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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-03-12, Page 1BANTAMS WIN WOAA CROWN—Exeter Legion Bantams staged some pretty thrill- ing games this past week to bring home this well - worn but highly - coveted trophy emblematic of WOAA "C" championship, WOAA official John Bell presented the award Monday night when the locals defeated Port Elgin 15-4 in the victims' own arena, From left are Ricky Boyle, ass't captain; Derry Boyle, coach; Don Cann, cap- tain; Irwin Ford, manager; and Fred Lamb, who scored 10 goals in the final game, Coach Boyle praised every member: "They have all•worked hard to win this,trophy." TWINS CELEBRATE WITH LAMB CAKE—Grandmother baked this lamb cake to help Judy and Johnny Mason of Dashwood celebrate their third birthday this week. The twins' parents are Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Mason and grandparents include Mr. and Mrs. Lesume Desjardine, Exeter, and Mr, and Mrs. William Mason, Dashwood.. It was grandmother Desjardine who baked the cake. Fifteen of the family enjoyed a duck dinner for the occasion, Know hog step Tuesday? No further developments on the hog marketing situation are expected until the annual meet- ing of the provincial producers in Toronto March 16 and 17, said Ross Love, Hay township, president of the Huron associa- tion, "We'll probably learn then what's coming next," he pre- dicted. "I don't think myself there should be another vote. We have already had one and everything possible was done to conduct it legitimately. No matter what you do there will be some on Fire levels new house Mr. and Mrs, Fergus Turn- bull, of the Blue Water highway, north of Grand Bend, returned home from •a Florida vacation Saturday to find their new home and its entire contents reduced to cold ashes. The three-bedroom bungalow, built less than a year ago, burned Thursday night shortly after the couple left Florida for home, The blaze wasn't discovered Until it had tspread throughout the house. "I couldn't get near the door for the heat," .said Ross Turnbull, a son, who was one of the first there. Nothing was saved frotn the building. Loss is estimated at around $18,000. Mr. and Mrs. Turnbull had called their family earlier that day to tell thein they were re- turning. One of the sons went to the house to turn up the there mostat on the oil -burning hot water systern, Although several passers=by noticed what they thought was fog earlier in the evening, no blaze was seen until about 11 p.m. when the alarm was turned in by Harry Hamilton, Grand Bond, a highways dept eth- ployee Who had driven by the building. Ile had to drive to Grand Bend because the tele- phone line had been put out of order by the, fire. Grand Bend .fire department poured a tankful of water on the building but it had little effect. The Dashwoodl brigade also went to the scene. Sparks. Were bloive from, the blaze at far east as the lake but wed trot, considered dangerous because the area was Wet from rain. Mr., and Mrs, Turnbull were no f -` ti i d of the blaze 'when they e e y tailed on relatives in Detroit, Neighbors and the family cleaned up the debris before they ar- 'rived home.,, The Turnbull family farrhs 400 acres, raising considerable gesq 'cattle as well as a pure. Aberdeen /its• us held, b lr �, both sides who vote but should not. As I see it, it's impossible to keep it perfectly straight." Theme of the hog producers convention next week will be "Agri -business introduces a new era." "We expect this meeting to be one of the most important ever held by hog producers in Onta- rio," states Jiin Boynton, sec- retary of the Association. "We have a packed program of meet- ings and business sessions all de- signed to develop the new trend of business agriculture. The fu- ture development of farming seems to point to a greater ac- tivity in the business sphere by farm groups." Banquet speaker Bob Carbett, information officer, Canadian Federation of Agriculture, will speak on the topic "What's ahead for the family farm." Two subjects of broad interest will be presented in the after - Liberals appoint party delegates }Iuron Liberals selected their delegates hero Friday night for the annual provincial meeting of the party which will be held in Toronto, April 3. The soleetion was made at a dinner conference at Armstrong ,s Restaurant during which organi- zation plans were discussed for the coming election, Stormy weather cut attendance to 32 and forced eight to re- main in Exeter until Saturday morning. Two of the delegates from Zurich, Ivan Kalbfleisch and George Diechert, were in- volved' in a traffic accident on their return home Saturday, Delegates to the Ontario meet- ing, in addition to candidate Harry Strang and the former candidate Dr, J. A. Addison,in- elude Mr. Diechert and 1VIr. Kalbfleisch, . W. Whyte, Sea - forth; Beecher Menzies, Olin - ton; JIM I3isset, Goderich; TMs. R. Rowcliffe, Seaforth. Alternates are Mrs. Isabel Campbell, Exeter; Mrs, Elsie Camoroe, Tuckersinith; George Rether, Exeter; .Joseph Bunn, Centralia; William McGuire, Go- derich ,and Bill Leiber Jr. Mil- let, tiding president, Beecher Menzies, conditeted the nreet- ing, Iurondale school holds open house use .Open Ilottse Was featured on ThurSda afternoon at the Huron - dale s' ehoel from 10 to 3.80 ,, p.tn, to murk education Week and allow the parents to see' pupils at wort, The teacher, Mrf'. ttoss l,aerth Set vett a °cu,2 CZ tea. noon. session Tuesday. Homer J. Maybee, federation marketing service, will discuss production and quality and a representative of the Canadian Association of Consumers will take "A house- wife's look at pork products.". Eighty -Second Year EXETER, ONTARIO, MARCH 12, 1959 bvvcafe Price Per Copy 10 Coos Coroner or......:.... ere inquest Fall from car kills curler Welcome robins with snowstorms Although a Liican lady re- portssighting two robins in her back yard last week, the wea- ther man continues to disregard any harbingers of spring, Another 6.8 inches of snow fell Thursday, Friday and Saturday, bringing the season's total to a whopping 187 inches — -consider- ably more than has ever been recorded before at RCAF Sta- tion Centralia. The temperature has trouble getting out of the thirties, High- est during the past week was a 37 degrees on Friday afternoon. Lowest was the 1.3 degrees re- corded Wednesday m o r n i n g around 7 o'clock, Gusts of up to 60 miles per hour fanned the snowstorms last week. The Robins? They were sighted by Mrs. Ira Carling, Lu - can, on Thursday. They haven't returned since the storm, Give prizes to speakers Helen Cole, grade six, and Brenda Dinney, grade five, Ex- eter Public School, topped their grades to win trophies for the best verse speaking in the final competition held Tuesday night during a regular Home and School Association meeting, Helen, who recited "The Song Sparrow," is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cole. Brenda, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dinney, recited "Kneel- ing To Pray" Judges said there was little margin in marks among all finalists. They said clear speak- ing and careful use of words needed more consideration and gave praise for the sincere .ef- fort by each child in preparation for the contest. Mrs. Eugene Beavers and Mrs. Dinney presented cups to the winners and silver dollars to runners-up: grade five, Debbie Johnston, Charles Keating, Don- nie Wolfe; grade six, Jimmie. Dixon, Shelia Fahner, Phyllis Madge, Karen Jermyn, Peter Snell, Susan Gornan. Competitors in a recent music festival at Stratford played dur- ing the program, Honey and Bonnie Wein played the piano, Linda Hunter-Duvar and Sheila Fahner played a duet on their clarinets and Doug Huntley play- ed a clarinet solo. Cornet solos were played by Bobby Higgins and Larry Jonhston. Mrs. Ken Hodgins, Centralia, accompanied instrumental num- bers. Bruce Fulcher and Glenda Fisher performed two tap-dance duets. They were accompanied by Mrs. Bob McDonald. Sriow removal expense may hit district paving Excessive costs of snowplow- ]?ridharn from Zoellarton to which changes have been made by Engineer J. A. Howes. Court of revision for both these drains, and the Glenn drain (Hibbert) was set for April 13. Tenders are being called for construction of the Glenn -Somer- ville and Jaques drains, Hubert Hunter was appointed warble fly inspector to travel stated. with the spray operator at the Reeve ymith indrate of $L00 per hour. Appoint- cauncil mayClahavetonSto reviseicated ten• meet of a second inspector was tative plans to pave a stretch laid over until a special meet - of road this summer unless suf- ing, ficient supplementary grants are Council agreed to pay the provided by. the Ontario Depart- $1,483.77 requisition of the Au - sable Authority and the $68.86 fee of the Upper Thames Author- ity. Reporting on the brucellosis campaign, Clerk H. H. G. Strang said he had received only two petitions but both of these had indicated close to 100 percent support. Council decided to hold .a special meeting on Monday, March 16, to hear the report on the 1958 audits and to give fur- ther consideration to the ap- pointment of a second inspector. Next regular meeting will be held Monday afternoon, April 13. ing this winter may force Us - borne township council to change its road paving plans this sum- mer. At the meeting Tuesday after- noon, Road Superintendent Wil- liam Routley revealed that over $9,000 had been spent removing snow since January 1. It cost the township $25 every hour the plows were on the road, he ment of Highways to offset the increased costs. The department has indicated that the maximum amount on which it will pay subsidy this year is $38,000, of which 523,000 would be for maintenance and $15,000 for construction, but it is expected a supplementary allo- cation will be allowed as in pre- vious years. Council hopes to secure ap- proval for the replacement of the Quinton bridge, near the south east boundary, and a cul- vert in the same area. Proceed With Two Drains Two .municipal drains were provisionally ad op ted — the Jaques SEB, which was read to Hensall g e l,}. s interested ratepayers. and the Band members win at Stratford Members of Exeter Junior Band were successful in winning a number of prizes Thursday at the Stratford Kiwanis Music Festival. Bruce Van Goozen won second place in class for cornet solo under 12 years with 80 points; Sheila Fahner, 83 points, and Linda Hunter-Duvar, 80, won first and second place for cla- rinet solos under 15 years; Bob Higgins and Larry Johnston, 77, second and third in the cornet solo class under '15; Philip Huntley, 78, first for sa- xaphone solo under 18 and Doug- las Huntley, 78, first for clarinet solo under 15. Mrs. Kenneth Hodgins, Cen- tralia, was accompanist for the competitors, Mrs. Gerald Godbolt, awarded the evening's attendance prize to Mrs, John Mahon's class. Mrs, Mahon also won the parent - teacher award. Pupils of Mrs. Turvey and Mrs. Mbusseau re- turned the most notice slips for the meeting. new director At a special meeting of Hen- sall Community Park Board Tuesday night, John R. Hume, 41, of St. Thomas was appointed arena manager and recreation director for Hensall Memorial Arena. Mr. Hume is assistant man- ager and assistant recreation di- rector in St. Thomas, where he has been active in youth and hobby groups for over 10 years. An experienced bandmaster, he organized the Canadian Corps trumpet band and the Third RCRS's Band, both in London. He has been a leader in Boy Scout, air cadet and boys' bri- gade organizations. During the war, he served overseas with the Elgin Regi- ment, He is married and has four children—Sharon Lynn, 14; Pa- tricia, 8; Murray, 7; Heather, 4. Mr. Hume, who succeeds Glenn Koehler, assumes his duties April 1. Nine other applications were received by the board from Strat- ford, Galt, Strathroy, RCAF Sta- tion Centralia and St. Thomas. VICTIM OF CAR FALL LAC A. G. Lockiq Dairy co-op sets records Hibbert Co-operative Dairy As- sociation Limited Staffa„ re- ported the most successful year in its history at its annual meet- ing Wednesday March 3. Six hundred and 40 patrons re- ceived a total of $63,225.07 as a patronage bonus. Total but ter manufactured amounted to 1,125,563 pounds. Average price paid for butter- fat including bonus was 71 cents, six or seven cents higher W. 3. Fell, Staffa, was elected Cars crash than the national average. president for 1959. Vice-presi- Sdent t ffais Arthur Kemp, also of in blizzard Other officers include: J. M. 1 Scott, Staffa, secretary - treas- urer; Victor Jeffery, Exeter, di- rector; Harris Butson, Mitchell, new director; Norman Down, staff, a retiring director. Gerald Agar, the manager, was commended for his success- ful operation. Organized in 1933, the co-op is the third largest of approxi- mately 16 similar operations in the province. It retails about, one-eighth of its butter through the area under the "Staffa" brand, sells the rest to large food wholesalers in London and Toronto. Coroner Dr. J. G. Goddar. Hensall, has ordered en inquest into the death of LAC A. G. Loa- kie, 26, RCAF Station Centralia, who fell from a moving car on No. 4 highway early Wednesday morning. An autopsy was performed on the body Wednesday by Dr. J, Penistan, provincial Whole - gist, Stratford, The airman is believed to have died from a fractured skull resulting from his fall onto the pavement, about a mile south of Hensall. Husband of a Zurich district girl, Alice Forrester, and father of two children, LAC Leckie was sitting on the right hand side of the front seat in a car in which he and two companions were travelling home from an RCAF bonspiel at Hensall arena. OPP Constable George Mit- chell is still investigating de. tails of the accident, Driver of the car was Cpl. Whitney J. Blackburn, and the other passenger was LAC A. J. McCoy. All reside at Huron Park.C LAMcCoy remained with the victim while Cpl. Blackburn drove to South Huron Hospital, Exeter, for help. The accident occurred about 1 a,m, LAC Leckie had re-enlisted twice in the RCAF. He resided in Exeter for some time. Surviving besides his wife, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Forrester, Zurich, are I Deborah, 31, and Natalie, 11 months. His parents, who live in Vancouver, BC, also survive. Funeral service has been ten- tatively arranged for Friday 1 with interment in Exeter ceme- tery. The body is at the R. C. Dinney Funeral Home, Mainz street. GOOD FISHING Three Exeter men caught 16 white fish near Big Bay Point on Lake Simcoe Thursday. Mayor Ted Pooley, Bert Ost- land and Bill Snell hooked the fish at a depth of about 96 feet. • 014 THIS IS FRIDAY NIGHT CAST OF EXETER PUBLIC SCHOOL OPERETTA "COBBLER OF FAIRYLAND" WHICH PLAYED TO OVER 1,000 Crowds acclaim public school's lively operetta Exeter Public School's color- element in the pproduction was Beavers' "Machiavelli," the ego= ful production of the juvenile operetta, "The Cobbler of Fairy- land", was acclaimed by more than 1,000 adults and children who witnessed five performances during the weekend. Despite foul winter weather, the operetta drew near -capacity crowds Thursday and Friday evenings and played to another 100 Saturday night. Over 500 public school pupils front lls- borne, Hay and Stephen wit- nessed the production Thursday and 'Friday afternoons. Sustained applause at the end of each performance indicated the incl ienee's appreciation of an outstanding presentation. Certainly the most ambitious operetta of" the five presented by the school during recent years, "The Cobbler" probably Ser - pasted t ur-pa sedthe ell. It Wet expertly net, well -rehearsed and compe tently staged 'under the direction. of Prineipal A, B, Idle and his teachers. i . d eel r' L wrenee Wein Music lr o g took full advantage of the lively Wigs. Prchabi, the most appealing the obvious enjoyment of the children playing make believe in their colorful costumes. Con- fident in their parts, they avoid- ed the frowns,telltale misgiv- ings and nervous shyness which often mars such productions. Hero of the piece --and of the performance -- was Bobby Where to find d it Announcements Building Page , 16 church Nofizes . '15 Coining Events 1, 13 Editorials 2 Par* Mews 9, 10 'Femiaine Pacts ir 8 14ensall 6 Lute1 n• 12, 3 Sp orfs 4,, Went Ads ., 11 Zut'lc:1 .. 1 tistical, clever eat who foils the plot of the cobbler to gain re- venge on the queen at her birth- day party for therincess. The' Beavers twin's coefiident portray- al al brought out the humor of his heroism. Blond, cherubic George God - bolt had a difficult task t0 por- trey a villian but he was a dandy cobbler. He led the fac- tion which planned to put the royal court to sleep for one hundred yars because the queen berated his shoo -making. title Gosar and Margaret Howey asserted themselves as the dontineering queen, ane of five parts for which there were, two performers each. After', bringing near -tragedy to the court byher contour tlioits ars p rooted, the queen submits meekly to the king's authority it the operetta`s climax. AIM Macl\Taughton ,played the kittdlyy nstteh-maligned king who from Wally wrests control from his wife and brings the party to a sappy ending by forgiving all the Villains. C)iie of the outstan,4ng por- trayais was that of Annarie [Kraft of the forgetful witch who is tricked from casting her wicked spell_ on the court by Machiavelli. Few in the audience realized that the same day of T -A re ,e A previews spring fashions 9 Anong spring's most ex. Citing pleasures is the change to new fashions for every- one veryone in the family, To preview important fe. Shin trends, The Times Ad• vorate with the cooperation Oflocal stores presents the fashion picture for spring 1950. This year the preview is spread over a two-week po• tied March 12 and March 19.. Balt of the articles by com.. Mentators from local so e s and half of the fashion por- traits by photagiaii'Tser Jack Nett appear en pages 'I and Watch for more fashion stows il't lent Week's i dition. the opening performance, she could hardly speak because of laryngitis. Others who played their parts well were Linda Waiper' and Susan. Gotten who shared the part of Vengefuletta, the wicked fairy, and Larry Idle as Perci- val, one of the queen's victims. Both Tielen Hendrick and Lin. da Johnston brought out the wel. cense humor in the part of Lady Lucinda who laments at length over the loss o f her blond tress- es. e o d cess es. 'Other ladies were portrayed by Sandra Jory, Susan Dinney and Constance Bardawell. Jim Carscadden fitted the part of the portlylord mayor. The painter elves, who re- fused CO finish decorating the palace in bine for the party be. clause the queen had purchased. non41lon ' n paint,ncTuded Ted Wilson . Leroy iEdwards Charles Kea tin , Malcolm Ilz Pau.. l Mason, till Dinney, Brian Bayn. ham, James tersieke, Michael Dove and Douglas Stanlake. Ladies-hi-waiting were Lydia B.oelofsyliaren Jones Joan —Please Turn to No 3 Two cars suffered $5,000 dant• age and two persons were in- jured in a collision near Zurich Saturday morning. Vehicles driven by Ivan Kalb- fleiseh, 54, and Kurt M. Wall, 59, both of Zurich, crashed in the middle of a snow squall created by a high bank on No. 84 highway, about a mile east of the village. Injured were Wall, a mechanic at Pearson Motors Ltd., and George Deichert, Zurich, 65, both of whom received facial la- cerations and chest injuries. The Kalbfleisch car, return- ing home front Exeter where its two occupants had been stranded for the evening, was travelling west and proceeded into the south lane because of the snow. drift. Wall, going east, was tra- velling in the same lane. Neither driver saw the other because of the storm. Police said no charges would be laid. Dr. A. Klausen treated the injured. OF'P Constable George Mitchell investigated. Glen A. Hodgins, 18, San- ders street, Exeter, escaped pos- sible drowning by a few feet Friday night when his car left the road and landed on the bank of a creek one mile south of Hensall. The car, travelling north struck and snapped two guardrails, as well as the cable, which .broke three other posts. It landed ou the north side of the creek wliicli is fairly deep. OPP Constable Mitchell esti- mated damage at $350. 'Boom' makes fast recovery T -A Sports Editor Don Gra- v ett's condition was officially' listed as "very good" by Vic- toria Hospital authorities Wed- nesday afternoon. Mohawks' star right winger, who suffered a fracture of the skull during Saturday's game in Mitchell, expects to return home in a week. He's out of bed now and recovering quickly, Sunday afternoon he under- went an operation to relieve pressure of bone depressed by a puck which struck him near the left ear as lie cane sailing in on right wing. He was hit by a flip pass from l.inemate Bill Oberle near the Mitchell blue- line with about a minute to go in the first period. "I never leta pass get by," he laughed Wednesday. Although he went down, he re. covered to finish the period, and he took a turn on the Ica in tate second period before he collaps. ed hi the players' box. Rushed to South Huron tics- pital, he was transferred early Sunday morning to London for tho operation. Will he play again this season? r� I m net sure, said Boom. illohawks, meanwhile, polished Off Mitchell four straight 'rues. day night and now meet Forest Lakesides, former rivals, in a best -of -seven i s et starting this Thursday in. Forest. Return game will be here Monday night. Bert Rivers, operator of the service station at Spruce Grove, is in Westminster Hospital, Lon. don. Another patient in the veteran's hospital isGorden Appleton, Sr.., now of Ilaytieldp 'formerly of Zxeter, •