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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-02-13, Page 1F or D DieAppeal an.. Help Amble Aulho;ity, holding Annual Inman in Parkhill Wed- eicsday afternoon, authorized a "do,or die' appeal to 'provincial end federal :governinent.ov higher grants. 10- save its 11111. l'.on-dollar Parkhill ,clam prolog', from. Lgefeat. The Authority will repeat its request to the 'federal govern.' Mont for a 37 .and one-half per– gent contribution towards the goSt. This, coupled with ,SiMi• 1Ar grant from .the :province,* would increase total eontribu- tien from :senior governments to 75: percent .and leave the mueici- paidies in the watershed with enc -quarter to raise, In case the Authority receives no immediate .action from Otte. wa, officials were authorized to petition the provincial govere- ment to raise its •contribution to 75 percent. If, later, the federal governMent does make a 37 and one-half percent grant, the pro- vincial donation would be cut in The Authority is resigned to the fact that no further 4551$1: once can be received, the Park- hill dam is doomed. The seven big contributors to the project have indicated they can't ap- prove the tests they are now as ecssed. A majority of the other muni- elpalitiee have approved the pro- ject, but most of them on the eteglition that the direct -benefit - Ong municipalities okay it. -The move to seek more assist- ance from the senior govern- ments was 'started at a .meeting of the . seven direet-benefitting municipalities In, Parkhill Friday afternoon. The consensus among officials there was; "We'd like to see the dam built, but wecan't pay for it." Port Franks .Estimate The 'Authority has run into an- other stalemate, it was revealed Wednesday, and this one is more impossible than the one over the Parkhill dam, An engineers' report revealed that the cost of correetive Incas - tires to prevent silting at the mouth. of theriver at Port Franke will exceed $1,100,000. The report recommended the ,conStruction et two jetty's ex- tending 'Ult0, the lake as far as 300 feet and severai.other meas- ures_ including dredging ground the lagoon where cottage owners are •complaining that their .access to, the lake has been blocked by the Authority 5 cut, The report was referred to the flood ,COntr01 advisory board for consideration. -•• Aids Grand .Bend The Authority agreed to reim- 'burn Grand. Bend for 10 per- cent of its _cost o dredging the river at the summer resort in a bid to maintain a precedent that all. municipalities in the watershed should contribute to- wards _conservation. projects. Originally, the Authority voted to assess Grand Bend the full 50 percent of the cost with the On- tario government paying the other half. Since in other pro- jects, including the Morrison Dam, the watershed has asslim- ed at least 10 percent of the benefitting :municipality's cost, the Authority agreed it should in the case of Grand Bend and altered its original stand. The change will mean a saving of from $1,000 to $1,500 to Grand Bend. The Authority set its 1958 budget at the same level as last year, making a minor revision in the assessment to provide that any municipality with a. rep- resentative on the Authority must contribute at least $100. This change will affect Bien- • shard, Tuekersmith and London townships. The budget is slightly over $1,500, John A. Morrison was return-, ed as chairman- and Freeman • Hodgins will remain vice-chair- man of the Authority. Advisory board chairmen in- • elude:. G, J. Henderson, fin- ance; William Haugh, flood con- trol; J. Bryan, farm ponds; 1 Andrew Dixon, public relations; Wellington Brock, reforestation; C. E. Janes, parks and recrea- ilon; Charles Corbett, wildlife; and J. E. McPhee, historic sites. Eighty -Second Ysar FEBRUARY 13r 1.958 Price Pei Copy 10 snt$ Hay- Township Gids. Win. T -A Spelldown Words, words and more words were used by Inspector G. J. Goman to determine the top speller amongst 30 champions from Exeter and district schools on Tuesday evening in the Exeter Public School. The new area champion is Margaret Elgie, 12 - year - old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Robert R.R. a,,,Kippen, and a pupil of Principal Robert Rae - burn, 'of Hensall Public School, She won The Timea4idvodath Shield for 1958 and a world globe, also donated by the local. baper. In a written contest of 25 words, Margaret was the only competitor to spell all of them correctly, and. this gave her an edge in the contest from the be- ginning. Those who made mis- takes in the written test had one or two strikes against them to start the oral competition. Three strikes eliminated the contestant. "Gyrations') was the word which won for Margaret the championship. It was misspelled by the runner-up, Sharon Law- rence, Zurich. Margaret is the third district spelling champion (Carol Gib- bons, Exeter, and John Ethering- ton, S.S. No, 1, Usborne, won it Previously) and the first in The Times -Advocate Champion Spell - down, which covers a wider area than the former two. The Times -Advocate took over the sponsorship, of the contest after it was dropped by the On- tario Education Association and The Toronto Telegram, who originally sponsored it on a province wide basis. As a grade seven student, Mar- garet competed in the contest last year, and placed among the top ten. Her mother is a grade one teacher in Hensall Public School. Both the winner and the runner-up are front Hay Town- ship. Sharon Lawrence is from Zurich, and is taught by Mrs. Greta Lavender; principal' of Zurich Public School. Sharon had, one strike against —Please Turn to Page 3 Pleads Innocent In Crash Case In The Times -Advocate ac- count of the cases before magistrate's court in Exe-, ter last week, it was incor- rectly reported that Clare Regier, Zurich, pleaded guil- ty to a charge of drunk driv- ing in connection with a fatal accident in Zurich in December, Mr. Regier pleaded inno- cent to the charge and was defended in a lengthy hear- ing by Eimer D. Bell, QC. ,Magistrate Dudley Holmes reserved decision until the next court here on February 19. The Times -Advocate wishes to apologize to both Mr. Reeler and his counsel; Mr. Bell, for the inadvertent error: ' In the same story, the de- fendant in another charge of drunk driving was Leo Earl Zimmer, 17, of Zurich, who was referred to as both "Leo Zimmer" and "Earl Zimmer". His father, Earl, W. Zimmer, was not impli- cated in any way in this action. • 6. CANDIDATES FOR SHDHS VALENTINE — Eight pretty SHDHS students make a united appeal for votes in the forthcoming election to choose the queen of the .school's annual semi -formal dance. The event. is scheduled for Valentine's Day and the identity of the school sweetheart Parties Pick Next Week Speculation continues to mount over 1 h e Liberal standard- bearer in Huron as both Grit and Tory riding organizations pre- pare for their nomination eon- Yentions next week in Clinton, The Conservatives will meet in the Legion Hall, Clinton, to go through the motions of en- dorsing Elston, Cardiff, the pre- sent MP, as their candidate again, The convention will be more of a rally rather than a nomination since no one is ex- pected to oppose him for the Diefcnbaker ticket, The Liberal position is far from being cut and dried, how- ever, certain, despite some re- ports to the contrary in county newspapers last week. They will meet Thursday afternoon in Clinton. One party official told The Times -Advocate Wednesday he did not expect Seaforth publi- sher A, Y. McLean to run again and he foresaw a wide open race for the nomination. In addition to the candidates mentioned. in The Times -Advo- cate last week, Mrs. W. L. Whyte, Seaforth, has been sug- gested as a contestant. Her fa- ther, the late Thomas MacMil- lan, was a former MP. Speaker at the Conservative rally will be John A. Hamiton, parliamentary assistant to the minister of citizenship and im- migration and considered one of the bright young lights in the Conservative party. The liberal organization has not yet announced the speaker for its convention. In Middlesex West, former Li- beral MP' Robert McCubbin has withdrawn from the nomination race there because of health reasons. won't be known until shortly before the crowning cere-j mony. The eight candidates, reading clockwise from bot- tom right, are Sally Acheson, Alice Carter, Eleanor Hod- gins, Mirdza Gulens, Kenlynn Shaw, Julija Gulens, Helen Taylor and Helen Down. —Photo by Doerr Easement ,Ot tight money reel, frictions may launch a lattige ins .b92111. i4 Exeter soon. Ong -groupin. town ann0411C0.4 this week it piano to offer IOW down payment, N1A..aoproYe4 homes for •oceupancy June 1. AR, spokesman said the groupwas prepared to build 0. At' more It the .demand warrants it. The _development is in the aro bounded by Carling, MarllaCe rough, Victoria and Wellington -streets. First bogies will be thillt on Victoria. Bripk veneer houses are being offered at $910 town and :$68 month including principal, in. threst and taxes. It was rumoured that another - builder is seeking to open a sill), division on the west side of town, A contractor announced this week he is prepared to arrange mortgage money up to 00 per- cent of the cost of. the home. - It was reported that a number of investment firms are prepared to "pour" money Into the town for construction. More Donations Help Residence Two more donations towel* the nurses' residenee were ac- knowledged this week by A. J. Traquair, chairman of South Hu. ron Hospital Association. Mrs. Henry C. Beaver, Credle ret000no,twife of a former member of the board, has donated $250 towards the furnishing of a Be a Sigma Phi Sorority has nm rtibuted $100 towards the pro- ject. Other $250 donations have been received from Exeter Legion, Exeter Legion Auxiliary, Exe- ter Lions and Exeter Kinsmen. Mr. Traquair said several other organizations have indi- cated a desire to help but have not made a commitment yet. Cheerleade Among HS The 1958 queen of SHDHS won't be a fragile beauty. Students ensured this Tuesday by selecting eight candidates of the athletic type. Seven of them are members of the school's un- defeated senior girls' basketball Blizzard Stalls Election Work The weekend snowstorm de- layed rural enumerators from completing their lists early this week but most of thein are ex- pected to finish their job by the deadline, Monday, the Huron re- turning office at Goderich said Wednesday. Quite a few have already coin- pleted the task, an easy one for this election because the • job ss than a year ago. . Ian Large Renovation Program wa P elude: Exeter—Mrs. Graham Mason, was eralteors in this area m- aHouse NewCentralia Schools Pettyy,—AEb:-ft Keyes, James Mrs. Gerald Lawson,' Mrs. Lee Learn; Mrs. Les Gibson. A "fairly expensive" renova- tion program will be undertaken at RCAF Station Centralia to prepare for the arrival of two more training units, Defence Minister G. R. Pearkes an- nounced Monday during his first visit to the statipn. DISTRICT SPELLING CHAMPION—Matgar kid Mrs: 11,0bert Elgie, R.1t 3 Kipperi, won down" held hi conjunction with an Exeter queselay night. Runner.up war Sharon Law Public School Inspector J G. Gornan con from 30 district schools entered.' The pub tveritt despite the cold weather 6t. tigie, left, 12,year-old daughter of Mr, The Times.Advocate "Champions" Spell. Home and School Association meeting on frc,rn Zurich Public School, right. ducted the competition in which champions lie school. auditorium was packed 'for the -TA Photo 1 He indicated the repair work would begin soon and would be I quite extensive but he declined to reveal estimates of the cost of the program, except to repeat several times it would be "con- siderable." The minister laughed at the suggestion, however, that the project would exceed a million dollars, Gen, Pearkes confirmed earlier reports that the personnel selec- tion unit and officer training school would move from London be Centralia this year. The two units now at Centralia, pre-flight school and preliminary flying training schopl, will remain here. Number of trainees- will be re- duced, however, as NATO train- ing conies to an end, Gen. Pearkes said his depart- ment's plan was to concentrate training at Centralia, which he described as an "important link" in , the defence program., The purpose of his visit, he in- dicated, was to determine how Centralia would cope with the influx of new personnel and the new training units, "I am here to become familiar with the.con- ditions and personnel at. this station," he told reporters. Gen, Pearkes said the concen- tration of training at Centralia, and the probable closing of the Snow, Mercury Falls In Strangling Storms The mercury dipped to five be- low — coldest of the winter — Tuesday following 'a wild two• day blizzard which brought tra- vel to a standstill in this area over the weekend. The district is just digging it- self out of 1447 inches of snow which fell in four clays. Most roads and schools are now open again, ftee snowplows waged their tatiaest battle this year against the weather. Itepercussions were felt hi every activity, Attendance at church services was eta drasti- cally mid some were cancelled, Schools didn't open Monday, Ac- cidents were frequent, Visitors who arrived here for a Weekend stay had to remain longer than they planned, Some mail car- riers were forgo(' hank to their post offiees. Some 50 pee*, including pas - senors on a 'Western Ontario Motorways bus, wore forted to speed tilt night at Exethe town hail. They slept on tables, 'in chairs, on ilia fire trunk and on tiro hall stops. On Saturday; nearly eight in- ches Of snow fell and Sttedey Winds whipped flaks in Savage fury. Some tamers hitched up It - liable old dobbin for urgent Snowfall began in earnest IPri. day when two inches fell with winds at only 15 miles per hour. Saturday, eight inches came down and wind velocity doubled. Sunday, another two inches fell and Monday another 3.3 From Saturday on, the tempe- rature didn't get above 15 de. grecs and dropped to five be- low on Tuesday. Norman Long, carrier on route two, Kippen, was unable to make his trip Monday for the second tittle in 23 years. The last time he couldn't deliver mail, Was 10 March, 1941, when drifts 10 to 15 feet high prevented the trains from running for a week, Where To Find It Announcements .. ., .. , 10 Church Notices ..... ... ... 15 Coining Events 15 Edifbilali 2 entertainment .. ............ . . '15 Farm News 11 Feminine Faeft , 1 Hensel, i 11 Lucite . .. .. . tit Looking In With Liz . 14 Sports 4, S, / WSW Ads . IS Zurich ..... 04.10...F.P.INVoso. ....... 4.011. 6 London station, was made neces- sary "because the program for . training NATO students is now running out." Noting that there are some West German and Danish stu-1 dents now in training at Cen- I tralia, the minister :Ad there may be more coming from Ger- many and the Netherlands, but the major portion` of the NATO ! program had been completed. 1 He said Canada was willing to 1 continue training NATO pilots I but he doubted if the program would be revived because most . of the. European countries now have their own training programs established. Gen. Pearkes said the renova- lions at Centralia call for changes to existing structures to accom-; meelate the new training units. —Please Turn to Page 3 Bloch Herbert Miller, Hubert T. Miller, Ed Schroeder and Leon- ard Sararas. Usborne—Harold Hunter, Cres- cent Dayman, Gordon Oke, George Frayne, Newton Clarke, Alan Berry, Ray Francis. Stephen — Wellington Skinner, William Stanlake, William Web, Nelson Schenk, Mrs. Roxy We- ber, Harry Hayter, Chris Baum. garten, Dean Brown, Ezra Webb, Lois Hammond. Hensall, C. Christie, Stanley—William Hanley, Mel- vin Gragham, Aubrey Farquhar, Lewis Taeor, Prank McClinchey, Charles Scotehmer, Alvin Rau, Melvin Davison. Tuckersmitlt — Mrs. Alice Boyce, Granj, Finnigan, Frank Falconer, D. A. Moffatt, Mrs. William Kyle, Mrs. Ernest Ross, Gladys Hopaluk, Evelyn Fal- coner. r, Cagers Valentines team and one is a member of the active cheerleading team. Winner will be crowned at the annual "At Home Dance," Which will be held this 7e..r on a most appropriate day — Valentine's, Two of ,the. seven contestants for sweetheart honors are sisters — Julija and Mirdza Gulens, Dashwood — two of the scoring stars of the basketball squad. Other members of the team who are candidates, include Alice Carter, Exeter; Helen Down, R.R. 1, Hensall; Eleanor Hodg. ins, Centralia; Kenlynn Shaw, Grand Bend, and Helen Taylor, Exeter, The cheerleader in the contest is Sally Acheson, Exeter, Students will vote for their Valentine on Friday, and results will be kept secret until the mo- ment at tho dance when the winner is announced. Last year's queen, Nancy Fahner, formerly' of Grand Bend, and now of Lon- don, will crown her successor. Nomination for the regal honor — one of the school's highest should have taken place Monday, but the weekend storm cut attene dance to one-half. The selection was postponed until the follow- ing day. Each of the four senior grades — 12A, 12B, 13 and special com- mercial — nominated two candle' dates. Students will have four days to decide whom they will vote for to reign as beauty monarch over the 550 youths at the school. Beauty isn't the only requisite for this honor. Students are asked to consider personality, poise, character' and participation in school activities in selecting their Valentine. The dance and queen contest are sponsordd by the student council. Besides playing basketball, most of the girls are members of the glee club and participate in other school and community activities. —Please Turn to Page 3 VALENTINES CELEBRATV—Threo littIG sweethorth who were born within hours of each other on Valentine's Day were reunited for the first time this week to eel& brae their third birthdays hi appropriate fashion. Left to right, the are 314, daughe ter ef Mr. and Mrs, Jack Drysdale, Rebecca, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. JaCk PuIcher, Exefer, in whose home the party took place; and Debbie, $laughter o Mr, and Mrs. Ebb Pito, Exeter, All three were born itt South Huron llospitat—T-A Photo 4 311