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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-01-24, Page 14 lEighty-Socend Year Supreme . ourt Ruling Drive Spurring Huron Ho REACH BEE FINALS—Two Usborne sold etas from the same school won the right to compete in the inspectorate finals of the. Ontario Spelling Bee in a contest at Hen- sall last week. They are from Hurondale School, the only rural School which placed two in the finals, Above, their teacher, •Mrs. Mervin Carter, an expert speller herself, shows a tricky word to her pupils, John Etherington and Margaret Oke. —T-A Photo have been helping at home, too, To indicate how seriously some of the pupils are taking the ,con- test, John Etherington has typed and re-typed the entire list of several hundred words-which are provided by the Department of Education. Teacher of the two Hensall winners is Principal Robert Rae- burn, and the two Exeter con- testants are pupils of Principal A. B. Idle. Other teachers •)who have -pu- pils in the finals are Mrs. Mar- garet Rogerson and Mrs. Flor- ence Kay, of Tuckersrnith; Miss Flora Turnbull and Mrs, Ethel Toth, of Stanley; Mrs. Art Ab- bott and Mrs. Alice 'Mills of Us- borhe. am Hearing '11 hursdaY, ay Pay Over Six Percent Ontario .hog producers are ,es- President of HUMP: hog IN* peeted to forge ahead. in their ducers, Bert' Lobb of Clinton,,. open market campaign with said Wednesday the county came more confidence and enthusiasm paign "'will go on ,sa. 'it has ill than ever as. A result of the the peat." He thought the fever. Supreme Court decision, reveal - able•ruling would remove doubts. ed. Tuesday. e' from the minds of some :hest-, Jake Koehler, manager of the tent producers and spur the opelt. provincial co-operative, told The market drive. Times-Advocate WednesdaY. "we Last of the township meeting* are very happy about it." Although full iniplieations of night, as returns from. _ the des ' in Huron was held Wednesday bthye rthuleingbaoarerciqill 1 abeing r lawyers, studiediir, to roll, in from various Parts el livery directive .canvass -.started Koehler said the ruling had def- the county.' initely approved the marketing "So. far the. reports are. quits, service fee of 24 cents charged satisfactory," said Mr.- - LOW, bynot thhaevecot- :pee rIalotwi veer. The court agreed boards did i--.. to levy li- to. 90 percent." .`u..`Theditirettbive:s ofraporgoodsucefrroem' sign- The fees on all 'producers for the specific purpose pf equaliz- ricultural representative, for the. Arthur Bolton, assistant eg• mg returns to growers but this county, said th0 . court • ruling. "is . certainly! .encouraging• for those organizations -MASS In marketing schemes," li V'4 5' ' 1P11 , 11, final winners who will compete Sharp, S.S.' 7, and, Janet Bender, ship dominate the list of semi- From Tuckersniith:. Robert Students from Usborne Town!' Bayfield. tip in the district insctorate spell- son, S.S. 3. ' ' ' ing bee in Exeter on February 12. Girls topped the three semi- Four of the 12 spellers in the final contests which were held at 4 finals are from Usborne. Four Hensall, Tuckersmith and Cell- other municipalities, have two tralia last week, students each in the running — Margaret Elgie, 11-year-old Exeter, Hensall, Tuckersmith and grade seven student and daughter Stanley. , of one of Hensall, school's teach- The inspectorate contest em- ers, placed first in the Hensall braces grade seven and eight bee; Janet ,Aenderson, 12, a students from eight municipali- grade eight Tuckeismith pupil, ties in South Huron. • led contestants in the north sec- Feature of Usborne's excellent tion of the inspectorate, and Judy showing was the victory of two ..,,04,o Tennant, also 12, of Exeter, won , 1 students from Hurondale School the Centralia bee, 'held last 1 1 in the second semi-final at Hen- ,the three semi-finals. salt Wednesday night, Under the Tuesday night and the first of guidance of teacher, Mrs. Mer- At Hensall, Margaret Elgie, vin Carter, herself a spellin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert specialist, both boy and girlElgie, spelled 27 of the 30 words champions of the one-room school right. Margaret Oke placed sec- reached the finals, one for the and in the girls' division with 25. second year In a row. . ' John Etherington, HUrondale, The Hurondale winners, both and Leo Tiberio, 13-year-old 12 years old And in grade eight, grade eight student and son of are .John Etherington, son of Mr. Mr. and MrS. Leo Tiberio, Hen- and Mrs. Archie Etherington, sail, tied in the boys' division who competed ill- last year's with 25 right. John wort the tie-finals, and Margaret Oke, daugh- breaking match. ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Oke. L Janet Henderson spelled 27 of Others who will nen in the the 30 words correctly in the championship bee in Exeter are: Tuckersmith contest„ to Match From Usborne: Helen Evans, Margaret Elgie's record at Hen- S:S 2, and Glen Towle, S.S. 7. salt, Tied with 23 right were her From Exeter: Judy Tennant. runner-up, Margaret Wallis, Bay- . . ., field, and the boy winners, Ted . From Hensall: Margaret , Elgie ',maker, 12, a grade-seven stu- and Leo Tiberio, . dent, and Robert Sharp, 11, 'and' Dobbs Heads Cancer `Body Zion United. Cluirel Usborne, completely renovated during the past sit months, will, be reded- icated during special services Sueday. Speaker in the Morning will be Rev. A. E. Duffield, Lati- beth, president, ,of tendon con- ference, who will also perforM the act of dedication. Rev. E. Wright, chairman of Perth Presbytery,,, will give the address at the evening see- vice, Rev, Slade, minister of the thtleth o will ,preside, Town council may have to pay 6,33 percent interest on the de- benture loan to finance Exeter's share of the Morrison dam cost, it was learned Monday tight. Clerk C. V. Pickard said the money could be borrowed from the Ontario Mnuicipal Loan Im- provement Corporation but in- terest of the 20-year debenture issue would average out to' 6.33 percent. Cmincil discussed, briefly, the possibility of trying to sell the debentures on the open market but didn't come to any decision. SHDHS debentures were sold last year by the town at four and three-quarters perceht but interest 'rates have jumped since then. Approval to iss',1e debentures rests on the outcome of a public hearing scheduled by the Ontario Municipal Board for Thursday, January 31.• The meeting will be ove Couple o Stratford Two of the four Hungarian refugees in this area will, likely be moved to Stratford this week' because of lack of employment here, Immigration Officer D. R. Mitchinson said Tuesday. Unless a job offer crops up im the meantime, Janos Molnar, 21, and his fiance, Eva Elizabeth Solyom, 23, will be taken to the classic city Thursday. Miss Solyomhas been under the doctor's care recently suffering from nerves. It's believed -the' cold. weather here, coupled with the murder of her father in the Hungarian revolts, have upset ,her. • Margaret Cook, who is looking atfer the four at the Centralia ' Miss Cook said the four' refu- gees are well looked-after now hs far as clothes are concerned. Donations have come from Ex- eter, Centralia and air force ,personnel. The married couple will need bedding and some kitchen equip- ment when they move to the apartment, site said, but believed this would come from Centralia neighbours, "who've been very helpful." Meanwhile, Exeter made its contribution to the refugees in a clothing drive sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary to South' Huron Hospital. The laides packed 30 cartons of clothing which were taken by Guenther Tuckey transport to the Salvation Army in. London. Sparks from a faulty motor, igniting inflammable gas escap- ing from an old refrigerator, may have been responsible for the fire which destroyed Cowan's Lunch and Service Station, Sarepta, late Friday night. . The blaze .in near-zero weather,, levelled the combined station and restaurant in less than an hour. Damage was esti, mated at $10,000 by Owner Nor- man Cowan, who said there was no insurance on the building. Only contents saved were book- keepitg records, an adding ma- chine and a typewriter. Fireman Jim Hayter used a gas mask to get into the office and save•the records, It was the first time the department has used the inhalator, The brigade poured its, truck's 400-gallon supply of water on the building but discontinued their efforts because water was not readily available, and the flames were out of control, The restaurant occupied over half of the 58 x 26 building. The rest liaised the service station and an 'office where Mr. Cowan did bookkeeping work. All of his clients' records were saved, he said, Gas pumps were seared badly by the blaze, rear of explosion of underground gas tanks kept spectators away from the build- ing as the fire progressed, Mr. Cowan said• he believed the gas from the old refrigerator caught fire because the blaze started so suddenly and violently. The unit had a faulty motor which threw sparks and Gould' not be run while the radio was oh. Recalling the events Weed- _ ing the blaze, Mr. Cowan said: `10 Wife had turned off the refrigerator to hear the it O'clodk news and weather report, When it was eVet, the Shut off the radii) and tutted on the fefriget- At the annual meeting" of the Exeter and District Cancer Society Monday night, Fred ,* • Dobbs was reeleeted president, Others elected` • were: Vice- Fresidents, Don Southcott, Lloyd ord and Mrs. Allan Fraser; secretary, Mrs. Fred Dobbs; treasurer, Kenheth McLaughlin, T.ownship representatives are Mrs. R. H. Strang, Usborne; Mrs. Earl, Campbell, Hay; Mrs. Jacob Ratz, Stephen, Mts. M. Soiithcott was named to represent Exeter, ' President Fred Dobbs , was chairman of the Meeting, and John Stratton, .president of the Perth-Huron' Unit, conducted the election, The report bt Treasurer Ken. A meth McLaughlin,showed $3,432.70 raised in the 1956 cam- p, for funds. Memerial card debating were $160,75.„The presi- dett announce that local= and district fundal directors haVe supplies of memorial cards, Convener Of the Social Service Cornmittet, Mee. 3. G. Dunlop, repotted a total of 2450 dressings made by the local unit, Teatispor‘ Wien, board and apparatus were eupplied for a district resident • Who required treatment Lon- From Stanley: Ted Leaker, S.S. '5, and Margaret Wallis,, U,S.S. 8, in grade eight, - After students found words in the first semifinal at Centralia too tough, Inspector John Goman made the remaining contests shorter and simpler, Twenty-five word's had to, be written and five spelled Orally. The five oral 'ones were short but tricky: Mileage, inoculate, dessert, abscess and geographic. Mrs. Carter, the Hurondale teacher whose ' two students reached the finals, said enthusi- asm from the parents and pupils helped her' bring laurels to the schooL Strict on spelling herself, MM. Carter has lielpekher two cham- pion seellere frequently at recess and atter four. Parents of the two To Dedicate Zion Church being provided at low cost. by a ,, landlord in Centralia, she said, painting contractor, Art Hall, at Air Zollie Molnar, 24, and his wife, Veronica, 18. Centralia. Zane is, still - working with r r 0 . 4 j. In..Finalt Of Spelling Bee . 0 , • HENSALL SPELLERS—Two pupils of Principal Robert Raeburn, Hens all Pub.lic School, are among the 12 district children who will compete for The Times-Advocate'- trophy at the inspectorate finals in pxeter on February 12. Margaret Elgie, daughter of:one a the teachers, at Hensail, topped 24 contestants at the semi-finals there Hotel, reports arrangements are, last Weelei^Leo 'Tibetio reprPsents'the, bOys'. e • —TA Photo being tinade for the other e01119.e" to rent an apartment.7,in the pollee Village ,So they can start •. Fo •urs Pupils From. s come. off On their own. Accomodation is Blame Old Refrigerator In $10,000 Fire Loss ator, then came to ,nty office to tell me the forecast., . "We chatted for no more than three minutes and then she went back to the 'kitchen to feed the cat and dog. When she opened the door she found the entire room in, a mass of flames." Mrs. Cowan ran to their house across the Why to call the fire department, and her husband cleared clients' records out of his Please Turn to Page 3 Plans for extensive improve- ment and renovation to Caven Presbyterian Church and manse yere made at the congregational meeting Tuesday night. - Proposed redecoration includes painting, carpeting and general repair work. Both membership and givings to the church are up. Financial statement shows a small sur- plus. Organizational reports in- dicated an active and success- ful year.' W. G. Cochrane was chairman for the Meeting, which followed a dinner served by the ladies Of the' church. About 60 were present. Appointed to the board of agers for a three-year term were William Parker, Kenneth McLaughlin and J. B. pryde. Other members include Mr. Cochrane, Hilton Laing, F. G. Simmons, Cliff Ersman, W. Sil- lery and Arthur Whilsmith. • Fire Chief Milton Deitz and his crew of eight, volunteers tore down a partition to snuff out the blaze. Damage was -estimated in the hundreds of dollars. Fire started in the chimney before the Bells retired, They attemtped to extinguish it and stayed up until three o'clobk when they thought the danger was over. Crackling woke them. •up at 6,30 a.m. and they found= the blaze in a closet. When the fire brigade arrived, flames . were pining through the roof.. , Exeter council approved salary pad the expense, sheet," increases for 14 municipal offi- *"I don't think it's fair that a. cials Monday night. Total Luke; man. should stay away from his amounts to $750. job or his business and not get- In. a split vote, councillors paid for it." He thought it was, raised their owp salaries by $50 particularly unfair to the young to bring their annual payment up businessmen on council. to the maximum of $300 allowed "We get more money now than -by the Department of Municipal they did 10 years-ago, but we do - more work, too. It's an entirely . Affairs. , ' They upped the mayor's salary different institution now." from $350, to $400. Reeve McKenzie: "I'm. not in Public utilities., commissioners favor of raising council's salary will receive $1$0 a year instead to $300. The guys who don't go on of $100. delegations get paid the same as Erie Carscadden, assessor and those who do." the'l arin home .of. Mr. and. Mrs. fax collector; will get,41,300 in Deputy-Reeve Mawhinney: "A 1957, compared. to $1,150 in 1956. fellow would get the same 'Weld Bell, two miles south= Controversy^ • Arose, Over, • court, ,alnoing, Orem ,if he , didn't .attend. N'esl.' Of Hensall W e d n e s d a Y ell's own increase, Five council, ariv.,.cenventions:" , „ . Morning, when -al:daze broke out lots supported the raise but the, Councillor 'Musser: "Our only hi, a closet. : two reeves — Bill McKenzie and alternative is to raise the rate if To'Renovate Caven Kirk when other councillors 'stated t , the boards operation was made Over Reeves Protes the board should finance itself and not seek assistance from council. The issue cropped up during a discussion of insurance on town employees. Councillors agreed the staff at the cemetery should be insured but some' of them didn't think the town should have to pay the premiums. Reeve McKenzie's defence of eeete. a -dozen building lots in the middle of •the block bordered by Sanders, Gidley, Andrew and Senior streets. said Goderiph taxpayers must The large Ellerington barn on subsidize their cemtery to the Senior` street is being torn down tune of $10,000 a year while Clin- to make way for an entrance to ton levies up to two mills for the the area. upkeep of its burial 'grounds. The Exeter board has been $1,000 grant from council. - able year,t ounc- illors Up Wages pay itsown received w a37 unt until Zurich Brigade Stops Hay Fire 'Zurich fire department saved cemetery, it was revealed in council meeting Monday night. Reeve William -McKenzie, chairman of the cemetery board, I n Argunient been approached by William In Winnipeg Tuesday night, Ellerington and Wilson Morley Charles McInnis, Hog Produc- Exeter ratepayers are getting. to get council's sanction for a ers' president, was, jubilant, off easy in the operation of their plan which would create about "This puts us right on top of the pile," As the ruling is being inter- preted by Federation and co- operative officials, it gives the green light to the hog and other schemes, although in some in- stances there may be minor changes in methods held in the town hall and will , Both. Deputy-Reeve Chester start at 11:30 a,m. . Mao/hinny and Councillor Ross Council has applied for a loan 'Taylor said the board should fi- of $80,000. Estimated total of the nance the insurance, Council town's share of the. dam 'cost is *finally agreed, however, to ab- P8,800. 1 sorb it, Times-Advocate this week, the In an advertisement in The i Insurance on firemen was in- creased from $3,000 to $5,000, municipal board invites argu- Investigate, Subdivision- for and against the issue. Council • Council will investigate a pro- Backs .Board a. large town block to provide posal to open -up the mid* of a number of building 'lots, would not affect the hog pro- Reeve McKenzie said he had gram, Mr. Koehler said. 'Inc department wouldn't , ap- prcve council's proposal to set maximum salary at $300. Five councillors voted for the $50 increase to fake care of the -.... In recent revivals of the story, out-of-town meetings. In favor the Donnelly's have been pie- were Councillors Musser, Pym, lured as ruthless vandals and ,Bailey, Fisher and Taylor. barbarous fighters who terrorized Reeve William McKenzie op. the entire neighborhood. But Mr; posed the across-the-board hike Essery doesn't remember them because members 'of council who as such. didn't attend conferences and "More obliging people never conventions would get the same li..ved," h e repeated several pay as those who did". ' times as he recalled the family He also objected on the giounds on .his birthday. "They used to that the - reeve, himself, should run the stage between Exeter receive more than councillors be- and London. My mother would take berries to sell to the Devon cause his duties were- heavier. Hospitalization cases alone took up a tremendous amount of time, he pointed :out. (The reeve. is res onsible for accepting munie- store and she always took the Donnelly carriage. They'd help her carry the 'berries into the t 11 ipa _responsibility for indigent "I lived just seven miles from patients.). the Donnelly farm," he remcm- Criticizing the deeartment's bets. • refusal to allow the $10 'a day Mr. Essery, claims the mem- remuneration, Mayor P oqley hers, of the vigilant committee— said: "This means that if you the band who massacred five of want more money, you'll have to the family during a raid the Application was made by the provincial government for per- mission to pay councillors $10 a day, in addition to meal, accom- modation and travelling ex- penses, while they were away on municipal bisiness. This, they George Essery, who celebrated felt, would compensate for the his ninety-seventh, birthday in loss sustained by businessmen or London on Simday, tells:a differ- wage-earners who had to leave their jobs to attend meetings on has built up around the infamous ent story to the legend which behalf of the town. Donnellys of Biddulph, victims of what has been described as one of the bloodiest massacres in history. Chester Mawhinney -- opposed it. New councillor, Murray Greene, declined to vote. Council didn't want to raise their take-home pay by increas- ing ,their salaries but they found themselves with no alternative. Their hands were tied by a ruling of the department. Apply For --Payment we want to get paid for. out-of- town trim." Councillor Taylor: "I don't care about who goes away and who doesn't. .You can't tell who. may have to go. My chairman- ship last year kept me away five —Please Turn to Page 3 Donnellys 'Obliging' Recalls 97-Year-Old Damage totalled $2,000 in three accidents in the district this• week; One driver has ^ beet' charged. Police say Bill Lochner, Grand .Bend, failed to signal when he made a left hand turn off the Blue Water Highway, nine iniles north of Grand Bend On Sunday. Travelling north, Lochner was struck by a southbound' car driven by Richard. L. Harris, Detroit. Total damage was estimated at $1,150 by OPP Constable George Mitchell. In another accident near Grand Bend on Thursday, cars driven by Ronald Edwards,. Oakwood, and Ernest L. Horton, Chatham,' collided at an intersection. OPP Constable Cecil Gibbons said the Edwards'car, coining out of Oakwood Park, faile.d to stop and struck Horton, who was travelling north. The Chatham vehicle narrowly missed , a ee. ment culvert and careened into the ditch, suffering $500 damage. Wet snow,,, which covered the windshield. of, an• Exeter car, Vas responsible for 'a.'-sideswipe call! sion at Hensall on Monday. William Marshall, town, who was proceeding south, said be was blinded'by slush thrown by a northbound car and his vehicle sideswiped another northbound car driven 'by Charles Hiemstra, Toronto. OPP Constable GeOrge Mitchell estimated damages at $350. Loss $2,000 In Accidents Loss was estimated -at $10,000. Three loft her kitchen, Mrs. Cowan returned of flames,' Only bookkeeping records equipment were saved, minutes -after she to find it a Msg. .atitt. some. office ,.**0-ZA Photo, FIRE DESTROYS SAREPTA RESTAURANT--Believed to have started, from leaking gas in an old refrigerator, a wind,whinped blaze rated the restaurant and garage owned 14...Normait.Cowan, Sateptao late Viday evening. night of November 4, 1880.— "were worse than the Donnelly crowd." The . bloody raid oc- curred after the Donnellys had allegedly terrorized the area by burning barns and beating up district farmers. Proof of the guilt of the mur- derers, in Mr. EsserY's mindi was the fact they later died vio- lent deaths. "All of them died with their boots on," he recalls. The vigilants were tried.' by a Supreme Court in London-,and were found not guilty. Still able to walk and read his newspaper every , day, Mr. Essery celebrated his birthday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Winifred Dobbs, of Lon- don, with members of his fam- ily. He lives at the John Dear- ness home for the aged in the city. Mr. Essery was born on the farm now owned by Joseph Pau. jite, near Centralia, lie is the only survivor of five ine the fain- tly of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, Essery He was raised at Centralia, attended Fairfield „school and then became a carriage maker. He soon discovered there was II demand for transportation be- tween Centralia and Mount Car- mel, so at the age of 18, he started a livery with his two horses, "Tipsy" and "Topsy". It grew into the largest in the district.- Essery operated the liv- ery until 27 yeers ago when he moved to. London, and resulted his carriage-making .trade with Hudson and Essex, car mane, facturers, He was married in 1889 to Mary Ann Parsons, of Creditont who died 16 years *go. They had sit children—Fred of Philadeph- ia; Gladys, Mrs. .T. Carling': Winnifred, Mrs. W. Dobbs; and Iva, Mrs. Turner, all of Let- don; and Hazel, Mrs. W. Ander- son, of Toronto, Me. Essery now has nine grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren, The celebration ne Sunday wet a doable one. Mr. Resery't great - granddaughter, Weedy Lee Dobbs of Centralia, marked her first birthday on the same day, Among these present were Mr, and Mrs. TOM Carling. and MrS. Titter of London; ,Mr. and Mrs, Wilfred .Anderson, Tetolte to; Mr. end ts. Tont tiohba, R.R. t Centralia, and Sarah Ann Ctilee, Cerittalia. Mr. Essery attributes hit long life to having IotS to eat," WI believed he's the oldest Ming native of this area, SeaVetetre en page 11,