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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-10-24, Page 1• Whil0 e• Ws, longer stair, r foot badly at in, ;e the able. -front con. ,hore. n has dross-. home or 11111111/44 1. Ip Es. d. 11111111, 4 1 or SS •ilem cater v • t !-1 • 11' 11 ':4t1 41 4 •I'' Eighty4sconcl Year XETER, ONTAMO,IXTOUR 24, 1957 oar otin V Pirko At Luca Lucan Tiolice Chief Dennis 0 Ernn..nd Police Force an attempt to restore order fol. Atkins, who fired his revolver in •••,•••.,•-, .•••., iscussParking-Changes; n calls" will be one of the changes. 11. New proposals for Main street I OPEN ZURICH SCHOOL—Admiring pupil's work in one .of the new classrooms of Zurjch Public School's addition are, left to right, Mrs. Audrey Haberer, teacher; F. W. Brokenshire, board secretary; Mrs. ,Greta Lavender, principal, and Elmer Rowe, vice-chairman of the board. The $40,000 extension was officially opened in a ceremony —TA Photo on Friday, • . . ,0„ 1,4, • 4 , '‘r BELL AWARDS CONTRACT—Contract for construction of a Bell Telephone power and 'terminal equipment building on Huron street, Exeter, has been let to C. A. McDowell. and Company, Centralia, the company announced this week. T1n valued at $18,000, will ,house equipment increase long distance facilities between London, Exeter, Clinton: and Wirigharn.. A London - to:'- Clinton cable, already under Construction, is scheduled for completion late next year, pen Two Area Schools in Official Ceremonies Vetera9 Teacher Cuts PS Ribbon . . Phyllis Ro'ger. opening ceremonies held in the The six -room, one storey schoel is built of cement blocks and in- cludes besides • the class -rooms, a teacher's room, a prineipars office and a nurse's room, all • . The opening', of the new.' $120,t, 00. Hensel( Public Seheol Fricla of ;them florescent lighted. The 7-1 school has an enrolment of 168 evening was attended by' sto, • ents dents,. parents and -interested s • " • • citizens. • The principal, Robert- Rea- , • burn, is assisted by Mrs, Mary Guest speaker was G. Duf- Haugh, Mrs. Joan Allan, Mrs. fin, assistant superintendent of Mabel ShirraY, Mrs. Beryl El- • elementary education, and the gie and Mrs. Helen Scene, The chairman was Howard Scane, latter presides over a well - chairman of the PS. Board. equipped kindergarten that at - Mr, Duffin, in complimenting tracted the attention of the visit the board4 said that every 'little .ors. detail had 4been well worked The Board •comprites Howard out with a view to efficiency Scene, chairman; Douglas Cook, and economy. •Ernest Chipchase, William Fuss, Fifty •per cent of the pupils Roy Campbell and James Tay- in- Ontarao, are now ' attending lor. Secretary -treasurer is Rob - schools that were built in -tite ert Reaburn. • past ten. year's, • he said. Next 1, . tti the home, a teacher affects forincipai Opens the character of the boys and . • . Duffin, who earlier in the School At Zurich day was present at the .open- ing of . a new Schoolat Zurich, was introduced by Mr. G. J, Go- rnan, Public 'School Inspector. 'Included .in the prograM were greetings from John M.. Hanna, M.L.A. for Huron -Bruce, and Reeve Norman Jones and devo- tioas by Rev. C. D. Daniel, of the United Church and ReV. Donald MacDonald, 'of, the Pres- byterian Church. -A picture of the Queen and the Duke- of Edinburgh was pre - History was made in Zuridi Friday afterrioono*hen Principal Mrs. Greta Lavender cut, the ribbon to officially open a new $40,000 two -room Iddition to Zurich Public School. The expansion, designed by architects Blackwell . and Hag- erty of London and built by Pats - rick Brothers, 'also of London, relieves congestion at the Zur- WI school where old classrooms were overflowing with students. The rooms will! be put into use mita!, to the schoolby the immediately with grade one 'Women's :Institute a,nd a plAque pupils being tanght in one of together with a $25 scholarship the rooms by Mrs, Audrey Hair, for the boy ,and girl winning erer, while Mrs. T. Lavender highest award in grades 7 •••,8, will teach grades seven and was donattd, by the Hensel]. Kin- eight in the other. ettes. Previous to the ribbon cutting, A former much -bolo -yea teach- Mr. G. L. Duffin, assistant sup- er, Miss Mattie Ellis, with 86 oridendent of elementary au - years of service in the teaching cation, was guest speaker at professiOn; had the honor of cut- ting the ribbon : ,to the new School. Pupils of Miss Ellis are.now Scattered in all liarts Report Theft Canada -and the United States, Inany,of .thein holding important positions. Introduced to the - audience were the architectS, BlackWell and Hagerty of London, and the Contractors, F. Van Bussel and Sons, of •Moan, The program was interspersed with songs by the students under the direction of the music snpervisor,. Mrs. Of Cab Wire „ Police report 300 feet of cab wire, valued at $100; was stolen from the Morrison dam site in Usbortie township over the Week- end, - The wire, owned by Schell In- dustries Ltd. Woodstoek, was reported missing Menday morn - Shafting Sand is °11:vilesFiglitifit Gibbons Cars Hit Pole Blocks Mouth the same telephone pole in .1,tio Two tare were damaged y accidents mar Hensall around 4 Lin. Sunday onorning, A eat driven North. by Cecil Van Horne, Lucan, who told po: Hee he fell asleep-, erlished into the west ditch and hit the pole, which loll teress,. the read. A southbound car driven by Edgar IVIeFalls, Also of Lunn, hit the pole. Constable Gibbons said charges are pending. Two tars suffered a total of $700 damage when they collided at the tomer of Huron and Main streets, Exeter, ,Thursday, Chief Rog Taylor said a tai; driven by Robert: Morrissey, of ILA, 2 Creditoti, which was pro- ceeding west on Huron, failed to ,stop at the intersection and WAS hit .by • another vehicle driven, by William C. Pilgrim, of Varna. Although the dredge has been operatingat the Mouth of the Ausable. river at Grand Bend for Over a Menth, shifting sand has prevented Progress, it WAS re- ported this week, pan Construction Co., Relle-' which has the. contract for UI e. job, has -eleaned the Mouth out three times, but stains eon. time to plug it up with sand. this week, water level was so IoW two , fishing • boats were grounded in the Month. The tug IV the dredging :company has had difficulty getting out. The firm amid' dredge tip the river until it clans otit a path for its barge whith -dumps the tilt into the lake. Width esti- Mate the job tart lie completed In two weeks once the mouth is Cleared. 44 . . - . . . Exeter Will have a three -aa police force starting M 1958, Council decided to hire a additional man Monday nigh lfollowl recommendat! • Eliminate Anglo rking? t parking, ineluding elimination of.: ifrom. the police committee whirl I studied reports presented in closed „session at the last meet ing. Council declared the position of chief .of police open as of December 31 and has collect for applications f r o rn experienced officers for the post. It indicat- ed, however, that the present chief, Reg Taylor, would be con- sidered along with the' new ap- plicants. Both Taylor and Constable John ' Cowan will. remain inem bers of the force. Appointment of the third man will give the town 24-hour pro taction with three shifts of eight hours each. Under the present ; organization, two men are re sponsible for '12 hours each. For part of these shifts the men are merely on•call, not on dutY. Councillor Alvin Pym, chair- man. of the, police committee, told council he had discussed the proposed. changes with both members of the force. Following the meeting, Coun- cillor PYm . explained the prin.: ciple reason for enlarging the force was the increasing de - ?nand from ratepayers for more police •protection. Complaints, he said, had grown in number and his -committee • felt it was im- possible for two men to give the service the public request- ed.- Other towns Exeter'S• size, in - eluding Clinton and liVinghani, operate . three-man forces 'Times Ave changed since we had a one-man force here," Councillor rya' stated, "There is .• more traffic today, more parking problems and a greater population to serve. IL the public wants greeter protection, we have no alternative but to Add another man." "‘ The councillor' also indicated that the amount of paper Work required from a• police depart- ment has increased greatly in recent years. Provincial law enfOrcement departments'and court officials request more de- tailed reports on accidents and, crime.' • • , Council also indicated Monday night that administration of the force will be altered somewhat to improve the service. A new' s y s temi for: answering phone, angle parking, were considered bY council, . a Members discussed •the en - forcemeat of parallel • parking on both sides on Main street and the establishment of a,park- ing lot near the business sec- tion. Council] or Ralph Bailey !punched the discussion by warn- ing that unless the traffic bottle- neck in Exeter was eliminated ,the new threelane highway pre - posed for No, 4 may bY-pass the town, Councillors agreed - this development would have a serious effect on the business seetigo. Although be admitted he did not like parallel parking him- self, Mayor Pooley said it would have M come soon as a safety measure, "Parallel parking is a must with the longer cars we have today," he stated. Reeve McKenzie did not agree on the safety argument. Be be - Bayed angle parking cut down the number of accidents be- cause drivers had to be more careful. "Outside of ' a few bumped fenders we have had South Huron Sector Program, mined in each church the total • if Hay Township Community Me -in. morial Centre due to cool_wea- ther conditions. • •• , • Mr. Duffin, , who• brought greetings' front the 'Honourable. J. W.„ Dunlop,.said ."I.. am de- lighted to lit at.,:the official open- ing of this splendid new addi- tion." , Mr. Duffin directed his speech to the public school children 'by using, the fingers and thumb of one hand: to illustrate the im- portant groundwork the public school offers to the growing youth of today. • "What are the aims of educa- tion in this province,"asked ,-- Please Turn to, Page 3 • South Huron :'Hot Spot' Fpr. Epidemic In...County At. least four „public schools had to postpone its official open - hi the area have been • closed ing, Friday because of the epi - because of the, flu epidemic. ' demic, only 58 out of 141 pupils Both ' Henson. and Zurich reported 1VIonclay. Principal Mts. schools shut dewn Monday when T. Lavender, of Hensall, and over half of the students failed teacher, ',miss Olive O'Brien, to appear. Classes 'may be re- Zurich, are both ill. • , Kilned Thursday if the epidemic At the subsides. • , two -room school in Winchelsea, only 17 pupils - tended Tuesday. The.' junior at- Shipka school was closed this • — ceacner, Mrs. Reg Hoagerc ana week when the teacher, Donald ' , • • • au but three pupils in her room Finkbeiner, became ill. were ill. • Blake school in Hay Township, Both . South Huron District which was closed the first in the area, has now opened again,. High School and Exeter. Public School. reported about 100 stu- Dr. R. M,' Aids, Huron Medic- dents sway WednesdaY. al officer of health, said South • Huron was the "hot spot" for the epidemic in the county at the present time. Other areas, he said, have not been affected as severely as yet. The medical officer said he looked for the epidemic to hit industrial personnel soon after it has' spread through the sehools, • • Out of 184 ,pupils at Hensall, 104 were ill with the flu Monday, Principal Robert Raeburti re- ported, School will reopen Thurs- day, providing most of the Oil- dren Can return, At Zurich sehool. which almost Wheel Falls Breaks Leg Joseph McCann, 34, of DashWood, WAS serietisly injured Saliirday' morning when he was rut( over by a tractor, In preparation for threshing in the afternoon he and his nephew were drawing gravel on the barn bank, He ,forgot he left the tractor in jar and cranked' it. Starting up, it carried the larmer. and part of the back door with it dropping, some 10 feet to the straw yard below. Fortunately the wagon broke free and remained in the barn bet a large tractor wheel broke .off and landed bli'MtCanni frac. hiring his left leg between the knee and hip. He received nu. merous cuts about the head and tight leg. Hoffman's altbulance re- moved Mr. McCann to South Huron Hospital where' he was Attended bY Dr. M. GAM. He was transferred to St: Joseph's Hospital, London, for X-ray And WOW trananSionAl •o Epidemic has not yet seriouslY. affected We J. -A. D. McCurdy school at. RCAF Station; Cen- tralia. given $6.00 to $8.00 a month to augment his federal pension. Notice of the application was given by Reeve •me. K at t c cil. He indicated then that if the 'application was granted, Similar requests would. be re- ceived from other persons in own, Torn MacMillan, town station- er,. was appointed to ,the Com- inimity Centres Board to replace Xd Brady whose resignation was accepted at the last meeting. OK Comnieicial Buildings , • . .BUilding permits were grant- ed for two commercial build- ings. The Bell Telephone Co. plans to erect -.an $18,000 booster station" on Huron street The 35'41' building will be of brick construction and will have a 7'x16'projection to the back of the structure. -,,-- Please Turn to Page 3 lowing a fracas at a donee- Fri- day I night, was given a unanlinotia vote of confidence At ia4njetultiellalereetoinegb°1arvditlAaige4MICA°Y14.14i1 Atkins reportedly. fired two shots to .quieten a crowd which gathered ..o watch.4 004 !..e- tween the chief and a patron during a dance in honor'Of newlyweds in Lucan arena. Resolution to condone the chief's action was made by Reeve •Cecil Lewis and was sec.' onded by Irwin Scott, chairman • f the' arena board; at •a Joint meeting Monday night. Members • agreed Chief Atkins was justi-' lied in using .his :revolver in the tense situation. • .According to reports, Chief Atkins and JIM Cronyn,. Clandeboye, tangled while - the • officer was investigating the breaking of four windows in the mens: lavatiny. The chief found himself- surrounded by a crowd of 50 people,. :apparently hostile; and fired his revolver to get drder. • One shot. went into a door • jamb, the other into the rafters. which' support the dance floor. Raise Church,Targets As. Sector DriVe Rolls few accidents, he maintained. Council learned that a busi- nessman on Main street was. willing M provide without cost an area of land near the busi- ness section which would park about 50 cars. If the project proved successful, the mer- chant indicated he would be willing to' sign a low -rental lease. Councillors Murray Greene, Bailey and, Depnty, Reeve Ma- whinney were appointed to in- vestigate. 'Turns Down APPlieatictl Council turned dOwn its first application for supplementary Did age pension after hearing a report from -the -town•s• officer, William .MeLea:n. Mc- Lean,recoMmended that •theman, man,. a tradesman who- works only OccasionallY, Might be Bill Batten Heads Zone • Bill Batten, Andrew St, was elected president of the Mid - Western Zone • of the Christian Young Councillors Convention at a rally in Owen Sound 'this weekend. A leader in the CYCC group at James St. United Church; Bill 'and members of his zone executive were installed during Sunday. morning service in St. Andrew's Presbyterian. Church. He also took part in the service, As the new president, the Exe- ter youth will be in charge of next year's zone rally which will be held in Exeter. Be will sit as an official delegate to the Older Boys Parliament M December. • In addition to his elected hon- or, Bill also won first prize in the public speaking contest dis- cussing the theme "Venturing for Christ in our friendship." He will -represent the zone in the provincial finals. Accompanying • him to the rally from South Huron were Dick. Taylor; Paul Wilson, Doug Wein and Peter Frayne. This district grotlp was in charge of devotions at the Saturday ses- sion. . • rolling along right on schedule, has inspired eight district churches to seek financial tar- gets as high as 40 per cent more than in preVious years, Chair- man Rev, Glen Strome, of Crediton,. revealed this week. The churches, including Evan- gelical United' Brethren, United and Presbyterian denominations, will hold speeial congregational suppers next week When objec- tives tentatively set by commit- tees will be ' presented for approval. Church members will be asked to adopt budgets providing for improvements tobuildings, ad - di tion al . equipment., Mereated inissidarrgivingi al programs to revitalized steWardship in all phases of church activity-, Budget objectives, set after careful re-examinations of each church's resources, range from 20 to 40 per cent higher than previous totals. Already the program, which reaches a climax at the end of November, has involved nearly 400 church members. Over 2,000 will take part before thecam- paign is over, By far. the most ambitions And far-reaching religious movement ever undertaken in this area, the sectEr program has quietly gained momentum since it was undertaken early •thri summer. Adoption of 1958 plans at the congregational dinners next week will highlight months of prepar- ational work by numerous com- mittees' working on the project. Climax of the campaign will be • a one -day visitation 'blitz"; late in November, during which specially trained church 101 -kers will interview each of the 2,000 families enrolled in the eight chtirehes.' Workers will attempt to "sell" the church's program in the members' homes. Rev. Strome, minister of Credlion EUB Church, said the program has been enthusiasti- cally endorsed and each of the eight churches has met deadlines of progress in the exacting four- month schedule. "We are at the point now where local church committees have prepared a program for next year. We have also deter - amount of resources available for financing the program. These proposals will be presented to the congregational meetings next week.." "We are beiginning to proceed with the selection of workers for our visitation program in No- vernber. • Drafting the plans for next year's program has already brought benefits, Rev., Strome revealed. "Probably the basic thing in the psychology of sector work. is that the more people know of the work going on in the church, the more they will give of themselves and their time to the church. Through the plan- ning precesa, there haa, been a sharpening. up of the interest of members in all phases of the church. Already 'we have noticed improvement in •church atten- dance." Rev, Strome said the program not only focusses attention of the stewardship of, money but also the stewardship of time and leaderslup in relation to the church. 'It is • not simply a financial matter," he stated. "I • have been very pleased with the way all of the laymen • in the churches have co-operat- ed," Rev. Strome said. "We're, right on top of our work," ChUrches involved, are -Crediton EUB, Dashwood EUB, Hensall United, Elimville United, Caven Presbyterian, Cromarty Presby - 1 terian, and James St. and Main i St. United in Exeter. -4, One report said the htt„liet 0040 close to a man sitting 44 a ee;atr upstatirs. Chief Atkins said 'Wediteadall. he does not intend to lay chose* over the incident. "As far Al am concerned, the matter Is closed," he stated, "lt 'vtal Sit unfortunate incident which re- sulted from misunderstandings on both sides, Cronyn, who sports - a large bump on his head where, he claims, the officer, hit himwith a billy, said he did not PIM to take mid action. Three stitches were recinired to close the wound. Cronyn said did not break (he window and didn, t know who did. He had just driven into the arena parking lot with friends when he heard the crash of glass Atkins reported he had been called. to investigate breaking of the windows and had . jUst: mailed the top of the stairs when he met Cronyn, He asked the Clandeboye man if he knew Who broke the panes, Words were exchanged ,and, a fight followed The two men rolled off the OP step, and fell down the flight Of stairs and a, crowd gathered at the bottom. Apparently backed' into corner, the policentall fired the shots. • The dance, was being. held to honor Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Tailor, R,R. 1,, Clandeboye, who Were married recently. Arena Manager Harold .Itibson said 'considerable damage has been done the building at private dances recently. The board, he stated, may refuse ad- mission to suspected offenders in the future. Chief Atkins was appointed. to the Lucan post two months ago He came to Canada in lune frOM England, where he had been a member of a city police force. - Bell Contract To AAcDowell Contract for the censtruction of a building in Exete.e, to house powerL -and terrninal-', equipment for a new Lonclon-to-Minton long distance cable, has been award.; ed to C. A. McDowell and Corns pany, of Centralia, W. W. Hay- . som, Bell Telephone manager for this region, announced - this week. • To be located on the north side' of Huron street, opposite • Mary street, the one -storey building, about 42 feet by 30 feet, will con- tain carrier terminals sand asso- ciated power equipment needed to increase long distance facili- ties between London• and Exeter, through to Clinton and Wingham, The London -to -Clinton cable is scheduled for completion late next year. Mr. Haysoin said the building will be of reinforced concrete construction, with insulated brick walls, steel sash and electrical heating. Hope To Pay Mortgage rot', Frolic'Proceeds "Put your money down and the arena in an away we go!" mit the mortgage :AWrionunad chaniedkeanrofuonrd2Ss hcee ngtos '; Scout The andclob Guide s to pay off its — where she stops nobody building. A. vaudeville show tvith. two knows " effort! to wipe on their $7,000 house. to raise $1,200 debts on the "Bust the balloon and win- a top Toronto entertainers will highlight the frolic. Pretty Pen n.y Nichols, talented tap dancerl acrobat and hand balancing art!: ist who won first prize on •thc "Pick The Stars" TV show re cently will be ohe of the per: formers. Jack Batenlan, describ- ed as a "wacky wizard" and one of the most popular entery tainers in Toronto and Montreal night clubs, is also on the pro.. gram, Lee Paul, Kirkton, who book ed the talent, says Bateman. is one of the funniest personalities to come to Exeter, • Jimmy Garrett, Toronto, will provide musie for the show which starts at 9 p.m.• Lions will give away Rye Itto cash' prizes to 'sehool children in. a dratv, They are also raff: ling off $300 in cash. ' Program includes bingo and draw in addition to 10 genes of thance including evown and anchor, over and under, pitehin coins, ring tOsS, and dart S and balloons, _Limit Sandy Elliot and ten 'Tiickey will run a weight guess- ing booth which always produces fun. There'S admission charge. • cigar." "Eyes down and watch your, cards." Exeter tient will be barking cries like Itst_Friday night at san 5 CROWD AlTENDS SeHOOL CIENIMONY —Part of the crowd winch attended the opening of Henson Public School Pride are shown here fit the MINH auditoriumof the new building. A sliding •partition is removed to eombine. • the spaee ettwo rooms into a large hall. The auditoria was riot large enough to ats.commodate the nuMber who attended the opening. Nibs Mettle. Ellis, beloved liensall teaeheri was accorded the honor of cutting the ribbon. • Where To • Find It AtitteetielitatOit ,,,...... Church Coe** 'Iv ,,...)... tiliterteti IllotortelnosoM own no IIPHet !RanHanh*** . tette ....... tip I1 Seette ..... Mat* 'i 11.