The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-08-21, Page 1Council Lays Protest
Over Tree Trimming
To council Monday night
lodged an official complaint with
the Bell Telephone Co. over
wanton trimming of trees On
both town and private property
this month.
Councillors indicated several
ratepayers have made violent.
protests because trees on or near
their properties have •been reined
by a firin hired by the Bell to
.prune trees affecting its? wires.
One ratepayer, it was reported
to council, has threatened legal
action to seek compensation for
the :mutilation of one tree on
town Property. The ratepayer
contends the only wire affected
by the tree was a guy wire and
lie has for several years em-
ployed a local gardener to keep
it trimmed.
When he complained to the
people doing the work, he was
told the firm had the right to
cut the tree at the roots if it
was desirable,
Another report said the firm
attempted to trim a Mee- spruce
on private property but was re-
ltrained by the owner,
Mayor Pooley, who aired the
complaints, said that in the past
the tree trimmers for the com-
pany ltad consulted town of-
ficials before proceeding with
the work, Both he and Reeve
Bill McKenzie, who bad viewed
some of the work on the trees,
deplored the disfiguration of
them.
Deputy -Reeve Chester Mawhin-
ney was also indignant and sup-
ported the reeve's move to for-
ward an official complaint to
the Bell, "Surely we have the
right to protect our own trees
in this town," be said.
Offers Tractor, Mower
Ratepayer Jack Weber, con-
cerned about the growth of
weeds in town; offered council
free use of his tractor and
mower to cut them down if
council did not have the equip -
Mayor Pooley explained that
the town mower had broken
clown several months ago and
parts for the equipment had not
arrived yet. Councillor Bill Mus.
ser indicated the mower was no
longer serviceable and that coun-
cil should consider a new one.
Members. reportedWeeds as
high as six feet i'n sonic sections
of the town,
Councillor Glenn Fisher re-
vealed that a test taken by the
Huron County Health Unit indi-
cated that water at Riverview,
l''ark was fit for swimming.
He also indicated that. com-
plaints had been received by
the health unit over the condi-
tion of the open ditch running
between Anne and John streets
on the west side of the town.
Orgar4e. fi•Yil Defence?
Reeve McKenzie reported that
preliminary steps are being tak-
en in Huron County toward the
organization of, a civil defence
network. As an Appointee to, a
civil defence committee for the
countjr, the reeve said the project
would include the appointment
of a county co-ordinator along
with wardens m each munic-
ipality.
Present plans, he said gall for
the evacuation' et people in Wind-
sor, Essex and ,Kent areas to
Huron county in case of attack.
According to the reeve, ex-
perts predict that if a hydrogen
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Big Growth
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Exeter Community Credit
Union Limited has enjoyed "re-
cord growth" during the first
six months et.•this: year, Trea-
surer Harold Patterson revealed
this week.
"Since ,,Tanuary 1, we've made
our fastest jump ever since wp
organized in 1952," the treasurer
.stated,
-Number of members has in-
creased nearly 100 percent and
assets have more than doubled.
The union now has 280 members,
compared to 159'as of January
1, and $42,000 in assets, which
were $19,000 at the first of the
year.
The union, a locally -organized
group affiliated with the interi
national credit union organiza-
tion, provides saving and lend
ing facilities for its members.
Its . office is located on the sec-
ond storey of the Southcott
block, across from the post of-
fice.
bombis dropped on Detroit ---the
target m North America—
t
there would be no vegetation '
left in Detroit. Windsor and most
of F.ssex, county.
To finance civil defence or,.
ganilation, the eounty will be
required to pay five cents per
capita. Seventrfive percent of
the ,cost is contributed. by the
provincial and federal govern'
merits,
Council took ho action on a
suggestion from Councillor 'Ross
Taylor that bonfires should be
restricted or supervised during
the dry summer months to pre-
vent the outbreak of a major
blaze w.hich might spread through
a considerable portion of the
town. Consideration may be,
given at a later date, however,
Councillor Taylor pointed out
that the provincial government
prohibits or restricts the use or
fires in certain forest and park
areas during the sommer.
sure our town is as good as any
forest," he stated.
The councillor cited several
towns which had been all but
wiped oul by blazes which start:
ed with bonfires and spread
through dry grass,
Building permits were issued
to Afilstan Construction, for a
house on Simcoe street; to Burk.
ley Restaurant, for the altera-
tion of its premises and the in-
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Reformed Church
Secures Pastor
Mr. Arie Van Eek, whose
home town is St. Catherines, has
accepted the call of the Christ-
ian Reformed Cherch, Exeter,
to become its pastor, , •
The Exeter church was served
until 1956 by Rev. G. Hoytema
of Clinton, but, since that time
has not had its own pastor.
Mr. Van Eek received his
training at Calvin College and
Seminary in Grand Rapids,
Mich., and hifs just fiiiished a
year of post -graduate studies at
Westminster Seminary in Phila-
delphia, Penn.
He is to be ordained in the
local church some time in Sep-
tember.
The church has purchased the
residence of Mr. Len McKnight,
Sanders street, for a parsonage.
Traffic Toll
Heavy Here
Driver Robert W. Wilkins, 26,
London, blamed faulty steering
mechanism for a $1,100 crash
at the intersection of highways
4 and 83 late Sunday afternoon.
Wilkins said his wheel locked.
as he was attempting to make
a left turn and the car ciashed
into another vehicle, owned by
E. W. Etheringten, R.R. 1 lien -
salt, parked near Exeter Coach
Lines Ltd. garage,oThe Ether-
ington vehicle was knocked into
the building which suffered some
$400 damage.
Mrs. Ruth Cowie, Exeter,' who
was standing near the Ethering-
ton vehicle, suffered minor in-
juries. Chief Reg Taylor inves-
tigated.
Two cars ended up within
inches of adjacent Exeter stores
Thursday when one driven by
Mrs. Gladys Davidson, 60, Clin-
ton, rammed into a parked ve-
hicle owned by Elmer Hall,
RCAF Station, Centralia.
-Mrs. Davidson was northbound
when she lost control of the ve-
hicle, swung sharply to the left
and struck Hall's angle -parked
car in front of Exeter Grill. The
impact spun both vehicles around
and they, carne to rest on the
sidewalk.
Chief Taylor described damage
as "considerable".
Two cars collided at the inter-
section of John and Edward
streets Monday afternoon, caus-
ing heavy damage.
Garnet McFalls, R.R. 3 Exe-
ter, was travelling east on John
when he struck a northbound
car driven by Heather Mac -
Naughton, Exeter.
A Dashwood youth has been
charged with careless driving as
a result of a rear -end collision
Sunday which caused $700 dam-
age.
Lionel Earl Wilder, 23, R.R. 1
Dashwood, struck the rear end
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PREPARE FOR SCHOOL OPENING—Wilmer Wein, Crediton, secretary -
treasurer 62 Stephen TbWriship &WI area, is one of the busy officials
preparing for the opening of school less than two weeks away. Above,
he shows new books which have been secured for the Crediton school
to Tomiiiy Silverthorne,, eight, And Bob Coulter, nine, right, both of
Schools Prepare, For Opening
Crediton, A thfisiderafale amount of repair and improvement work'ha.s
been done on district schools this summer and many rural schools now
have the convenienca of oil heating and air conditioning units. SHDHS
expects to be jammed to capacity when a record enrolment files into
the school during the first week. —T -A Photo
SHDHS Full, Make Plans For
When the doors open on Tues-
day, September 2, Sbuth. Huron
District High School will be
jammed with the largest enrol-
ment in its history.
Officials expect a total of 615
students will tax accomodation
of the school. Enrolment was
578 last year.
To handle the ,crowd, the last
available, room in the building
which can accomodate a class-
room has been converted. into
one and nearly all the classes
have been enlarged.' The home
economics room will house a new
class and desks have been added
in other rooms to accomodate
40 students in each, instead. of
the normal 35,
Soon after the term starts.
the board will consider construc-
tion of additional facilities to
cope with increasing enrolments
predicted for the years ahead,
Twenty-four • teachers will be
on staff, all but one of them full
time. Last year the staff num-
bered 21,
There will be nine new teach-
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SMOKEWRITERS AT t NE—A m�kewriting team from RA P Centralia will perform
durinOhe air shows 6ft $eptember 6" and 6 at the Canadian. National txhibtion, To.
ronto, Plying Officers, MOOBi11iiig d Ailey and Don Snelgrove from the local
station,. Heti above discussing formations, will do skywriting and Sititike-accontuaLtd
itelebatieS for thoUSAfidS at the huge exhibition, .4CAP Photo'
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ers, eight of them university gra-; Carl Mills, five and six; Mrs.
duates who are launching their Maii1yn Heinirich, two; Miss
careers this fall, Faye Ford, one.
A number of alterations and
improvernents have been made 5 light Increase
at the school during the sum-
mer,
In addition to the establish.
ment of a classroom in the home
economies room, the library has
been rearranged to provide more
book storage faeilities and to
continue to serve as a tempo-
rary classroom.
New' examination tables have
been perchased for use in the
gymnasium and new drapes are
being installed- in some of the
rooms.
Exeter Principal
In City Hospital
Principal A. B. Idle, now re'
cuperaling from an operation in
a London hospital, hopes to re-
turn home in time for the open-
ing of Exeter Public School.
The principal entered hospital
Monday of this week and under-
went surgery Tuesday,
Enrolment is expected to re-
main about the same — 450 — aI
though changes in RCAF post-
ings affecting Centralia may at -
feet the total,
During the summer, four rooms
have been. redecorated „ and a
number of desks varnished,
There are two new teachers
on the staff. Gary Bryant, of To.
ronto, will replace Garfield Bak.
er, and Mrs, Frank Triebner,
Exeter, will succeed Miss Velma
Baliagh,
The staff, and the grades
ught, includes:
Principal Idle, eight: Mrs.
Helen Jerrnyn, cine; Mrs, Helen
Kleinstiver, kindergarten; Mrs,
Madeline Jory, seven; Mrs. John
Maher', six; Mrs, Dorothy Hugh -
son, four and five; Mrs. Elva
Turvey, our Mrs: Shirley Mous.
seau, two and three; Gary )31•Y•
ant, sik; Mrs. Triebner, three:
Miss Betty Goudie, four and five;
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An increase of 10 pupils is ex-
pected in the enrolment at Hen -
sail Public School, according to
Principal Robert Reaburn.
The staff will include. one new
member. Erie Mansfield, Lon-
don, will succeed Mrs, Joan Al-
lan, Brucefield,
The teachers and their grades
are:
Extension Soon
Principal ,Reaburn, seven and
eigjit; Mrs. Mary M. Haugh,
Brucefield, five and six; Mr.
Mansfield, three and, four; Mrs.
Mabel Shirray, R.R. 2 Hensall,
two and three; Mrs. Beryl El-
gie, R.R. 3 Kippen, one; Mrs.
Helen Scene (part-time), kin-
dergarten,
Usborne Installs
Oil Heating Unit.
Us borne Township school area
this summer completed the in-
stallation of oil -burning air con-
ditioning units in all its schools.
The final unit was placed in
Winchelsea during the holidays.
New hardwood floor was laid
at Hurondale and painting and
general repairs were undertaken
at various schools in the area.
Secretary - Treasurer Garnet
Hicks 'expects a slight decrease
in enrolment in September. it
will drop front 235 to about 220.
There will be three changes on
the staff this year. Mrs. Kather-
ine Becker, Dashwood, will re-
place Mrs. Alexander Rapson in
No. 4, Eden; Mrs. Florence Hen-
drick, Exeter; wilt take over the
junior xoom at Winchelsea,
taught last year by Mrs. Reg
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tralia,
in to
nate trcn11 liCAF Station con/
w,Oich opened Wedriesday, en
Canadian National ExhibitiNt#
TWO attraetions at this year
later -Diefenbaker at WedneStt
the tri-servlc.
guard of honor for Prime Ming
drill squad, which formed the
day's opening, Centralia 1011 con:
tribute a smike-writieg team for
the afternoon air shows ott
Thursday and Friday, Septein.
bet 5 and 6,
The CE team ' which first
performed at Centralia's Air
Force Day in June:will forns
part of a half-hour air show pre.
seined by the RCAF. The United
States air force and civilians
will also contribute to the show"
Members of Centralia's teant
include Flying Officers Don Snel.
grave and Ed Riley, whowill
perform sky -writing, andFly...
ing Officer Mery Billings, who
does solo aerobatics with smoke
pots. Spares are Flying Officers
Peter Giles and Jim Jotham.
The CE Flyers have two shows
organized, %or good and bad
weather. If the ceiling is abeys
3,000, the team of Snelgrove and
Riley will spelt the . letters
"RCAF" in the sky using con-
trolled smoke generators opera.
ting through the exhaust sys.
terns of their aircraft.
FO Billings will. do his sole
aerobatics with red -colored
smoke generators attached to
his wingtips.
Bad Weather Show -
In case of bad weather, the
duet will perform low-level syn-
chronized aerobatics with smoke
while F. Billings will do solos
along with a Harvard and T-33
jet,
At the end of the air show the
CE pilots are scheduled to per: -
form a "bomb burst" which eon.
sists of three of them flying in.
a "V" formation and a fourth
boxed below, then breaking off
in various directions to simulate
the spread of an explosion.
The CE team, .now practicing
at the local station, will move tb
Trenton on September 2 and then
to Toronto for rehearsals on Sep.
tember 3 and 4.
The tri -service drill -squad,
composed of equal numbers of
navy, army and airforce person..
riel, broke training camp at Cen,
tralia last week And moved to
Toronto for rehearsals, The
squad is commanded by Squa.
droit Leader F. S. Steele, Sas-
katchewan, and has developed
a number of new drill patterns
to spice up its portion of the pro-
gram,
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School held in the Pentecostal
Tabernacle for two weeks com-
mencing Tuesday, August 5
under the leadership of Mrs. H.
Butler was well attended. and
ably conducted by a staff of
helpers. •
On Friday evening there was
a display of work done and the
boys and girls demonstrated
what they had been taught.
Norman Thompson and Kath-
erine Hall each received a prize
for bringing the largest' number.
The total number enrolled was
137, the highest daily attendance
was 108.
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TRI -SERVICE SQUAD STRUTS STLIPP---Tri-service drill
tearn, which trained. at ItCAP Station Centralia, began its
CND performance Wednesday when it acted as guard of
honor for Prime Minister Diefenbaker durii g. the opening
of the Toronto fair, The squad, composed of navy filen
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from Dartmoilth, soldiers from ipperwash, and alma
front Centralia, will perform tightly during the grand,
8talid ShOW.It seri here in parade itirmation before
leaving Centralia.
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