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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-04-11, Page 14 ) .k t 4 4 s't • EightOscond Irsor " -11%ftstok' SITE OF NEW PIER—According to an announcement made by Grand Bend Reeve Jim Dalton Wednesday, the federal government will extend the south pier at Grand Bend • to ipproxiinately the fishing shanty seen at right in the picture above. Dredging of the. river will be done immediately, Picture shows how low the water level has fallen. Most of the•shore above is normally under water. • """..1\10SeWOrtilY • ou.n.cil, Board Join. 'Forces. o Tackle School. Problem None of the .officials wished to boardhas pressed for a central comment following their tour school but ratepayers have been Tuesday. Reeve Fred Heaman, strong in their objections to the who is warden of Middlesex this cost of such• a program. Two year, said "it's a ticklish prob- years ago, they defeated two lem in this township." councillors who publicly support - Board Chairman Kenneth Shot- ed the school and last year, they dice, one of three anti -central rejected three board members school candidates who were elect- who were up for re-election. ed in November, said the boardMembers of the board include was not making any particular :Arthur Simpson and Grant. Amos, proposal to council; it was sim- both first year men; Bryden plyasking for advice. "We've got Taylor, former chairman and to work out some way of han- strong advocate of the central dling this problem," he stated. school, and Calvert Nichol. School board members decided Council has taken the stand to show the schools to councillors that it will apprbve the central following their own annual in- school only if the taxpayers in- spection of the buildings in dicate in a ballot that they want March. The five members, along one. with Inspector Elwood Oakes and The schoo1 board is advertising Secretary David N. Henry, spent for teachers to fill vacancies in a •day and a half \looking over the area, school property to take inventory of the repairs needed on the buildings, furniture and grounds. For several years, the school -'AfcGillivray council and the Rehool.area board are getting to- gether in arkattempt to solve, the township's serious school accorn- Modation problem. .Members of the board took councillors on a personally -con- ducted tour of the schools Tues- day to' acquaint them with condi- tions. The two public bodies will meet in a joint session next week to thrash out the solution. • !For two years, the school board has stated,its buildings have de- teriorated beyond the point where economical to repair them. It has received no support, how - for its proposal to build a central school. Ltd On Band To. Perform The - Royal Canadian Army Service :Corps. Land of London, which won medals in several Western; Ontario music festivals recently,,Will present a concert in the high school auditorium Tuesday 'evening;' : Directed, br" Martin Bounily, on0., of top-rated mu- siciariSrthe ',reserve unit band Is.donating,its, services in the in- terest of ExeteffJunior Band, which has progressed rapidly since its organization early this winter., The London 'band will present l'', -variety of Music, from semi- popular numbers.. to religious hymns, under • Mr. Boundy's leadership. - • Mr. BOundY, who was director of ninsic.for the entire Canadian . • Air ,Force overseas during world %tar .two, is leader of three bands in.London, at well as conductor Of the London Symphony Or- eftestra and head of his own school of Music. He is consider- ed one of the outstanding band - Matters in Canada'. . . Among: the , Soloists ' for the TUesday night concert will be Jint Ford, instructor of the local ; junior band. Mr. Ford Plays first trumpet in the London Civic . Symphony Orchestra and has •.; been soloist of the Martin Boundy radio' band for five seasons. Mr. Paid' is a teacher of wind • infirinnenti at the Martin Bountiv • Stlicicil of M9Sie: He served with the Canadian Army overseas during world war two. ...pcOUO.captain Named Attache :The .RCAF recently announced. RSplans to transfer the com- manding -officer of RCAF Sta- tion Centralia, Group Captain A. M. Cameron, AFC, CD, to the position of air attache, in Piague,:Czeehoslovakia. ,Although the transfer date has Jot been aimounted, the move is expected to take place in early Slimmer. • Group Captain Cameron • will be, replacing Group Captain A. G. Kenyon, the present attache, Who will take over as the .new CO of Centralia. • Group Captain Cameron and hs family have lived ,in ;this ' pee; since' the fall of 1954 and although the move means ..'leaving friends behind, the whole family is eagerly looking for- ward to their European assign. tient. - 4A- 4). SPEAKER Rev. Angus 'Mc- Queen, London, will be guest preacher at holy week services in Exeter' next -week. The meet- ings, from Monday to Friday, will be held in James St. Church. Top LJC Man Speaks Here A man who holds one of the most important positions in the United Church of Canada will be guest speaker at holy week serv- ices in Exeter next week. He is Rev, Angus McQueen, of First St. Andrews, London, who is chairman of the evangelism and social service committee of the United Church's general council. ' '• . •-A graduate of Mt. Allison Uni- versity and Pine Hill Divinity to' London from Edmonton six Ask 'Official Hall, NS., Rev. McQueen came years ago. He is considered one in the church. View Plans of the most outstanding ministers Services will be held in the eve- nings from Monday to Thursday Board of directorsof. South and the Good Friday service will Huron Hospital has invited an of - start at 11 a.m.. ficial from the Ontario govern - All services will be heldIn I. , ment to inspect the need for ex - James St. United Church, In pre, ,pansion of facilities here. vious years, meetings were held I C. J. Teller, a member of the at various churches during the newlY-created Ontario Hospital Week; this was not possible this Conlinission, has been asked tb year because a number of con. Mite to Exeter to discuss the The services are organized by IVIeeting Monday, the directors 1 gregations are redecorating. boarcl't proposed projects. the Exeter Ministerial Associa. ' reviewed their plans* for con - tion, which includes all Protes- i struction of a nurses' residence tant denominations. and an extension to :the hospital. .1, A. Traquair, who was elect- ed chairman at the annual meet- ing last month, presided for the session. EXETER, .ONTARIOf ,APIR11, 11, 1957 iirecige Construct Extension 4 1111t100 for Huron Court Officials, Reveal CTA Quirks How the Canada Temperance, panel by requesting the press Act can be repealed and what to refrain from reporting direct would happen in Huron county 'quotations of the speakers be - if it were repealed were two of cause of the controversial nature the many questions answered of the subject. about this controversial legisla-1, Huron County Magistrate Dud - tion by a panel of judicial exl ley Holmesdid not appear on perts in Clinton Fridaynight. the panel because of a misunder- The act can be revoked by a standing. straight majority ballot in the county after one-quarter of those eligible to vote in a federal elec- tion. have signed a petition ask - Ing for repeal, the officials re- vealed. Among the unusual features It would be succeede•cl by the, of the Canada Temperer/Cc Mt Ontario Liquor Control Act, ex-'' which the panel revealed were: cept in those municipalities in A person cannot bring in beer which a liquor vote was held , for his own consumption but he prior to 1877. If a municipality can have someone else bring it voted wet before that year, when in for him. the C,T,A, came into effect, at Technically, he' cannot serve would return to that status when alcoholic beverage to guests in the C.T.A. is revoked. his home; it can be consumed The panel on liquor egisla- only by himself or members of tion, which featured HuroiJudge his family. (In Huron county, Frank Pingland, Magistiate R. the magistrate has interpreted G. Groom, of Woodstock, and this section broadly enough to Huron grown Attorney H. Glen include guests as members of Hayes, attracted a capacity the family,) crowd to the auditorium of On- Children of any age can have tario St, United Church, Clinton. beer brought into the county The program was sponsored by under the C.T.A. (Other legisla- Ifurori Presbytery Men's Coun- tion prevents it from being sup- cil whose chairman, Elgin Me- plied to those under 16, how- Kinley of Zurich, presided. ever.) Moderator was Bob Carbert, It is not an offense to be drunk of CKNX Wingham, who asked under the C.T.A. nor is there the experts questions which had any restriction as to where been submitted in advance of liouor can be consumed under the meeting. Carbert opened the C.T.A. It is legal, even if impractical, The judicial officials did not express opinions on the moral aspects of liquor legislation; they merely ihterpreted it for the la Panorama Pack PS A for bottle clubs to operate under the C.T.A. Some background of liquor legislation in Huron county and uditorium erasion an outline of the • questions and answers follow: presented in the clis- . Concerts "E.P,S. Panorama," the new variety show which replaces the public school operetta of former year, entertained cape -city crowds in the school auditorium Tuetclay and Wednesday eve- nings. Students from kindergarten to grade eight participated inthe colorful prOgratt,- which included singing, dancing and comedy. • The kindergarten class present- ed "The Princess," a singing game, in which Linda Lowery took the Part of the sleeping prin- cess; Norman Howey, the prince, 'and Karen Locke, the fairy on Tuesday evening. The parts were taken by Joan Dyck, Gordon Mc- Donald and Judy Glover respec- tively, on Wednesday evening. Honey Wein and Eleanor Stan - lake starred as Sunbonnet Sue and Overall Jim in an action song by Mrs. Lorne Kleinstiver's scholars. Mrs. R. D. Jermyn's pupils, as . the "E.P,S. • Rain - biers," performed in a square dance Grade two .pupils of Miss M. Haberer, were seen in a singing game, "Seed Time and Harvest," with Bobby Mickle as the farm- er: Pupils of Mrs. Don Mousseau performed in "Here Comes Peter Cottontail," with Elizabeth Spell and Brenda Dinney starring as dancers. A humorous monologue by Helen Hendrick, of grade six, and solos by Roman Orenczuk, grade three, were heartily ap- plauded. The "Wedding of Jack and Jill," starring John Pryde and Karen Heywood, was the con- tribution of Miss Velma Ballagh's Fit, Color Same, Wasn't His. Car Polite say this wouldn't; hap- pen.,once in anillion Mitten • Miss Myrtle tteoler, tt.N., at the, South. .Huron Ildspital; had .1eft her Chevrolet sedan in front 'of the hospital Wednesday eve. tint and about six o'clock Thurs- day morning found that her car Rad disappeared and in its place shriller car had been left Her first inipreStiOn was that some - One had stolen her tare She contacted W. If. Palen of Snell Bret. Ltd. and he in turn Contacted Polite Chief Reg. Tay. lore On searching for evidence .of ownership in the parked ear they found the Mine Of Fred Gratton,. bf Grand Bend, lit a ' bible the glove eoniperfinent, • • Theylintediately drove to Grand • I?etitl. Oittl contacted The Owner, I • • To Mr, Gratton Surprise, he was asked about his car and he took them to the garage to see it. There it was, blue in color the sante as the Other car; Slip covers were identical, radio and radio atrial the sante, and the sante key fitted both vehicles., but .when it was pointed out to Mr. Gratton that his Was a two - door sedan and the One he had in the garage was a four -door he was flabbergasted. "1 Mentioned to a fellow -1W - tenger on the way home that there was something wrong with my radio, but X neVbr dreanted that 1 had someone else's oar," said Mr. Gratton, The Gratton car was put. chased in Sirathroy tind the Roccler tat In &Om, Form Committee For Cancer Drive Exeter and district branch Of the Canadian Cancer Society laid plans Tuesday night for its area campaign this month. The branch has set an objective of $3,500. Chairman of the drive is Mayor R. E. Pooley and he will be assisted by X. W. McLaugh- lin, treasurer, and Mrs. E. S. Steiner, Secretary. Three presidents of the town- ship Federations of Agriculture also serve on the committee. They are Lloyd Lamport, of Stephen; Lloyd Hendrick, Hay; and Ratty Dougall, Usborne. Mayor Pooley announced that lite Legion Auxiliary will con - duet the campaign in Exeter. The date has not been AbeamcJ. - I choruses directed by Ronald 'pupils.Senior ic pupils presented Passed In 1878 .i The CTA was passed in 1878 under a section of the BNA Act Other program features were which gave .the federal govern - "Farmer McGee" action song ;Tient power to legislate in time by grade three pupils of Mr. G. of national crisis. It was felt by Baker, in which Kenneth Rein -I the government at that time that buch was the farmer and Joy Sel- a national emergency had arisen don his wife; "The Merry Maid- out of the liquor conditions, ens," a folk dance by grade four The act was promptly chal- pupils of Mrs. L. Turvey; "Put lenged by the, Ontario govern - On Your Old Grey Bonnet," a ment '..but the Privy Council of pantomine by grade four pupils England, ruled it' was properly of Mrs, D. Hu?hson; "Alice Blue passed; Gown," an action song with Elsie! Among other things, the 'CTA Gossar as soloist, by grade five provided that it could be super - pupils of Mrs. C. jory, 1 ceded only by provincial legisla- section of Principal A. B. Idle, The Canada Temperance Act Senior students, under the di-, tion which was more restrictive. were seen in a one -act play, was brought into effect in Huron "Budy Answers an Ad," in which County in 1914. A vote was or - the part of Buddy was taken by I. — Please turn to Page 17 James Hannah; his father, Al- fred, by Fred Ward; his mother, Mary, by Veronica Francois; Pageant' Offers postman, Wes Sims;. cosmetic demonstrator, Bonnie Doerr; 'Free Washers Ted, a ,friend, by Dale Turvey; Myrna, by Margaret Howey, and Eloise by Ann Hockey. Music was under the direction of Mr. Lawrence Wein, with Mrs. Lorne Kleinstiver as assisting pianist. Principal Idle was mas- ter of ceremonies. WI/niers of poster contest were Grace McKenzie, Judy Snelgrove and Bonnie Hogarth. Karen Jermyn, Susan Dinney and Greg Harness won the ticket selling contest. The name "Panorama" was chosen from a number of sugges- tions by pupils. It Was proposed by David Johnston. Like to win a new washer, dryer or ironer? Turn to pages 14 and 15 for news of this exciting contest in which Exeter stores are participating, Twenty new laundry machines will be given away to shoppers who fill out entry forms between April 10 and 20. The draw is a highlight of this year's "Pageant of Pro- gress", a nation-wide feature designed to show off the amazing improvements made in laundry equipment in re- cent years. APPOINTED AIR ATTACHE,—RCAF announced this week that Group ,Captain A. . Ca.meron, 'AFC, CD, command., ing officer of RCAF Station 'Centralia, has been appointed air attache to the Canadian embassy in Prague, Czecho.; siovakia. This picture of the officer by Jack Doerr recently won merit" award at international print show in Washing- ton. —Doerr Says Venus Spacemen May Stop Bomb 'Tests Spacemen from Venus are try - Ing to prevent Earth from blow- ing up the solar system, an In- gersoll school teacher told Exe- ter Lions and Kinsmen Thurs- day night in ail seriousness. Saucerian Earle C. 'Shelley, a member. of Flying Saucers International, claims the Venus- ians fear upcoming hydrogen bomb tents will destroy Earth and seriously endanger the other planets in the system. "Our friends from Venus tell us they will have to intervene if we don't stop this destruction ourselves," Shelley stated, Got Mixed Reaction The teacher's fantastic theory of "o m n i v e r se civilization' brought mixed reaction from the. members of the two service LOSS ESTIMATED AT $7,000—GOta1d Isaac, young Biddulph township farmer esti- mates a loss of between $6,000 and $7,000 in the fire Saturday morning which, de, strOyed his two-storey frame house on the town line, With the help of neighbours, he was able to save furniture but the house Was I complete loss. Above, a fireman stands guard 10, prevent the blaze fret spreading, ,—Noseworthy clubs who attended their annual joint meeting. Some felt the man was a crackpot; others thought he might be right; all were awed by his story. He claims: People from Venus have been visiting this planet regularly since 1947 and they converse frequently with earthling mem- bers of "Flying Saucers Inter- national." In fact, some of the more important officials of the earth group have spent several days on the neighboring planet as guests of the Venusians. Venusians tell these Saucer- ians that Earth has the least advanced civilization of the 10, perhaps. 12 planets, in this solar system. People on Venus for example, live on a much higher "octave" and aren't troubled by wars or controversies. Preventing Destruction Venusians first' appeared on earth in 1947 when testing of. atomic bombs begun in White Sands, New Mexico. Since then — Please Turn to Page 13'. • BeTn7alsedsoeOrnal'4151:1:1 Jdarenidegse Dibletonbarl.1170:14,..' be moved in tofio the, nesday following an with 'Public Works M Robert li, Wintera. Reeve Dalton also uegcyeumothso eVecta$:3:ten31 south pier, designed t silting. Tlsrextensid lilinkbPrePt tertverad.MiY structedtisyar. "It's wonderful news,' elated reeve, who's be ing onharbor imp for the summer resort first of the year, "We ed this for a long -UM The reeve returned tawa late Tuesday . ni consulting with: voika . Winters. Dalto6'was • ar photographs ,showing - t condition.' of the :barber. Cleared To Sii4Sit De 74 harbor fr: Wjiltilted": blieS.";.dedro soon ' as equipment:A made available,' Dalt. The harbor will be. cl a depth of six -feet 1. Mouth to the point *lief responsibility ends; sive red yards upstream n.: Bend cittincirG , - ning to* have • the trema the harbor, from. the ;13 bridge to the .federation dredged too. Reeve 'Da petted. :application for t would have to bemadthe municipal drainage' . . Dredging of—the ' hitt s6uilmngmet trtgrfitraL: it t '0., benefit. l the fishing industry, wh been hampered by shad to again operate , out harbor,c4ognfdidu.conditions.' .1ii ts i nits . et hX:...1 Incluse of dangerous touristsitttraetiwthtiO96 thousands . I; oliefi Increase Prestura, diii•'1 Q Extension of the'lLeo easterly will .lit've.1410 • cutting down -the • width Chinnel. thereby !mete* pressure at the mouth a mg the silt into ,the I department's engineer t reeve. constructed depends ' 0 When this extension:1;cl well the present south, stands up, Reeve Dalton c ed. The engineer repo netyear.icoull OriginallY recl rtl in poor shape now andii pears that it may give w year, then contract • to struction will be let in, th mer, Otherwise, it will eluded in the budget est that the government mite north pier in a south -w direction but officials 'sli would make it difficult for to enter the harbor. • Reeve Dalton's- itterviev the minister was arrang John McEachren, the 1 candidate for Lambton WI More Personn At Army Camp More good new ' for Bend was announced r1 when it was revealed the 300 married persennel. ,w housed in the area ivhel RCR's from Germany 'mc Camp IpperWasit, • ' -: The number of :11CR. p he, whose dependents tote 600,' is more than 'denbt regiment which was „trans from the tamp,. • • The families are Mast Grand •Bend, Thedford' aril rest. • ' Locks Kids ..TrOck..: To Fight Farm Firi': Gerald Isaac, 26, of R.R.' 1, Clandeboye, can't figure out how the fire that gutted his two-storey frame farmhouse on Saturday got started, "It began in the ceiling of the front room," he said, "arid it wasn't over the stove. The wir- ing enters the home froth the opposite side so it couldn't have. been that." The young Biddulph farmer and his wife were working in -the kitchen when it broke out about 11.15 a.m. "I thought I smelled smoke corning trent the front room and I asked Jean (his wife) check it. She found the ceiling on fire. 4.'Wheri 1 got to it, the area on fire was only about three square feet. t got some pails of water to throw on it but that didn't do any good. "I grabbed the two .kids (Cathy, three, and Gary, I%) and locked them in the truck outside. Jean dolled the fire departhimit, and then she and 1 started dean- ing out the clothes and furniture. "The neiglibemit tattle running to help its, Petit Gronin, Maurice Spruyette and his son, Gerry,: MIA front the farms near US; Harry Garrett from BiddlliPh,: Wh6 WAN driving by, elite in iwnd some JohfistOri from Bayfield IMO helped. "We were able Co.save several bedroom SuiteSo the refrigerator • and other things," The house was a ball of 11 when the brigade,. from • Station 'Centralia: ' iirriVed. • watched the barn neerbn was threatened .by sparks by the heavy wind. Late Centralia VUMPer) taint do guard against the barge mg, , I Isaac said he wet` oda Exeter and Lucan fire brii Were called but didh't WW1 He didn't know why, Chief. Irwin Ford, . of E, said the fire department wasn't notified. No alarM sounded, he said. • . • I - Chid Ford said that the gado doesn't always go to1 fires, Many of *WA are AI .Mit of -control when the 'br is Called. RoweyOr., he said decision to go Or, not is ' After the alarm i oodad b telephone company, A •me of the btigadetalks to the who has turned in the alar determine :if they can be of Telephone Supervisor • Mary %Who said wtdiloth person who put. in *eh *Shed ltiettfiqrnilly to 1 at Roo StatIc ,gthey, did Mit ru eter'department The Ifil edit at botneen Of which wit thee,