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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-04-30, Page 1four win top badge In a ceremony believed tinpre- cedented here, four members of PXeler Joy &Pets were present- ed Monday. night with the move- ment's highest award, the Queco's Scout badge, Recipients were Troop Leader Doug Jerdyn, Petrol Leaders Douglas lieclgsoe and Jim Sweit zer, Second Pale Turvey, all of the "A" troop. The badges were presented by Scoutmaster Ralph Sweitzer following the •regular troop meet- ing. He lauded the four for reaching the "top goal of Scoet- ing." 'Terrific reputation' District Commissioner Glee .Lodge, Goderich, told the youths they had a "terrific reputation to live up to because Queen Scouts are regarded as outstand- ing citizens an their communi- ties." The award is given to a Scout who has worn his first class badge .for at least six months, has passed four proficiency tests, two of which must be ambulaece- man's and pathfinder's, Others include fireman's, despatcher's, signaller's, camper's and res- cuer's. In order to keep the badge, •the Scout must pass the require- ments for the ambulanceman's badge once every year, Two of the four—Jim SWeitzer and Dale Turvey—were present- ed with "B" cords by Assistant Scoutmaster. Hal Hooke for hav- ing passed 12 proficiency badges. Present other badges Three other Scouts received proficiency badges. George God - belt received his swimmer's and Cub instructor's badges; John MaeNaughton h i s camper's badge, and Ted Wilson his Cub instructor's badge. R is not known if any Scout In the Jong history of the Exeter troop has won the Queen's Scout badge because the records have been lost, The troop holds the province's first charter The four boys joined the -troop in 1955 and 1956, at the same time SM Sweitzer became a leader. Scout leaders from RCAF Cen- tralia witnessed the ceremony. The Exeter troop is one of the most active in the district. Zhe exeferZitnesatwocafe Eighty -Second Year BECOME QUEEN'S 'SCOUTS—These four members of the Exeter troop were pre- sented with the movements highest award, Queen's Scout badges, .Monday night, dur- ing a special ceremony here. Troop Leader Doug Jermyn, Patrol Leaders Jim Sweitzer and Douglas Hodgson and Second Dale Turvey earned the honor by passing stringent tests in proficiency work. Scoutmaster Ralph Sweitzer made the presentation of the badge, an illustration which is inset. —T -A Photo Surplus, road budget cut helps town hold tax line Exeter's tax rate for 1959 is Manager Dr. A. E. Berry indi- the same, practically, as last year. Commercial rate remains at 71.5 mills; the residential is 67.1 compared to 67 last year. _,.. Residentiai is up one -tenth: -of a mill because of an increase in assessment, over 1958. • "I'm happy with the rate," said Mayor R. E. Pooley follow- ing council's decision Friday night, "We are well in 'keeping with towns our size, Some of. them have shown increases as high as 12 mills this year.". Council was able to hold the Exeter rate by virtue of a large $16,000 sdrplus from 1958 and by trimming its road budget $3,000. aur celebratet This absorbed increases of: $3,000 in the county levy; $1,000 in public school operat- ing budget; Mr. and Mrs, W. . J. Smith, $800 in salaries and allow- Andrew Street, quietly cele. ances: brated their gelding wedding an. $1,000 in police and fire pro- niversary on Tuesday. Friends tection expenditures; called during the afternoon and $600 in parks; evening. $500 in the Ausable Authority levy and an additional 4500. pay- ment toward increased costs for cated" at a recent meeting that construction may be possible in a year or two, Other points about the 1959 budget: Estimated receipts on dog tax was lowered from. $250 to $150 because dogs are being disposed of in view of the inconveniences caused by the rabies threat. Police department expenditure is estimated to hit a peak of $10,000 this year, It jumped from $6,400 to $9,500 last year when resignation of Chief Reg Taylor 50 years wed the Morrison Dam. Also absorbed were new ex- penditures of $3,000 toward a sinking fund for purchase of the Fr ayne property in 1960; $2,000 for the repair of the sewage dis- posal lagoon at the canning fac- tory; and $1,200 for sewerage survey costs. There were few other changes In the 1959 budget. The large surplus from 1958 was due to a better return on '58 taxes than was forecast in last year's budget. Council esti- mated tax arrears would be up because of the shutdown of the canning plant. Possibility that construction of a sewerage system may be un- dertaken within a fete years prompted council to cut down the annual provision for paving from the road budget. Council has spent $3,000 to $4,000 in the past two years on hardtopping side streets. Council bega,n its paving pro- gram with the idea that construc- tion of sewers, 'which would rip up roade, was at least 10 years Hospital sale 'biggest ever' "The biggest and best yet" was the general verdict in re- gard to the annual spring runt - :nage sale sponsored by the Women's Atixiliary to South Hu- ron Hospital in the Legion Hall Saturday afternoon. Articles for sale were general- ly itt good condition and buyers were numerous and eager. Tic. kets were sold or a number of donated items including a carv- ing set, a drink cooler, Si, fur. keys, A hair -do by a local hair- dresser and a cake. This netted over $50. The hint of the group for the Past two or three years has been to reach the $1,000, mark in Proceeds from the sale and oil Saturday that aim was rea- lized with six or seven dollars to spare, An innovation this year was a telephone committee who. call. ed every home hi town early in the week. Mrs. t.President of the aiiXiliary and Mrs. Etlgette Ilovirey itt etifiVentir of the ways and means The family were home on Sun- day, required the temporary hiring of provincial police constables. This will be the first complete year with three full.time men on staff. Budget for sidewalks is $3,000, which will provide for repairs and lit w construction to the same extent as in '57 and '58, Parks budget, including the river pond, is $2,000, the same as it has been, but only $1,300 -was spent last year and $900 the year previous. Trimming of trees cost the town $400 this year. Garbage disposal and dump ex- pense is estimated at $5,800 com- pared to $5,500 last year and $6,300 the year before. Clerk C. V. Pickard told council he esti- mated this cost the taxpayers considerably less, on the aver- age, than in towns where gar- bage collection is a commercial service provided by a private in- dividual. New provincial hospitalization insurance and grants toward in- digent care will reduce this cost to the .municipality by about $500. • , • . Except for the $1,000 increase in the- public school. budget, edu- catiofi costs remain the same. Total is $61,000, Major increase .the school budget is seen net nar when new salary schedule takes •ef- feet for full year. Debenture charges, :which rose by .$6,500 in 1958 because of the Morrison. dam construction, will remain about $66,000. Recreation a n d community service budget also holds at the '59 figure of $11,800, which was an increase. of .$2,000 over '57. This provides for grants of $S00 to the 'band, $2,300 to the library, $4,000 to the community centres board (arena and park), $2,000 to the recreation committee, plus the provincial grant of $3,000 to the recreation committee. The cemetery board receives a grant of $1,000 for the second year in a row. , Industrial. promotion budget was set at $500. Last, year $350 was spent; the previous year, $190. EXETER, ONTARIO, APRIL 30, 1959 Price Per Copy 10 CAMS N DIAL PH FOR BEND DISTRICT Zurich moves to study village incorporation • Trustee chairman Lloyd 0'. supply and installation of two ex - Brien said Wednesday he holed tensions to the water system; Zurich would become an STICOr- one of 53 feet of two-inch pipe to porated village during the eom- the new separate school location; ing year "hut we have a lot to the other of 175 feet of two-inch find out about yet," pipe and 53 feet of one -inch pipe to the new home of Mahlon Sauder beside the Lutheran church shed, "We're not fully decided on in- corporation," he said."We have ft jorstf.ip,d out what it's all about Monday night the trustees ap- Hay area awaits Pointed Me legal firm of 13ell and Laughton, Exeter, to inveS- tigate the move. "We feel we are going to be incorporated some time but there may be a lot of things crop up before we can get started. We'll have to wait to find out." The incorporation question was discussed at length during Monday's special meeting when it was decided to proceed with the incorporation enquiry. At a meeting Thursday night, the. trustees authorized payment of. fees for firemen who wished to enroll in the St, John ambu- iance course w'hich will be con- ducted this year. Tenders are being called 5,or Laymen rally at Dashwood Rev. H. H. Erdman, Kitchener, executive secretary of the On- tario District of the Lutheran Church --Missouri Synod, address- ed members of the Lutheran Laymens League of the Strat- ford Zone Sunday hi Zion Luthe- ran Church, Dashwood. Rev. Erdman outlined the church's missionary work in the Ontario district. He told the as- sembly that of the 108 congrega- tions within the Ontario district, 44 of them were 'mission -con- gregations which were just be- gun in recent years.. Rev, Erdman showed pictures Which he had taken of these var- ious mission. congregations. During the rally a 'moment of silence was observed in me- moriam of the former president of the zone, the late Martin Laub of' Exeter, who died suddenly several weeks ago. V, L. Becker, reeve of Hay township, was elected president. ler, Monkton; secretary, Joe Ditt- mer, Monkton; -treasurer, Leo Gibson, Dashwood; anembership supervisor, William Palmer, Stratford; pastoral advisor, Rev. Eifert, London, The rally was closed with a worship service during which Rev, Eifert of Our Saviour Mis- sion, London, spoke on the words of Mordecai to Queen Esther, "who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this," NEARLY ZOO OWE BLOOD--bistriet Red Cross officials said they were "quite pleased" with the results of the first blood clinic here Tuesday, A fetal of 105 persons Contributed to the free Wed batik ROW established in the area by the Rod Cross, Above, two first Contributors were Duncan MeCaffery, general manager of t keter Furniture Ltd., left, and Charies*Poorel, OW superintendent of the s same firm. Roth are experien' ced donors having given 14 and 19 times respectfully. With them are Red Cross nurses, left, Miss Dorothy Somervill) Mis Gloria Scott and Mrs. Phoebe Semple, London. tighteeii members of the Legion Ladies Auxiliary under President Mit. Gerald Campbell) assisted with the afternoon and evening h.-44 1, 6t6 • contract returns Ray Fisher, chairman of Hay township school area board, said Wednesday there has been no indication from teachers yet regarding acceptance of con- tracts for the coming year. The. board has offered teachers the same salaries as last year, resisting the current trend to' annual increments. "We were paying the highest in South Huron last year," Mr. Fisher said. "We treat all of our teachers the same, except for the prin- cipal. They are all paid around $3,300," Offers to renew their contracts were sent out to the teachers this week with the request that they be returned as soon as possible. The board has 12 regular teachers and two part-time on staff. To sell Babylon school The board decided at its last meeting to sell the Babylon line school on concession nine. Wir- ing and fixtures will he removed from the building first. ASS'T AG REP — Donald G. Grieve, now of Elgin county, will become Huron county's new assistant agricultural represent- ative on June 1, succeeding A. S. Bolton who has resigned. Loss said $160 in cottage theft Loss was estimated at $160 this weekend in the second theft in less than a year from 'the same cottage at Cedarbank, two miles north of No. 83 highway on Lake Huron. Owner Mrs, F. V. Granger, who discovered the break and enter Sunday, told police a chest of drawers, large arm chair, bed clothing, scattermats and silver- ware were missing this time. Last fall, a table model TV and vacuum cleaner were taken from the cottage, , Transfer CE officers to Franc E Hay township council has do. cided to install dial telephone service for Grand Bend. In an announcement in The Times -Advocate this week. the system releases details of its application to the Ontario Tele - Phone Authority for new =tee in the Grand Bend area to meet the costs of dial. If the rate is approved, cute over is expected in about twill years. The announcement says the township council, which governs the telephone system, will spend a quarter of a million dollars providing service and toll facili- ties. "Of this amount $100,000 will be needed over the. next year ,te provide the necessary long dis- tance facilities and additional cable and wire plant for local service." "Since an expenditure of this size cannot he undertaken with- out sufficient revenue to retire the debt in a reasonable period of time . . rates must be re, wised in the Grand Bend area,0 the report states. Secretary Reg Black outline, the plans to have. the area ser. vice divided into three zones, with the base rate area being approximately the limits of Grand Bend itself. Other zones are. to the north and south of the village, and there is a rural area to the east. New rates, which will become effective when the cutover is made, range from $2.35 a month in the rural area to $8,05 in one of the zones. Secretary Black said the sys• tem has been quoted delivery dates of 16 months to two years on dial equipment from sup. pliers. The secretary said the council considered three proposals to improve Grand Bend's service: • extension of the magneto switch., hoard; installation of a new com- mon battery switchboard or purchase of dial. "Conversion to dial central eP gypt posts equipment would be somewhat . expensive 4give! Three Centralia officers have in November 1954 and received more but*ould I been posted. overseas to NATO his pilot training in westernthe best possible service to the and 1J14 forces in France and ada. He was selected for " Cant i users apd would.ehminate heavy Egypt, •• • instruction duiies after gradui. flying' .costs of operator'. salaries," the ' explanation said S/TA 5. J. Grandin, chief, of school services. has been trans- ferred to SHAPE headquarters in France. He will take up his new duties in July. F/O's L. F. Yerxa and D. T. Thoburn will proceed to Egypt for flying duties with the United Nations Emergency Force after they have completed a flying conversion course on other air- craft at Trenton. S/L Grandin came to Centralia In 1955 as chief flying instruct- or. He graduated from RCAF staff college in 1954. S/L Grandin enlisted in the RCAF in 1940 and served in Australia and Ceylon during world war two. On his return to Canada in 1944 he was transfer- red to various stations in West- ern Canada and then to air force headquarters in Ottawa. S/L Grandin and Mrs. Grand - in, who live in Huron Park, have one daughter, Annabelle, who is now living in: Denmark with her husband, a member qf the Rolal Danish Air Force. F/O Yerxa joined the RCAF in .Tanuary, 1955. He undertook flying training in western Can- ada at Moose Jaw, Sask., and Gimli, Man. After receiving his pilot's wings he was transferred to flying instructors' school at Trenton and then to Centralia for duties at the primary train- ing school in October 1956. He is married and his wife resides in London. F/0 Thoburn started his RCAF career in Montreal ie Guelph students complete courses Miss Marie Hodgson has com- pleted her course at Macdonald Hall, Guelph, and. is visiting at the home of her parents, Mr, and Mrs. W, H. Hodgson, She will attend graduation exercises on May 15. She plans to spend the stimmen as cook in a fish- ing camp ob. the French River. Marie expects to go to England in September. Miss Joan Thomson, who also graduates this year, will attend graduation ceremonies on May 15. She is at present visiting at her home. She plans to take a summer course 10 teaching and will teach at Niagara Falls next term. Where to find it AOhOuntenienh. ........... ..,..., it Church Notices 11 Corning. Events , li Editorials 4 Fm News li Feminine .Fiteft, .. 10 'Hamill I, S 4 looldeio. hi Wiiii. tit , Y Lutan .. 16, it .tootts I Want Ads. IS Zurich . 1 tion and came to Centralia an October 1956. F/O Thoburn's1 "In the past it has been the wife and infant son. reside in:policy of this municipal system, Huron Park, to furnish the best possible her. The two men posted to Egypt, vice at the lowest rate possible, are allowed to take their fami- Unfortunately this has not pro - lies with them. duced a surplus from which we may draw funds to modernize and improve. our system extens- ively, It will be necessaryfor thme township of Hay to issue debentures to finance the im- provements." S/L S. .1. GRANDIN ... to SHAPE headquarters .... . ' • ' •-• ,...1 F7D D. T. THOBURN ... to United Nations force r, t. YERXA 4 fit Egypf with UNEP Another district municipal system, Blanshard, received per. mission from its township icouo,.- cil to issue debentures to nstall. dial in the Sebringville exchanee. Chairman John Stephen. said' a survey is now being made by the Ontario Telephone Authority' which would. provide the basis for plans to convert all of the exchanges of the system, includ- ing Kirkton and Grantor, to dial. Blame crash on frost boil A frost boil in an I.Isborne township road caused Mrs. Gladys Janke, 33, Sanders street, to lose control of her car which rolled on its side Monday after. noon. After hitting the boil, the car started to skid, turned over when it hit; the. shoulder. Mrs. Janke was shaken up. Damage to the car was $125, The accident happened about one mile east of Exeter o,n Huron street. '59's suffer damage Two 1959 models, one a truck, the other a station wagon, col. lided near Zurich about 3.20 a.m. Sunday. April 26, causing $37$ dam age. The truck, owned by Mahlon Saucier, 28, Zurich, was parked on the shoulder of No. 84 high. way when it was struck by the station wagon, driven by Lorne Rader, 39, Zurich, who was travelling east. Polite have charged John Regier, 21, RR 2 Crediton, with careless driving as a result of a 51,000 accident in. Crediten Wednesday, April 22. Regier was pulling tante the road front a service station, west of the Main intersection, when his car was hit by a west. bound tar driven. bY Donald Mc. Kay Stephenson, 23, London. Damage totalled $400 when cars driven by Rev. Kenneth Zorn, Dashwood, a n d Mike Dzieba, William street, collided M the intersection of William and Wellington streets, Thursday morning At 7.30 a.m. Itev. Zorn was travelling north on William; the other ear was eastbound on Wellifigton. Chief C. It MacKenzie investigated. Tway ears crashed on Main street during the heavy dowti. pour Tuesday morning with dant. .-os totalling OW Gerald B. WilsOn.Tornritot was pulling out of Callft'S milt yard when be was struck by a southhound ear driven by Russell IToperoft. Dashwood. gaCtlie,f C. /I. MeXenzie iiivesti. • ,`