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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1950-12-14, Page 1EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, J9S0 Majority for McCann— DEPUTY-REEVE Majority for Swartz- COUNCIL residents cast their bal- Haist and Tiernan a 76 152 -225 Candidate Beaver .... Lawson McCANN ,. Morrissey .. F. W. of the ever Swartz, a councillor this will sit in the deputy­ chair after winning Gill ... Schenk SWARTZ Seventy-sixth Year CHIEF OF STAFF VISITS AIRLIFT SQUADRON — Air Marshall W. A. Curtis, Chief of Air Staff, discusses a pertin­ ent point about a North Star radio with Corp. R. B. Ras­ mussen, Exeter, in the radio repair section of 4*26 Thunder­ bird Squadron at McChord Field, near Tacoma, Washington. Air Marshall Curtis recently inspected the facilities and equipment of Canada’s airlift squadron. The Thunderbirds fly the Korean airlift between McChord Field and Tokyo with combat troops and war supplies. C.P.C. To Be Re-Opened The R.C.A.F, airport at Grand Bend is being reopened as an auxiliary base for Centralia air force station to alleviate the heavy air traffic being encount­ ered under the accelerated train­ ing program. A small ground crew will be housed at Grand Bend to give traffic control, snow removal, running maintenance and main­ tain the services. Tenders have been called for construction of a 108,’0-00 gallon water tank at the Grand Bend field, so that sanitary services may b^ installed in buildings. A spokesman at Centralia said student flyers will commute daily from the main base to Grand Bend, either by air or ground, and do initial flying training. This will clear the Centralia cir­ cuit for advanced training and the larger two-motored aircraft. Expansion of the R.C.A.F. pil­ ot training and initiation of the North Atlantic program has placed -a heavy load on facilities at the Centralia airport. Hensall Oddfellows Confer Degree There was a record attendance at the Exetex* Lodge of Odd­ fellows Tuesday evening for the re-opening of the lodge room after being newly decorated. The 'initiatory degree team from the Hensall lodge were present and conferred the degree with Harry R. Sherwood as the newly initiated candidate. Degree master Earl Campbell and Garnet Hicks provided the music while Percy Campbell oc­ cupied the Noble Grand’s chair. Assisting him were Vice Grand Stan Love; Past Grand, Ed Mc­ Queen; Chap., Alex McBeth; War., Charles Jinks; Con,, Chas. Hays; I.G., George Glenn; and several others. W. C. Allison congratulated the visitors and moved a vote of thanks. A splendid lunch of turkeyburgers and coffee con­ cluded a pleasant evening. i found old gent Santa Claus, that rolly-polly, rollicking, whiskered who brings cheer into the hearts of everyone, will make his an­ nual visit to ■ the district by plane and train to see the little folks before Christmas. Announcing his plans to make a tour of this part of the world to find out what the children want for Christmas, Mr. Claus, says he’ll be in Hensail on Sat­ urday, Exeter on Tuesday and RCAF Station Centralia, Wed­ nesday. Although unable to bring his wife, helpers and reindeer, who are busy at the North Pole, Santa said he was determined to see the children in South Huron before Christmas "O-ho-ho," Said he, "I miss those around Exeter. I want _ out what they want me to bring them Christmas eve." Santa will arrive in 3 p.m. Saturday and candy and treats at hall before the children __ shown free pictures. Members of the Hensail Legion and Chamber of Commerce have volunteered to help him. Then he has to go back to the North Pole for the week-end to see how preparations are going. But he’ll be back Tuesday after­ noon to join in a big (parade In Exeter. He’ll have a special sleigh-train awaiting for him and came, couldn’t dear little people to find Hensail at distribute the town are Rev. W.C. Parrott Inducted in Ed’s Imperial Open Next Week In this issue will be two ads pertaining to the gar­ ages. The one with the signature North End B-A was inserted in error—if should read 'Ed’s Im­ perial. Masons Elect Officers At the regular meeting Lebanon Forest Lodge evening the following were elected year: I.P.M., W.M., A. M. Easton; Sr.W., W. G. Cochrane; Jr.W., C. S. Mac- Naughton; secretary, C. L. Lang­ ford; treasurer, J. P. Bowey. On Wednesday, December 27, there will bp a joint installation of the officers of Lebanon For­ est Lodge and Irving -Lodge, Lucan, in rooms. for the R. E. of Monday officers coming Pooley; the Exeter Lodge the high school band will lead the parade of public school child­ ren from the south end to town hall at 1 o'clock. He’s going to bring lots of candy, nuts and fruit for children and he’ll stay in Exeter most of the afternoon while the kids see a free picture show at the theatre. He’s asked members of the Lions, Legion and Kinsmen to help him distribute the gifts. Being a very busy man, Santa won’t be able to stay overnight but lie’s going to fly back to visit Centralia airport Wednes­ day afternoon to see the child­ ren of RCAF personnel. The jovial gentleman is sched­ uled to arrive by special aero­ plane from the North Pole at 3 o'clock and Will be rushed to the station drill hall by the big, red fire truck. This time he’ll bring several of his helpers with him, and they’re going to distribute the treats. It’s going to be a wonderful time when Santa comes to South the the at 1:30 and one will leave Grand Bend at 1:15, to transport those children who do not have other facilities. After arrival at the drill hall, a special programme of children’s movies will be shown for 45 minutes. After the movies there will foe a sing-song and Santa’s arrival will take place. Santa is bringing several helpers with him from the North Pole, as well as some clowns, to help him distribute gifts to each and every attending child. A lunch of cookies, ice cream and chocolate milk will be served after Santa's presents have been distributed. As in past years, the Exeter Dairy and Hooper’s Dairy are very kindly donating the chocolate milk and ice cream to the kiddies. After buses will return Grand Bend. Santa decided aeroplane rather sled because he wanted to his reindeer a long rest before their big trip on Christmas rural kids at 3:45. The Christmas entertainment is being sponsored by the Exeter Lions, Legion and Kinsmen. the harness horse golden all-time is the first mare of tlie money to re- /r the party the to Exeter and to come than in by his give Eve. (Crediton correspondent) ; Rev. W. C. Parrott, formerly of Grand Valley, was inducted I as pastor of Crediton, Brinsley I and Shipka United Churches at < a service in the Crediton Church on Friday evening. Service was presided over by Rev. W. J. Rodgers of Hensail, who also conducted the induction in the absence, through illnes of Rev. A. Snell, of Exeter. A native of Toronto, Mr. Par­ rot was Inducted at Emmanuel College and was ordained by the Toronto Conferance. He served in Monteith, in Cochrane Presbytery, prior to his term in Grand Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Par* rott have one one son David, now a student in Exeter High School. Large Congregation A large congregation greeted the newly inducted pastor Rev. Parrott, in the United Church Sunday morning. Two beautiful baskets of mums adorned, the ■Chancel, placed by Mr. Fred Waghorn and family in Memory ♦Of the late Mrs. Waghorn. The annual Christmas Party for the children of Hensail and district will he held at the Town Hall on Saturday, December 16, at 2 p.m. Santa Claus will arrive with treats for the children, after Which a picture show will be held in the Town Hall. The party is sponsored by the Hensail Chamber of Commerce and the Hensail Branch of Canadian Legion. In Exeter Parade A special sleigh-train will be ready to carry Santa Claus in the public school children’s par­ ade in Exeter next afternoon. The "Santa comprising an engine sleighs, will be led by school bugle band. All public school children Exeter and the district have invited to join in the procession. The parade, which starts at the south end pillars at 1 o’clock, will travel to the theatre where children will be treated to a free show and Santa Claus, of anxious to find children want for he’ll foe talkihg to them during the afternoon. The free pictures, which will include comics and cartoon shorts, will be shown to Exeter children at 1:30 and to the Hodgins Gets Credit For Proximity Success Proximity, queen of the trot­ ters, is year. The winner ceive the top honor of sulky turf- dom. And no small share of the credit is due to Clint Hodgins, the 44-year-old veteran reinsman from Clandeboye, Ont. I-Iodgins, acknowledged one of the top drivers in Grand Circuit competition who learned his trade on the fall fail* circuit in Western Ontario, drove the daughter of Protector and Agnes Worthy in most of her many vic­ tories this year. Proximity’s owners, Ralph and Gordon Verhurst of Victor, N. Y. give Hodgins the credit fox* deve­ loping the mare from a "misfit" into the champion she is to-day. the than 700 children Tuesday Special1’, and three the high from been treats. course, will be out what the Christmas and On Their Way To Korea Confined To Home Mr. Thomas Pryde, M.L.A., has been confined " ~ the past week suffering from tlid flu. to his home for of RCAf Station Centralia person­ nel are eagerly awaiting the ar­ rival of Santa Glaus on the 20th of December. The jovial gentle­ man is scheduled to arrive by special aeroplane from the North Pole at 3 o’clock In the after­ noon. He Will be rushed from his aircraft to the station drill hall by the big, red fire truck. At the drill hall, all the kiddles will be waiting to tell Safita what they expect from him on the 25th. I Two buses will leave Exeter •if George Layton Honoured At 9 Total REEVE Bestard HAIST McGregor TIEMAN WEBB ... Elected—Webb, Popular Staffa Youth Killed In Fall Down Quebec Mine Plunging several hundred feet ton, Cromarty. The body will in the Consolidated Beatty Gold i brought to the home of his par- Mines at Duparquet, Quebec, Roy { Laverne (Manny) McKellar son son of Mr. and Mrs. Lome Mc­ Kellar of Staffa was killed on Saturday night. The former 20-year-old district youth was working on a shift Saturday when occurred. According reaching his parents, lar was overcome by mine which resulted down the shaft. He was to have died instantly, quest was scheduled to Monday. The McKellar youth left Staffa to work in the Quebec mine only two months ago. Born at Staffa, February 8, 1930, he attended Staffa School and Mitchell High School. Be­ sides his parents, he is survived by three brothers, Alton (John) of Kirkton; Ross (Jim) and Ken­ neth, of Duparquet, Qne., one sister, Mrs. Ross (Jean) Hough- night mishap reports McKel- gas in the the fall reported An in­ open on the to Mr. in Airmen’s Lounge Opens Friday The n e w 1 y-constructed Air men’s Social Centre at R.C.A.F. Station Friday. The gutted used by airmen for entertaining their wives and girl friends. Constructed with plywood walls and tile floor, the lounge has modern decorations and leather-upholstered furniture. It is part of the R.C.A.F. program to make comfortable quarters for personnel. The opening was originally scheduled for Air Force Day, June IO, but fire, believed start­ ed by a blow torch, damaged a part of the construction. During the war the building was used for a Women’s Divi­ sion Canteen. After the war it served as emergency married quarters. Centralia -will open on large lounge, which was by fire in June, will be be ents at Staffa for funeral serv­ ices. Interment will be in Roy’s cemetery, Fullarton township. He was employed at Staffa Co-operative Creamery and at Black Creek Creamery, south of Seebach’s Hill before going to Quebec. He was an adherent of Cromarty Presbyterian Church. A sports enthusiast, he played for Staffa Juvenile baseball team He was well known locally as a musician playing violin and gui­ tar. Kinsmen Hear Of who has of Main after 19 presented set at a Mr. George Layton, resigned as treasurer Street United Church, years of service, was with a pen and pencil congregational supper sponsored by the W. A. W. Martin spoke of Mr. Lay­ ton’s service and M. Quance pre­ sented him with a gift. In reply, Mr. Layton regretted that ill health had forced his re­ tirement from office. He has been succeeded by R. E. Russell Local Nurse To Study In Chicago Miss Birdine McFalls R. N. a graduate of Stratford Hospital Nursing school, is leaving next week for Chicago where she Will I enter the Chicago Lying—In Hospital on December 21st, to study Post Graduate work in ■Obstetrical Nursing. Miss McFalls is spending a (few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex McFalls in Bid- |dulph before leaving for Chicago. Seasickness, Close Quarters, Bald Heads Rough weather, seasickness and cramped quarters on a small boat are described in a letter written by Private Bob Nicol of the Princess Pats batallion in Canada's special U.N. brigade how bn their Way to the Korean war zone. (A news report Wedxiesday Said the Pats hama, Japan, to the Korean mediately). Bob, employed by The Times- Advocate before he joined the service, is the son of Mrs. La­ verne Wells. Another Exeter youth, Carl Schwalm, is ixi the same battalion. The letter* written to Bob’s landed in Yoko- and would move front almost im- mother, is dated November 29. "We are now five days Out at sea. We left for Seattle from Fort Lewis Saturday morning and sailed about noon. There were two bands there "to give us a farewell party. "I was pretty sick for the first couple of days. Most of the fellows Were ill and some still are. We are on a small boat called ’Private X P. Martinez’. It tosses around oxi the water like a cork. The water was pretty rough for awhile. "Our quarters are really cramped. We sleep in bunks four high. There ate American troops aboard the ship with us. Carl (Schwalm) and I are the only Exeter boys aboard the ship. i Alonzo McCann, formex* reeve of Stephen for six years, bounced ■back into the limelight Monday when he defeated three other candidates for reeveship in one pf the biggest elections in the township’s history. In his victory Reeve-elect Mc­ Cann piled up 429—111 more than his closest rival, John Mor­ rissey, councillor during the present term. Elmer Lawson, reeve this year, obtained 29 6 ballots, while the sitting deputy-reeve, Henry C, Beaver, polled a total of 280 votes in his attempt to move up to the reeve’s chair. According to Clerk Morlock, it was one heaviest-voting elections held in the township. A total of 1,323 " ...... lots, Roy year, reeve’s three-cornei’ contest. Piling up an early lead and staying in front all the way, Mr, Swartz’ 642 than two 417, 226. Stewart Webb, Wellington and Addison Tieman won a seat on council in the five-man race. All three were making their first bid for office. Mr. Webb headed the polls with 789, a majority of 91 over Wellington Haist. Trailing Mr. Haist by nine votes was Addison Tieman of Dash­ wood. Defeated were Isaac Bes­ tard and Charles McGregor, sit­ ting councillor. Mormon Church Characteristics peculiar to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints were outlined to members of the Exeter Kinsmen Club Thursday night by two mis­ sionaries of the sect who are working in Exeter. A. Matson -and D. Call, two laymen in the "Mormon" church were guests of the club. Both, they explained, were serving a two-year missionary term which all their church members are required to serve at their own expense and with only a ten-day preliminary train­ ing. Mormons are proud, said Mr. Matson, of their welfare plan which flourished in the Western States and Canada. The church owns canning factories, coal mines, farms and industries which are worked by donated labour. Profit from these enter­ prises goes into a church wel­ fare fund to help the needy. D. Call explained their church was 120 years old, and based on the book of Mormon, a historical record, like the Bible, only of the people of the North Ameri­ can continent rather than of Asia. "It is a record of the peo­ ple of the forefathers of the North American Indian," he said. There were, he explained, no paid ministers in the church and each member was expected to lead his -congregation at some time. A Bishop, however, was appointed by the church and re­ sponsible for the organization in the parish. I The club approved, sponsorship I of a minor hockey team under jthe direction of Provincial Con- 1 stable Bill Coxworth. Kin John i Christie and Ken Cudmore were I i "A lot of the fellows are hav­ ing the hair shaved off their heads. I guess they are afraid of the lice meh had citis last stop the operated "We have a paper published aboard ship every day so we keep right up with the news. There is a theatre on board and we see a different show every other night. We hate to wash ahd shave in cold salt water, "The ship is stopping in Pearl Harbour for water so this letter will be mailed from there, it was fairly warm out today and we laid out oh the deck in the ■sun?* in Korea. One of the an attack of appendi- night and they had to ship white the doctor on him. votes were only one less the combined total of his opponents, Willis Gill with and Nelson Schenk with Relative Accident An uncle and his nephew, both of Zurich, got tangled up together in an accident last week. Moses Erb was driving a truck when he made a left hand turn in front of a car driven by his nephew Albert. Damage to the car was $800, to the truck $275. P. C. Elmer Zimmerman investigated. Children Baptized At James Street The following children were baptized in James Street Church on Sunday afternoon: Gord Edward Michael, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Schiller; Ronald Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Neifer; Larry Lum­ an. and Clair William, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cowles; Ronald George, Sherril Georgina and Darlene Marilyn, children of Mr. and Mrs. George Douglas; Robert Bruce, Roderick James, and Reginald Hugh, children of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Rutherford. Passes Examination Miss Helen Shapton, who cently tried the senior grade singing of the University Western Ontario, has passed suc­ cessfully. re- six of Capacity Crowd Accl aims London All-Girl Choir Last Wednesday evening a near-capacity audience in James Street Church, Exeter, enjoyed a Festival of Christmas music presented by the London all-girl choir under the direction of Mr» Earle Terry, Mr. Terry divided his programM ♦u.j,« ....... u... ......... u ,............. JLJX’U&iL itllAappointed manager and secretary- ■ into three groups: first of which treasurer. Actual house-numbering, a project of the club, will not take place until the now year, vice- president Don SoMtlieott report- led. The town map is prepared rand, subject to council approval, Kinmen would erect numbers on the houses for a small fee from owners. President Warren Sanders Was in charge of the meeting. Kin Don T r a q u a i r introduced the speakers. Kin Ernie Williams, of the London club, was a guest. Two Fined For Minor Offences Stanistau Stankiewier, a recent European emigrant Working for Jensen’s Planing Mill, was fined $10 and costs oh Tuesday when he was convicted of making an improper left hand turn. Seth Winer, .pleaded guilty1* of careless driving on November IS the cut the prize Went to the lat- a transport truck, and was fined $10 and costs. Court was held in Exeter town hall with Magistrate Dud­ ley Holmes presiding. was music for worship which | consisted of a group of original land very early carols by Pole- i striae, Bach, Schubert and Tschaikovsky, of these the Greek Orithodox Chant "Hospbdi Pomi- lure" (Have Mercy on us Lord) was outstanding for its shading had technical accuracy. The con­ ductors explained the background and setting of each carol. This group was followed by a selection of carols of many na­ tions including "Away in a Man­ ger" which was most beautifully sung, At this point Mr. Terry Very graciously added to his program What he called a "Christmas ; Box" of selected numbers which. have always been well received elsewhere. Included were his own arrangements of "Cornin’ Thur the Rye" and "The Whist- ting Girl" which brought most enthusiastic and spontaneous ap­ plause. The closing group on the pro­ gram was of four "moderns’’—- "Winter Wonderland", "White Christmas" and "The Sleigh’’. ■ The Concert flttinglly concluded When the audience joined the : Choir in singing “Silent night," -—Please Turn to Page Seven.