm. Routley won gifts. Expi-ession Most important Francis Hern conducted the Sacred Moments and Mildred Bal- lantyne discussed the motto, “Of all the things you wear, your ex­ pression is the most important.” Current events were reviewed by Marilyn Marshall. Each girl donated an apron which was sold by Dutch auction. A donation of $5 Was voted to the O.N.I.B. fund. Mrs. Orville Beavers was -the door prize winner. Don Slinger, of Guelph, a representative of the United Co-Operative, spoke to the Junior Farmers on the diseases of chickens. Describes Trip For the joint meeting which followed, Bob Allen of Bruce- field, who with three other Ont­ ario delegates spent ten weeks touring England* gave an inter­ esting resume of his trip. He accompanied his talk with col­ ored films showing England's countryside and the farms he visited to compare their meth­ ods with those used on Ontario farms.Music was provided by the Nighthawks, Andrew and Wil­ liam Dougall and Maurice Love. series will be played Saturday afternoon at Milton. West Boys Score Dean and Ron West, two of the noted family which ices a complete ’ hockey team for Orona in the winter, scored the win­ ners’ runs after receiving free passes from Guenther. Ron West drove his brother in for the first Natural Gas For Zurich? An application to supply natur­ al gas to Zurich is being consider­ ed by the police trustees of the village and the Hay township council. The application is from F. E. Shaw Ltd., of Sarnia, who wish to lay a pipe into the village from the well which was drilled this summer to the northwest of Zur­ ich. The well is said to have a sufficent supply of gas for the village. To Investigate Earl Campbell, reeve of the township, said his council was considering the application along with the trustees but since the natural gas program is new to the township they intend to investi­ gate it thoroughly before making any commitment. Reeve Campbell said that be­ fore the pipes could be construct­ ed approval would have to be given by the ratepayers through a municipal vote. If natuural gas was supplied to Zurich it would be the first muni­ cipality in this district to have this type of utility. Hay township council has been .having numerous special meetings during the past two months over drains. These special meetings were called during September. Assessment Cancelled At the regular October session, council received a written re­ quest from Ivan Yungblut to have the tiled branch of the Schwalm drain, west from the main drain through south half of Lot 22, cleaned out. Due to an error in entering Eg­ bert Heideman as owner of Con. 10, NB of W1 of lot 2 2 on the 1954 assessment roll of the town­ ship, this assessment for $850 was cancelled since the Henry Yungblut estate owns the proper­ ty and is assessed for it. Hockey Club Plans Rally With installation of ice at the arena set for October 27, Exeter Mohawks Booster Club plans an early start on its intermediate hockey team. .Practices will begin as soon as ice is ready and the first exhib­ ition game has been tentatively scheduled for November 5. Optimistic Report Colle Bowman, playing-coach of the Mohawks, presented an op­ timistic report to the club at a meeting Tuesday night. He ex­ pects a number of top prospects will try out for the team and that, with an excellent nucleus of local talent, the club will be the strongest ever iced here. The executive, under Presi­ dent W. G. Cochrane, plans a meeting of Booster Club mem­ bers on Tuesday, November 2, for a “pep rally”. Outlook for the team, which will have had three practices by that time, wilt be discussed along with methods of raising funds. Exeter Ninettes will be ifi charge of providing programs for the local .games. The Organization, plans a larger and more inform­ ative booklet which will include player’s pictures, league stand­ ings and other statistics. run of the game in the second inning and scored himself in the fifth after two were out when Charlie Armstrong drove a long ball into centrefield. Dashwood’s lone run came in the third when Jimmy Hayter doubled and scored on two wild pitches. The Tigers threatened in each of the last three innings but the Orono defence spoiled the attack. In the second Centrefielder D. West made a running stab of Lome Kleinstiver’s long ball for the best catch of the game. Rob­ bie and Karl Wein ’got on in the same inning but were left on the sacks. ’ Costly Blooper Jim Hayter started the eighth off with a promising single and Louis Corriveau sacrificed him to scoring position at second. The rally failed when Shortstop Ray West m'ade a nice catch of Bob Hayter’s blooper and caught bro­ ther Jim off the bag. Robbie Wein and Carl Wein were left on bases in the ninth. Keith West, who was charged with the loss in the first game, gave up nine hits in his winning effort Monday. His well-controll­ ed drop fooled Dashwood batters. Jim Hayter and Lome Klein- stiver were top .Tiger hitters with two bingles each. Carmen Corn­ ish and Ron West hit Orono’s safeties. Youngest Area Champ Plows At International Lome Ballantyne captured fourth prize in tractor class for boys and girls under 18 on Wednesday at the Internation­ al. Other local winners were Clare Paton, Clandeboye, who placed twelfth in the same class; and Lome Passmore, Ex­ eter, who won eleventh prize in tractors, tricycle only.* * * Hi South Huron’s youngest plow­ ing champion, 17-year-old Lome Ballantyne, will be peeling sod at the International this week as a member of the county team for the third year in a row. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bal­ lantyne, of R.R. 3 Exeter, Lome will plow with John McGavin, of Walton, the NOrth Huron champ­ ion, in the inter-county competi­ tion. The two young prize-win­ ners are rated among the best in the class. Lome will also compete in jun­ ior classes at the big match. He will plow Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Besides copping the South Hu­ ron match championship on Fri­ day, Lome has won the under-21 class at Middlesex competition and the under-18 class at North Huron match this fall. This will be his third year aS a member of the Huron County team. He won the junior class at the South Huron match the first time he plowed in competition n 1952 and was Selected with Bob Wildfong to represent the county that year, in 1953 he and John Fagan, of Goderich, placed ninth in a class of 26 teams. .Believed Youngest The Ballantyne youth is believ­ ed to be the youngest ever to wifi the South Huron championship. In Friday’s match near Dashwood* he plowed the best finish of the day against 23 other competitors, many of them his senior. He won the under-18 class, the best finish award, and the Esso Special. His •prize money totalled $30. Lorne succeeds another local plow jockey, Lome I’assmore, al­ so of R.R,. 3, Eketbr, as the area champ. Lome Passmore hag won the title for a number of years. He placed second this year in the open class. Stage Benefit Concert, Centennial Loss $1,000 With the help of community organizations, Exeter Agriculture Society will stage a benefit var­ iety show early in November to try to pay off a $1,000 debt in­ curred by the Centennial Fall Fair. Plans for the concert, tagged the “Save-The-Fair Show” were made at a meeting of directors Wednesday night after it was announced that the Centennial Fair not only wiped out the sur­ plus which the society had accu­ mulated but also put the board $1,000 in debt. Unless the deficit can be raised by the concert or some othei’ means, the 18 directors of the Society will have to dig into their own pockets to meet the debt, it was learned at the meeting. Un­ like a municipal or school board, the Agriculture Society cannot turn the debt over to a council or other public body. The pro­ vincial legislation under which the society operates provides that the directors themselves are per­ sonally responsible. Owen S. Atkinson New Noble Grand District Deputy Norman Jones and his staff of Hensail Lodge 233, I.O.O.F. visited Exeter Lodge 67 on Tuesday Imd installed the newly elected officers. O. S. Atkinson was installed as Noble Grand succeeding W. J. Chambers who became Junior Past Grand. Others installed were Vice Grand, William Webster; Record­ ing Secretary, Ed. Howald; Fin­ ancial Secretary, W. G. Fish.er, and Treasurer W. C. Allison. The appointed officers who were installed included War., R. E. Belling; Con., Aubrey Tennant; O. G., L. E. Day; I. G. Gerald Campbell; R.B.N.G., G. A. Mc- Falls; L. S. N. G., A. G. Hicks; RS.V.G., Tom Yellow; L.S.V.G., Stuart R. Dick; R. S .S., Ray Jones; L.S.S., Ross Coates; Chap­ lain, Roy Hunter. Members of the installing staff included Norman Jones, Alex Mc- Beath, W. R. Dougall, George Glenn, Sid McArthur, P. L. Mc­ Naughton and Stan Love. Entries were down for the match because of the good wea­ ther which kept many would-be competitors home to do work the rains have postponed for several weeks. Those who did attend the match had a profitable day. Over $250 in prizes were distributed among the 24 competitors. Second to Lorne Ballantyne in the under-1 S class, largest of the match, was Robert Dobson, of R. R. 1, Kirkton, who is top man on the South Huron District High School team. Don Tremeer, of R. R. 2, Kippen, placed fourth. Maurice Love, of R.R. 3, Ex­ eter, won the utility class, defeat­ ing last year’s winner Merton Keys, of Seaforth. Stanley Johns, of Woodham, captured the under-18 mounted plow class. Other class winners were Ross Jeffery, Exeter; John Mathers, Ailsa Craig.; Jim Clark, —Please Turn to Page 12 Major Changes At Centralia Won t Cut Down Personnel Although major changes are taking place at RCAF Station Centralia no decrease in person­ nel strength is expected, officials said this week. Flight Lieutenant Ross Row­ lands, public relations officer at the station, said rumors of a large reduction in personnel were not true, “Our overall strength will not be decreased,” he stat­ ed. Distorted and exaggerated re­ ports in circulation here last week indicated that strength would be reduced so drastically that many of the houses at the per­ manent married quarters would be left empty, Fit. Lt. Rowlands told the Times-Adv.ocate that the changes would result in a reduction in Flying Training School person­ nel but that the influx in the new Pre-Flight, School, being mov-. ed to Centralia from London* would bring the strength up to Fair President II. II. G. Strang 1 and other officials agreed that' unless the deficit is wiped out there is danger that the fair might not be continued. “We could not afford,” said President .Strang, “to put on another fair with a $1,000 deficit facing us. If that fair failed because of rain or some other misfortune, we’d be sunk.” Ask To Contribute The concert will be held on Friday, November 5, and major organizations in the town will be asked to contribute towards the program. Society officials hoped that with a special effort the com­ munity show might turn into an exceptional concert. Tentative program calls' for comical skits and acts by prominent local citi­ zens, popular musical artists and other entertainers. Mayor W. G. Cochrane has con­ sented to be master of ceremon­ ies and Mrs. Alice Sturgis, dir­ ectress of the Huronia Male Chorus operettas and producer of the Lions Minstrel Show several years ago, will assist in the pro­ duction. The organizations in the town will be asked to put on 10 to 15 minutes of program—the type of entertainment to be of their own choice. A dress rehearsal of the the show will be staged Wednes­ day night, November 3. To Arrange Concert Members of the committee who have been named by the Society to arrange the concert are A. J. Sweitzer, a-former president; Ted Pooley, Dalton Finkbeiner, Gar­ net Hicks, another past president and Don Southcott. Secretary-Treasurer Clark Fish­ er, who announced the $1,0'00 deficit, said increased prize mon­ ey paid out for Centennial fea­ tures as well as special attrac­ tions incurred the debt. Although the crowd was one of the largest ever seen at the fair, gate receipts were not increased because a re­ cord number entered the grounds free in the huge parade. In ad­ dition a cold damp night caused a loss on the vaudeville show which was forced inside the high school at the last moment. Over $4,000 In Prizes Secretary Fisher said there would be more money paid out in prizes this year than ever in the history of the fair. The to­ tal ’amount will be well over $4,000. Outside of the deficit, directors of the Society were happy about the Centennial Fair. Public opin­ ion indicated the show was ap­ preciated and that the crowd was more than satisfied. Only com­ plaint was that there was too much going on at once and the spectators couldn’t watch it all. Buried For Year, Watch Still Runs Buried for a year in an open field, a watch that was plowed up last week still runs. The wrist watch, owned by Bennett Fisher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Fisher, R.R. 1, Ex­ eter, was found Friday when Mr. Fisher’s plow turned it up. It had been lost one year ago to the week. When tested, the w a t c h operated smoothly. Minor re­ pairs will have to be made but otherwise it appears in good condition. normal. Formerly called the Officers School at London, the new Pre­ Flight School has a small stud­ ent' population at the moment but this will steadily increase until maximum strength of 320 cadets is reached in about three months. The school, which was formerly of six months duration, will be extended to 12 months to include a larger amount Of ground in­ struction. This will reduce the number of hours which trainees will spend at flying schools. While the Pre-Flight School at Centralia is for Canadian reeruits only, the flying training school will now train only foreign pilots under the NATO plan. All Can­ adian trainees will go to fly- dng schools in the west. Reason for the segregation of Canadian and foreign students under the flying training pro­ gram is the difference in basic training which is received. Re- cruits from Europe receive a more extensive ground training before enrolling in the course than do Canadians. Officials say the segregation Will result in “bettor efficiency in the NATO training program.” Although the number of in­ structors and students in the fly­ ing training school will bo reduc­ ed, Centralia will add to its train-' ing syllabus a refresher flying course which has been moved from Trenton. This course is for officer pilots whose duties have not permitted them to practice theit flying. After the changes have been completed Centralia will still op­ erate four schools in the RCAF program —- a Flying Training School, Pre-Flight School, instftt- ment Flying School and the School if Flying Control (which operates at Grand Bond), strength of the station remains classified information. TRI-SCHOOL TRACK MEET WINNERS—South Huron Dis­ trict High School captured the tri-school track and field meet title for the second year in a row on Friday, outscoring Mit­ chell and St. Marys schools by 50 points. Three local athletes copped individual titles. Doug Wein, top left, won the junior boys championship and Ted Smith won the intermediate honors. Allison. Clarke, bottom left, tied for junior girls title and Ruth Soldan was runner-up in the senior girls’ class. South Huron Athletes Cop Tri-School Crown South Huron High School ath­ letes piled up a 5 0-point lead over their rivals from St. Marys and Mitchell on Friday to capture their second successive tri-school track and field championship. The local school compiled a total of 157 points to win hand­ ily over St. Marys with 108 and Mitchell with 107. SHDHS also captured three in­ dividual championships and two runner-up awards. Ted Smith con- ped the intermediate boys’ title 10,000 Eggs Scrambled A load of 10,000 eggs was scrambled near Zurich Thursday when the rear dual wheels of a produce truck fell off while the vehicle was travelling along a township road. Only about 200 of some SOO dozen eggs were salvaged after the truck veered into the ditch and rolled over. The driver, Earl Horner, of R. R. 2, Zurich, was taken to South Huron Hospital for observation, but was released later. Damage to the truck, owned by O’Brien Produce, Zurich, was estimated at $450. Potholes destroyed an old Mo­ del A Tuesday on a township road one-half mile west of Exeter. Mervin Des jar dine, of R.R. 2, Crediton, said that after his car hit the holes it jumped off the road and rolled over. A Fullarton man damaged his car $150 when he drove into a post as he was driving out of a garage at Hensall on Sunday. Driving rain hampered the visibil­ ity of Frank Morris, the driver. and Doug Wein won the junior honors. Allison Clarke tied with Lois Ann McEwan, St. Marys, for the junior girls’ award. Ruth Soldan was runner-up in ■the senior girls’ division and Barry Glover and Don MacLaren, both of. South Huron, tied for the reserve championship in jun­ ior boys. By DWAYNE TINNEY This year’s annual tri-school field meet .was held in St. Marys on Friday Octobei- 8. The school spirit was good as most of our pupils attended. Six buses from Exeter Coach Lines provided the transportation. The results of the meet were: Girls—junior, Exeter, 28, Mit­ chell 18, St. Marys 17; intermed­ iate, Exeter 20, Mitchell, 24, St. Marys 19; seniors, Exeter 2S, Mitchell 28, St. Marys 6. Boys: Junior, Exeter 30, Mit­ chell 8* St. Marys 13; intermed­ iate, Exeter 31, Mitchell 13, St. Marys 19; senior, Exeter 20, Mit­ chell 16, St. Marys 34. The champions and runners-up with their points were: Boys: junior, Doug Wein, 9, South Huron, Barry Glover 5, Don McLaren 5 (tie), South Huron; intermediate, Ted Smith 12, South Huron, Harold Bergen 9, St. Marys; senior, Tom Sawyer 9, Mitchell, Bill Price 8, Glen Mar­ tin 8, St. Marys. Girls; Junior, Allison Clarke 6, South Huron, and Lois Ann Mc­ Ewan 6, St. Marys (tie), Shirley •—Please Turn to Page 12 Reports Indicate Council Changes Rumours that several members of Exeter council will resign at the end of this year are circul­ ating in town. One official said he expected to see a “considerable change” at the next election. Mayor W. G. Cochrane said Wednesday he would ask mem­ bers to state whether they intend to run or not at the next coun­ cil meeting, Monday, October 18. Have A Right To Know “I think citizens have a right to know in advance the intent­ ions of council members,” the mayor said, “so that they can make preparations accordingly.” Nominations will be held early in November. Electric Welder Stolen Sunday About $275 worth of equip­ ment, including tin electric weld­ er, electric drill and paint spray­ er, was stolen from Exeter Prod­ uce and storage Co. over the weekend. The tools were discovered mis­ sing on Monday morning. It is believed that the thieves entered the warehouse by a turnip chute sometime Saturday or Sunday. Police Chief Reg Taylor is in­ vestigating. Rain damage to the white bean crop in this district is now esti­ mated at over one million dollars. Elevator operators at Hensall agreed that the situation is “dis­ astrous”. Beans that have been pulled are “not even good feed.” Some of the crop which is still standing may “not be tqo bad” but the quality is extremely doubtful. The crop was valued at over one and one-half million dollars earlier this summer but |,lie cen­ sus indicates that the district will be fortunate if the crop sells for over a quarter of a million. Drying Beans One elevator at Hensall has been drying all the beans which have been brought in and even with this processing the beans were in “poor shape”. Rains over the weekend and on Thursday wrought the worst dam­ age. Towards the end of last week the weather cleared up and the situation was hopeful but down­ pours on Saturday and Sunday spelled doom. The ground and crops are so wet that it will take at least a week or 10 days of good weather before the standing crop can be harvested. Only Three Days Without Rain Almost five inches of rain have fallen in the first two weeks of October, the met section at RCAF Station Centralia reported Thurs­ day. Only three days of the month have been without rain. During the past week 1.12 inches of rain has dropped. Pastures are suffering from the moisture as cattle are tramping the grass into the mud. The wet weather has produced too much growth for the local turnip crop. Officials at Exeter Produce and Storage Co. Ltd. said the turnips were growing too large and can’t be harvested be­ cause the fields are so soggy. Large turnips can ‘only be used for soup purposes and this mar­ ket is not strong, the firm said? To Expropriate Land Stephen township council de­ cided to expropriate land from Mrs. O. TI. Becker for road allow­ ance at a recent meeting. The petition for drainage of Harold Peterson was passed for survey, plan and report by Engin­ eer James A. Howes. Will Organize Safety Patrol Town officials, teachers and parents are expected to attend the Safety Patrol meeting at the Public School auditorium on Tuesday, October 19. Main speaker will be Don S. Mackay, representative of the Ontario Safety League who is an expert on safety patrol pro­ grams. Tlie meeting, sponsored by the Home and School Associa­ tion, will start at 8 p.m. and is open to all citizens. Start Experiment On Poultry Pens BY HARRY SCHROEDER Grade nine students under the supervision of Mr. Andrew Dixon have undertaken as part of the agricultural course an experimen­ tal poultry project to ascertain the feed cost per dozen eggs. Three separate pens of White. Rock hens have been established and these are classified as a caged pen, a dark pen and a common pen. They differ in that the caged pen consists of hens caged in in­ dividual hanging wire compart­ ments. They are separated from one another by wire screening and have individual feed and water troughs. This leaves them with no roosts or dropping boards except the wire eage bottom. The advantage of the cages are clean eggs, thO elimination of non-lay- ers. Only Artificial Light The dark pen consists of a pen lighted only by artificial light for 24 hours a day. The advan­ tages of this dark pen is that it eliminates draught since there are no windows. Since the lights are always on, It eliminates the cost of roosts and dropping boards. These are also roomier pens. In the common pens, there are roosts, nests and dropping boards. The hens are fed all together. In the caged and common pena the lights are automatically turn­ ed on at four o’clock each morn­ ing. These two pens are also lighted with two windows. All pens are fed a 100 per cent tnhsh feed without scratch feed. This is one of the many agri­ cultural projects of the grade nine students. Nor the result of this experiment, watch for future Hi Lights column.