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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-08-09, Page 14I Phone 102 Stephen OKs j 14 , . TtmwAdvocat®, August 9, 1956 TAXI 24-HOUR SERVICE Wes HARVEY'S KOALKlDf TWECOAL-C SEASON IS HERE I' •"Shoot" your next coal order jn our direction and we will "Chute" some of our dependable BLUE COAL into your bin. Our efficient delivery will please you. i Preparations for construction of the Ad ms municipal drain, were made by Stephen council J Tuesday night. : Survey and plan for the drain • was accepted and court of re-1 vision set for September* 4. JI Clerk F. W. Morlock was authorized to apply for tenders■ 1 > for the excavation of 11,400 cubic IF syards of the open portion of the;; drain. !| Report of the township auditor j. was accepted. Reeve Jack Morrissey presided '/■ • for the meeting. . kI ---------------------------- I i. Dashwood News if ! -—Continued from Page 12 ' . spent last weekend with her. parents, Mr, and Mrs. Wes; Engeland., i I Mr. and Mrs, Oliver Graybiel, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Huband, j of Woodstock, and Miss Beatrice ; Graybiel spent last Sunday with ■ Mr. and Mrs. Wes Engeland. • Mr. and Mrs. William Haugh, I Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Taylor, of j Brucefield, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ashton and Bob McPherson, of I London, spent a few days at Grand Rapids and Lowell, Mich. I Miss Ellen Gilbert of Strat ford, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Courtney Bur meister. Mr. and Mrs, Colin Hendley and family, of London, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Reinhold Miller. Mr, and Mrs, Ivan. Taylor and boys, of Waterloo, and Mr, | and Mrs. Wendell Gamble and• boys of London spent Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. L. H. Rader. Miss Lorna Kraft, of London, spent a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Kraft, last week Mrs!1. S. Adams, London, spent last week with her sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Kraft. Mr, Adams spent the weekend and they both returned home, Miss Margaret Merner is spending the week with Eliza beth Bartliff, Clinton. Mr, and Mrs. Max Learn and Debbie and Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Wheeler and Danny, of Exeter, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Keller on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Keller, Karl Keller and Gordon Pear son motored to Caro, Mich., Saturday where Mr, Pearson is spending a few days. » z Used Trucks X PICKUP PICKUP '46 INTERNATIONAL % TON '51 INTERNATIONAL Ya1 TON Good tires, low mileage '50 INTERNATIONAL % TON '52 FORD ’/a TON PICKUP '52 STUDEBAKER COACH, new motor, green PICKUP McCermick-Deering Farm Machines Repairs and Binder Twine i s F. W. Huxtable | PHONE 153-W EXETER | Convict Two Drivers, I Dismiss Drunk Charge NEW PFS COMMANDER—-Wing Commander E, C. Like ness, who recently graduated from RCAF Staff College, recently took over command of the Pre-Flight School at RCAF Station Centralia. He succeeds Squadron Leader C. F. Wattie. Group Captain A. M, Cameron, right, con gratulates the new school commander. —RCAF Photo Loss Totals $3,500 In District Accidents Damage totalled $2,500 and two persons suffered injuries from nine accidents reported by prov incial and local police during the past two weeks. Larry HurneU, 17-year London youth, escaped serious injury when his car landed upside down in r, ditch beside a culvert on No, 21 highway north of Grand Bend early Sunday morn ing. The youth told police he was blinded by the lights of an on coming car and lost control. A car driven by Juide Van- We Can Help You! 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Phone SO . ......................lu'.iin' til CAP'ICMES Adding Machine Rolls For Sal# At The Times-Advocate. : Of the three traffic cases brought before Magistrate Dud ley Holmes in Exeter court last week two of the drivers who ap peared were fined and the case i of the third was adjourned to August 18.. j Lieut. Leslie Rosenthal, Naval officer, charged with driving i while his ability was impaired, (pleaded not guilty. j Constable John Forde g^ve evidence of finding Rosenthal’s • car parked across a laneway jin Crediton ■ 29 with headlights on and the key in the * ignition. Rosenthal, I who was asleep on the front seat, I was belligerent in word and i action when awakened and there was a smell of alcohol on his breath, the constable testified. The driver, was taken to the R.C.A.F. Station, Centralia, where he is on course, and spent the night there. Taking the stand in his own defense, Rosenthal told of drink ing in the officers’ mess and of having lunch there before leav ing for his horne in Grand Bend shortly before midnight, feeling sleepy he decided to rest before traveling farther. Two friends who had spent the evening with him corroborated his evidence. The case was adjourned until August 15 when the service of- ficer to whom Constable Forde reported the case, ,will testify. Van Laughton, defense counsel, asked to bring other witnesses on that date and his request was granted. Robert Lavery, Hensall, whose car went into the ditch and broke I a pole between Exeter and Hen sall on July 15 and. did not re port the accident for 36 hours, was fined $10, and costs, Donald Morton was fined $10 and costs as the result of a rear end collision with another car j south of Hensall when, his at- I tention was diverted from the | car ahead of him, by one parked on fhe side of the road. Constable George Mitchell re ported chasing a car on 83 high way at speeds up to 90 mites an hour on June 30. Gerald John son, driver of the car, who did not appear in court, was fined $25 and costs for speeding. Dismisses Charge A prominent Crediton seeds man who, zhis ■ doctor testified, suffered “nerve-shock and am nesia” following an accident on July 14, was acquitted of a charge of drunk driving in magistrate’s court, Goderich, on at 2 a.m. on June Thursday, August 7, Magistrate Dudley Holmes dis missed the charge against Ger ald Zwicker, manager of the Creditor! branch of Jones. Mac- Naughton Seeds Ltd., who was arrested and taken to Goderich jail after the accident Dr. M. Gans, Exeter, told the court that the conduct of Zwicker, when he was in his nerve-shock condition, was simi tar to that of a person under the influence of alcohol. Three witnesses testified the Crediton man, driver in a car which rammed the rear end of a truck near the town limits, did not appear normal. Cpl. Neil Chamberlain, head of the OPP detachment at Grand Bend, told the court that he had seen the Crediton man at his cottage before he left for Ex eter and that he _, iL -J dence of drinking on Zwicker’s part. , The .Zwicker car collided into the rear of a truck driven by Warren Sanders who was.mak ing a left hand turn into his laneway. Both cars were travel ling east. The Crediton man was taking Iiis wife to Exeter hospital when the accident occurred. Elmer D. Bell, QC, was de fence counsel. Crown Attorney H. Glen Hayes prosecuted. Witnesses included Ed Hunter- Duvar, OPP Constable John Forde, Jack Weber and Exeter Constable John Cowan. Fine Flight Cadet For Talcing Car An RCAF Station Centralia1 flight cadet, Fred Rawnley,. 18, was fined $25 and costs in Sea forth court Tuesday for taking another cadet’s car without con sent of the owner. A third Cadet, Robert Weather burn, 17, who was apprehended in the car with Rawnsley by police, was acquitted of a simi lar charge because he did not know the car had been taken without permission. Owner of the car, Paul V. Desroches/ reported his vehicle missing at 10 p.m. on Saturday. At 11.30 the car was stopped at the station gate by Cpl. Kenneth Smith, of the service police, and OPP Constable Cecil Gibbons. saw no evi- GIVE ME JUST ENOUGH GAS TO GET TO LOVER'S LANE 6 6 6 No purchase too small to get our prompt, courteous attention. No job too big for us to take in stride. Drive in . . . if it’s only for free air or water . * , get acquainted with our aimed-to-please service! ; drasco, of Windsor, suffered ; $100 damage when it hit a guard | rail after veering-to miss an on- ! coming car on No. 81 south of Grand Bend Saturday. Robert Irwin, R.R, 2 Seaforth, suffered a skull fracture and facial lacerations when his car struck a tree in the ditch on No. 4 highway south of Exeter Satur day. Damages to the ..car were $800.. Damages totalled $1,200 when cars driven by Mrs. Meta Seward, of Grand Bend, and Fred Hopper, Wingham, collided on No. 21 highway north of Grand Bend. ’ The Seward car made a left hand turn while the Hopper vehicle was in the act of passing. “• Car driven by Lloyd Milter, Exeter, received $150 damage when it struck a parked’ car in Hensall on Saturday. Miller’s at tention was distracted by a grader working on a side street. John McConnell, Varna, and Ronald D. Tillitson, Leaming ton, collided on No. 21 highway on Friday resulting In property damage of $600. McConnell was making a lelft hand turn into a private laneway when Tillitson attempted to pass him. . On Tuesday, July 31, Mrs. Blossom Thompson, Exeter, suf fered internal’ injuries when the car she was driving struck a tree. An inexperienced driver, Mrs. Thomson lost control as she was making a turn into a. driveway. Her husband and three children escaped injury. The car suffered $600 damage, A tire blowout was blamed for causing $600 damage to a car driven by Alvin Cottle, R.R, 1 Woodham, which rolled in the ditch on Highway, 21, J Flowers Adorn Lucan Ceremony White mums graced the altar and white lilies, ferns and can- delbra were ’used effectively in the chancel of Holy Trinity Church, Lucan, when vows were exchanged ,in a double ring cere mony, by Helen Barbara Howard and Edward Lee Blevins. The bride is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Howard of Lucan, Ontario and Dr. Blevins is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Blevins of Enid, Oklahoma. Rev. J. Prest officiated and Mrs. C. W. Hawkshaw played pre-nuptial music and accompa nied Mr. Harry Hoffman who sang “My World,” “A Wedding Prayer,” and while the couple knelt- at the altar “The Lord’s Prayer,” The bride given, in marriage by Dr’. Walter Rice of Stillwater, ■Oklahoma, wore a gown of white satin and illusion with fitted bodice, lily:point sleeves, a white satin tunic styled skirt over nylon illusion extended into an aisle wide chapel length train that was bordered with hand clipped, lace. A beaded tiara of seed pearls held her double finger-tip veil of silk illusion and she carried a satin ,and lace covered bible, hand embroidered with seed pearls and crested with a white orchid from which hung stream ers of white roses. The • bride’s three attendants were gowned in waltz-length white nylon lace over taffeta and wore matching tiaras of lace and net. Miss Patricia Watson as maid of honour carried a muH of matching lace crested with white daisies. Miss Joan 'Hodgins and Miss Barbara Marshall, ■ candle lighters, .preceded the wedding party carrying lighted white satin wrapped tapers and wore wristlets of white daisies. Mr. ,B. E. Blevins -of Enid, Oklahoma was his brother’s groomsman with Dr. D. R. Calli- cott 'of Lawton, Oklahoma and Dr. H. Shortt of St. Thomas ’as ushers. „ . Receiving guests at the re ception following the ceremony, Mrs. J. E. SproWl, aunt of the bride, wore a dress of navy blue cotton lace with matching lace hat and a corsage of pink de mure roses, The groom’s mother, Mrs, W. S. Blevins, chose a pink linen dress, white lace hat and a corsage of pink demure rose buds. Mrs. Harry Shortt was in charge Of the guest registry, wearing white dress and hat, blue satin stole with a corsage of pink baby rose buds. For the wedding trip* the bride donned a gold pineapple silk dress with matching hat and white accessories and a white orchid corsage. Dr. and Mrs, Blevins will he at home in Stillwater, Oklahoma after September 1st.’ where Dr. Blevins is assistant professor at the school of Veterinary Medi cine, A, &'M» College in Still water.Out of town guests attending the wedding were from London, Markdate, Goderich, Oakville, Detroit, Michigan, Cincinatti, Ohio, Lawton and Ehid Okla homa. I Hunter-Duvar AND SONS LTD. Phon® 38 ,! Exeter Blackbush School Scene Of Shower A Social' evening was spent at Blackbush School when Mends and relatives gathered i.o honor Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Wilhelm of Creditor!. Mrs. Wilhelm is the former Doreen Heckman, They were presented with a trilight lamp, a coffee table and has sock. S/L. G. J. Sweianor Sudbury Officer Chief Instructor Squadron Leader George J. Sweanor, CD, 36, currently.serv ing in the Directorate of Post ings and Careers at Air Force Headquarters, has been appoint ed chief ground instructor1 at RCAF Station Centralia, it was announced this week by air ‘force headquarters, Born in Sudbury and educated at Port Hope, Ont., S/L Sweanor joined the RCAF in August 1941 and after training as a navigator was transferred overseas. He flew on operations with the RCAF’s wartime’ 419 Bomber Squadron until March 1943 when he was. shot/lown after a bomb ing raid over Berlin and spent the last 26 months of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp, S/L Sweanor left the service in October, 1945, rejoined in April, 1946, and was posted to RCAF Station Summerside for a course in navigation. Upon com pletion of the course he was transferred to the Long Range' Navigation Flight Test Section at RCAF Station Edmonton. He returned to RCAF Station Sum merside in October, 1949, to take a specialist navigation course and after completing the course remained there until June 1952. He was then selected for flying duties with No. ,426 Squadron at Dorval, D.Q., and in March, 1953, was transferred to air force headquarters. Exeter Council —Continued from Page 1 St,, was withheld Until plans were submitted. Councillors reported a number of complaints about repairs be ing made to buildings without permits. The clerk was in structed to send notices to of fenders. , Clerk Pickard reported receipt of provincial government sub sidies of $902.80, representing the town’s share of the cost of oper- ting the county home, and $4,075, the unconditional grant from the gov’t. Council requested the engineer to make surveys for drains on William Street north and Simcoe street, SO that construction can proceed as soon as possible. Council agreed tj write off an account for $229.25 owed by the community centres board, which felt it-was unable to pay because of declining revenues. Approve Two More Siren's Council gave Fire Chief Irwin Ford permission to purchase and install two additional fire alarm sirens in the town. Chief Ford and Ed Hunter- Duvar told council that members of the brigade in certain sections of town found it difficult to hear the present siren, located in the town hall. ,In the event of a major fire, the brigade might find that it had only half its members out, the chief said. Councillor Ralph Bailey re ported oil sidewalk construction which smarted last week. Council has received com plaints about weeds on several town properties. The clerk was instructed to contact county weed inspector, William R. Dougall, who has power to order the weeds cut and the cost ad ded to taxes. Question of the adequacy of the number of fire hydrants around town was discussed fol lowing request from ratepayers for additional units. Councillor Bill Musser, a mem ber of the fire brigade, was asked to check into several lo cations wherfe protection was thought questionable. Council agreed to rent the town hall to the Orange Lodge for $60 a year for not more than 13 meetings. Regular rental fee is $5.00 per meeting. Dashwood Personals John Anderson of Thedford spent a few days with Margaret Merner last week. Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Keller, of London, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Keller and family, Mr. William Gibson and family and Mr. and Mrs, Ken Keller over the weekend. THEIR AVOWED PURPOSE "Why do we associate beer with the home? People drink beer in other places. Why hot include them?” We quote from a recent statement by the ad vertising, agency carrying the Home Life series of advertise ments of 'the U.S. Brewers Foundation. The, answer? "The home still represents- the greatest oppor tunity for the expansion of sales. The home is alsq the ultimate proving ground for any product, once it is accepted in the home, it becomes part of the estab lished American way of living. More beer served in American homes, then, means more sales, a stronger bulwark against the throat of prohibition, and greater social acceptance, and that isThere were 56,922 cases of measles reported u to Canadian why your advertising concern .in..,, 1955,', [.jf afc,s.r„pft ...tti.e., homn.*t Wanted '54 CHEV BEL AIR Two-tone red and white,, brand new tires," radio,’ tinted glass. '53 '52 ■'<1 CHEV SEDAN SPECIAL ..... $1/145 METEOR CUSTOM Two-door, , glass. radio, tinted $M iyi t*!) 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