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$42,500 drain
A. $42,500 trunk sewer which t ated considerably since Mr. Ross
will .open up a large residential
development as well as relieve
flood conditions on the cast side
of town is being considered by mate on this work.
council. Council also asked for an.
P'roposeci location of the sewer, estimate on extending the pro -
had inspected it .in 1954, and that
the cost to repair it may be
high. Council .asked for an esti-
described as a "cut-off drain,"
is east of Simmons' apartment
building, running from Sanders
street north to the river.
It would divert to the river
water which now flows south to
the Anne street drain, whose
inability to carry spring and fall
freshets Lias caused considerable
flooding in the southeast corner.
The proposed drain would also
permit development of a large
area, east of town, believed by
many to be the logical section
for 'future growth.
Engineer B. M, Ross, Goderich,
told council at a special meeting
Thursday that he favored the
cut-off drain to a proposed
$25,000 enlargement of the Anne
street drain which council is
also considering.
Council requested more esti-
mates on costs before reaching
a decision,
Here is the situation:
The Anne street drain, which
runs from Edward street on the
east into Stephen Township on
the west, drains some 500 acres
of farm land both in town and
Usborne Township. The drain is
open from Edward to Andrew
street, • closed from Andrew to
Carling, and open again from
there to Stephen. 'It flows under
Main street at Snell Bros, Ltd,
garage. ,
Engineer Ross estimates the
drain needs a capacity of about
150 cubic feet per second to
handle the heavy runoffs (except
for major floods which occur
once in 25 or 30 years). Because
of poor construction, the drain's
capacity is limited to 60 efs.
The engineer, in a report made
to 1955, estimated it would cost
$25.000 to enlarge the drain to
handle the present runoff.
At Thursday's meeting, he
emphasized that this $25,000
project would not provide for
the extra capacity required by
construction of houses and other
buildings in the 500 acres. He
felt the cost would be exhorbi•
tont to make the drain large
enough to handle the flow if all
or a substantial portion of this
land became built up.
The cut-off drain, which the
engineer proposed in 1957, would
drain some 170 of the 500 acres
to the river. This would provide
sufficient relief for the Anne
street drain to eliminate the
nerd to enlarge it, he felt.
The cutoff drain would also
handle all future development
east of it, an area which is being
sought now for construction of
houses.
The engineer strongly recom-
mended construction of the cut-
off drain rather than the en-
largements of the Anne street
drain. "I feel the combination of
the benefit from relief of flood-
ing in the Anne street drain
plus the benefit from opening up
an area in which people want
to build makes the cut-off drain
more practical."
Council members agreed that
the engineer's argument was
sound. However, Reeve William
McKenzie and. Deputy - Reeve
Mawhinney suggested that the
Anne street drain had deterior-
Red Cross
plans clinic
Within a few weeks citizens of
Middlesex and Huron counties
will not have to pay for hospital
blood transfusions.
Peter V. V. Betts, chairman
of the London Area Branch,
Canadian Red Cross, said the
$25.00 charge for transfusions
currently being made by hospit-
als in London, Goderich, Clinton,
Wingham, Exeter and Strathroy
will be discontinued as soon as
the Red Cross can supply suf-
ficient fresh blood to meet re-
quirements.
Ben Tuckey, president of
Guenther Tuckey Transport, is
chairman of the Red. Cross com-
mittee for this transfusion ser-
vice.
A mobile clinic for volunteer
blood donors has been establish-
ed and will commence visiting
London industries and businesses
early in April. Clinics also will
be held on regular schedule in
Goderich, Clinton, 13 a y f i e 1 d,
Grand Bend, Wingharn, Exeter,
Strathroy, Parkhill, Lucan and
Dorchester.
A clinic will be held Monday
afternoon and evening in Vic-
toria Hospital, London.
A central blood bank to ser-
vice hospitals has been estab-
lished by the Red Cross in West-
minster Hospital and is staffed
and equipped to handle the Col-
lection,
otlection, preparation and distri-
bution of fresh blood. Between
200 and 250 pints of blood will be
required weekly to service Mid-
dlesex and Huron hospitals.
Hospitals will. no longer pay
donors as the Red Cross volun-
teer program starts providing
free blood and transfusions are
given free,
Scout hall fund
needs infection
Exeter Lions Club's cam-
paign for improvements to
the Scout house has hogged
dawn after getting off to a
good start.
Contributions total only
$800.
OBJECTIVE IS $3,500,
Donations are being ae•
tented at 'a number of town
stores. Club Members will
receive contributions.
One of the busiest build-
ing s in the town because of
active BoyScout, Wolf Cub,
Girl Guide and Brownie
groups, the hall needs a
number of modifications and
iniprovements to Make it
more serviceable,
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posed cut-off drain to Huron
street. The drain isdown only
seven feet at Sanders and it
was felt that the cost night not
be too great to extend it south
two blocks.
Although the discussion was
only preliminary, council mem-
bers felt that at least a portion
of the cost of the $42,500 drain
would have to be assessed di-
rectly against the land in the
area 'which the drain would open
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Holds tractor
off farmer
William O'Brien, Whalen, nay,
rowly escaped death Wednesday
when he was pinned beneath a
tractor which upset in a ditch,
Lorne Allen, RR 1 Kirkton, is
creidted with having held the
machine off the man until other
men in the area arrived to help.
Mr. Allen was driving near
Whalen when he noticed the
O'Brien tractor stuck in a hole
and he volunteered help, The
two men got the machine near
the shoulder of the road when
it slipped backwards and hit a
culvert over a ditch which con-
tained three feet of water.
Carl Hume, Mac Mills and
Joe Bryan who were nearby,
answered Allen's call for help,
New awards
for SHDHS
The Ladies Auxiliary to the
Exeter Legion announced Tues.
day, following a meeting with
the teachers' committee from
SHDHS, that it has completed
arrangements for bursary
awards totalling $250 to be of-
fered to graduates of the local
high school.
Designed to encourage more
students to seek a university edu-
cation, the bursaries, one for
$150 and one for $100, will be
awarded annually.
The awards will be open to all
students who have secured a
minimum standing of 60% in
nine grade 13 papers, but are
not eligible for any scholarship
awards.
Early services
mark Easter
Easter week services are be-
ing held this week in Main
Street United Church with Rev.
Ben de Vries as the speaker. A
Good Friday service will be held
at 10 a.m.
Special Easter music and the
Easter message will be heard in
allchurches on Sunday,
At Hensall United Church
there will be a 7.00 a.ni. sunrise
service .for the young people
followed by communion and
breakfast at the church.
At the Zion Evangelical Unit -
cd Brethren Church at Crediton
there will be a sunrise service
at 6:30 a.m, At the Calvary
Evangelical United Brethren
Church at Dashwood the sunrise
service will be at 7.00 am.
TOP REGIONAL SPEAKER
. , . Dave Ducharme finalist
Eighty -Second. Year
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EXETER, ONTARI91 MARCH 26, 1959
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POLICE INVESTIGATE THREE BREAK-INS—Two buildings in Hensall and one in
Exeter were broken into during the past week but the thieves' loot was small. Above,
Chief C. H. MacKenzie examines marks left on the safe at Tuckey Beverages, Exeter,
with Mrs. Gordon Appleton, Jr., one of the firm's employees. Hensall firms entered
were A. Spencer and Son planing mill and W. G. Thompson and Sons Ltd.—T-A Photo
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s- .rnest
ids superintendent
The Pinery Park at Grand
Bend, now in course of con-
struction, will be one of the larg-
est and one of the finest in. the
province, according to Gartland
Meyers, the new superintendent
of the park, who addressed a
meeting of Grand Bend Lions
Club Thursday evening.
Experience gained through
the operation of other provin-
cial parks is being used in plan-
ning and laying out the new
park.
There are 13 miles of roads
within the 4,200 acre Pinery
Park and two new bridges cross
the Ausable River, according to
Mr. Meyers. The bridges are 75
feet long, 16 feet wide and 10
feet high.
At the entrance to the park
there will be a booth operated
by two university .students. Near
the centre of the park will be
an administration building and
in addition there will be a main-
tenance building 75'x30' for hous-
ing the trucks, a paint and car-
penter shop.
Nine parking lots have been
laid out, all different, which will
accommodate from 150 to 3,000
cars. Picnic grounds will be pro-
vided with bath houses, hot and
cold water, fireplaces with free
wood and toilet facilities. The
beach is 3,900 feet long and will
be supervised by life -guards.
In another part of the park,
there is an information centre
with two more employees who
will direct the tenting and trail-
er areas. This area comprises
two and a half miles of roads
Ducharme gains finals
in HS public speaking
Dave Ducharme, grade 12A
student, won the right to partici-
pate in Ontario public speaking
finals in Toronto when he took
top honors at a contest in Lis-
towel Friday night,
Dave's prepared speech ori
"The Promise of. Electricity"
was judged best of five entries
from the district,
Although they dislike 10 make
predictions, scientists "cahnot
refrain from admitting that this
generation and certainly the next
can look forward to unprecedent-
ed eleettonic wonders in the
realms of transportation, hides.
tray, domestic life, cotnmunica.
lions and ultimately,, in relation
to each of these fields, the har-
nessing of solar energy to pro-
duce electrical power for the
benefit of mankind," he stated.
In transportation, he said,
"the day is foreseeable when
your car may follow a 'flare
path of. electrical bea)i%s, trans-
mitted by an electronic device
embedded in the surf-ce of the
highway.
Industry nay soon have robots
"which rio longer exist solely in
science -fiction but which can
actually be manufactured for
countless purposes."
Homes may Soon have doors
which open on approach, con-
trolled by photo -cell lamps, and
electrical heating which will
make furnaces and fireplaces ob-
solete.
In communications, a monitor
TV set is being developed "which
will one day enable you to super-
vise your children in the nursery
while you lounge in another
giiteter part of the house."
If man ever taps the bound-
less energy of the sun, "barren
yet sunny areas such as the
Sahara dessert will become int
mense industrial centres for
they will be virtual electrical
power houses."
"It is unquestionable," he.
concluded, "that electricity and
electronics will continue to .be
our `highway to progress' but
to a far greater and far broader
extent than we are now able to
realize or comprehend.'
A Listowel student, Brian Pres-
eott, won the class for int-
protnptu speech.
Patch. 13ouiiannr another
grade 12student at SHDIiS, also
competed.
which wind to prohibit speed-
ing.
Visitors will be able to pick
a spot to be by themselves or
be with neighbors. There will be
hot and cold water, a laundry
and comfort stations. The areas
for private parking will be pro-
vided with table, fireplace and
garbage can.
One dollar will be charged
for a season ticket to enter any,
government park. For camping
the charge is 75 cents a night
and $4.00 a week. There will be
a limit to the length of time for
tent or trailer.
Police protection will be pro-
vided to control any disturbances
right from the start. There will
he a stand-by fire -fighting force.
A tower is being erected with
telescope to spot a fire any-
where in the whole area.
"Grand Bend is now well es-
tablished on the map and from
past experience the new park
should increase the tourist traf-
fic from 56 to 86 per cent" said
Mr, Meyers. "Supplies for the
park, as far as possible, are
being bought locally. The pres-
ent planfor the park is small
Chipmunk
lost prop
A reliable source indicated
Sunday the Chipmunk which
crash-landed in the field of Sam
Dougall, RR 1, Hensall, lost its
propellor in flight.
RCAF officials praised the
pilot for a "beautiful job of
landing."
The plane landed in a plowed
field shortly after 1 p.m., with
a minimum of damage, about
one-half mile east of No. 4,
The occupants came to the
Dougall household to call for
assistance just as the Centralia
crash truck roared in the lane.
Owner Dougall didn't know the
plane had landed on his field
until the airmen came to his
door..
Pilot was ' /L f. F. Dyer, and
observer was F/L C. 11. P.
Smith, both of Centralia.
Where to
find if
Announcements 4
Church Notices 17
Corning Events 11
Editorials 2
Farm News 11, 12
Feminine Facts 14, 15
Hensall 8
Lucan 16'
Sparta 6, 1, 9
Want Ads _. 12
turielt
in comparison to the potential-
ities and more will be opened
up as public demands more. "I
expect in time the park will be
open far the winter," said Mr,
Meyers,
Throughout the province last
year 600,000 cars' entered the
provincial parks, one-third of
thein from the Lake Erie dis-
trict of which the Finery forms
a part.
Lion Cam Chapman introduced
Mr. Meyers to the club and an
expression of appreciation and a
gift was made by Lion Ken
Young.
.During the supper hour at the
Green Forest Lodge, an appeal
was made from a Quebec club
for a small donation to assist
a child needing a heart opera-
tion and on passing the plate $10
was subscribed.
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Convict corporal
over fatal crash
Cpl. Charles Kingsley, 29, .of
RCAF Station Clinton, was con-
victed of careless driving in con-
nection with the accident Feb.
28 in which another Clinton air-
man was killed.
Sentence was remanded by
Magistrate Dudley Holmes until
Thursday, March 26.
Kingsley pleaded not guilty to
the charge and was defended by
Goderich lawyer, Jim Donnelly.
The case was heard in Goderich
court Thursday, March 19.
Original charge against Kings-
ley was criminal negligence but
the crown reduced it to careless
driving the day of the hearing,
when it was announced that the
Ontario supreme court bad up-
set an earlier ruling that the
careless driving charge infring-
ed on .federal rights.
Cowen foils safe 'job'
at bottling plant here
Yeggs raided two Hensall and
one Exeter firm this week but
their attacks proved almost
fruitless.
Total loot amounted to about
$15 taken from the safe of A.
Spencer and Son, Hensall; some
petty cash from the offices of
Tuckey Beverages, Exeter, and
W. G. Thompson and Sons Ltd.,
Hensall.
Monday night, Constable John
Cowen frightened off yeggs who
were attempting to open the safe
from the Tuckey plant, Main
street, which they had removed
from the drivers' office into the
warehouse.
They tried unsuccessfully to
sledge hammer their way into a
walk-in vault in the office of W,
G. Thompson and Sons Ltd.,
Fatal fall accidental,
coroner's jury finds
A jury investigating the death
of LAC Alan George Lockie, who
died March. 11 when he fell from
a moving car on No. 4 highway,
decided "death was accidental
and entirely due to Lockie's ac-
tions,"
The jury added: "Previous
consumption of alcohol may have
been a factor in the death."
Inquest was held. Wednesday
afternoon in. Exeter town hall
with Coroner Dr. J. G. Goddard,
Hensall presiding, H G. Hays,
QC, Goderich, conducted the
hearing,
LAC Lockie fell out of a car
travelling from Hensall to Cen-
tralia in the early morning. The
accident happened one m i 1 e
south of Hensall.
Cpl. James W. Blackburn,
driver of the car, said Lockie,
LAC A. J. McCoy and himself
had gone to Hensall arena to
curl and then went to the Hen-
sall Legion where they talked,
played euchre and drank a few
beers. Blackburn said he had
four pints between the time he
arrived at 9.30 and left at 1 a.m.
The beer was purchased from
the Legion bartender, Leonard
Noakes.
'They gave Lawrence Bayn-
ham, Hensall, who locked up the
Legion hall, a ride home before
starting down No 4 for Cen-
tralia.
Blackburn said he did not see
Lockie fall out of the car. The
first thing he knew was McCoy
saying, with urgency, "George
jumped out of the car!"
Blackburn said he hadn't
noticed Lockie was gone because
he was concentrating. on driving;
it was a very cold night and the
defroster wasn't warmed up yet.
He said he did not see the
door open and didn't realize
Lockie was gone until he stopped
the car and looked over.
As soon as car stopped, he put
it in reverse and was about to
back up when he thought he
might back over Lockie so he
pulled off to side of road and
followed McCoy back to where
Lockie was lying on the shoul-
der.
He then came to Exeter for
help.
He said Lockie had not been
showing 'any out of the ordinary
effects of liquor. Lockie liked an
argument and had had several
at the Legion. He had not noticed
that Lockie felt sick to his sto-
mach.
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MENINGITIS VICTIM
. Wilma • DeJong, 14. stricken
Disease kips
DeJong girl
The funeral of Wilma DeJong,
14 -year-old daughter of Mrs.
George F'oortinga, of R.R. 1
Kirkton, was held Monday from
the R. C. Dinney funeral home
with Rev. Van Eeek, officiating.
Wilma died Saturday morning
in Victoria Hospital, London,
from meningitis. She attended
school Friday morning and was
admitted to• hospital the same
night, going to London in the
Dinney ambulance.
About five years ago her fa-
ther, two brothers and a sister
were killed in a car crash near
Brantford. Since that time her
mother has remarried.
The funeral service was pri-
vate, four relatives acting as
pallbearers. Interment was in
Exeter cemetery.
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early Monday mornipg.
Saturday morning, they carted
away a 200 -pound safe containing
$15 in cash and office records
from the planing mill of A.
Spencer and Son. The safe and
most of the papers were found
the same day alongside an Us.
borne Township road.
Making Routine Check
Constable Cowen was doing a
routine check on the doors of
Main street buildings about 10.30
when he tried the Anne street
door on the bottling plant.
He heard what sounded like
an iron bar drop on the floor"
but was not alarmed because he
assumed men were working in
the plant at night as they often
do.
However, when he reached
Main street, he spotted two men
"running like the devil". They
turned down Huron street to the
west. Apparently they had gone
through the Main street entrance
which opens from the inside.
Constable Cowen followed thenyl
on foot but they disappeared.
With assistance of employees
of the firm Cowen entered the
building to find the thieves had
left their crow bar and yellow•
handled sledge at the scene,
A fair dent had been made in.
the door of the safe and the
handle was off. Chief C. H. Mc-
Kenzie indicated it may have
opened with a few more blows.
An OPP fingerprint expert
from Mount Forest arrived Tues•
day to check the scene.
Monday night, would-be thieves
were frightened from the ware-
house of Tuckey Beverages Ltd.,
Exeter, when they were attempt.
ing to pry open a safe.
Combination on door
At the Thompson mill, the yeggs
pounded a six-inch hole in the
wall surrounding the large safe,
knocked off its handle, but they
couldn't open it.
Ironically, the numbers of the
combination were written on �
door nearby, according to com-
pany employees.
Manager Howard Scone disc
covered the breakin when he
came to work Tuesday morning.
The men had used a small bar
to pry open the front door of
the office.
Records found safe again
Walter Spencer considers hint.*
self fortunate because, for the
second time inside of nine
months, he has been able to re-•
cover valuable records which
were in the safe when it was
removed from the Hensall plan-
ing mill.
This time thieves took $15 in
cash, left most of the papers
intact, including the firm's
accounts receivable ledger.
In June, 1958, thieves took $100
in cash and left the papers, after
opening the safe in the millyard
near the railway tracks.
Entry was different this time,
too. The yeggs opened the large
door at the 'rear instead of the
small one on the side.
Ten -year-old. Ronnie Parsons,„
sen of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Par-
sons, RR 1, Hensall, spotted
papers from the safe by the
roadside near his home when he
was returning from a neighbor's.
The safe was found in a snow-
bank, the door sledge -hammered
open.
Working on the Hensall break•
ins are Chief Constable E. R.
Davis, Hensall, and OPP Con-
stables Cecil Gibbons and Hank
Reid, Exeter.
Arrest five,
say arson
Five district youths, charged
with arson over a faun house
fire near Woodham Sunday, will
appear in Goderich court Thurs.
day.
Their cases are expected to be
remanded to Exeter court an
Wednesday, April 15,
The five were arrested here
Tuesday afternoon and taken to
Goderich jail.
Charged are brothers Frede•
rick W. Keller, 21; Beverly L.
Keller, 19, both of Dashwood;
and Charles Ross Keller, for-
merly of RR 2 Dashwood and
now of London; Frank W. Coo-
per; 21, RR 1 Exeter; and Don.
aid L. Masnica, 18, RR 2 Cre.
diton.
An unoccupied one -storey
frame house owned by Allen H.
Berry, RR 1 Woodham, burned
to the ground Sunday night. Itt
was located on the tenth conces4
sion of Usborne, just west of
Woodham.
Mr. Berry Set the loss at' about
$1,000.
Investigation and arrests were
made by OPP Constable George
Mitchell, assisted by Inspector
T. G. Griffin, of the fire roar»
shall's office, Toronto.
Raise salaries
of Usborne staff
Salaries of teachers in 'Iia
borfle toWo$hip school area Wad
raised $300 for the 1959.60 'term•
by the board at a meeting last
Week.
Miniinlimwas raised from
$2,200 to $3,900. Annual increo
inept of $200 Was set on a Lente.
tive_basis.
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ttithe feathers the
taff, eight will rr eeiVe $8,500
this 'coifing year.