HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1950-06-22, Page 1Seventy-sixth Year
NO PLACE FOR BARE FEET! Thousands of empty bottles of a soft drink company
were smashed when this truck overturned on No. 83 Highway last week. Damage was es
timated at over $3,000. The driver, who lost control of the vehicle when it hit the soft
shoulder of the road, was uninjured. The truck is owned by the Kist Bottling Company,
Sarnia. —Jack Doerr, Exeter
EXEtER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1950 Single Copy 60
Winchelsea
Pupils
Visit Detroit
the
bus
an
On Friday last, Mr. Sparling
and pupils of Winchelsea school,
accompanied by a number of
parents, went by chartered
by way of Port Huron on
educational tour of Detroit.
The first place visited was
Belle Isle where the lovely, gar
dens and acquarium were viewed,
but they were hot allowed in the
conservatory as a recent wind
storm had broken much of the
glass in the 'building.
After a long drive through
the city, they arrived at the zo
ological
was eaten in the park,- then a
trip by miniature train and on
foot to view the
birds of every kind
tion.
They were taken
gardens where , lunch
animals and
and descrip-
Marks Ninety-First Birthday
Rev. J. W. Down, formei* resi
dent of Exeter, recently cele
brated his ninety-first birthday
at Belleville, The Toronto Globe
and Mail published his picture
this week along with that of his
greatgrandson, 4-year-old Brian
Rose. The caption said, ‘‘Rev.
Down is the only surviving mini
ster of Bible Christian Methodist
Church.”
The Globe also reproduced one
of Rev. Down’s poems which he
produced on his eighty-sixth
birthday.
Reeve A. J, Sweitzer brought up a big question at the
council meeting Monday night—should the village of Exeter
become a town? »
The question met with lively discussion on the part of
councillors but no action was
to get out and have a look at
County Refuses To Sanction
Centralia Telephone System
the
are
Huron County Council and
Bell Telephone Company
deadlocked over a proposed $60',-
000 line from Exeter to RCAF
Station Centralia and its hous-
ing project.
Council, sitting in its June
session last week,refused to let
the company lay the lines over
the proposed route if it would
mean any expense to the county.
The question brought a heated
debate in council chambers as it
came up for consideration twice.
Main point of contention is a
provincial statute that says the
county must pay 50 percent of
the cost of moving the lines if
and when work on county roads
necessitates it.
Council would not agree to
that condition. They demanded
the Bell Telephone Company in
sure the county
be no cost in
the line.
Reeve Elmer
phen Township,
will
with
■time
Bell
that there would
connection with
Lawson, of
where the
in an
Ste-
line
interview
“It’s
run, said
The Times-Advocate,
for a showdown with ’these
people”.
“The Bell puts a line through
and whenever we have to change
it to fix our roads or sewers, we
have to pay half the cost of the
labour. Half the cost of the la
bour of the company is twice
the cost of labour for which we
can do it for ourselves. It’s time
for a showdown,” he repeated.
“As far as the people of Exe
ter are concerned they have no
thing to do with it,” he said.
Reeve A. J. Sweitzer and
Deputy-Reeve Larry Snider sup
ported the company and re
introduced the question which
had already been considered by
council. Reeve Sweitzer said, “I
believe co-operation between the
county and the Bell Telephone
Company is the only way we
can get better service for the
district. There’s not much the
county can do about it when the
law is laid down by the pro
vince.”
He was supported by represen-
I
tatives of Hay, Usborne, Hensali
and Tuckersmith in the south
■but his motion that council re
consider their decision was de
feated 13-9.
Roy Patterson, county engi
neer, said, “We don't care if
there’s a telephone line there or
not—why should we pay any
thing for it”. He supported the
request of the Good Roads Com
mission that the company insure
the county against future cost.
Bell representative C. B. Sy
monds of, Goderich said, “We
hope to get the Good Roads
Commission to see our way,
otherwise we’ll have to apply to
the Board of Transport Commis
sion of Canada”.
Mr. Symonds explained that
the proposed project would mean
a rebuilding of the present plant
and a regrouping of ,the line to
the village of Centralia. The hew
line would serve not only the
airport but citizens in .the Cen
tralia district, He stated that 250
home owners at Centralia are.
clamouring for telephone service.
W, A. Taylor, district engineer
for the company, said the com
pany would have to get a court
order from Ottawa if the county
would not approve. The Bell
Telephone charter provides the
authority for the company to
construct the lines and the per
mission of the county is only a
formality. “Ottawa”, he said,
“will merely draft a court order
telling us to proceed. However,
we try to get direct consent
first”.
Assessor Complimented
County assessor A. Alexandei*
got a pat on the back from the
report of the assessment com
mittee.
The report said “When county
assessor was not present we were
informed by Mr. Chamberlain
that in his opinion the Huron
County assessment is one of the
best in the province.” Mr. John
Chamberlain is from the Pro
vincial Assessment ^department
and he toured the county with
the committee.
The new schedule is as fol
lows: Ashfield, $'2,840,175; Col-
borne, 1,685,1 S8 .Goderich Town
ship, 2,253,9'85; Grey, 3,059,615;
xHay, 3,088,225; Howick, 3,543,-
1S5; Hullett, 2,665,677; McKil-
lop, 2,714,575; Morris, 2,520,-
0-32; Stanley, 2,614,900; Stephen,
4,015,974; Tuckersmith, 2,524,-
125; Turnberry, 1,634,328; Us
borne, 2,65 2,877; East Wawa-
nosh, 1,5 7 7,2 7 O'j West Wawa-
nosh, 1,790,537; Clinton, 1,556,-
857; Goderich, 4,321,518; Sea
forth, 1,42'3,551; Wingham,
1,754,997; Blyth, 492,810; Brus
sels, 537,800; Exeter, 2,035,450;
Hensail, 548,154; total $53,852,-
805.
Mr, Alexander advised . that
wartime housing is not taken
into consideration for equaliza
tion purposes, but as they be
come privately owned .they will
be put on respective assessment
rolls.
There is a new agreement on
assessing crown .property by
which tenants can be assessed.
This change will extensively af
fect Tuckersmith and Stephen
owing to the airports; also per
sons residing in post offices and
other crown-owned property.
Usborne Promised Aid
Usborne received no specific
aid for its new reforestation pro
gram but the county agreed to
—Please Turn to Page Six
Rev. Page Speaks
At James Street
Rev, Arthur Page of Owen
Sound was the preacher at the
second in a series of reopening
services of
on Sunday.
the morning
as his
Life?”.
James Street Church
Rev. Page
subject “What to Do
In a splendid ser-
he intimated there were
things one could do
■ \ “You
run away from it, run with
herd, take it with some plan
make something of it, or
your life into the hands of
__ who is greater than you are
yourself and let Him run it.”
To accomplish this latter you
need faith, a philosophy of life,
a self fit to live with and
big enough to work for.
A large gathering of people
was on hand to hear this
minister. Special music was pre
sented by the choir in an an
them, “I Will Sing of the
Mercies of the Lord Forever”
and a male quartet—Alf Wuerth,
Walter Cutbush, Ed Lindenfieid
and L. Wein—s i n g i n g “Will
Your Anchor Hold”,
Memorial flowers were pre
sented by the family of the late
Dr. G« F. Roulston, a former
member of Session, and ’by the
relatives of the late Mrs. F.
Sharpe, whose funeral was held
on Friday, June IB.
At the evening service, Rev.
Page spoke on the subject “Life
as a Relay Race”, The choir
sang an anthem entitled “Praise
the Lord Most High” ifnd a duet
was sung by Mrs. Thos. Coates
and Mrs. Percy McFalls.
In
took
with
mon
several
•when confronted by life,
can
the
and
put
one
a task
former
to the Ford
plant 'at Dearborn where a walk
through the final assembly build
ing showed a car assembeld in
the matter of a few minutes.
This plant covers twelve hundred
HARVEY SPARLING
acres and employs seventy thou
sand people. A short time was
spent in the transportation de
partment of the museum where
vehicles from the time of the
covered wagon to- the present
time were to be seen.
This rounded out a busy day
of sight-seeing and all returned
safely home tired but happy.
Hensali Youths Fined
For Damaging Home
Four Hensali youths were
fined $10 each and ordered to
pay for damage after they plead
ed guilty to a charge of wilfully
damaging property, in Exeter
court Tuesday morning.
The four were William Clark,
Harold Wolfe, Thomas Peters,
and John Sangster. Damage of
around $10 was done to the
home of David Kirk in the town
ship of Hay.
Crown Attorney Glenn Hays
said the “foui* men went to
Kirk’s home to try and intice out
the owner’s daughter. She would
not come and in their efforts "to
get -her out Wolfe put his fist
through the screen door, Clarke
broke a window.”
Charges of creating a disturb
ance were dismissed. The incid
ent happened June 11. Provinc
ial Constable Bill Coxworth laid
charges. Elmer D. Bell, K.C., ap
peared for the defendants.
Lloyd Stebbins, of West McGil
livray pleaded guilty to a charge
of wilfully damaging property of
Harry Walper in the township of
Stephen on June 14. He was
fined $10 and told to pay dam
ages amounting to $5. Evidence
showed Stebbins broke the lock
on a door while trying to gain
entrance. For creating a disturb
ance Stebbins was fined $5 and
costs.
Pilots Receive Wings
In Full Dress R ites
Twenty-one air force pilots
received their w i n g,s Friday
afternoon in a full-dress cere
mony .at RCAF Station Centralia.
Air Vice-Marshall C. R. Slemon,
air officer in charge or training
command officiated.
One of the flight cadets to
receive
in the
dleton, son .of former Air Vice
Marshall E. E. Middleton, for
mer commanding officer of the
district. A. V. M. Middleton pin
ned the wings on his son’s tunic
and presented him with the Sid-
dleley Trophy, given to the class
student receiving highest marks
in flying proficiency.
Graduation day
end of more than a year’s in
tensive training for
who now join the
service of~the force.
The following flight cadets
graduated: S. M. Barke, Calgary,
who won the Scroll of .Honor for
over-all proficiency; Don. Blun
derfield, Okotoks, Alberta; S. D.
Broadbent, Vancouver.;, H. Brown, Charlottetown/' B,
Budgeon, Belleterre, Quebec; G.
J. 'Carpeter, Kaslo, B.C.; P
Clements, Red Deer, Alta.; 1___
shipman, J. K. Dawson, Minden,
Ont.; O. M. Foster, Vancouver;
A. L. Kerr, Three Rivers; D. C.
MacLeod, Ottawa; C. L. Mat
thews, Hardesty, Alberta; K. A.
McCrea, Niagara Falls; J. S.
Middleton, Alberta; R. F. Moore,
Duncan, B.C.; G. D. Morrison,
Peterboro; J. W. Stants, Van
couver; J. B. Smith, London; F.
E. Slyvester, Toronto; J. F. Tom
linson, Victoria; G. G. Warddell,
Montreal.
his wings and commission
RCAF was John S. Mid
marked the
these
active
pilots,
flying
E.
J.
’. V.
Mid
Flowers After Six Years
A cactus which hadn’t flower
ed in six years brought forth a
beautiful red foliage for two
days this week. The .cactus is
owned by Mrs. Lome Johnston,
who grew it from a small slip.
The cactus was on display in the
Times-Advocate window this
week.
Student Pilot Killed In Jump
From Burning Harvard Plane
Jumping from his burning air
craft at a low altitude, a student
pilot was instantly killed Friday
parachute
he struckmorning when his
barely opened before
the ground.
Minutes later his
Flying Officer W. J.
instructor,
__. _.cj ___.. Wilson, of
Grand Bend, safely crash-landed
the Harvard training plane
the edge of the airdrome
RCAF Station Centralia. Wilson
was uninjured and the engine
fire was out when the aircraft
rolled to a stop.
The victim was
N. R. Henderson,
Diamond, Alberta,
the University of
on
at
taken because council wanted
the municipality.
Clerk C, V, Pickard supplied
some data on procedure and
what the step would involve. He
said that one of the two wards
at the north end would have to
be joined with the other since,
in a town, all wards must con
tain 500 people. The north ward,
from Mill Street to the bound
ary, contains only 209 voters
and therefore must join ward
three or be regrouped.
The amount of property
ment required for voting
be raised from $100 to
Council considered this
not effect many people.
The change would mean an
increase of three on the council.
The present six-man body, con
taining reeve, deputy-reeve and
four councillors, would be ex
panded by a mayor and two
more councillors.
Provisions in the Municipal
Act allowed a village to extend
its limits if there were people
living outside who enjoyed the
services of the municipality.
“Isn’t it possible to bring in
•Stephen
Webster
the south end—part of
there?” Councillor Bill
said.
Former Reeve B. W.
who appeared before
assess-
would
$200.
would
Tuckey,
council
earlier and who was invited to
stay, thought it would be a good
move, “They’re getting the ser
vices of the town and not paying
for it,” he said.
Council agreed that some of
the south end should be brought
in but how much was a ibig
question. Councillor Ed Linden
field suggested that the council
review the south end in a body
to determine how much should
be annexed.
Reeve Sweitzer said that when
municipal officers from the
county toured the village “They
did remark that this was the
prettiest place and most .active
in the county”.
Exeter’s assessment rose this
year to the second highest urban
municipality in the county. It
surpasses the towns of Wing
ham, Clinton and Seaforth and
is next to Goderich of the urban
centres. Council will reconsider
the question at their
■July 3—aftei’
inspection of
ing—
their
end.
Public
Mr.
next
they
the
meet
make
south
Lucan’s New Centre Busy Spot
As Opening Ceremonies Held
Lucan's Community Memorial:
Centre is getting lots of. use
these days as the townspeople
celebrate its official opening.
Wednesday and Friday crowds
filled the big arena to attend the
opening ceremonies with digna-
taries of the province. Next Wed
nesday Steele's Cavalcade of
Stars will present their populai*
horse show.
The Centre was termed “an
outstanding example of what can
be done by people getting to
gether” at its official opening on
Wednesday night.
Hon. Arthur Welsh, provincial
secretary, told the hundreds who
jammed the arena’s auditornum
jammed the arena’s auditorium
and well-built for a community
of this size”.
He offered his congratulations
to the townspeople^ many of
whom he knew as a youth when'
he attended Lucan High School
for two years.
The scores of volunteers who
worked for months to make the
arena possible heard their efforts
praised by Thos. Pryde, M.L.A..
South Huron, and by Thomas L.
Patrick, M.L.A., North Middle
sex, who introduced Col, Welsh.
Mayor George A. Wenige, ac
companied by Aid, Allen Towe,
of London, said he was present
“to get some ideas” for the
arena to be built in London. He
congratulated the residents of
Lucan and the surrounding .area
on the “magnificent structure”
they had built.
Supper And Dance.
Irwin Scott, said by members
of the arena’s control board to
be “a leading' figure” in the
arena’s construction, was chair
man of the supper and the offic
ial opening. In brief opening te
rn a r k s, he congratulated the
many organizations III and
around Lucan who worked to
make the .arena possible.
Following the opening cere-
i monies, a dance, with music by
Adam Brock’s orchestra, was
held.
Entertainment during the
opening ceremonies included
choruses by Lucan Public School,
a rhythm baud from the primary
room; and a duet by Jean
and Gladys McRann.
Other Entertainment
Others entertaining were
Wilson, a solo, the Lucan
Choir, the Lucan Male Choir,
and trios and duets from the
tor and senior rooms of
school,
Members of the board of
trol for the arena are: Mr. Scott,
Harvey Langford, Alex Young,
Gordon Maines, Emerson Stan
ley, London Township, Hugh
To obey. Biddulph Township,
David Morley, McGillivray Town
ship, Mrs. Clayton Haskett, sec
retary, Roy H. Stanley, assistant
secretary and Donald Chowan,
treasurer.
Supper Guests
Guests at the supper precedin
the opening ceremonies included
Harold Corbett, reeve of Lucan;
Fred Dobbs, reeve of Biddulph
Town
reeve i
David
livray 1
W. A.
W. K. i
Bond.
Lynn
Girls’
ship; Lloyd Bloomfield,
of L o n d o II Township;
Morley, reeve of McGll-
Mr. Langford,
Sutherland, -county clerk;
Clawson, county engineer;
William Abraham, assistant agri
cultural representative;
Smith, Department of Agricul
ture, Toronto; Donald Waters,
reeve of Parkhill; and Karl
O’Neil, member of the advisory
board to the arena control board.
On Friday, a special program
included entertainment by the
Huronla Quartet, Joan RosS and
<361. D. G. Ross, of London,
Harry O. White, M.P. for East
Middlesex, Arthur T, Lennox of
London, and Robert McCttbbin,
M.P., for West Middlsex* as
Special speakers,
township;
E.
coil-
G.
j un
- This shy little miss all dressed up in a
i/
Flight Cadet
of Black
at
he
in
21,
A student
Alberta,
would have .received his wings
the fall.
The plane caught fire while
routine training flight.
•o men
make an emergency landing on
the airport. Henderson occupied
the front seat of the craft where
he was nearer the engine and
the fire.
The accident is being ivestigat-
ed under orders from Group
Catain W. F. M. Newson, com
manding officer of the station.
No results have been released.
It was the first fatal accident at
Centralia since the station re
opened in 1947.
Flight Cadet Henderson
earning his wings
University Air Training Plan.
This was the second summer he
had trained at Centralia and he
had about 150 hours of flying
experience. Under the university
scheme, pilots come to Centralia
to train during the summer
when terms are closed.
Flying Officer Wilson was a
fighter pilot during the war and
he has spent two years as as in
structor at Centralia. He has
1,800 hours flying.
chair-
School
in re
on
The
were attempting to
“I’M BASHFUL*’
new sunsuit is Sheila Bonnallie, daughter of Mt. and Mrs.
Glen Bonnallie^ Exeter. Sheila was one of the models at the
Beta Sigma Phi fashion show presented last week to aid the
South Huron Hospital Fund. The girls raised over $00.00.
—Jack Doerr, Exeter
School Sewer
William Middleton,
man of the Exeter Public
Board, waited on council
gard to a storm sewer from the
new Exeter Public Scho.ol. It
was decided to run a storm
sewer directly from the school
west to Main Street where it
will be connected with the storm
sewer lately installed which
leads to the main storm sewer
on William Street. Mr. Middle
ton stated that his board is will
ing to pay for a fair share of
l cost of required work.
Councillors Heywood and Web-
[Ster moved that Charles Dietrich
be engaged to install 1,000 feet
of 15-foot and 12-fqot storm
sewer on Victoria Street from
the new public school building
to Main Street. The rate of pay
for work was set the same as
for the storm sewer just com-
i pleted on Gidley Street.| The Public School Addition
By-law was given its third read-
i ing on the motion of Councillor
Lindenfield and Deputy Reeve
| Snider. The third reading was
; accepted and the by-law finally I passed on the motion of Coun
cillors Heywood and Webster.
Mr. B. W. Tuckey waited on
e o u n e i 1 asking permission to
erect a sign in front of his new
business building. Permission
was granted subject to the usual
supervision.
The following building permits
were granted on the motion of
Deputy Reeve Snider and ’Coun
cillor Lindenfield: Alf Wuerth,
garage: Mrs. ‘ “* ~ ‘ “
siding house: Mrs.
ton. siding house;
MacNaughton, verandahs and a
garage.
I
was
under the
*
Fund At $1,600,
Closes In Week
The Manitoba Flood Fund rose
to §1,601.39 this week with the
help of individual subscribers
from the district.
With the next issue of the
Times-Advocate the fund will be
closed and all monies • will be
sent to regional .headquarters.
All persons who intend to donate
but have not done so are asked
to get their contribution in dur
ing the next week.
Following is the list of ad
ditional donations:
A. E. Buswell
G. A. Hawkins
Herb Ford .....
Mrs. L. Kyle .
L. B. Hodgson, Centralia ... 5.00
Norman Stanlake ..................5.00
R. A, Crawford ......5,00
Mrs. Arthur Francis ............ 5,00
$5.00
5,00
4.00
. 5.00
Amelia Brierley,
Jane Shap-
Charles M.
(Youth's Paintings
Shown In Toronto
Murray Stephen, Exeter, spent
Tuesday in Toronto where he
was invited to the showing of
fifty-seven paintings on display
in the Art Galleries, Toronto, by
the O’Keefes of Canada
ed Contest.
His entry was one
from 576 entered from
England, U.S.A., and
The contest takes in
limit of 19-30. Murray is the
son of
R.R.3,
Unlimit-
selected
France,
Mexico,
an age
Mr. and Mrs. C. Stephen,
Exeter.
Mr, Gordon May of Hamilton
spent the week-end with his par
ents, Mt. and Mrs. William May,
Matilda Horn, St. Marys,
at the home of Mr. and
Mrs.
visited
Mrs, Charles Johns last week,