The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-07-25, Page 144
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Eighty*Komi Year'
EXETER, ONTARIO, JUI,Y 25, UPSI
;ears End
Bob Drownsin Crow
Revive Cromarty Girl
Public officials at Grand Bend ton, and Gail Waugh, Galt, dis-
are !still wondering bow it could covered the boy lying face clown
be possible for' a young boy to in the water, and Don Odbert,
drown in the heart of a resort's Stratford, carried him to shore.
popular beach on one of its most TeLdifsetgeuwaarrcits[FGireenryChiefleLinarvreannede
crowded days.
With hundreds of people swim- Mason, hydro employees Graham
• ming around him and lifeguards Mason and police applied arti-
not over 100 ,feet away, seven-
ftiperlatireraetinspeinrattiuonndearntdhexesus cita-
•of three doctors, who Werdeiroenettire
beach at the time.
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LUCKIEST MAN. AT..THE PARTY—Gerald "Duck" Paul, :centie„ of the popular rnrk,
ton's Paul 'Bros. act, obviously enjoys the 'violin. music being played especially for him.
by Florence and -Andrea: Hansen the pretty blonde inusiciaris who have ,starred on la
number of TV shows this year, The 'Hansen sisters (they're not twins) and the Pauls'
act were featured numbers at the Kirkton Garden Party east week, —T -A Photo,
year-old Joseph Melvin. of Lon-
don, died in shallovf water direct-
ly in front of the resort's main
-street. Two and one-half hours of
resuscitation failed to revive him.
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KEEPS HER PROMISE --Juliette, who captured Grand Bend with her contagious smile
last week, poses with the RCAF Station Centralia band to keep her end of the bargain
which brought the band out to welcome her. The air force musicians said they would
perform providing she pose with. the band and she happily obliged. Here's the proof.
—Noseworthy
Clean -Up Burial Ground.
Bought 100 Years Ago
Bethesda cemetery, officially
100 years old On Monday, re-
ceived a cleaning up Tuesday
afternoon when \families in the
Hurondale district held h . bee
on the burial ground on lot 26,
concession three, Usborne town-
ship.
Farmers with machines and
hand tools cut .cloWn long grass,
weeds, and dead trees in prep-
aration for •further improvement
of the sacred ground.
The cemetery was established
on July 22, 1857, in connection
with Bethesda Bible Christian
Church which has sine been re-
moved from the area. Many of
the graves and stones were
Quick Action
Saves Barn
Quick action by neighbours
saved one of -Osborne township's
largest barns after lightning ap-
parently started a fire in the roof
Sunday night.
Using extinguishers and garden
hose, men were able to confine
damage to about 20 square feet
of the roof of the .60 x 40 three-
storey poultry building attached to
the 90 x 50 barn owned bY How-
ard Johns, sixth concestsion,
Kenneth Johns and his son,
Bob, who live across the road,
turned extinguishers on the smoul.
dering roof .just as it was ready
to burst into flames. "We arrived
just in the nick of tirne,". said
Mr. Johns. "It was red hot."
Other neighbors hooked hese to
the pressure system in the barn
and poured water on the embers.
The fire began In wood shav-
ings, used as insulation between
the metal roof and board ceiling.
' it had eaten out a large part of
a big beam.
The barn contained about 1,300
breeding stock poultry,' None .of
the birds died.
Striae was. noticed by passing
motorist, John Bregnian, who
first thought it was steam,
In-
vestigating, he found the barn
full of smoke and alerted neigh -
hours.
Mr, and Mrs, Itoward Johns
were visiting in town when the
siren blew. They followed the fire
engine to their Mine.
The hired man Ott the Win,
Peter ToOnsttay was away for the
evening. Ie lives In 'the house,
beside the barn..
Exeter Pitt Brigade went to
the Sant but the himwas un-
der control'Whett it arriVed.
moved to Exeter cemetery when
the church was torn clown but
Tuesday's bee uncovered thirty-
three stones which were still
recognizable.
It was rare coincidence that
the trustee board met Monday
night on the same day that the
deed for the ground was pur-
chased 100 years ago. The meet-
ing was called to disenss the
cleaning -up of the cemetery and
the trustees found it necessary
to. donsult• the deed. It was then
they discovered that it had been
signed on July 22, 1857.
The land was purchased for
one shilling from Samuel Man-
ning. chairman of • the trustee
board was Rev. Jonathan Ed-
wards, of EXeter, first minister
of the' )3ible Christian Church.
Apparently burials were made
in the cemetery before the deed
was signed because one of the
first to be interred was Robert
Down, grandfather of Rev. C.
W. Down, who died on. January
27, 1856.
Rev, Dowd and his nephew,
Clarence, are two members of
the trustee board. Other S are
Miss Nettie Keddy, Exeter; Rev.
It T. Snell of James St. 'United
Church; and Lorne Oke,
The first Bethesda church, a
frame structure, was built in
1857 and wasreplaced by a
brink one in 1873. It was closed
in 1910 and the building removed
in 1911. The bricks were used
to build the Harvey mill, now
owned by Cann's ,Mill Ltd., Exe-
ter.
No Edition
Next Week
The Times -Advocate will not
be published next Thunsday,
August 1, in order to allow
nienibers of the staff to
en-
joy their annual helidays.
The office will be closed
from July 29 to August 6.
Because of Civic Holiday
on Monday, August 5, the
nextedition will not be
the man mad Friday, Aug-
ust 9.
Correspondents and On.
tribUtors areAsked to sub-
mit their news as 'early as
possible next week itt order
to give the staff an oppor4
(artily to include an extra
week's news in the August.
tditiott.
Coroner Dr, A. M. Calder,
Parkhill, who pronounced the boy
dead after the efforts a three,
doctors, lifeguards, firemen, and.
hydro workers proved futile, esti-
mated the boy drowned 20 to 30
minutes before he was pulled out
of the water. •
Two girls, Kathy Kaye, Pres -
The church belonged to the
Exeter circuit at first and later
came under the jurisdiction of
Hensall.
Among the earliest stones un-
covered Tuesday were two dated
1859 for Maria D., daughter of
James and Miriam Blatchford,
and William J.,, son of Thomas
and Caroline Allin.
In December, 1860, William
Sherritt and William' Dawe, both
33, were buried side .by side.
Their 'stones indicated they were
killed when a tree fell on them
while they .were cutting down
bush,..
Preservation of the area has
been encouraged by the compila-
tion of a detailed history of the
area by the Women's Institute.
It was the WI which organized
an earlier clean-up of the ceine-
tery over 20 years ago.
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Bend Purchases
Physician's Kit
As a result of Saturday's
drowning, Grand Bend coun-
cil has purchased a doctor's
kit which can be used by va-
cationing physicians tin *case
of emergency.
The kit was secured on the
adyiee of several doctors who
directed. the two-and-one-haff
hour ' attempt to revive the
seven - year - old boy. They
were on the beach at the time
of the tragedy but did not
have any instruments with
them.
The kit will be located at
W. F. B. MacLaren's Phar-
macy and will be available
to any licenced physician who
may be in- the area when an
accident occurs.
Barrel Tale
To Holland
How the lad went under up -
noticed is still conjecture.
"Perhaps it indicates," said
Cpl. Neil Chamberlain, head of
the OPP detachment, "that
people are as carefree about
swimming hazards as they are
about traffic."
Although the lifeguards were
near where the lad was found,
Cpl. Chamberlain said that be-
cause of the crowd it would have
been impossible for the guards
to spot the boy going down unless
he called for help.
The victim was the son of Sgt.
and Mrs. Ralph E. Melvin, of
London. Mrs. Melvin, who is in
London hospital recovering from
surgery, is a partner in the Kal-
booth at Grand Bend.
Just before the tragedy, the boy
arrived from' London accom-
panied by his aunt and uncle and
his sister, Diana, 17, Be rushed
dpwn to the lake unknown to his
relatives,
The aunt fainted on the beach
when she saw the boy after he
had been pulled out of the water.
Cottagers Save
Cromarty„cirl
Cottagers at Ipperwash beach
rescued and. revived an 11 -year-
old Cromarty girl Tuesday when
She was knocked over by a wave
and dragged off shore by an
undertow in rough water.
Joyce Margaret Dow, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Dow,
recovered from unconsciousness
after artificial respiration was
applied for several minutes. She
Mr. and Mrs. Hielke Berends,
of Holland, who have , been visit- was taken to army hospital at
ingIpperwash and later re-
ing their -family, ,in ,Qanada for
the.past.10 moths, plan to show IN•ed•
and a cousin, Irene Colquhoun,-
of Staffa, were wading in the
water when 'the younger sister
The couple, who hall from was knocked over by a. wa.;.e.
Enschede, H o 11 a n d, will take
• The other sister and cousin
weren't able to get her.
their friends the crazy way Can- -XoYee, her sister, Marlene. J3,
adians sell suits when they re-
turn to Europe next month.
home a copy of The limes -
Advocate containing pictures of
the recent barrel contest held by
Walper's Men's Wear. Mr, Ber-
ends is one of the spectators
shown in the pictures.
The couple leave July 29 to sail
to Holland after seeing more of
Canada than have many native
Canadians. They visited with a
son in British Columbia for five
months and then travelled by
car to Exeter, where they have
been staying with another son,
Teunis Berends, and his family,
Simcoe St.
During. their stay here, the
couple have been taken on nume-
rous trips to points of interest
in Ontario.
Mr. and Mrs. Berends are the
parents of 17 children. Four
were killed during the war; four
are in Canada, one in Australia
and the rest remain in Holland.
Mr, 'Berends, who is a brick-
layer in: Holland, celebrated his
seventieth birthday Saturday at
a party held at his son's home
here. Attending were Mr. and
Mrs. John Katz, Mr. and Mrs.
John Bruls, Mr. and. Mrs. Case
Zeehuisen, Mr, and Mrs. Bill
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Klaas Booy
and their families, all of Exeter;
Mr. A. Diek, Holland, who is
visiting the Bruls; Mr. and Mrs.
John Meltzer, London; Mr, and
Mrs. Steve Tuinstra• and Mr.
and Mrs. Albert acinghloed, of
Chatham; and Roxie Sheen, of
Mitchell.
Sun FinallyCo operates
With Area Boy Scouts
District Boy Scouts, who bat-
tled the elements on almost all
of their previous outings this
year, finally had the weather on
their side for a seven-day camp
in. the Pinery last week.
Every day was hot and sunny
in marked contrast to the cold,
rainy weather . which foiled
,Scouts disttiet rally here in
;June, an earlier spring campo-
ree and other activities this Year.
An Indian theme prevailed
through the tamp attended by 27
Boy Scouts from Exeter, RCAF
Centralia and RCAF Clinton last
week.
Scouts nratle Indian dress out
ofpotato sacks and dobbed them-
5elve8 with war paint.
Patrols, " headed by Doug Jer-
myn and Wayne Bowen, Exeter,
and and,
Morley, Centralia,
were tailed Mohawks, Crees and
Apaches,
Activities during the week
in-
cluded life saving,woodcraft,
fraeking, tree identification, cook-
ing, and first aid, Nightly CAMp.
fires climaxed thedaily pro-
grams.
Scouts passed numerous tests
during the Week.
Resat& and sWirniter hedges
Wert Won by Doug ,/erirtyrt and
Wayne Bowen, of the Exeter
troop; Kett teatherdale,BrianDavis and 'Roy Lavin of Cen-
tralia,
jOhit Shell and Doug Polak,
+tar,
Crawford Keith, a cottager,
saw the mishap and clove after
the girl. He was assisted by
Keith Graham, of Hyde Park.
These two men helped to apply
resuscitation.
J. WILLIS POWELL
Group Captain Arthur G. Ken-
yon, CD, new „commanding of-
ficer of RCAF Station Centralia,
said no changes' are, being con-
templated for the local air 'bap
even though the NATO .training
program is coming to an end.
G/C Kenyon told The Times -
Advocate he could not elaborate
on what effect the completion of
the program would have on the
station but he was emphatic that
no changes are being planned.
Last of the trainees. from NA-
TO epuntries, who attend Cen-
-MLA Remains •
On Critical List
Huron MP? Tom Pryde,
suffering, from a coronary
thrombosis, remains on the
critical list at Victoria Hos-
pital, London.
Authorities described his
condition as "unchanged" on
Wednesday.
The popular representa-
tive was reported quite low
on Sunday but his condition
improved Tuesday.
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Cold Remedy Maker,
J. Willis Powell Dies
J. Willis Powell, for many edy to which he claimed he owed
Hibbert School
Plans Centennial
S.S. No. 5 Hibbert, two miles
east of Cromarty,- will celebrate
its centennial Saturday, August
3, with a reunion on the school
grounils.
The bell rings at 9 am. for
roll call but there won't be any
penalty for scholars who are
late.
Morning program includes a
memorial service and remini-
scences. A sport and variety pro-
gram will be held in the after-
noon. A dance will be the main
attraction iri the evening with
music 'supplied by Howe and
Harburn orchestras.
years a prominent business man his life in the earlier years, and
which is now known throughout
Canada.
He purchased a variety store
on Main Street in the building
now occupied by Ford's Men's
Wear, which he conducted for
many years: Be was agent for
the Edison phonograph, a busi-
ness which flourished until the
advent of the radio, During the
height of the phonograph era,
Mr. Powell brought to Exeter
some of the top artists for con-
certs in the old opera. house to
compare their voices with the
reproduction on the phonograph.
After disposing of his business
lie went on the road as a travel-
ler for several years but -until
his last illness he never gave up
his' keen interest, in Nameless.
but being of frail healtli he had Surviving besides his wife is
to give up the work,. He estab- a daughter, Marion, •Isirs.
lished the Purity Manufacturing ham Post, .of Windsor.
Company, the principal product ./The funeral Tuesday after -
being "Nameless," a cold rem- noon was held from the Hopper
Hockey funeral home, conducted
by Rev, Harold Snell of James
St. church, in the absence of
Rev. Alex Rapson, of Main St.
church, of which Mr. Powell has
been a life-long active member.
Rev: Snell was assisted by Rev.
A. E. Holley of Grand Bend
United Church and. Rev. F. E.
Clysdale, London.
of Exeter, died Sunday in. South
Huron Hospital in his 79th year.
He had been ailing for some
time and had returned to his
home after a short time in hos-
pital. He was aIle to be around
the day before his death arid
died shortly after again being
admitted to hospital. ,
Mr. Powell was born in Exe-
ter, son of the late Stephen
Powell. He was united in mar-
riage to Gertrude Nash of Sar-
nia, and on July 31. 1955 they
celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary.
Mr. Powell began his career
as a printer with' the Exeter
Times under the late John White
tralia's preflight and erelim4k,
ars flying training schools, 1? -
rived at the orientation centre
at RCAF Station London earlier
this moth. It is expected that
the training of these last groups
will be completed during 190
and the final wings parades will
mark the close of the erioinal
scheme.
Although the original Nate
aircrew training schome ie
reaching its final stages, the
RCAF will continue to train air-
crew from some Nato countries
under new and separate arrange*
ments, involving partial pay.
ment by the countries concern.
ed. These arrangements have
been made with countries which
do not have sufficient training
capacity of their own to provide
all the training that they Ts,'
quire.
For example, by the end 9f
this year, trainees are expected
to arrive from three Nato coun-
tries to receive training throng'',
a modified version of t h s .
scheme. A three-year arrange-
ment calls for the RCAF to pro-
vide training annually for 55 air-
crew from Denmark, 65 /One
Norway and 30 from the Nether-
lands.
Also, under arrangements con-
cluded last year, the first of
360 German Air Force personnel
to be trained by the RCAF are
already in Canada.' This initial
group of 12, all veteran fliers,
is taking refresher and jet con.
version training, and the first
of the German student trainees
are to arrive for flight train•
ing during the autumn.
Began In 1950 •
The Nato aircrew training
scheme, begun in August, 1950,
was designed to aid other Nato
countries in the expansion of
their air forces. The majority
of the countries involved in the
scheme now are 'capable of hen.
dling their own training pro.
gram to look after attrition re-
quirements. The scheme leas
formed a part of Canada's mu-
tual aid program under which
this country has, since 1950,
provided military assistance to
12 of the other 15 Nato coun-
tries to a total value•of 'approx..
ireately $1,300,009,000.
Officials said the arrival at
London twe, weeks ago of the
ling groups tit,tr.ainees m arks
the beginning of .the end` ,of the
scheme through which the BC- :1
AF has trained more than 4,600
aircrew for 10 -other Nate. coun-
tries: Norway, Denmark, The
Netherlands, Belgium, France,
Portugal, Greece, Turkey and
the United Kingdom, Cost of
the training has been borne by
Canada.
At the moment there are more
than 900 Nato trainees in Can-
ada, at varying stages of their
aircrew training.
Cocktail Lounge
Gets Approval
First . temporary approval for
operation of a cocktail lounge in
Grand Bend has been received
by C. R. Chapman, owner of
Green Forest Lodge, it was re-
vealed this week.
The Ontario Liquor Licence
Board, in a letter to Chapman's
lawyer, said cocktail lounge and
dining lounge licences may be
granted when the building meets
all the requirements of the
Liquor Licence Act and the
Hotel Fire Safety Act.
Two other licences, both for
dining lounges, have been tem-
porarily approved also. They
are for the Dawn Restaurant,
operated by William Glenn, and
Monetta Menard's.
Mr. Chapman said alterations
to his lodge in preparation for
the serving of liquor wilt not be
undertaken until after Labor
Day.
The Chapman application was
handled through Park Jamieson,
Sarnia lawyer.
Dedicate Huron Chapel'
As Warrior
In a solemn ceremony in Gode-
rich Sunday afternoon, the chapel
in Huron County courthouse was
dedicated as a memorial to near-
ly 700 Huron sons who gave their
lives for their country and to
thousands of Huron servicemen
who fought for freedom.
Representatives of the 11 coun-
ty branches of the Canadian Le-
gion participated in the official
rites inside the small chapel of
the year-old courthouse while
hundreds heard the ceremony out -
Exeter, wen their second elass,
badge as well as their swimmer ;
badges. Keith Morley, Centralia,
also won a second class badge.
Protestant and Roman Catholic,
padres from RCAF Station Cen-
tralia, • conducted religious serv-
ices Sunday and Thursday.
Camp Chief. was Terry Law-
rence, Exeter; his deputy was
Jack Corless, Centralia, In charge
of water safety was Ralph Sweit-
zer, Exeter. Ted Chambers and
Ben Cook, Centralia, were quar-
terialatterS. Hal Hooke ' was in
charge of :forestry.
Where To
FindLf
Anneuncenients . 11'
Building Page 14
Church Notices ld
t Oming VVerdi 13
Editorials , 2
Entertainment 13
Farm News 9, 10
FiMinine Fade
Heron 6
Luton 12
Sethi*4, I
WAN Atif 11
BRIEF OFF ON JET EQUIPMENT—Members of the Ontario Provincial Police from
southern Ontario were shown how explosives BetiVate the tanopes � jet aircraft during a
briefing at RCAF Station Centralia last week, The ,air force flew in a Z33, Sabre and
MOO for the demonstration. Idea was to areiliarize police with canope filddhanisms itt
cap they have to copo with jets when they crash land,
ItCAF Photo,
Memorial
side through the public addresl
system.
Cel. K. E. Taylor, padre of the
Goderich Legion, officially dedi-
cated the memorial which con-
tains the names of those who died
in Canada's armed services. The
names are listed in a hand -print-
ed- book, a page of which will be
turned each day.
The chapel will also contain a
record of all. native Huron sons
who have served in the nation'*
wars. Still in the process of com-
pilation, tlie book will not be '
bound until September in order to
allow insertion of any, names
which may have been nussed. •
Records for the chapel have
been prepared by the Huron. Me-
morial Association, of which Exe-
ter Mayer R. E. Pooley is presi-
dent. The chapel was furnished
through funds donated by county
Legion branches.
Dedication on Sunday began
with a parade Of more than 100
members from the Goderich
arena to the courthouse, led by
the Goderich pipe band and the
RCAF 'Clinton pipe band.
Guest speaker at the service
was Henry Harvey, of Ottawa,
president of the Ontario Com-
mand, Canadian Legion, who
praised the Huron chapel as "a
lasting tribute to the dead." He
hoped more similar Memorial&
would he erected because "people
need to be reminded Of the real'
cost iif war."
Rev. D. J. Lane, Clinton,
preached the sermon.
Wreaths were deposited at the
cenotaph by Mayer Pooley and
Mr. Harvey following the cere-
mony. Air Vice Marshal J. A.
Sully, Goderich, and Group' Cap-
tain X. C. CaMeron, Command
ing officer of RCAF Station. Clin
On, teak the salute of the march
peat which &included the serVice.
Lions Bring
Circus Here
Garden. Bros,. 'Circtis, billed a
the third largest in the world
Will come to Exeter Monde
August .26,.under the sponsorsh
of Exeter Liens Club. PrOtirt
Larry'. Snider 'announced • I
week, •
Garden 13±0-8, Will tireiterit
performances.1100fl another in the evetiln
one, in the
1%6 rots features. e
for tilt first time,the .Royat inc
Llamas,. ;six white llamas. W.I.
were tiptoed is the And
ittoolutertiaoirtiisti, ow: fitdoultihtilit