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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-06-04, Page 1c..rders 1nqu es into girl's deat Tentative date for an inquest into the death of eight-year-old Sharon Marie Nairn, Kirkton stistrict accident victim, has been set for June 24. It will probably be held in Exeter 'Phe grade three student at f'lugtown school, daughter of Mr. .and Mrs. John McElrea, died in London hospital at 6.:30 p.m. Friday, about two hours after she WAS struck by a pick up truck while rioting a bicycle near the school. The. accident happened at the Students Assist at girl's service Fellow students at Plugstown school acted as pallbearers and flowerbearers at the funeral ser- vice here Monday for Sharon Marie McElrea, 8, RR 1. Kirk - ton, who was the victim of .a trafficter• Friday after- noon. Il,ev. T, Elliott, Kirkton United Church, conducted the service in the Hopper -Hockey funeral home. Interment was in Kirkton Union cemetery. P.allbearers were Jimmy andt Douglas Allen, Barry Brintnell and Gary Simpson.. Surviving besides 'her parents, Mr, and Mrs. John McElrea, are one brother., Glenn, 13, and. grandparents, Mrs. J. McElrea, Iron Bridge, and Thomas Brock, Kirkton. Among those attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs, Gordon. McElrea and Jack Tul- loch, Iron Bridge; Mr. and Mrs, Jimmy McElrea, Niagara Falls; Ronald Marriott, Goclerich, and other relatives from Sarnia and Toronto. corner of Huron street east and the twelfth. ,concession of Us - borne. She was''on her way home, ac- companied by a friend, Ellen Simpson, also eight, who was riding a bicycle about to feet. behind :her. Driver of the pickup was Wil- liam Simpson, 60, RR 1 'Science 11111, who w.as accompanied by MS wife, The couple is not re fated to Ellen Simpson. The young grl was .riding south on the twelfth concession and. the truck Was traveling east on Huron street, The girl had left the school, which is an the southwest cor- ner of the intersection and went to a farm house on the north side of the intersection where she tried to telephone home . to get permission from her mother to go to the Simpson home to play. When she couldn't get an answer, she decided to go. home. It was as she was crossing the intersection :for the second time that the accident occurred. Simpson, directed by school. teacher Mrs. Jean Keith, took the girl home and then drove her and her mother to St. Marys hospital. She was trans- ferred immediately to Landon hut died within minutes of reaching Victoria hospital, A. post, mortem was conducted at Victoria. Two cars crash during rainstorm Heavy rain early Monday morning caused two cars to go out. of control in this area. Edward Hern, 19, RR 1 Wood- ham, broke off a hydro pole, near Khiva school when his car., took the south ditch on the Crediton road about 12.40 a.m.I No one was injured but damages totaled $400. Dorothy Maier, 18, Dashwood, hit a culvert when she lost con- trol of the car she was driving west en. No. 83. Damage was estimated at $150. Hits station fence Fog prevented Cpl, Clayton Bing, 28, of the RCR's, 1pper.- wash, from seeing the turn at the south, Centralia airport road. and his car plunged through the heavy wire :fence surrounding the station about 3 a,m, Satur- day. He was not hurt. PC's George Mitchell and Harry Reid. investigated. Collide near bridge Chief 'MacKenzie reports dam- age .amounted to about $110 when a car and a truck collided just south of the bridge on Main. street. Duinp truck driven by Gerry Cook, 28, Goderich, was turning left from Main to Hill when he was struck from behind. by Joseph E. R. Schnezler, RCAF Station. Clinton. Both vehicles were southbound. Says service aids learning Dr., Walter H, Johns, president of the University of Alberta; Monday suggested two years in the armedforces or in national employment service would •sti- niulate nterest in a university education. "I don't mean that I• am advo- cating this," he added. hastily, "but those veterans' classes that followed the Second World. War were the most highly motivated classes I have ever seen. They were tremendous. It was just like living i1 the midst of a cy- clone." Dr. Johns was in Toronto to Interview prospective staff mem- bers for his rapidly expanding university after receiving an honorary degree at the Univer- si.ty of Western Ontario Satur- day. atur- day. He is a native of this district. "It is most unfortunate that we can't get some sort of dyna- mic into our high. schools," he said. "The fault lies partly with the home, I guess. I: know I have done everything possible to in- terest my daughter in a univer- sity education." ' While the problem was .not so serious in the case of girls, many boys were interested. only in "hot rods, girls andin getting out and getting a job." He said this was a Very real problem in Canada" where some- thing over five of every 1,000 students went to get a university education, compared to 15 in the --- please Turn To Page 2 Post padre to Europe S/L E. W. Gilbert, CD, •protes- tant padre at RCAF Station Cen- tralia, has been transferred to No. 1 Air Division Headquarters at Metz, France. He and his family will sail for Europe on the SS Ivernia July 17. His new duties will com- mence the 'same month, S/L Gilbert enlisted in the RCAF in January 1943, Before corning to Centralia, he was sta- tioned at London and Vancouver. S/L and Mrs. Gilbert reside in 1-luron. Park. Two of. •their children, John and Grace, are attending S1-JDHS. The third, May -Ann, is in grade three at the J. A. D, McCurdy School, Huron Park. New pastor wins honor e (Exeferi rn ese Eighty -Second Year EXETER, ONTARIO, .,HJNE 4, 1959 �'rl st Pkr RY 1Q esl„rif Rev. Duncan Guest, Wyoming, who will suceed Rev. J. T. Clarke as pastor of the Centralia and. Whalen charges, was on Tuesday elected president of the United Church of Canada . Lon- don Conference at the annual meeting held in Central United Church, Sarnia, Mr. Guest succeeds a :former son of the Centralia parsonage, Rev. Gordon Butt, of Windsor, who attended Exeter High School: For the past 19 years Mr. Guest has beenstationed at Wyoming and previous to that time he held charges at Dover, Ethel, Arkona and Wheatley. He will assume his new duties at Centralia in July. His son, Dr. James Guest, of London, is president of the London Confer- ence Lay Association. United Church ministers and laymen from this district are attending the conference, SHARON MARiE McELREA .. accident victim PADRE TO FRANCE S/L Gilbert transferred f S board rseekt approval r $160,000.00 addition Approve transport plan raise speed limits here t A proposal to raise. the speed 1 Average minimum speed is 42 limit on Highway 83, where It passes through Exeter, from 30 to 40 miles per hour, will he adopted by town council this year, . Council has also agreed to a 40 m.p.h. zone on No, 4, north of No. 83. The proposals 'were• presented to council Monday night by J, $. Trew, of the Ontario Depart- ment of Transport, who reveal- ed that over 80: 'percent of the traffic in the areas breaks the law. Speed tests taken on No, 83 indicated that four out of five cars hit the present 30 m.p.h. zones on .the approaches to town at between 56 and 58 m.1).11. Fear rabies danger, buy tranquilizer gun Convinced that rabies remains' 1 a very real threat to the safe- ty of citizens, council Monday night agreed to secure a tran- quilizer gun for police to assist in the enforcement o£ the town's dog by-law. Chief C. H. MacKenzie said he would negotiate immediately to get the equipment and put it into use. The gun shoots a . hook-like dart into its victim, from which serum is ejected to render the animal virtually unconscious. It can then be captured by police and placed in the pond.. Endorsing the move, Mayor Pooley charged that many dog owners were not ,co-operating despite numerous requests from council, "Some people are work- ing with us but others are not observing the bylaw at all." Reeve McKenzie was most con- cerned about the danger from rabies. "During the past few weeks domestic pets have been found to have had rabies," he stated. He quoted a statement by Dr. J. C. McLennan, of the health of animals division, Sea - forth, which indicated "the dan- ger is by no means over." A particular danger, the vete- rinarian had. said, was possibili- lity that fox cubs would become rabid and come in contact with children. It was revealed that Chief MacKenzie shot .a skunk, be- ieved rabid, in the town last week. • Councillor Ross Taylor sug- gested. the $5.00 penalty for re. moving dogs from the pound should he raised since some dogs are being caught two and. three times and the owners apparent- ly paying the penalty without complaint. In addition to the rabies threat, however, Reeve McZenzie felt the tranquilizer gun would be a good investment because it could be used to, "clean up this dog problem which we have every year at this time." He and other councillors indi- cated they had received a num- ber of ;complaints from irate ci- tizens. Building boom continues To the amazement; of many town officials, who welcome it but wonder what's behind it, the building boom continues without letup. Council passed permits for four more new hones Monday night,, adding to the large num- ber already approved this spring. Councillor Simmons received permission to build two more homes i.n the Riverview Heights subdivision. Two more permits were granted for houses on Huron street to be erected by Lorne Ford and. Harold Taylor. Permits were also issued to — Please Turn To Page 2 MacNaughton `mach` Hospital not politicaI issue, never any doubt about its "If I had thought at any time that this institution was not going to be brought into being as soon as the engineering, architecture and contracting cobld be provid- ed for, I would not be standing on this platform tonight," Charles S. MacNaughton, Huron member in the last legislature, told. an overflow meeting at Goclerich Monday evening. Dealing with the proposed pro- vincialhospital south of Gode- rich, he said; "You can take it from me there never was any doubt 'about this institution; and furthermore, while some of these things take a little time to be brought into being,` I don't think there have beet; any promises made by Mr. Frost, by ministers or members that have not trans- pired -- and this is one of them. "The second: thing is the bridge over the Maitland, and I can as, s..re yeti the work is being under- taken right now. There are sur - Police plan car check at arena this weekend Motorists lrom Exeter and v.i- eini•tywill be given the opportu- nity to have their ears safety- checked afetychecked ,this Weekend by the Exeter Police Department, Cars will be checked at the Exeter Arena on Friday and Sat- urday, the hours ranging frons 9;30 a.m. and from 7' 10 9;30 li.ni, .According to the pollee cars that are found safe Will be given a sticker, Should a car fail to pass, the motorists will be strueted to have the defect fitted and will he given a sticker fol- lowing a :further test,. Cars will be . checked for de- feetr headl.igg ive brakes htS, iia, 11ght0, stop light;, witiclshield Wipers, Siem and other defects which couitl cattle an accident. Motorists are being advised to *Ake full use of the opportunity to have their ears checked :free. Lives may be saved, or accidents averted when everything is in order with your car. Where to' i find t Announcer erife Chi -lies Natlkal toming Events ,.................. 15 Editorials 4 Farm News 9 Women's Page' 12, 13 Hensall 7 Looking in with Litt , 16 Luca+n `14 1$ Sports .. 6 r Want Ada 11 - Zurich ..,....uun.rr„.... „nn,r.rr 5 ..., ......... veyors on the property, and con- struction will be undertaken in a few months." The PC rally heard Hon. Ray Connell, minister of p u b l i c works, announce that "tomorrow afternoon we are moving the shovels in" on the hospital, site. It heard. Hon. Robert Macau- lay, minister of energy re- sources, declare t:.hat "we intend to lead the world in the field of nuclear energy." It heard also predictions ,from Mr, Connell and chairman James Donnelly that Mr. MacNaughton was destined eventually for the cabinet, Mr. Mact'aughton dealt with some recent campaign state- ments he had "begun to get mad" over. He especially re - smiled a statement attributed to Harry Strang, Liberal candidate in Huron, that "it was time the Progressive Conservatives stopped trying to bribe the vot- ers of Huron." "An item in the Exeter paper a few days ago," Mr. MacNaugh- ton said, "reported that: Mr. Strang strongly criticized the PC promises of a hospital at Gode- rich and a highway bridge ",'hey have been promising these things for years,' Mr, Strang said, 'but there is no immediate .sign of action on either project.' "You have heard the answer tonight .from Mr. Connell, As the minister has told you, the fore- man of the public works depart• nient and one of his officials from Toronto are calling tonight for prices on the drainage con- tract, so that by tomorrow we hope soil will be broken on the ground. "I ain only going to mention this once mare and then I will newel mention it during thus earn. Nigh again, because it does not treed to be talked about any more, They Dave tried for senie. time to make a political issue out, of it. It is no longer a Mill - leaf issue tri any sense of the word." ` This, CodeHell • (Ibis". 4 tuni'pot• tttttd played in front of the hail, under leadership of Councilor J. E. Huckins, and on the stage a trio of collegiate boys enter- tained with electric guitars. James Donnelly, secretary of the :riding association and local chairman, presided over the meeting, which was addressed briefly by Mayor E. C. Fisher and John W. Hanna, candidate for re-election in Huron -Bruce. Mayor Fisher, a Liberal, de- clared Mr. MacNaughton "the one gentleman who has made possible a great many things we have obtained at Toronto, Mr. Connell, who had visited the hospital site in the afternoon, — Please Turn To Page 2 m.p.h. Mr. Trew said the experience of his department showed that the 30 m.p.h. zone could not be enforced under these conditions. "Anything which is unreasonable to the great majority of motor- ists cannot he enforced, even if you put another full time police- man on your force to do so." He did not think the raising of the limit would increase the number of traffic accidents be- cause cars were t r. a v e l l i n g through the area at 4.0 now and "youhave had virtually no ac- cident experience in that area." Specifically, his recommenda- tions were; No, 83—To start the 40 m.p.h, zone at the railroad tracks on the west side and carry it through to 1,000 feet east of the intersection. No. 4—A. 40 m.p.h. zone start at the intersection and continue to the northerly limits of town. The department will continue this zone for another 2,000 feet north, Tho transport official said the department was seriously con- sidering, raising the speed limit on, No. 4, outside built-up areas, to 55 m.p.h. He also stated that the new 40 m.p.h. zona south of town seemedto be creating the de- sired effort of slowing down traffic before it reaches the 30 m.p.h. zone near the pillars. Council indicated it was pre- paredto pass a bylaw estab- lishing the new zones in town as soon as the department sub- mitted its recommendations in writing. Council is waiting for a park- ing survey from the dep't, which volunteered to send experts to the town to recommend improve- ments. Council is delaying the establishment of parallel park- ing onthe west side of Main street and the marking of park- ing areas until it receives the recommendations of the depart- ment. Early polls this week Advance polls will be held in Exeter, Seaforth and Goderich this weekend for the June 11 pro- vincial election, Returning Of- ficer Russell T, Bolton announced this week. Polls will be open 9 to 6 and 8 to 11 (DST) on June 4, 5 and 6. Location of the Exeter poll will be the town hall. Pian two trips for PS pupils Chldren from two grades of Exeter public school are to enjoy trips in the near future, it was revealed at a meeting of the public school board Monday night. On July 22 pupils of grade eight will visit the OAC, Guelph, tour a factory at Kitchener and will also visit the dam at Fergus and the beautiful park of rock formation at Elora. Pupils from grade 7 will visit the zoo in De- troit. An increase of $100 was granted to Lawrence Wein, musical di- rector, bringing his salary to $1,300. The contract for painting three class rooms during the holiday season was givento the pririci- pal, A, B. Idle, the lower of two tenders. RECEIVES BA—Harold R. H. Berry, son of Mr. Allen Berry, Woodham, graduated from Trin- ity College, University of To- ronto, Thursday, with his BA degree in economics and politi- cal science. Harold intends to continue studies at Osgoode Hall law school next September. Members of SHDHS hoard de- cided Tuesday night toask seven municipalities in the dis- tricttrict to approve a proposed $160,000 addition, The extension will include two classrooms, one laboratory, one shop and one cafeteria. Existing cafeteria will be remodelled in- to two classrooms. With these facilities, the board 'proposes to offer limited techni- cal training courses for boys and extended commercial course to girls. Board members felt this trend toward practicaleducation would meet with general approval throughout the district, Through it, boys will be able to specialize in manual training for two years, then transfer to a more advanced technical school in London, if they wish. The new commercial facilities would allow four years' train- ing in this subject. An official outline of the ARTS GRADUATE — John Ed- ward Hall, Mount Carmel, re- ceived his BA degrees from the University of Western Ontario Saturday. He is a graduate of, SHDHS. Hay teachers OK contracts Teachers in Hay township school area have accepted a compromise proposal to end their minor salary disput with the board. They approved a $100 across- the-board increase which the board offered after rejecting the teachers' request for a $200 raise. Secretary H, W. Brokenshire said this week all teachers have signed contracts for the '59-'60 term. ' Standard salary is now $3,500 a year with the principal re- ceiving $3,800. Outside of the latter, all teachers receive the same amount; no allowance is made for experience or qualifi- cation above the standard. At a previous meeting the board decided to charge $6.00 per month for instruction of children who live just outside the area. Thunder record set during May A new recordfor thunder in May was established last month, according to a report from the met section, RCAF Centralia, Thunder occurred on nine days during the month. The previous record was seven in 1956. Rainfall for the month was 4.3 inches. The highest temperature was 84 degrees registered on May 20 and 29. The mean. tempera- ture was 58. There was a trace of snow on May 15. board's submission follows; "The proposal indicates tliat enrolment in the elementary schools is 2355, Secondary school enrolment in 612 and it is ex-, pected to be 800 within the next five years. The existing school, which was built in 1949 and to which an addition was made in 1956, offers normal accommoda- tion for 600 pupils, "Your board proposes to make an addition which will include; 2 classrooms, 700 square feet each; 1 laboratory, 800 square , fe1 s, feet;et; 1. cafeterhopia,1400 2500 squaree squar feet, "The existing cafeteria will be remodelled and become 2 class. rooms, When the project is completed the entire school will offer normal accommodation for 770 pupils. "The estimatedcost of the project including building con- tract, architect's fees, furniture and equipment may be taken roughly at $160,000,00, "Legislative grant for al), provedfacilities will be on an amount up to but not in excess of $125,000. This is the maximum amount upon which the board's percentage for grants will ap- ply. This percentage is not gua- ranteed but may be varied by the grant regulations from year to year." Seven municipalities concerned include Exeter, Grand Bend, Hay, Hensall, Stephen, Usborneo and a portion of Tuckersmith. The boardproposes to use the new cafeteria as a second gym* nasiuin in order to provide ac- commodation for physical train - ing raining which. is not now adequate. Some concernwas expressed at Tuesday's meeting over the drop in the number of students using the 'cafeteria., When the price was increased to 35 cents after .:Easter, number . of meals served dropped from around 300 to half that amount. Quite a few students bring their own lunches but an in* creasing number go down to pur+ chase meals from the restaurant. Members weren't happy about this situation since they suspect the students are buying confec- tionery instead of wholesome food. One member suggested the board might adopt a policy sim* ilar to another school which for- bids students from leaving Ithe grounds. The board agreed to paint six classrooms this summer and to purchase a bulk supply of birch from a mill up north for the shop. The board agreed to grant the town. of Exeter a 21 -foot strip of landalong the north side of Senior. St. to give the road i proper width. Wintermeyer here Stresses education policy in fast tour through riding Liberal Leader John Winter. out and bore a "wet paint" sign. meyer went through one of the Works chairman. James Bissett, busiest days of his vigorous cam- who is secretary of Huron Libe- paign, Thursday, speaking at ral Association, said his men did Goderich, Seaforth, Wingham, the work, but. under the three - Formosa and Mildmay. lion of Council, Mrs. May Moo - His chief topic for the day was ney, of the parks committee. Officials present At the head table hi thee pavi- lion, with Mr. Wintermeyer and the two area candidates, Harry Strang. Exeter, of Huron riding and Rae Watson, Lucknow. Hu- ron -Bruce riding, were Huron warden William Jewett, Mrs. Je- wett and Mayor and Mrs. E. C. Fisher, and Mrs. Strang. Mr, Wintermeyer said the Con- servative practice was to go around promising "a bridge here, a highway there." Only the Lib- eral party had brought forth a program, and. "if we develop it and let the people know what we propose to do, there will be no doubt about the result on June 11." "in Mr, Strang," he said, "you have a Man who has lived here all his life, who is familiar with rural and urban problems, and I am confident he can provide the type of representation you expect. "I am honored to return to Huron, where we fought a by- election about a year ago under conditions entirely different from `those today, Today the Liberal party is alive and moving for- ward, and I ant confident that Huron and Harry Strang will move forward with the Liberai the Liberal proposal to open up university education to all, re- gardless of ability to pay. This would he one of the major goals of a Liberal government,,he said. At Goclerich, he was met by town and county officials in a motorcade led by the Goclerich Girls Bell and Drum Band. A ceremony . in the Goderich park bandstand had been indi- cated earlier, but yesterday and today it was painted inside and party and the people of Ontario to restore responsible and Lib. Mal government on June 11." From Goderich the stumpings took a Itfr. Wintermeyer to a re• ception at the Clinton ..Legion Pall where, as in Seaforth and Godericb, he appeared Mt behalf of Huron candidate Harry Strang. Raps government Mr. Wintermeyetr, speaking at. ..r' L S TE -- T. Ray Connell, minister of ubl.lcn audi race of about aTAR7' DIGGING Al'ATr �C15PM A IZon y ., � ClintonC1>.nton to a . e . ni _ .... , . _ vi arrangements or"' 1:25, rapped ed the Conservatives for rev rks in the Ontario oat, visited the riding Monday to supervise.� i?l?__ , . ,. .. work i , laking erecht for the hospital in* Walk. at the mental hos ltal .hitt: 'heal' txodcii.ch. Above, he shows _ .. start of'drainage . , p . suiancc scheme and. the St. Law.. ground o,Charlie MacNau hton� Hutton member in the last legislature. �lauo.d pian to � 6 t+enre Saway, when, said Mr, `.A .Photo' Wintermeyer, they had eoutri- a buted "nothing of material eon* sequence to them." He said his platform includes financial aid to students; new highways throughout the pro- vince; a portable pension plan; a program to expand the cover- age for convalescents, the chro' nically i11, out-patient services and retarded children. Other speakers at Clinton were B. Beecher Menzies, Clinton president of the Huron Liberal Association, and Mayor Burton Stanley, who welcomed Mr, Win- termeyer, On the Hullett Township :farm of James Snell, near Clinton, be entered the riding of Huron- l3ruce, the constituency of Rae 3. Watson and from there hit Wingham. Formosa and Mild- may on his person-to-person street -corner campaign. At Mitchell he was met by an- other band and a motorcade which accompanied him to Strat- ford and the major meeting of the day in support of Perth riding candidate W. J. Keller - horn, aims Frost misled voters "'.the Diefenbaker government would not now be in power in Ottawa if it were not for Mr. Frost and the farm vote," Hon. Walter Harris, former minister Of finance, told a meeting of Lib- erals in Zurich community halt Monday evening in support el Harry Strang, the Liberal candy= date. The farmers were •disgruntled. with the parity prices provided by the Liberal gover`net and switched to the Conservatives in the last election With the under- standing that their condition would be improved, .."'They were e b y. d li b eratel _ .misled by the Coit. servailives," Mr. Harris said, "Inflation i5 shown rut ve>"y thing 'tha farmer' has to. buy, Please VIM. 'o Page