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VICTIMS OF SUNDAY ACCIDENT -'--Mr. and Mrs. William RoosebOorn, Hensall, are
shown here with their young daughter, Afeina, in this family portrait takenover a
,ear ago. The girl, now three and one-half, Was killed instantly Sunday When. a 'dr
door flew open and the was thrown into the path of an oncoming car. The Roose-
booms came to, Canada five years 'ago from Holland. They have two other children,
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Launch Cancer Canvass
Cancer campaign in this area
will be launched Tuesday, April
30, when Exeter Legion. Ladies
Auxiliary stages the second
annual door to - door blitz
through town,
Members of the auxiliary will
start their canvass at 6.30 in the
evening and scontinue' into the
night until the homes have been
covered. Householders are ask-
ed to co-operate by having their
donations ready to save the
ladies ji•
• Rev. Hugh Wilson, minister
of Wesley Willis church, Clinton,
for the -past eight years has • ac-
cepted a call to Thames Road
United- Church effective July. 7.
• Rev. Wilson is the son of a
former minister of Main Street
United Church, then Methodist.
Rev. jasper Wilson. He is well
known in. Huron County having
• served at Holinesville, Auburn
, and Brussels,
, Mrs. Wilson is the daughter of
a clergyman, . 'They have one.
, daughter, Mrs./Donald Deas,.To-
rontri and one son, John, with
• the RCMP, Deer, Alberta.
New' 'Anglican Priest
Richard H. Anions,. of
Lions Head, has been arm/Milted
to. the Anglican ;parish of Ailsa
. Craig Which includes Christ
Church„, Centralia, it was. re-
ported • this week, ,He succeeds
Rev. A. A. Neild.
A veteran of the air force dur-
ing the Second world war, he
entered Huron College when he
returned • and went into train-
ing for Holy Orders. He.is to be
ordained as a priest, this fall
Rev. Anions: and Mrs: Anions
,haVe. :five children -Diane, 11;
'Douglas. 10; .Larry, 8; Doreen,
'6; and 'Pauleen, 14 months,
Open -Hall
At Hensall
Hensall arena, unique in 'that
•
ft was designed and buil by
local -tradesmen, now. has an-
other distinction—it boasts one
of the most ,stYlish• public audit-
oriums in Western Ontario.
The new, hall, handsomely de-
corated in a Wedgewood and
mahogany color scheme, will
undergo its 'first test this Fri-
day night when the board stages
a grand opening. dance, A big
crowd is expected. .•
Incorporated in the b r 1 g h t
auditorium are a :modern, stage
with convenient dressing robins,
kitchen, check room,ticket tyie-
Ws, incandescent lighting and a
hardwood danee floor, It Mee -
sures 36x90
Village officials expect the
hall to become the centre of
community hetivity. Not only
Will it provide excellent acconi-
modation for hatiqUeta, large
meetings, concerts and dames,
but it will serve as a sports
centre, too. ,
Already the recreation 'council
hag Marked off shuffleboard and
badminton courts on the floor,
Like , the arena ,itself,- the
auditorium was designed and
built by Dave Sangster, former
councillor, Ile and Lloyd
Mous-
seau did the carpentry Work on
the hall and Byron Kyle, also of
painted it.
Chairman of the arenaboard
is JIM Sangster, another former
countillor who's been interested
in the building since its tree.
Hon, M e in beta include .Tack'
Drysdale. Bill Fuss„ John Hen -
der' -on, Den Joynt, Harvey Heys
end Reward Stint,
BIifr TuescI.c...
In the meantime, plans are
progressing • slowly for cam-
paigns in other municipalities.
Seeding is hindering canvass in
the townships but the organza-
tional groundwork is being com-
pleted.
Mayor B. E. Pooley, chairman
of the campaign„ said -Stephen
Federation of Agriculture has
agreed to. cover that municipali-
ty with. ith'es. help of Crediton
Women's Institute which has
consented to canvass the police
villa ge.
. Plans for Stephen were final
d,.-
izeat. a meeting ,in, Crndi,tOn.
on Wednesday which was . ad:
dressed by Fred Dobbs, •presi-
dent of the. Exeter and district
branch of the society.
Seeks Co -Operation
Mayor Pooley said be is still
awaiting word concerning the
campaign in Hay and Usborne
townships. The Federations in
these muniCipalities' had hoped
to get the co-operation of their
women's institutes.
Mayor Pooley said he hoped
Hensall Kinsmen. Club would
conduct ,the campaign there
again, and the Men's Club in
Dashwood.
"We' do need the „co-operation
'of all groups in the area to
make a success of this drive,"
Mayor Pooley said. '"We know
after our initial experience last
year that people are eager to
donate to this worthwhile. cause
and it is important that we give
them the opportunity."
Objective of the local branch
is $3,500, $500. more than last
year.. . •
Although it was, its first earn-
paign, the Exeter branch raised
the .second largest amount of any
branch in. the Perth -Huron dis-
trict in 1956. The total was over
Local Girl Guides,
Sell'5,640 Bunko
Hot cross buns, hot cross buns,
` One a penny, 'two a._ penny,
Hot cross buns. ,
This old nursery rhyme was
revived last: week when Girl
Guides went from door to door
taking orders for hot cross buns
to be delivered on Thursday
after School hours. It took a
great deal of selling to get orders
for 470 doten,' Man' m lots of
one-half doten,
ErSman's Bakery made the
buns and Captain Mrs. Bob Mor-
ten bagged them. The delivery
istarted from the bake shop at
3.30. The Guides returned to the
Scouthouse with their money.
All were finished by 9 pan.
Margaret' Sanders sold the
most bunt -54 dozen,
$3,000. • •
In opening the campaign this
weke, Mayor Pooley served in, a
double capacity — as head of
the municipality and • the • cam-
paign. • His statement read:
"As mayor of Exeter : I have
no hesitation in endorsing the
campaign for funds of 'the
Exeter and district branch ,divi-
sion of the.. Canadian Cancer
Society. Andsin so doing I am in
the very best of company be-
cause the national campaign. of
this .society hes„..been endorsed
:by EkceliencyIlle7,40,ernor
.,.—piease.:TUrh'fo" Pike 3
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IThen She as Gone'
."We were driving to church at married shortly before they came.
Exeter. 1 wasn't travelling very to Canada five years ago from
fast because we were half an ;Holland. They lived at Centralia
hour early for the service. The and Exeter before moving to
children . were ill the back Scat 4lensall three years ago when the
and I heard Afeina playing with husband was employed by Gen -
something on the door. I asked prat Coach Works of Canada, He
'my wife, 'Is that door locked?' works In the trimming section.
and just atthat moment it flaw Coroner Dr. J. C. Goddard,
open and. Afeina was gone." Hensall, announced Tuesday an
In , those words, a 28 -Year-old inquest awllillTubeesd' hayel,dAipnr ill f 30, s aaltl
inimigrant' father described the 2Towponi.
oPr, Constables Cecil
tragically simple accident whiph
killed his pretty three and 000-, 'Oibbons and George Mitchell
half year old daughter early investigated.
inFveu4nteigraatiedfo•r the girl is being
Sunday afternoon: .
., The girl, Afeina Reosehloom, hcehlrdislonday R(eTfhoin.rnrsedday) e.L.rtchhe,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willianl
Exeter, with Rev. G. J. Hoytema,
Roosebloom, Hensall, was thrown
out of the car into the path of an of Clinton, officiating. Burial will
oncolning vehicle driven by Pat* be in Exeter cemetery. Bonthron
rick Flannery, R.R. 5, Mt. Funeral Home ; Hensall, is in
•Brydges, The accident occurred charge. _ t
at 1,50 11.m., about a mile south '
of Hensall, on No 4 Highway, •.
Police believe the Flannery car Tractor Upsets
struck the girl almost the instant P •
she flew out of her father's Mother Xillecr
vehicle. Iler neck and skull were .
fractured when she hit the front . Accidentally killed- when a
°Pam Mt, BrYdges. car- sile was tractor she was driving over -
not run. over, police said% turned on top of her Mrs. Leon -
owe always Iseep the doors ard Smith, 20, a concession 10,
locked because of the Oilldren Blanchard Tdwnship is survived
but something happened this
bY her husband and tliree chil-
time," the father said. "They
were ready for church before we. and
dn David.
Maybe
Wilma, Donna
were and played around the car.
Maybe that's the reason, Mrs. Smith had just finished
"She was a good girl and we 15lowing a field and was driving
loved her very much. We'll miss toward the road. In crossing the
ditch beside the road the tractor
her." ,
Mrs. Milton Lavery, a neigh-. turned over, pinning her be-
bor, described Aleina as "the, neath. '
dearest little thing you, ever She was the former' Anna Rid-
saW," ' . dell of Nissouri township, daugh-
"She was a lovely child, $113' ter of Mr. and Mrs; W. A.Rid-
and timid, and never a minutet.s deli, who surviVe.
trouble. She and my fitre-year-old
daughter played together every •
dor."Riding with.,Afeine in the back Closes Case
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seat were the two other children,
.Tack Edward,' two years, and
Margaret Alice, six weeks; and On Mad. Dog
Mks. .Roosebloom's brother Hilt -
Case of this town's mad dog
jin .Tewies, ,of London, 1. ,.
• Tetvies gave a statemTit to appears to ,,be closed.
police in which he said the girl
wasltanding tip by the door just
before if flew open, •-
Mr.'and, Mrs. 'Rooseblooin were
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iIIivray PSJBoard •
oycot s Newspaper
Officials of McGillivray SchOol lowing a tour of the buildings
Area Board, annoyed over a
pfevions Times -Advocate report,
refused this week to give the
newspaper access to- minutes of
its meeting last week. • 1,
"The board is nof in fever of
letting you have the news until
you can give us assurancethat
you will print it the way the sec-
retary gives •it to you," Board
Chairman Kenneth Sholdice said
Tuesday night„
"'Board members," he explain-
ed, -"didret like the way you
wrote up the last meeting."
Secretary David Henry, R.R.
1 Clandeboye, furnished his reg-
ular report to the Parkhill papet,1
The. Gazette, but did not send a
copy.' to The Times -Advocate.
When asked if he would allow
The T -A to see his minutes of
the public board's meeting, he
said not unless he received spe-
cific instructions from Chairman
Sholdice„
Chairman Sholdice said he
Would not grant r•ermission until
he w,as .instructed to do so by
his board., . ,
Not To "Times -Advocate .
by both bodies. In the story, The
Times -Advocate* traced events
of the school. Controversy. Itf also
reported guarded comments of
Reeve' Fred 'learner' and Chair-
man: Sholdice. • •
Violates Principl�
:Times -Advocate Editor, Don
Souther:de said it would be im-
possible for the newspaper to
give the' board the assuranee it
wanted ' without violating the
principle of freedom of the press.
"Alf we agree to print only what
the board wants us to print, then
we are allowing the board to
:control the press. This could
have serious repercussions if,
for example, the board deliber-
ately omitted reports of deci-
sions or altered them to keep
the public from knowing the
facts,
The editor pointed. out:, how-
ever, that to his knowledge no
attemPt, of this .kind has been
Made.
.
In March, TheTimes-Advocate
wrote the board requesting per-
mission. to accompany it on its
annual inspection of school build-
ings. The lmard replied, after it
Last %week Secretary Henry had completed its tour, stating
reported a special joint meeting it felt; it would not have been
of council and school board for "eenvenient" . for . The the 'Parkhill paper but did not Advocate to accompany the
Times -
release the news to The Times- g p
Advocate. -
The board's action arises over
the controversial school situa-
tion in McGillivray and the re:, INot 'Read'
yir the problems of its dilapidat- .
ed schools in public. Both school
board and council members have
avoided making statements on. Says -Council
the issue. . McGillivray council told the
The T -A story to which School
board members objected report- teewenksh.tiphat7thehoolnaunireacipbaelaitr31 was w
ed that council and the board not -ready for ,a central building
Were planning a joint meeting to to replace Worn -Out schools now
discuss -the school problem fol.-
luctance of public officials to in use' ' , '
However, c o n n c xi suggested
thatthe board refrain from
making any large expenditures
because a central school may be
feasible in the future.
Everybody Together:
Turn Clocks AHEAD'
For the first time in a
tiurrlber, of year8, all muni.
tinalities in this area will
switch to daylight saving
time the same evening.
The avisolnted hour is
roughly Saturday midnight,
Let's get it straight now.
You put the clotk ahead
i . .
or s it behind .?
'Mead BEHIND . . just
a minute, please h
Now we We it, YOU PUT
THE CLOCE. AHEAD ONE
14OUR SATURDAY MID.
NIGHT. Got it?
/ In other Words you lose an
hour Sunday Meriting. (There
has beena general plea from
the ministerial association
Asking residents not to pick
up that lost hour of • sleep
during church services Sufi.
day.).
Just to Makesure again
church services on Sun-
day will start on daylight
saving time, an hour Cartier
than usual. OK?
In east you wish to become
technical, the exact hour for
changing_ your clock vatic&
froth municipality to muni-
cipality.
For example, in Exeter and
Grand Bend folks really
should waituntil exactly 12.01
to manipulate the Big Hen,
Dashwood and Crediton can
switch at the stroke of mid. •
night. In Zurich, residents
should net touch their time
machines until 2 a.m.
Sun-
dv.
Essentially, however,
everyone changes Saturday
night:
This information was contained
in a report prepared by Board
Secretary David .Henry and sub -
'flitted last week to the Parkhill'
Gazette.
Council officials geberailY
agreed with the statelutilt. Clerk
Bill Amos Said: "Actually there
was no decision bade. It was
just a general discussion."
Reeve Fred Heiman said the
school timid not be considered
at the present time. "It would
be political suicide to campaign
for a school how," he said. "The
ratepayers will have nothing to
do with it.",
(For the past two years, elec-
tors have defeated pro,school
Candidates for both council and
school board.) '
At the jeirit 'libeing of board
and school cOthleil, 'Public Sebool
Inspector Elwood Oakes tem-
pered the grants which were
available th the township for
repairing the old schools or
building a new One.
,police Chief. Beg • Taylor said
Wednesday a -dog which WAS*
ithytitaniiell.b_y.,41ihe,0„cs.ausbitpltainvipanstms small
children. on Anne Street last
'week -bas been tied dp, by its
owner for the, past' week ' and it
has shown no sign of rabies.
The children have suffered no
ill effects.,
Dr. T. R. Melady,*publid health
veterinarian .of the Huron. County
unit, Goderich, said Wednesday
he knew nothing about a dog
being under ebserVation. He had
asked town officials to inform
him if thedog had been found,
he said, but had not been noti-
fied yet. , •
Police Chief Taylor said the
case was finished as far as he
was concerned. "Everyone is
happY, including the people who
identified the dog."
Hagmeier Suit
Set For .June
Dr; L. C. Ilagmeier's lawsuit
for $504,000 damages against
municipalities in. the Ausable
watershed has been scheduled
for London Supreme Court on
June 11, it was announced Wed-
nesday. •
Besides damages for loss of
crops through flooding the action
asks that the municipalities take
steps to control .spring floods.
FATAL .VEHICLE-20PP Constable George Mitchell, Ex-
eter, inspects the one ton 'truck ih which Robert
50, of Farquhar, was killed Friday night. The victim has
operated the, general store at Farquhar for the past 21
years. 4.. • --T-A "Photo
Ye:104.kt Blames Victim
In Intersection Crash
A coroner's jury :Wednesday frena the east and realized it
attached Blaine to Robert Miller could not stop. He thought it
in the accident which killed him might make the corner ahead of
The 'jury's verdict read: Dr. .Tames Ross McKenzie
.Easter, Friday. ' • the• Hyde .car.
"The accident occurred .When Pathologist at Stratford General
Hospital, said the' post mortem.
the deceased, driving his truck
,
westerly on the county boundary revealed that the deceased died
road failed to stop before enter -
mg provincial' highway No. 4
which was properly marked with
stop sign, and struck • a car
driven by *Alex Hyde which was
travelling: north on No. 4;
"We attach no blame -to Mr.
Hyde and •attribute the blameto
the deceased and pre -occupation
Dr.• F. J. Batson, Exeter, said
he found:11111er in the .ditch,oxt
the west side Of'llieread under
the overturned truck,. Miller was
living at the time but died be-
fore reaching ,hospital.
Mr! Hyde testified be was
travelling 40 Miles per hour and
noticed headlights -approaching
from the north. Then headlights
from the east flashed in his
right hand window and he was
simultaneously hit. The impact
occurred on his, right front cor-
ner.
Cpl. Norman Holmes, RCAF
Stati dri • Centralia, who was
travelling behind the Hyde car,
said he saw the truck coming
Where To
Find. If
Announcements
Church Notices 15,
Coming Events 13
Editrits 2
Farm °News
Feminine Facts 7 •and 8
Hensel!. 6
Lucan „ 12
Sports 4
Want Ads 11
of cerebral lacerations napsed by
fracture of skull. Analysis of the fractured left arm, and' Jean
blood revealed content of alco- Hyde, 18, „another tlaughter. of
This mei PAP"
one of the warmest, 014 0
in years—alio Novod to
of the most ASastrotIA
district.
Easter Sunday 'pretty'.
year-old Hensoll. girl will
instantly .when the door
ratneifs car flew open and
her into the path of an
tooling car, '
Easter Friday, Robert
50 -Year-old *owner* •ot Fa
General Store, ,died before
_
ing hospital following I
truck crash „four milessyno.ck
Exeter. Two others aro is
cal •condition In St, JOMPI
Hospital, London.
The two tragedies darke
an otherwise bright 'h
which brought, hundreds ou
church and made a perfect
ting for display of XoSsor.:
shions.
Store Owner.:
•
Dues Friday
Robert Miller, who has,operst..
ed the Farquhar store for eve": -:
20 years, was killed when ha
one -ton truck struck a Far as it
entered No. 4 highway at ths
Middlesex -Huron boundary.
.Miller, travelling .east*, struck
a , north -bound vehicle driven by
Alex Hyde, 57, of.B.R. 3 KIPPOO,
The victim's truck landed on its
side' near the south ditch of No,
4 and the Hyde vehicle went.info ,
the field* at the north-west corner
of the intersection. ".
Mrs. Hyde, 46, and her
ter, Marjerie, 14, remained
Sbuth Huron Hospiteuntil Mon-
day whey they, were removed
to St. Joseph's, London, .for ob-
servation. The hospital reported ,
Wednesday their conditions Were
"satisfactory.".. .
Other passengers, in the .Hydo
car were Mrs. Ines BOdenham,
49, of Bayfield, who suffered.*
1101. There was no evidence of
disease. q
Other witnesses included. Con-
stable George Mitchell, Sgt. Wal-
lace Brawley and Mrs. Wilma
Dr'..,ff. *Goddard liensall pre-
IlaYeg,..,, resecuted- and •Coroner
Ilgs ieodrlesma i,erts,, t bt eh e. ,laHolmest t e, rtwocar.
Crown Attorney1: Glenn
1 , ', p o S s e n -
. .
'Lloyd Hodgson was foreman of
the jury. Members were Lloyd
S t e w a r t, Clarence Fairbairn,
'Lloyd Hey and Sain Hendrick..
e ariver..
OPP Constable !George Mitchell
investigated the accident, -east*
ed by Corporal Harry. Sayean.
•Goderich. Both vehicles were
wrecked. •
Native Qt. Stiff* '
torn in 1907 at Staffer PobCrt
oftlte-late
via
M Miller. and -'Ellsali6th
Vorden. Twenty-two years age
he-Inarried the former Muriel
Olive Drake, and they operated
a store at Britton before moving
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Pageant, Music' Feiti.
Highlights- OfE�te
Some of the largest crowds in
recent years attended church
services over the Easter week-
end. Union services on Good
Friday, special Easter messages
in sermon and song in each
church on Sunday and a pageant
on Easter Monday were features
of . the Easter celebration.
Union Holy Week •
Good Friday morning service
hi James Street United Church
was the culmination of Union
Holy Week services for Exeter
and district.'
Rev. Angus McQueen of Em-
press Aventte . United Church,
London, who has been the speak-
er at each service, chose as his
closing meditation "The Shining.
Cross."
Referring 4 o a church in Ban-
bury Cross in England where a
cross stands shining out in the
EASTER 'BRINGS SPRING—Easter officially introduced the warm weather this year.
Sunny days over the religious weekend have continued throughout the week with
temperatures reaching into the high seventies. 'A warm Sunday brought man taster
paraders out and crowded local and, district* clituthes. ,Above, Margaret ;Sneigrove
and Bonnie Turvey admire pussy willows on their way home front Sunday School.
' A
darkness, Mr. McQueen .,said "So
the cross •ef . Christ shutes out
and 'illuminates all history."
'Par clearer than any word
spoken; far' clearer than any
parable told was Christ's sacri-
ficial act of crucifixion, Literal.
ly the cross, broadcasts the gos-
pel."
Easter At Trivitt Men:wird
Easter Sunday morning, at
Trivitt Memorial Church of Eng -
Jai*, was marked by :an early
communion service at 8.30, for
which the chapel was filled.
At 11.30, a choral communion
attracted the largest .Easter
attendance for several years.
Mrs. Ken, Hodgins, Centralia,
assisted the choir in the anthem.
"King of Kings." ,
"Christ our Passover is sacri-
ficed for us, therefore, let us keep
the feat," was the theme of Rev;
N D: Knox's sermon,.
Members of the Orange Lodge
were in attendance.
Song And Story • at James St.
At the morning service ht.
James St, United Church the
choir presented an Easter ser-
vice of story and song, •"The
Dawn Immortal," to ,a capacity
congregation.
Solo parts in the anthems
were taken by Maxine Reeder
and Marilyn Bissett. Don Taylor
and Don Welsh, Patricia Cann
and Marlene McBride sang duets
and a sextet, Barbara Kernick,
Jeanette Taylor, Marilyn Hicks,
Nancy Boyle, Pani. MacMillan
and Marian May, sang a chorus.
Rev. H. I. Snell was the reader:
Mr. Gordon Koch at the piano
assisted Mr; Lawrence •Wein at
the organ. Mr. Wein directed the
Choir.
In the evening the junior
choir Ied •in song with a duet
number by Mary Ann' Lostell
arid Kathryn Hicks and a solo
by Sandra Walper.
Pageant At Pentecostal
A large audience received the
presentation of the pageant "The
Cross the Great Divider," at the
Pentecostal Church on Monday
eight. It was staged and directed
by Evangelist Winn -Butler, of
Lucan, and a number from Lucan
Pentecostal Church assisted with
the program.
The pageant portrayed the pro,
cession of carth's pilgrims in all
walks of life and, how they re,
spond to the message of, the gross.
In the first scene, Easter was
portrayed by Wanda IVLaeLaren;
nanargrette,d sbhyirlevAlliftgotyPt!ull,
Sharon Vault; nut* ;
gamiltoril moderniet(e pros, t
Floyd Blanchard'
rett11
i°11tar'Trilyrnt
ton nd Lind Itrarttetit
Robert Ostler;
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vitae,
Jennie
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