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THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE, AUGUST 30, 1956
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Eighty-Second Year
SHDHS Record Enr
. I’ RETURN TO CLASSROOMS—Dianne Ryckman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wes Ryck-
J man, Exeter, will be one of 200 public school graduates in the area which will enrol
in grade nine.at SHDHS next Tuesday wheh school opens for another term. The
’ district high school expects a record enrolment of 540 and is prepared to set up
emergency classrooms to provide accomodation until the new addition is completed.
Public school students will also return to their studies on Tuesday. >—T-A Photo
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v QUEEN CANDIDATES—Contest to select a “Bean Queen” will be one of the hjgh-
>'lights of the Ontario Bean Festival, sponsored" by Hensall Kinsmen Club, on Labor
i Pay. Two of the candidates, Greta Pfaff, Cromarty, and Gladys Baker, Hensall, look
' forward to the competition in the hopes of winning some of the valuable prizes of
fered to winners. The Festival, third sponsored by the Kinsmen- Club, will also
feature band concerts, horseshoe tournament, an evening vaudeville show and a
home-cooked bean supper. > . —T-A Photo
Cook Quarter-Toil Beans
To Feed Festival Crowd
Hensall Kinsmen are prepar-i and evening, the Kinsmen hope
inig to bake over a quarter of to attract a record crowd to
a ton of beans on Monday to -------1 --------i:'"'
feed an ■ anticipated crowd of
4,000 people at their third an
nual Ontario Bean Festival.
Offering a- more extensive
program, both in the .afternoon
SHDHS Graduate
Wins Scholarship
Scholarship for admission to
• University College of University
of Western Ontario has been
awarded to Katherine Ondre-
jicka, R.R. 1.Centralia, who led
the graduating class at SHDHS
this year.
The, Centralia girl was one of
28' students in Western Ontario
to receive the award, which is
valued at $200.
Rose Siemon, of Seaforth Dist
rict School, and Harold Atkin
son, of St. Marys District Col
legiate, received similar awards,
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^Crowds Celebrate
' Store's Birthday •
Celebration of the tenth anni
versary at Darling’s IGA Market
last Week drew the biggest
crowds in the store’s history*
Customers jammed the store to
take advantage of food specials
offered during the anniversary.
Friday night, the check-out lines
stretched from the front to the
rear of the store.
The event marked purchase of
the meat business of Joe* Hunter
by William Chambers arid Fred
Darling in 1946, Since then, Fred
Darling has become the sole
owner ahd the business wm, ex-
their annual promotion of the
bean, an important product of
the agricultural area around
Hensall.
. In addition to 560 . pounds , of
beans, Kinsmen have ordered
120 pounds of pork, 700 pounds
of cabbage; five bushels of
tomatoes; six crates of celery;
three bushels of cucumbers; 50
pounds of coffee and. 75 gallons
of chocolate milk to feed the
crowd.
„A new feature of the Festival
this year, the selection of a
Bean Queen, has already at
tracted a number of entries
from district girls arid club of
ficials expect more before the
deadline date of August 31.
Winner Gets'$50,00
Winner of the contest will re
ceive a prize of $50 in cash, do
nated by General Coach Works
of Canada^ and runners-up will
get attractive gifts from Hensall
merchants. The prizes include an
electric razor from Drysdale
Hardware, make - up ensemble
from Middleton’s Drug, and
other gifts from Goodwin’s, Bon-
thron’s, Irwin’s Ladies’ Wear
and Christie’s.
The festival will start with a
monster* procession, similar to
the one last year which was one
of tlm largest over staged in the
district. Six bands will be fea
tured including , the Goderich
Girls Trumpet Band, the London
East Lioris_ Club concert band
and the’
Band.
During
standing
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Kroehlcrs, will stage an exhibi
tion game. The O’Kocfe horse*
shoe tournament for Western
be featured.
Also on the program are con
certs by the bands, a midway,-
arid movies.
In the evening, the Goderich
Girls Trumpet Band will present
a drill demonstration, followed
by a variety show featuring
TV personalities. The Bean
Queen will be crowned and a
dance will conclude the fes
tivities. <
Silverwood’s of London, have
donated five gallons of ice cream
to be given away as gate prizes
during the day and Mr. Fields,
of the Maitland Club has donat
ed a pig which* will be drawn
for that day.
Professor J. C. Sveckly, di
rector of the Western Ontario
Agricultural School and Experi
mental Farm, Ridgetown, will
officially open the festival fol-
-lowing the parade.
Exeter Legion Pipe
the afternoon, two out-
girls1 softball teams.
Dodgers and Stratford
Early Paper
Next Week
Despite the Labor Day hol
iday on Monday, The Times-
Advocato, plans to publish on
Thursday morning next as a
service to readers and ad
vertisers. -
Now printing process em
ployed by the newspaper now
permits it to bfe published on
Thursday despite the delay
of a holiday at the first of
the week. Formerly, the
Times-Advocate was distrib
uted Fridays when there was
a holiday on Monday.
Advertisers a n d corres
pondents are asked to submit
their copy early next week
to facilitate the early pub*
Contractor R. A, Blyth, of To
ronto, said Wednesday he may
not be able to start construction
of the Morrison Dam for at least
a month because of delay in
awarding of the Ausable Authori
ty contract.
He said options on steel and
other building supplies had to be
given up last week and there
may be difficulty in securing
them now.‘'We’d be on the job Tuesday
if we could get the steel but
companies are quoting eight to
ten months delivery,” the con
tractor stated.Negotiations with • the Ontario
government and with municipali
ties involved in the conservation
and vater supply project have
delayed the awarding of the con
tract. E. S. Livermore, QC.^of
London, the Authority’s sohei-
tor, said the contract was mailed
to Blyth Wednesday morning.
“We’re disappointed we didn’t
get on the job three weeks ago,”
said Mr, Blyth, “but we weren’t
able to go ahead without a con
tract.” He said his firm has ac-
ceived 10 new contracts since
he bid for the dam job.
Authority officials 'said this
week Mr. Blyth had asked for
an additional $5,000 for the job
because of increases in the price
of steel. Because his tender con
tained no escalator clause, how
ever, officials planned to hold
him to his original bid of $163,-
525.
Fence Reservoir Area
In the meantime, the Authori
ty is making preparations for
construction of the dam. Fence
is being erected around the 70
acres in Usborne which have
been expropriated by the Autho
rity for the reservoir.
Notice of expropriation first
appeared in The Times-Advocate
last week. Owners have 30 days
in which to file a claim for com
pensation.
Owners include Bill Kernick,
William Chambers, Garnet Fray-
ne, Mervyn Dayman and Mrs,
Iona Hayter.
Anticipated . record enrolment ’ tural science and home econo
imics respectively; and Miss H.
I Goldstein, social studies and
history.
Construction of the addition to'
the west end of the school will | disrupt activities for awhile.
Cafeteria service will not be of-
Ifered until at least two weeks {after school starts because
■ water and hydro services are
being changed,
Officials estimate no addition
al busses will be necessary to
transport the increased number
of students from the rural areas.
The eight vehicles will start out
on the same routes as last year
but the routes will be changed
later, if necessary, to provide
more suitable accomodation,
In addition to the teachers
named above, the staff* will in
clude Principal H. L. Sturgis,
music and French; Mrs. Claude
Farrow, junior English; W. L,
Henderson, mathematics; E. D.
Howey, commercial; G. C. Koch,
library and art; J. M. Mahon,
; science; R. F. Mereu, mathe-
! matics; G. M. Mickle, physical
! training; Mrs. C. Nichols (for-
jmerly Miss Shaughnessy who
i was married this summer),
junior English; K, Ottewell,
manual training; C. J. Porter, .
senior English; M. C. Sanders,
social studies and history; Miss
L. G. Siegner, physical training;
C. Wilson, French; Mrs. C. Wil
son, Latin; J. L. Wooden, social
studies,
Cafeteria staff includes Mrs.
Albert O s 11 a n d, Mrs. Elmer
Reeder, Mrs. George Tinney and
Mrs. Jessie Berenas. In charge
of maintenance are Russell Col
lingwood, Gordon Parker and
Moses Beckler,
of 540 at SHDHS next week has
forced the school to take emer
gency measures for accomoda
tion pending the completion of
the five room addition, construc
tion of which has just started.
Portable blackboards have
been secured in order to set up
temporary classrooms in the
gymnasium, the board room and
the upstairs corridor.
* The 10 percent jump in enrol
ment may increase the number
<?f classes by two, although the school hopes to absorb the in
crease by enlarging the size of
the classes.
Close to 200 public school
graduates in the district are
expected to enrol in grade nine,
necessitating at least six class
rooms. There will be four or
five grade . ten rooms, three
elevens, two grade twelves, one
thirteen and one special com
mercial.
Twenty-one teachers will be on ’
the staff this term, two more {
than last year. The instructors
will include three married
couples.
N,ew teachers are Mrs. Andrew Djx'on, wife of the agriculture
teacher, who will instruct com
mercial; Mr. and Mrs. Bruce
D. Perr.v, 1956 graduates of
O.A.C. who were wed this sum
mer and who will teach agricul-
Model Valley
Plan Ready
Report recommending the de
velopment of a “model valley”
in the Ausable watershed will be
completed this, fall, Authority
Secretary-Fieldman H. G. Hooke
announced this week.
The report, prepared by offi
cials of the Ontario Department
of Planning and Development,
will cover 1,000 acres of .farm
land in the Denfield Creek area.
It was recommended proper* r. n. ci; - farming.- practices, farm plan!coming car, Dalton Skumer of reforestation, water con:
Police To Lay Charges
Over Station Car Theft
coming car, Dalton Skinner of n£ng, reforestation, water con:
R.R. 3 Exeter struck and killed .a calf on No. 83 highway, five . rovfment meas-miles-east of Exeter on Friday ^nn Jn Si
evening, August 24.
The calf strayed onto the road
from the south ditch but head
lights of an approaching car
prevented Mr. Skinner from see
ing it. His car suffered $350
damage.
The animal was owned by Reg.
Hodge'rt, of R.R. 1 Woodham.
OPP Constable Cecil Gibbons
investigated.
First accident in a month re
ported by .Exeter police occurred
Thursday noon at^ the comer' of
Carling and Victoria streets whep
two ^cars^ suffered $600^damage.,
tralia, ■ “^travelling' • if or . oh
Carling, was struck by a oar
driven by W. F. Abbott, who was
proceeding east on Victoria.
Police Chief Reg Taylor investi
gated. ,
Police say charges are pend
ing in connection with a car
stolen from RCAF Station Cen
tralia Tuesday evening.
Orderly Officer Kenneth' Locke,
of Exeter, apprehended Roland
L’Heureux, of the station, while
he was driving around the PMQ
section Wednesday morning in a
late-model hardtop.
’ The car, owned by Donald. E.
Hillier, of Centralia, was report
ed stolen at 11.50 p.m. Tuesday.
OPP Constable Cecil Gibbons
investigated.
Plan Holiday Drive
Local and district police plan
constant patrol of highways this
weekend in an effort to • cut
down accidents over the Labor
Day holiday.-' ■ ' *-
OPP Constable Cecil Gibbons,
in charge of the local detach
ment, said “We’ll be on the
lookout for speeders and reck
less drivers.”
Expected increase in ; traffic
over the holiday, last of the
summer, will demand extra care
in driving from every motorist,
he said. Last year, 30 motorists
were killed over Labor Day.
Exeter Police Chief Reg Tay
lor reported his office’s first
accident in a month this week.
“We must have some of the
best drivers in the world around here,” he said, “We hope the
good record will continue.”
Suffers Injuries
A London man, William George
Childerhose/ is in South Huron
Hospital suffering from severe
facial lacerations as a. result of
a one-car crash on Highway 81
early Wednesday morning.
The car missed a curve,
crashed into the ditch and struck
a telephone pole. Damage
amounted to $1,000.
OPP Constable John Ford in
vestigated.
Car, Truck Collide
Damage totalled $250 in a car
truck collision on No. 4 High
way north of Exeter Tuesday
afternoon.
A car driven by Anton Ber-
nick, of St. Paul, Minn., collided
with a truck driven by Gordon
Argyle, London,- as the latter
made a turn onto-the highway.
OPP Constable George. Mitchell
investigated.
Blinded by lights of an on-
District Clubs
Plan Playoffs
Division playoffs for Dashwood
Tigers and Zurich Lumber Kings
of the HuromPerth intermediate
baseball league will start this
week.
The Tigers will meet Mitchell
Legionaires . in a best-of-seven
series for the “C” championship,
of the league. First game will be
played in Mitchell Friday with
the second match in Dashwood
on Labor Day at 2,30 p.m. The
teams will return to Mitchell
Wednesday night and play the
fourth game in Dashwood Fri
day night, Sept. 7.
Zurich, which won a bye into
“D" playoffs,, will tackle Moore
Centre in its first series. First
game will be held in Moore Cen
tre Saturday with the teams re
turning to Zurich Monday for
a morning game.
Option 400 Acres
For Reforestation
Around 400 acres of land in
the Ausable River watershed
have been optioned this sum
mer for reforestation purposes,
Secretary-Fieldmari IL G. Hooke
said this week. *
The land, mostly in Bosariquet
and West Williams townships,
will be purchased and reforested
by the Authority during the next
two years, bl_'
Assistant /Fioldman Tom, Rar*.
ures based on an intensive sur
vey of the area during the past
two summers.
Idea behind the model valley
project, which is under way in
a number of other authorities,
es io1 demonstrate the improve
ments that can. be made in. farm
fends wrife careful planning. Ob-
jjeeft is fl® encourage conservation,
farming measures throughout the
watershed-
The Authority requested the
department to make a survey for
a mGdel valley in the spring of
„__ _ ______, t,— „„_____ 1955. Since then, with the co-
Joh,n W;.;TJesney'i,lAe R.Rr 2.Ce:n^?PMnatiop of owners , tn the Den«
• - “Led area,?*'tfiew^departmfent‘ Ms
undertaken a careful study of the
area.
The survey was made by the
department at no cost to the
Authority.
Okay Plans
At Hensall
Ontario Department of
Education has approved ar
chitect’s plans for the new
$120,000 Hensall Public
School, Board Chairman
Howard Scane announced this
week.
The board is now waiting
for sketch plans before it
proceeds with the project,
No date has been set yet
for a municipal vote of the
the new school issue. The
board requested a vote of the
people after council refused to pass third reading of a
bylaw providing debentures
for: the sjchooK ' * ' ■
* tJouifciF'0 'objected to the
'School board’s plan to erect
the new building on the south
side of town, rather than oh*
the present grounds at the
west end.
GRANDMOTHER WINS PONY-*-Jini Hayter, Jr., who won a pony in Dashwood Men’s
Club draw last year, picked his grandmother’s ticket out of the barrel Saturday
night in another draw for a pony. With one pony in the family, the winner, Mrs.
Fred Fritzley, of Goderich, decided she didn’t need another one and plans to auction
it’ off in Dashwood Saturday night. Five prizes were given away following a vaude*
ville show last week and’majority of winners were from this area. Men’s Club of
ficials, shown with young Jimmy Hayter above, are Mervin Tieman, chairman ’of
ticket sales; Alvin Walper, program chairman; Harry Hayter, secretary-treasurer; and
Jim Hayter, president. -T-A Photo
s Name
Now Two Ponies In Family
Jimmy Hay ter, Jr., the young,
lad who won the pony in Dash-
.wood Men’s Club' draw last
year, helped his grandmother
win a pony in this year’s raffle,
held Saturday night following a
vaudeville show in Dashwood,.
' Jimmy, given the honor of
making the draw for this year’s
pony, picked the ticket of his
grandmother, Mrs. Fred Fritz-
ley, of Goderich. Which proves
the family has * knack for win*|
decided one pony in the family
is enough and plans to auction
off her prize Saturday night in
Dashwood* The auction will be1
held at 8 p.m, in front of the
Men’s Club rooms.
Majority of winners of the
other four prizes in the club’s
benefit draw went to local win
ners. William Mason. Dashwood,
won the chesterfield; Bob
S t o r m e s, Dashwood baseball
star, received the kitchen chrome ’
Public School
Hike Modest
Inspector John Goman said
this week that only “modest”
increases are expected in enrol
ments of district public schools
when the term begins Tuesday*
Additional facilities are re
quired in only two schools in
his ihspecfOrate — a- two-toom
extension to Zurich Public School
and a one-room addition at Eg-
mondville. ' *
; Only two additional teachers •
have been added in the area-
one in the Tuckersmith school
area and one • at • the J. A. D.
McCurdy School, RCAF Station
Centralia.
Twenty-one new teachers will
assume duties in the inspector
ate next week but all of these
are replacements for instructors
who nave resigned. Usborne
township has the largest number
of new teachers.
An adjustment has been made
necessary in Stephen to accomo
date a sectional increase in .
enrolment there. Fairfield School
has agreed to take 10 pupils
from Centralia which is over
crowded this term.
Throughout the ‘ inspectorate,
only a gradual increase in
enrolment is predicted in the
near future, except for Hay town
ship. A survey there indicates
that during the next five years
every 'school except one will
see an increase.
An error in The Times-
Advocate’s story . concerning
closing of schools in Hay Town
ship was corrected this week by
H. W. Brokenshire, secretary
treasurer of the school area. The
T-A reported that two schools
would be closed in Hay this
year but these schools have
been, closed for several years.
“The schools in Hay township
will be operating the same aS
laef voar” Jit. Bl'OkCnShire
‘No new schools have
____ ___2 _J the schools
where transporation is provided,
No. 14 and No, 11, have been closed prior to this year.”
One additional music super
visor has been added to the
South Huron inspectorate this
year. She is Mrs. M. MacKin
non. Other three supervisors are
Lawrence Wein, Douglas Gill
and Mrs. Ellen Graham,
Mr.last year,
stated. “N1. __
been closed and
Seaforth, an electric frying pan.
Club President Jim Hayter,
Bob Tanner, Katherine Gulons
and Mickey Webb drew the
lucky dticals.
The vaudeville program, post
poned after it rained Wednesday
night, featured Tom Hamilton
and a troupe of entertainers from1
Toronto. Alvin Walper, program
chairman, was master of cere
monies.Games of bipgo completed the
Girl Enters
Calf Contest
A South Huron girl is willing
to match her calf - wrestling
prowess against boys from seven
Western Ontario counties but it
appears Western Fair officials
won’t let her.
Muriel Cornish, of Woodham, entered the new “Calf Scramble”
feature at London fair this year
but Assistant General Manager
Glen JohrilstOn said' this week
the entry would have to be re
fused because the event is limit*
ed to boys.
At least two boys from Huron
county will be among Si teen
agers who will try to rope So
frisky calves in the novel com
petition. They are Bill Ether*
mgton, of R.R. 1 Hensall, and
i Leslie Campbell, R.R. 1 * |
forth. Entries are open
September 5.
Ten successful youths,
capture, halter, and load
calves across the finish w,
will be awarded $100 certificates
towards the purchase of pure
bred Aberdeen Angus calves.
t The eompetitioft is being spon«
sored by the Western Ontario
j Aberdeen Angus Association and
Sea-
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