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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-06-21, Page 1Experiment Eighty-S«cond Year . s-Jr • y '>7 - . THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE JUNE 21, 1954 Price P«r Cepy 7 Cent* » FREE CAR WASH—When its owner wept for a swim in the Ausable River at Exeter Riverview Park last week, this car decided to follow him in. Driver Wayne Welsh, Exeter, parked the vehicle near the water’s edge but after he left, the car slowly edged forward until it hit the steep bank, then plunged in for a dip. The car rolled about 50 feet into the river and was completely submerged. —T-A Photo Strong opposition to a proposed by-law restricting hours of oper­ ation for town service - was voiced’ in council Monday night. Debate arose over a stations meeting Debate arose over a petition 'from eight town" garagemen, and agreed to by three out-of-town, operators, to close all. but one or' two stations on evenings, Sun­ days and holidays. A delegation of three garage operators led by Ward Fritz of Zurich, charged the “big” sta­ tions were trying to put the “lit­ tle” operators out ■ of business. Fritz said the smaller stations would be forced to close down if the ,by-law went through. Both Mayor R.' E. Pooley and Councillor . Ralph Bailey were outspoken against ■ the proposed, by-law. The mayor said: “If garage operators, can’t run their own business, I' don’t think they should ask us to do it.” t Councillor Bailey stated: “I don’t think council should enter into ■ the picture at 'all?’ Fritz, who owns the .Supertest station at the corner of High- ^ways 83 and 4, said 'the large /garages don’t need to make their '’money oUf“o£ gasoline sales be­ cause they receive revenue from car sales and major repair work. “Why should they be so darn Grad Pictures In This Issue Portraits of this year’? South .Huron District High School graduating class ap­ pear on page eight. This marks the first time The Times-Advocate has pre­ sented the grads in pictures. The feature was prepared in co-operation with, the school and the graduating class. Portraits were taken ‘by pro­ fessional photographer Jack Doerr, Only graduate whose pic­ ture does not appear is Ger­ ald Rennie, son of Sam Ren­ nie, Hensail. A member of the SHDHS football team, he has’joined .the staff of the Bank of Montreal. Graduation pictures will be an annual feature of The Times-Advocate. v ; Fined $100 In Break-In A Michigan youth was fined , - $100 and. deported to the United States in magistrate’s court, Sarnia, on Monday following convictidp of breaking and enter­ ing a Grand Bend hotel over the. Weekend. . "''The youth, Allan Clive Hewitt, of Oak Park, and three com­ panions broke into the annex of the Brennet Hotel early Saturday morning and slept there during the night. The three companions - escaped police. Besides levying the fine, Mag­ istrate F. K. Jasperson gave the youth a 12-month suspended sentence. Hearing of 37 charges, mostly traffic and liquor counts laid by the OPP detachment at Grand Bend, has been postponed until Tuesday, June 26. Court at the summer resort was postponed this week because of the absence of Magistrate F. J. Dunlap. Two more coffstables have been transferred to the Grand ' Bend detachment for the sum­ mer months. They are George Dougherty, London, and D. A. Leedham, Tillsonburg. Two others, Constable Van'der Kooi, St. Thomas, and Constable Dart Higlery, Sarnia, will join the detachment on July 1. This - will rfiake a resident force of six during the summer. In ad­ dition, three constables Will be added to the detachment during July; and-August weekends. Corporal Noil Chamberlain is in charge of the detachment. hoggish that they hqye-to close up the smAU man who has to make his mopey out of gas.” “It's a dog in the manger at­ titude,” he said.. The by-law proposed that All garages, except' two during the summer and one during the win­ ter, close down for evenings and' weekends and that a schedule be arranged so that each garage Would take its turn providing service, during extra hours. Councillor Ross Taylor, who is employed at Snell Bros. Ltd., said 15 years’ experience is the •business had taught- him that “a .service station operator would be i00 percent further ahead to take his turn rather than strug­ gling along by himself.” If all of the garages stay open nights and on holidays, none them will make.any money, said. “I’m perfectly satisfied if 12 stations stay open, the inde­ pendent operations will be closed down. They’ll be better off under the by-law.” Two other service station oper­ ators who attended the meeting, Bob Malloy and Fred Bonnet, said -they didn’t think they could continue to operate if they closed nights and on weekends. Fritz said that a gas war was threatened if all operators didn’t agree to close down but that didn’t worry him. “Tel them it’s a free country,” he urged coun­ cil. “Let them all fight for busi­ ness.” The Zurich man, who owns a gas station, restaurant and used car lot at the highway intersec­ tion, said he was considering construction of a motel at the corner if, he received “fair” treatment from council. If" he wasxforced to close down his sta­ tion, however, he would lose tourist business during the sum­ mer. Council did not seriously 'con­ sider .the by-law because it had not been completed.' Clerk C. V. Pichard said it should be r: turned to the garagemen for more information. It was pointed out-during the meeting that most towns have a station closing by-law. Al­ though Exeter stations have closed in. the past, they did so by mutual agreement. “I think' it shouldl be left that way,” said Councillor Bailey. Mayor Pooley criticized oil companies for erecting too many garages in the community. A new station is being erected <at the intersection of 4 and 83 and another will be constructed north of the corner. - Suppliers of .gasoline products who signed the by-law petition included Graham “Arthur Motors, Snell Bros. Ltd./ Seldon Fuels, E.‘ L. Gibson,- Mathers Bros-. F. W. Huxtable and Exeter Motor Sales. Out-of-town stations- who- who agreed to abide by the .by­ law included South End Service, Hunter-Duvar and Sons Ltd., and Larry Snider Motors Ltd. re- Exeter council decided Monday night to start an oiling program for town streets. Council. authorized the road committee to spend $4,000 on oiling this year to compare this type of maintenance method with the gravel and calcium plan which has been used for many years. This budget will allow for approximately, one and one-half miles of streets to be treated with oil, - First streets to be oiled will be Andrew and William, which run parallel to Main. They will be given a primer epat imme­ diately and another epat of oil and chips in the fall. Proposal to try the new pro­ gram was presented by Coun­ cillor Ralph Bailey, chairman of the roads committee, who said he had investigated results ob­ tained in London, Mitchell and Listowel from oiling. He ’said authorities in these centres con­ tend the town is wasting money using gravel and calcium. Costs of giving the roads two coats of oil this year will be approximately $2,700 a mile. Councillor Ross Taylor stated; “Quite a few people are disatis­ fied with our roads. It’s time we did something.” The oiling program passed without an objection. Council heard • a complaint from former reeve, B. W. Tuck- ey, over gravelling of streets in the spring. He said people are “smothered” with dust and it wAs* impossible to keep it "down with calcium. He said during his years in council the gravelling wasn’t done until fall. “We didn’t con­ sider putting gravel downMn the spring.” Police Complaints ■ Town policing came under fire during council -meeting Monday night. Councillors reported a number of complaints from rate­ payers. * . • Failure to take action against owners of uncontrolled dogs; and youthful car drivers who race around town at nights were two common criticisms. Lack of pro­ tection for one of the local, res­ taurants which ;ha^ experienced, considerable -trouble' was also mentioned; . ’ . , * Councillor R< C.’'Dinney, chair- man of the police commission, pointed out again, however, that unless complainants are willing to. testify in court, police cannot take action on offenses they do not observe themselves, • . Council members felt, on the other hand, that police should ‘be able to apprehend more offenders than they have. Seek Tax Rebate Two representatives from the north end, Norman Hackney and Bill Haley requested the town to refund taxes paid on Queen’s Park for the past three ,years. Residents have improved the park and plan to use it this sum­ mer as part of the playground program. Council took no action on the request because of its late meet­ ing. . Building permit was issued to Guenther-Tuckey for a 50x60 gar­ age building near its present lo­ cation. Clerk C. V. Pickard reported he’ had received no word from the municipal board concerning council’s request to issue deben­ tures for $57,000 for the Morrison dam. A near-drowning at Riverview Park prompted council to ap­ prove erection of signs stating that swimmers use the water at —Please Turn to Page 16 . Court action over the Exe­ ter dump js expected to take place jn London towards the ., end of this week or early next week. Examination for discovery was held last Tuesday in Lon­ don when the town’s counsel questioned the plaintiffs, George Shaw and Rliiney Keller. Although there has been some talk of out-of-court set­ tlement, it appears both par­ ties want action to go before the judge. Council Monday night affirmed its stand that maintenance of- the local dump has been better than average. Shaw arid Keller are seek­ ing $2,000 damages each for inconvenierice, and injury to health, caused by smoke and smell from the,dump/ ■ The plaintiff’s actions also asks for • an injunction to • prevent the town from con­ tinuing to use the ground, Council has already pur­ chased 100 acres in Hay and plans to dump its garbage there shortly. W. E. • Bell, ’ of Wright, Poole, Spaulding, Bell and Porter, London, is represent­ ing the town. Acting for the for the plaintiff is Martin A. Bitz, of Lerner, Leiner Jef­ ferson and Bitz. Council Denies Funds, Board Demands Vote Property owners in Hensall will be asked to vote on a $120,000 school by-law as a re-<; suit of a deadlock between council and school board over location of the new building. At a special council .meeting Tuesday njght, the board made a formal request for the vote after council refused to provide funds to erect, the school on a new site On the south ■ side of the village. The ballot will probably be taken late in July. Voting will be restricted to persons, eligible to cast a ballot on a money by­ law. Month Of Meetings . Tuesday night’s action ended a month-long series of meetings during which council and school bard failed to come to agree­ ment on the site. Both bodies are divided on the issue. Councillors Harry Hoy, John Henderson and Jim Sangster op­ pose the new. site while 'Council­ lor Lome Luker favors it. Five members of the school boad, including Chairman How­ ard Spane, are behind the move to a new location. Trustee Jim Taylor is opposed. , Reeve Norman Jones has de­ clined to state his stand on the question. z Solicitor Frank Donnelly, of Goderich, attended Tuesday night’s meeting to - explain legis- at of he all Could Appeal Decision On Grand Bend Liquor Although Grand Bend’s liquor hangover "has been cleared up, applications for cocktail licences from hotel and restaurant own­ ers at the resort will not be heard by the Ontario Liquor Control Board until September, The Times-Advocate learned this week. The board will allow sufficient time for an appeal action on the decision last week which put the summer resort under LCA. Contacted Tuesday, the On­ tario Temperance Federation said it has not yet considered maxing ah appeal of thb decision to the Supreme Court of Canada. Controversy over LCA and CTA jurisdiction, which has held up the cocktail hearings, was brought to a finish when the On­ Convict Eight Drivers '•Jr In District Accidents Store’s Birthday Attracts Crowds Crowds jammed J. H. Jones Groceries for five days this past week as the firm celebrated its golden anniversary. Although food^bargAins featur­ ed the event, Owner J. H. Jones said another highlight was the reminiscing of patrons who have dealt with the firm during its J'long history in town. Rjfc The anniversary marked the aJMablishment of the store by ne present owner’s father, J. G. oonhs, when he moved from Winchelsea to Exeter in 1906. Unique feature of the Sale was the offering of 'five-cent bread, the price at Which loaves sold for when the stere was opened. , Draw winners included Mrs. JVilliam Thomson, Exeter, a pop­ up toaster; Mrs. Roy Lamont, R,R, 1 Centralia, an electric frying pan; Mrs. Wesley Neil, R.R. 1 Kirkton, a basket of groceries. In addition 46 shop­ ping bags of. groceries were given away. Mr. Henry Del- bridge, of town, was the lucky winner of a draw for persons patronizing the Winchelsea store Itirtit............................. Traffic accidents caused by careless driving, failure to yield the right of way and dozing at the wheel were reviewed before Magistrate Dudley Holmes in Exeter court on Tuesday. The most serious case in point of damages and injuries occured on April 26 when William Brown­ lee, RC.A.F. Station .Centralia, who was traveling south on.No. 4 highway collided with a cat- driven by James G. Wedge, Exe­ ter. The Wedge car was a total wreck and Mr. Wedge is still in hospital with injuries as the re­ sult of Brownlee falling asleep at the wheel and crossing over to the east lane of traffic into the path of Wedges car. Magistrate Holmes ruled that Brownlee was negligent, in driv­ ing while sleepy and fined Brownlee $25 and costs. Howard McDonald, 19, of Lucan had his drivers license suspended for six months and paid a fine of $25 and costs upon conviction of charges of making a right hand turn without giving a signal and careless driving. The youth, who pleaded not guilty to the charge, was repre­ sented by Elmer D. Bell, Q.C. Evidence of Wallace S. Davis of Belle River was that MacDon­ ald and another driver drove parallel to each other while traveling north on No. 4 high­ way on night of May 12. Davis made four attempts to pass Mc­ Donald but each time the driver increased his speed making it impossible for him to Pass. . McDonald then made a.turn to the right without giving a signal and Davis struck .the rear of his car. Constable John Forde esti­ mated the damage to Davis’ car at $278 dollars. He testified, as had Mr. Davis, that. McDon­ ald showed signs of having befen drinking. The youth admitted consuming several bottles Of beer prior to the accident. • Magistrate. Holmes said drink had affected McDonald’s actions and his faculties ahd summed Up the case by caling it a ‘wonder­ ful example Of bad driving’. William Sheppard, ’Kippen, pleaded guilty to a careless driving charge and Was* fined $15 and costs. His -car collided with a northbound car as he made a U turn in front of the store at Kippen on May 14th, causing an estimated $1,200 damage to the other car, J. L. AmoS, 81, R.R," 2 AilSa Craig Whose Car collided with one driven by Harold Fried, Petrolia, at the intersection of William ahd Wellington streets on April 18, was fined $15 and costs for not yielding the right Of way to Fried. Amos was rep­ resented by A. C. Brown of Lon­ don, ■ ' Leslie Davison, who came through the stop sign at the in­ tersection of the Cfediton Road and No. 4 highway on April 6 was fined $10 and eosts for caus­ ing $13? damage to a ear driven by Bruce Norman of R.R. 2 Ciinton. —Please Turn to Page 16 tario Appeal Court ruled in favor of the Liquor Control Act. Stage isnow set for hearing of the licences, which Grand Bend voters approved in 1953, but there’ll be no action taken until the fall, government offi­ cials said Tuesday. Although the board did not reveal« how many applications it has received, it is believed at least a dozen Grand Bend operators want to serve liquor. Most summer resort '.officials hailed /the Appeal Court’s de­ cision jn favor of the provincial act, with its tighter restrictions on liquor. Mor* Rigid Control Cpl. Neil Chamberlain, head of the' OPP detachment at the re­ sort, Said “LCA allows us to es­ tablish much more rigid control over liquor.” The decision, he said, will allow the detachment to .continue its all-out campaign against -open drinking at the re­ sort. Since the village voted- to join Lambton county, police have en­ forced LCA but there has always been some doubt about its legali­ ty after temperance officials in­ sisted the Lambton move did not take Grand Bend out of the juris­ diction of the CTA. Grand Bend Reeve Jim Dalton said there would have been little —Please-Turn to Page 16 'LEADS SOUTH HURON CRUSADE—Evan’gelist Cedric Sears, known as the “Walking Bible”, is attracting large crowds to the South Huron Crusade for ,Christ at- Zurich this week.,Over 900 attended the opening service Sunday night ahd 500 and 600 persons were present for Monday and Tuesctay programs. Officials expect the crowd to swell to 2,000 before the crusade is completed on Sunday, July 1. ' —T-A Photo Over 2,000 At Crusade, Four To Go In Coritest South . Huron Hospital is still four.babies away from its ' lucky one-thousandth, the infant which’ Will be showered With gifts from local merchants and hospital suppliers. Only three babies were born during the past week, an unusually small number for the local hospital. Had the number of infants been average, the lucky child have been born by now. It’s possible, howeVer, that there could be quite a race for the honors. Hospital of­ ficials say it often happens that after a lull there comes a rush Of births. . . If that happens thjre could be a neck-and-neck contest for the prizes. More than 25 gifts have been donated for the one- thousandth baby, including a silver cup which will be giv­ en by the hospital associa* . tion, ........ .. .................... Over 2,000 people have attend­ ed the first three services of the two-week long South Huron Crusade for Christ in Zurich to heaix dynamic evangelist Cedric Sears, of Wheaton, Illinois. Sunday’s opening night crowd, was estimated at 900. On Mon-‘ day the number fell to 500 but climbed to 600 on Tuesday. Rev. ,C. D. . Daniel, HepSall, president of the' crusade orgart- izatiqn, said size of the crowds was diving up to expectations. The committee believes the num­ ber will increase as the crusade increases. a The Bible-quoting Sears in cap­ tivating audiences with his sin­ cere, forceful sermons. He speaks on such current topics as atomic .warfare, civil defence, National and world happenings., He, is quite familiar 4with Can­ adian affairs. Representatives Attend Speakers at the opening ser­ vice included Rev. Daniel, Rev. H. E. Roppel, former president of the crusade; Tom Pryde, Hu­ ron MPP; Elston Cardiff, Huron MP; ahd Evon Hedley, Brant­ ford, vice-president of the Youth For Christ International and organizer of the crusade, Rev, Wes Aarum, of Buffalo, directed a choir of 150 voices ahd led the singing. Gordon Smith, of Buffalo, is soloist for the crusade, “As sure as you’re sitting there this world of ours will ex­ perience a terrible atomic at­ tack,” the Rev. Cedric Scars of Wheaton, Illinois, told the South Huron crusade opening night ^u^egg^^undajj^ugh^^Wlm arena in Zurich. “Those are not my words,” the Bible-quoting evangelist hur­ ried to clarify, but were said only recently here in Ontario by Senior Staff Inspector Creasy of the Ontario Provincial Police. Sears followed with the state­ ment of scientist Dr. Vannevar Bush that war of such nature can “only result in disaster to both participants, setting the clock of civilization back per­ haps 1000 years and delivering the World again to barbarism and pestilence.”' J The evangelist, who will speak nightly for two weeks in the cru­ sade, declared that it is the sci­ entist • and the politician-states­ man who have turned out to be modern-day prophets warning the people of impending doom. “Wn evangelists vsed to be accused of over-warning people of the doom to come, but they have Expect To Pave Road This Year Tom Pryde, Huron. MPP, announced this week that tenders have been called for paving of Thames Road from Exeter to Russeldal’e. Mr. Pryde said the depart­ ment of highways hopes that at least one coat of hard-top ping can be applied before winter, Tenders have also been called for paving of Highway No. 8 from Seaforth to Mit­ chell* ........ „ ;. ...... taken the ball away .from and are shouting it from housetops for all to hear.” The way out? “The answer to men’s . fears is in Jesus Christ as personal Saviour and Lord,” he said, re­ ferring to his text for his mes­ sage, found in 2 Timothy 2:19, ‘Nevertheless, the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, the Lord knowfeth them that are His. And, let everyone that nameth the name of Christ de­ part from iniquity.” Reviews. Civilizations | Scars took his attentive listen-' ers through the Biblical incidents i of Noah warning the world be­ fore the flood, of' Lot warning of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, of the prophets fore­ telling the captivity and judg­ ment of Israel and of.,John the Baptist telling of the destruction of Jerusalem- which followed the coming of Christ, “And we have a modern day counterpart in young Billy Gra­ ham,” he went on, “a man with whom it is my privilege to work and who only a few months ago stood on the steps Of the capital in Washington, D.C., and warned America and the world to repent and turn to God before destruc­ tion comes.” Using further words of Creasy in the matter of civil defense, Seats- asked, “Have you lulled yourself into (spiritual) apathy? Where do you stand as a Christ­ ian man or woman? Do you know Christ as Saviour? More important, as we see in our text, —Please Turn to Page 16 us the lation governing the rights of the board and council in the issue. He said the board had jurisdiction over the construc­ tion of a new school and the selection of its site but council had. the authority to refuse funds if J it did not agree with the board’s plans. Council, how­ ever, is bound to take the issue to the ratepayers Uf the school board asks for a vote. Trustees Bill FUSs and Doug Cook sponsored a written motion requesting the vote. All board members but Taylor supported - the move. Council accepted the' motion and authorized Clerk James Paterson to prepare for the vote. It also authorized lawyer Donnelly to draft the necessary by-law. Support for a new site, origin­ ally proposed by two members, , has gained strength since the controversy began, The first new location proposed was passed three to two by the school board * but when the issue was taken to council, this location was op­ posed and it was then agreed to build on the old school site at. the west end of the village on Highway 84. Council passed first and second readings of a de­ benture by-law to provide for funds for construction on the existing grounds and tentative approval was received from the Ontario Municipal Board. In the meantime, however, another new location on . the south side was suggested and this received support from more , members of the school board.- Council, however, still objected - to moving the site. The new location is on proper­ ty owned by former reeve, Alvin Kerslake, on the south side of town a block or more, east of the railroad tracks. The • old’ school is several 'blocks: west of the tracks. . ■ ' ' Declare Positions . . . f At the Tuesday night meeting; and to The! Times-Advocate afterwards, officials- explAined their stand on the issue. ■ Councillor Harry Hoy, who leads council opposition^' claims the new, site will. cost council thousands of dollars for , con­struction of roads, sidewalks and drains. He said council is. Will­ ing to provide funds for the'old site. but not for the . new. one., “The school board says public opinion is for the new. site but we don’t think it is. We’re will­ ing to take it. to the people.”Councillor. Lome Luker backs the new site. He believes a manufacturer might be per-- , suaded to take over the old school, providing a* new industry, for Hensall. Any services coun­ cil will have to provide for the new site will help to improve the village, he believes > and spark expansion towards the south side of town. Councillor John Henderson said he favors a new school but is against the site -proposed by the board because of the drain­ age problem. He said he sub­ mitted ' a counter-proposal to council to provide drainage for the area but it was not acted upon. Councillor Jim Sangster op­ poses both the new site and the new school. He believes part of the old building can be torn down and rebuilt. Trustee Jim Taylor said'-, he represented ratepayers west of the tracks who wanted the school retained in its present location. He objects to building the school off the highway be­ cause “no one will see it.” He also objects that there has been “too much outside pres­ sure” for the new location. He charged landowners interested in getting drainage for the south side of the village had exerted pressure for construction of the school there. Taylor said that by building on the Kerslake property the village Would lose taxes on this land but there would be no loss of revenue if the school was built bn the old site. —Please Turn to Page 16 Coach Moves Into Addition I Next week, General Coach l Works nf Canada Ltd., Hensall, will be operating the largest plant of its kind in Canada.. The firm plans to move into its new $86,000 Addition this' weekend. The 100x230 extension will give the factory a total or • over 50,000 square feet, more than Any other Canadian trailer plant, , .Men’will start Thursday to re­ arrange the plant. The produc­ tion line,'' which will carry 16 units instead of the former eight, will ho completely reversed with 1 construction star Ung at the south-east homer of the building and finishing on the north -side. The present pamt room and offices Will be knocked out. Manager Rill Smith said he hoped production would .start on the new line Monday, Night ■ shift will continue for' * week and then the management hopes , to. put the entire staff of 150 on day shift,