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PLACE •CONCRETE BEAMS FOR BRIDGE--Thirteen-ton pre -stressed concrete sections
'vtiere raised into position recently on the new $60,000 county bridge ' being erected east of
Creditoft. This is the first time bridge construction 'of this type has been used .in Huron.
,County Engineer Peter D. Patterson is in charge of the project. This unusual shot by Exeter
.'hotograliher Jack Doerr shows a worms' -eye view of machines lifting the heavy frames
Into place.. —Photo by Doerr
CELEBRATE. CENTENNIAL—=Over 600 former pupils and teachers attended the centennial
reunion at McFails School, Biddulph, on Saturday, • July 23. Two. school, 'officials and two
,prizewinners vier¢ an old picture of students at the' teacher's desk. Mrs. Wesley Watson,
seated).taught six years, longest of the former instructors who attended. Standing, left to
right, are Maurice McDonald, chairman of the sehoo1 board; Jack 'Blair, Calgary, who .came
the ,greatest distance; and James A, Turner,the secretary of the trustees, —T -A Photo
McFalIs School Graduat�.s
Answer Bell For Centennial
The son of the first teacher In
the brick school of S.S. No: 9
Eiddulph rang the •bell on Satur-
day, Suly 23, to call back former
pupils and teachers for a centen-
nial reunion.
Edgar Smith, ,of Midland, son
of William John Snnith Who
taught PetP'alls School. -two years
.and served as board secretary
for 30' years, Was one of the 600
who attended the activities at
1VIcl;talls ' e1iool on Baturdey: aiid
Sunday,
ler. and Mrs:, rack . Blair, of
Calgary, came the farthest for
the reunion; Hugh Carroll, 36,.
of Centralia, 'rocas' the oldest
arrant present; and Mrs. Wesley
Watson, Of Also, Craig; wag the
school teacher ,present with the
longest record of service—six
years. '
Prizes •also Went to 'Gerald and
xven Isaac, bf Toronto: and Lon-
don, : and Mrs. •Ron Pletcher, of
R.R. 1 Woodham, Who tied for
the honor of being the fernier
Pupil with the largest family
present, l,]ach leas four eh3idren,
Pred Dobbs,' 1954 warden of
1Kiddlesex and a graduate of the
echoole ^presided tot' the afternoon
and evening programs Ori Setur-
elar. •
Chairman of the school board,
M a u r i c e., McDonald, Secretary
James A, Turner end. Trustees
tr eorge Mclwa1la and Heber Davi;
,Jollied In erelcomlfg the Old boy;
and girls. -
.Among those who entertained
at the evening concert 'were Doris
Arthur, Grace Levis, Rudy Rabat,
Joyce McDonald, Judye Baskett,
the Stephen brothers, Eleanor,
Catherine and Keith Hodgins,
Mrs, Jack Coates, Audrey and
Joyce MoP'alls, :Allan Pilston, ]job
Cameron, Claire McFalis, ()Dnaid
Arthur, Mrs, Ross McPalls and
Prank Tiockaday.
Rev. .R. .Mills, of Sk1nts'bury,
Lose. 400 Hens
In Extreme Heat
Three to four' hundred laying
hells at the Geiser Poultry .Perm,
Dashwood, .died from the extreme
heat Wednesday afternoon. ,Loss
aptpeare t to be greater but a
nutixber of hens were revived by
spraying crater on thein.
The flock, 1,200 White Hocks
Which have beeti laying ter seve-
ral months, appeared to he iii
good 0ondition at 1 .p.nn. when
Leland 11:estetneyer, an employee,
checked them, When he returned.
et four o'clock, however, the.
hens were ,chokieg fel. breath,
Owner Don Gainer Was not
present; he I; staying at Grand
Bend. A brother, leek,and neigh -
bears poured water an the 'barn.
Remainder of the (look • lead
trucked away Thur;clay malraittg,
and Rev. R. Clarke, Centralia,
conducted the centennial church
service on the school grounds on
Sunday afternoon.
Ileaurice McDonald and Allan
Elson were in charge of the pro-
gram. Ladies who organized the
booths were Mrs. Charles Atkin
son, Mrs. Barry Carroll, Mrs. He-
ber Davis, Mrs. Orville Langford,
Mrs. Lawrence Hirtzol and Mrs,
Riney Heckman,
Miss Edna Noyes, or (Maede-
boys, is the present teacher of the
school,
Among' the former Leathers
who attended were Mrs. A. E.
Pask, ' Crediton; Mrs, Josephine
(Crawford) Tyler; Mrs. Edna
(.rlodgins) Itennedy; Mrs. Gladys
(Coursey) Ford; 1Vlrs. Edith J.
(Buswell) Teeter, Mrs. H. ((Ste-
vens) Godbolt, Mrs, •Mary (Bor-
land) Rowcliffe.
Hazel Davis Was in charge of
the registration, Pour hundred
signed the reunion • record.
Helen McDonald and Catherine
Elson conducted the sports.
Winners ot the peanut Strati.
ble were Douglas Fletcher, Wen-
dy Elston, Elvin Weiberg; races,
six to eight years, boys, Blair
Pletcher, Dennis Eves; girls,
bonnie Wat'5on, Geraldine Blair,
Itlgrid Tlieander; nine to 12
years, boys, Clayton Kodey, Rudy
labia, Robert liecknnan; girls,
be (mythe, Janet Malt's SYl
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EXETER, ONTARIO THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, �9
icials SI+
For 'Dam. -Bridge
Bar:.;IyTwo Weeks After Purchase
Resuscifator Baryes Four Swimmers
The resuscitator story at ,G;rand
Bend can •only be termed ` xe.
markable eeinoidenCe"
dletore the dire saving machine
was purchased two weeps ago,
the suppler 'resort had compiled
an exceptional recoil of accident
free, awbmming. 'Considering the'
thousands upon tho'useade who.
laved() the .beaches, swirginin•g ac-
cidents have been eurprislugly
few, Only ,one drowning ,has oc
curred in receat years. and that
was (believed a suicide..
Nevertheless, Peed for life-
saving equipine t on ouch :a potp-
ular beeell' was reoogaiizeed and
purchased by +means sof a corn-
munity campaign' organized bY.
ORP (Corporal •Neil. , c'hamnberlain
to July.
Only two weeks :after the pia
sisting •ia saving •a 'Detroit girl
Damage High
1:
In ,Accidents
Arthur Grant Roweliffe, 01.R. 1
St. Marys, was charged with
drunk driving after his pickup
truck failed to stop at the inter-
section of Highways 21 and 83.
and rolled into the ditch Tuesday
night.
The driver,- who was alone, was
not injured. Damage\to the ve-
hicle, was
e-hicle,was estimated at $350. OPP
Constable Jahn Porde • ievestigat-
Hits "Verandah
One car struck • arid, damaged
the verandah et an Exeter house
when cwo -vehicles 'collided at the
corner: of Sanders end Andrew
streets "Tuesday morning.
The car driven beeSydney N'eeb
of HA: ,2 Crediton,• careened into
the tout% of R., G. Seldon atter
it was struck by another driven
by Doewa: Bruinsina, RIR. 4,
Clinton;. NeaTl was travelling nor re
on Andrew and tBruinsma, west
on +Sanders. '
Damage Ito the cars was $1,200;
to the verandah $50. Exeter Pol-
ice Chief Reg Traylor investigated.
Leave Money In Till
Thieves took cigarettes, but
lett the money in :the till, when
they broke into the iStarlite Drive -
In .theatre, five miles east of
Grand Bend on Wednesday, July
27.
OPP ,Constable Cecil Gibbons
Investigated,' Thieves gained en-
trance by forcing the lock .of the
back doer.
A fainting epe1i at the wheel
•haspitaliztd Evelyn McMullin, 32,
of London, and caused •$800 dam-
age to ,her car an •Sunday,July-
2 4.
She was driving tthrough Cred-
irton when the car went out •of
control, struck a tree, spun
around and hit •another tree. The,
driverwas admitted to South
IIuron Hospital for treatment of
head laceratioass and X-rays.
A ,Sarnia ,man, Douglas R. Hil-
lier, lost control of his car in
loose gravel on a co tip
road
near Zurich on Civi Holiday.
The car flipped onto pts top in
the +ditch, Damage was $400.
The driver told police the was
trying to avoid another car which
had slowed down to make a right
hand .turn. Hillier came upon the
second .car as the came over the
brow of a hill.
Zari�c�i>i Car Rolled Over Twice
Lew,re ,Denomme, of R. R. 2,,.
Zurich, blamed faulty ,steering
mechanism for his mishap on
Monday. His car rolled over twice
in the ditoh a mile south of
Dashwood. Damage was 'estim-
ated at $250.
OPP Constables Cecil Gibbons
and John Porde investigated.
Hensall Kin
Active Club
Hensall Kinsnieu are tackling
two .major community projects
this summer—a, .period when most
service organizations take it easy.
- One project—the installation
of 'a floor in the artificial ice
arena—»has turned out to be a
"bot" one. Por almost two weeks
members have sweated at nights
under the scorching tin roof of
the arena removing sand from
the pipes in preparation for the
laying Of the Concrete.
The Kinsmen hoped to cdm-
plete their tedious lab by last
Friday but the tatk of extracting
the Sand stein the narrowly.,
sluiced pipet hits proven tougher
then expected.
Earl click, at Crotnarty, _will
lay the Concrete floor, 170x70, in
one •Oentinnou6 pouting lasting
14 hours. pier 800 bags of de-,
tient Will be used. ..
President-eiebt Bi11 Miokls is in
charge of the hips, ea project.
The I•1+entaii young mon are
firepar'ing for te tba g-itp Ontario
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hine was :brought to 'Lha village,
t leas helped in Saving four lives.
On tSunday,. Tiny 24, it was
credited with saving the :life of.
a Detroit man and ,definitely as
New Bridge
For Stephen
Stephen Council, meeting on
Civic Holiday, awarded contract
for 'construction of a bridge op
concessions two and three to
Clarence McDowell for his tender
price of $1,600.
The 12 -foot span will replace
the one oepositd the Preston
Dearing farm. The abuttments
have been undermined -•
This new contract is part of'the
township's plan to •construct a
.new bridge every year. The On-
tario Department of Highways
pays 80 percent oe the cost of
bridges.
Council passed a resolution
endorsing the plan for an $85,-
'000 addition to ;South Huron Dis-
triet High School. All munlcipale,
ties connected with the high
'school have approved tbe•propos-
al to ,provide more aocomodation
for an increasing enrolment,
at its July meeting, Stephen
approved a one -mill decrease in
Ftaxes. The rate was set at seven
'mills instead of the eight re-
squired in 1954.
Commit Airman
For Observation
LAC David P. Pear, 19, of
RGAF Station Centralia, charged
,with attempted rape of a Cred•
iton girl, was committed to On-
tario Hospital, London, for ob-
servation for a ,period not ea -
wading 60; day.s, by. Magistrate.
amiel1ey Holmes in Goderich court
Ttbursday morning.
Preliminary {hearing 'for "'ttil-
charge is scheduled for August
11 in Goderich,
"Phe alleged offence is saidto
have taken place at Turnbull's
Grove on Monday.
Pear appeared in E eter court
Wednesday when the hearing was
postponed until August 11. Fol-
lowing court, he suffered an ep-
Ileptic seizure at the police sta-
tion.
William G. Cochrane, Exeter, is
defending the airman.
and a London boy. •On Sunday,
July 21, •a doctor attributed the,
revival of a 17 -year-old Alvin-
•
stoo girl t machine,
i R the e +tn q
Q?rpvincial police •officens and
.Zdfegusrd Jahn Hicks, of 'Exeter,.
used the machine to revive the
victims. Dr. W. If. O. Matthews,
of Crediton ,attributed saving
of the Alvinston ,girl directly to
the •resuscitator,.
An adaptor which permits the
use ;of gomruercial .oxygen when
the supply of .medleal oxygen has
been exhausted proved :its value
on the first Sunday. When the
available medical oxygen liad been
used, pollee were able ,to ewitah
to •Commercial• oxygen to keep the
treatment going.
OPP ,Corporal ,Chamberlain
said Wednesday that the •surplus
funds ,from the campaign to buy
the resuscitator had been used
to pur'c'hase high-powered bino-
culars J or she lifeguards.
n
S
The Us'boree edam -+bridge pro-
ject received a virtual go-ahead
signal Wednesday when officials
of the Gated() Department of
Highways inspected the site and
gave their verbal: approval to the
scheme. -^
While other 'government bodies
must give their foranai consent to
the ro .! osal, it is felt there will
p p
be no major delays be#ore engin-
eering can' be started.
Arthur iSedgewick, consultant --
engineer on bridges for the On-
tario Department of Highways,
viewed the site of the dam. .on
Wednesday and told officials he
would arrange for formal ap-
proval immediately.
H. G. Hooke, .Secretary -field -
man of the Ausable River Con-
servation Authority, said Thurs-
day he expects all engineering
and financing details will be com-
pleted ie. time to start construc-
tion of the dam early in the sum-
mer of 1956.
C, P. Corbett, of Luton, the
Authority's engineer, hs Indic-
ated he will begin work on plans
for the dam at once.
The dam is proposed ort the
second and third concessions of
Usborne, about one anile east of
Exeter. The dam will create a
Heat Withers Cro.ps,
No Change Forecast
District crops are wilting under The acreage in Huron remains
the hot sun.
Canning . bean crap yield has
been cut by one-third; corn is.
short, white :beans are small,.
growth of turnips and sugar beets
is being hampered. '
H. K. :Penhale, manager of
Canadian Canners' plant, said
rain could still save quite a few
beans but the crop was already
down at least a third from last
year.
,Canning corn is quite short but
the crop can still she helped by
good rains: •
Turnip . growth is 'backward,
according t'a R : 1. Pooley•'of. Ex=
eter .Turnip ,Sales. =Seem fiei(is
have 'been wiped out by aphids.
Prospects for the white bean
eros are not bright. Drought has
cue the yield and will 'bring on
the, harvest two or three weeks
earlier.
The floor price set Wednesday
is 50 cents a hundred less than
last year. From now to December
31; the price will be $6.15 com-
pared to $:6.65 and from January
1, 1966, to August 15, $6.30
compared to $6,80,
Kent county reports a good
crop of beans which may lower
the price.
Both Drivers In Accident
Fined For C�riessness
Two drivers involved in the
same aecident were fined for care-
less driving in Magistrate's Court
here Wednesday mining.
Victor McMaster, of JR. R. 4,
London, paid $25 and ousts and
William Caldwell, R.R,3, iippen
$10 and costs. Bata •were involv-
ed in •a $2,000 collision South of
Kippen on July 20.
McMaster Chit the rear .end of
the tCaldwell oar as it turned in-
to the driveway of ,Wm. Kyle.
The London man was attempting
to pass when the Kipper driver
made •a left -hand -turn. Bath were
travelling south.
Magistrate Dudley 'Holmes rul-
ed McMaster should have, taken
more .care when he .saw Cald-
well slow down and edge toward
the centre line of the road.
The ,magistrate said that Cald-
well should shave looked •behind
hie ear immediately before •mak-
ing the turn. The latter testified
he had Checked his re r -view mir-
rot and saw a car 8'00 rods back
When he was about fifty yards
from the lane.
Lorne Hay, also of 1t, R. 3,
1Sippen, was driving a tractor
north at the time and testified
McMaster would have hit him if
he hadn't collided with. the Oald-
Well vehicle.
�. Iil.Riohniond,, London, acted
for Me1Vlester and ',Sanies Donnel-
ly, tGoderieh, : for Caldwell.
c4Sri•1liant .Te,he bewail, of ton•
C�r
Conserve
Commission Asks
Exeter Public 'Utilities Commis..
sign is Making another appeal to:.
'householders to eoiteerve, Water
during ` this exceptionally dry
period,
The coniini;situ says it its)' he
necessary to impose restr etiotS
If the situation becomes serious.
Supply has dropped trent 250
gallons a minute in June to 100
galtons a aninilte.
Aititing snob us4r to "please do
Your ,part,'' the comtnl elon re=
minded kerne toners that "the
nee' of Water for banns is OM,.
si<tered a itriVilege ttot a right"
done was sentenced to 40 .days
hi jail for impaired driving, It
was' his third conviction.
'Dewan was •found . in an in-
toxicated sleep behind the wheel
of his ear in the laneway of Wil-
fred Hankin,' Usborne township
on June. 8,
Leonard Wein, of Crediton,
was fined $25 and 'costs for tail-
ure >to observe the conditions of a
suspended sentence en August 17
1954, which required shim to keep
the peace for one year. Be was
convicted of asaulting his brother
Lloyd Wein, on July •20. He was
ordered to post a $100 bond to
keep the peace for six months.
Mrs. Jacobbi IBoersema, Hen -
Sall was fined $15 tor driving
without a license and $10 for tail -
tire to stop ,at an intersection.
Loss $8,000
� a
In Barn Fire
Maurice Spruytte, :of R. It. 1,
Clandeboye, whose barn burned
Sunday afternoon, •ostimated Wed-
nesday ,his losses would exceed
$8,000.
Destroyed besides the , 60x36
barn were 400 bales of hay, 1000
bushels of grain, several •calves
and pigs, about 100• chickens and
some equipment.
The owner 'plans to rebuild
the hart "as ;sboa as we can get
at "it." lie said the one that vali
lost !had recently received exten-
sive .repair.
• Lightning struck the building
during an isolated storm whish
hit the .area about 6 P.M. *NM
blaze was discovered iby a neigh"
bars Alton Isaac, who ran to the'
term and ga'Ve the eiettii.
Gerry .Spellytte, igen. of the 'Own-
er, said, the whole ValliWas
blazing_ Pram end to end"
when
he ,reached it. Attetnpts to rescue
the livest0ak Were,tl&W'arted by the
heat .and ,sinnke,
'Exoter and RrCAP. Centralia,
rite 07'ePeetnteets sated the toll
Shed and colony ,louse a ase tto
the building.
high despite losses caused by. wet
fail weather last year. Total bean
acreage in the province is up '20
percent, according to the Ontario
Bean Marketing Board,
Elevator officials at Hensall
report grain harvest is 90 percent
completed, Yield of all crops is
below normal but quality 1s up.
Wheat price has been up. It
was $1.39 on Thursday, compar-
ed to; $1.25 a year ago, Barley is
down. about 10 cents from last
year but oats remain about the
same. ,
To Remain In 90's
Nothing's ,going to douse that
hot ball ot "•fire in the sky for
several days at Ieast, says RCAI+'
Station Centralia meteorological
section. Temperature will remain
in the sweltering 90'0, •
The weather keeps setting new
records every day, Thursday was
the sixth consecutive day with
temperatures over '90 degrees.
The mercury reached 96.4 Wed-
nesday, hottest of the week. A.
thermometer 'plated in the sun at
the RCAF Station . registered
107.7 degrees. n
The bigh average temperature
for ruly was 75.9—highest „on
record. The lowest temperature
recorded for the month was 56.2
on July 2.
The rainfall was .68 inches
lowest on record. May -June -July
average precipitation was 3.12
inches. The normal average.., is
9.87.
1Some observers say it hasn't
been this hot and dry for 41
years.
orne
reservoir for water supply tar laXe
eter, provide a bridge for the
concession road for Usborne; and
serve as a flood -control tneasure
for the Ausable Authority. All •
these bodies will snare in its cost
as will the •Qntaxio Departments •
of Planning .and Development and
Highways.
Demisegovernment#ive
b d
f
ea
are InvolVed in the ceherue, a'
entails' considerable red tape.
The data is expected to be
about 26 feet deep, 20Q feet long'•..
and 20 feet =wide at the top, It
will hold at least 500 -acre 4051
or 106 million ,gallons of water,
Plan $12,000
Hydro Work
The Exeter Public 'Utilities
supply a. new grain elevator, and'
extensions and idxprovements to
the electric distribution system
during 1955, it was announced
this week by Chairman L. J. Pen -
hale. The $12,000 ileogram, which
has bean approved by Ontario Hy-
dro, will be .financed from avail-
able funds.
"The undertakings will enable
the Exeter Public Utilities Com-
mission to give its hydro cus-
tomers improved eleetricat ser -
v eandme growing
ic e t theneeds
of the community," Mr.. Ponhale
said.
Long ,mange laxpansion
, "Such activity" he added, "•is•
part of a long range expansion
program currently under `way in
the province to provide more effi-
cient electrical service • for hydro
customers .in both urban and,
rural areas, who are depending
more and more upon' electricity,
fora wide range :of conveniences. ";
The local program includes the
erection of a bank of three trans-
formera for •a dew line for the
elevator, and the rearranging .of
transformers in other +parts of
town .tee, cope with increasing de-
mande:
.
Thames Road
Contract Let
The contract for preparing the
final 'portion ,Of Highway S1 for
paving, has been let to a •St.Them-
as company, Huron MLA Tom
Pryde announced this week.
• The Keeler Construction Co.
will reconstruct .the six --mile
,stretch of the highway from t 'ar-
quhar to tRusseldale which will.
eventually be paved. The ,stretch
from Exeter to P.argwhar has !been
rebuilt and is awaiting paving.
The Sterling Oonstruotion 'Co.
of Windsor, has ,been awarded the
contract for paving the highway
from ,Seafortli to ,Clinton. 'The
Highway !Construction 'Co, or
Simooe, has been authorized to'
reconstruct the Seaforth to Dube
lin highway in preperattion for
paving.
RING REUNION BELL, George mortals, centre, a trustee
`of 11ie1;`ails School and Fred ,Dobbs, 1944 Warden: of Middle-
sex county, and chairman or the reunion program, ring the
sell at S.S. 0 Iiddulplduring the festivities. Margaret fffrtrei
one of the :aelool's present pupils, isn''t worried about getting
to her seat. , • -.—T-A Phofo