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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-07-02, Page 9EXETER GIRL TRI -COUNTY QUEEN—Marilyn Hamilton, 16, daughter. of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hamilton, Exeter, was crowned queen of Tri -County Youth for Christ at a banquet Saturday night in Wingham United, Church. More than 150 attended.. From left are Dr. Bern Corrin, Wingham, who presented the Youth for Christ Bible; Miss Noreen Martin, Guelph, last year's queen, who did the crowning; Miss Hamilton and Laurie Stuckey, Wingham, 1959 King. M -M -MMM THEY'RE GOOD—These children haven't time to watch the photographer as they eat fresh peas at the local plant of Canadian Canners Ltd., now in full pro- duction. From left are Judith Lister, Sharon Baynham, Tina Peacock with John Pea- cock in the buggy. Clayton Sanders fills the inners. Plant manager Don Graham says the crop is "exceptionally good." —T -A. Photo Prornote four of five pupils at South Huron high school Slightly more than four out of five students at SHDHS have been promoted, Principal H. L. Sturgis announced this week. Percentage of passing, he said, was similar to other. years. Pupils are listedin grades ac* cording in standing. First class honors represent an average 'be- tween 75 and 100; second class, 65 to'74; third class, 60 to 64; credit, 50 to 59. GRADE 12. First class honors Paula Boulianne, Dennis Cann, David Dueharme, Elizabeth God - (lard, Jane Horton, William Mar- shall, Marion Turkheim, Second class horrors Brian Ailey, Jean Alexander Roxanne Beavers, William Coc- ker, Sandra rinkbeiner, Mari- lyn Hamilton, Douglas Jermyn, Donald Kyle, Jean Noakes, Leo - nerd Pickering, Audrey Richard- son, Margaret Smillie, Sandra Walper. ' Third class homers Wayne Bowen, Madeline Cor• riveau, Mona Desjardine, Glen Grebi Louise Hockey, Keith Hod. gins, :Mary Page, Robert Skin. tier, Gordon Strang, Eleanor Tay. lar, Mary Lou. Witmer, Credit Monica Charrette, Patricia. Coo- per Marion rleisehatier, Carol Gill', Erie. lay, Judy Kellet, Do - rally Kerslake, Peter Kuzmiek, ,fames. Russell, Marcia Smith, Smith. mith. Partial cremation The .felloWin.g students, hove Credit for 3tibjeets listed after their name, Stanley Dt sj'ardifie Mitt, Lat), , Matt JE<inkbeiner 'CChC% chop)', e Ralph Finkheiner (Eng, Hist,f Geom, Chem), Janet Gascho (Eng, HoEc), Ruth. Haberer (Eng Lat, Fr), Marion Heckman. (Comm, HoEc), Jean Henderson (Eng, Hist, Chem, I.at), Wayne Horner. (Hist, Geom, Shop), James King (Jfiist, Chem, Lat, Fr), Merle Knohlaugh (Eng, )list, Phys), Robert Prang (Geom, Chem), Ellis Stewart (Eng), Gordon Strang (Eng, Hist:, Chem), Bob Taggart (Eng, Hist, Chem, XI Hist, Phys), Bob Westlake (Hist, Comm.), Louis Willert( Hist, . Fr), Paul Yung- blut (Hist, Geom, Shop). GRADE 11 First class honors -Steve Benning, Grant Evans, Norma Geiger, fuze Gulens, Da- vid Noakes, Peggy McLaughlin, Sharon Smillie, Cornelia Ver- kerk. Second class honors Brenda Becker, Douglas I3us- sche, Martha Cochrane, Mars' Cr.eces, Fred Desjardine, Elaine Grenier. Barbara Hodgson, .Jim Hyde, Carol Johns, Carol McCur- dy, Danny Moore, Bill. Parker, Norma Passmore, .Jim Rader, Ross Rowe, Edith Scott, Glenn School results in this edition Peombiion resulfs cis` ninny ditteicf'public iidheels bppeiir' this issue. the •Bzeter list is en page S, Credifert, 10; 'beshweed, 13; Lueen, 14. 0' thorn rirtitt' Olt 00e3 1, 10t Sharpe, Ralph Wareham, Marga- ret Webber. Third class honors Jean Bullock, Reg Finkbeiner, Judith Foster, .Bernice Grainger, —.Please turn to page 2' Eighty -Second Year elliT I EXETER, ONTARIO, JULY 2, 1959 Price Per Copy '1Q ,Conte Report widespread support for petit........• ion to repeal CTA Buying power climbs in prosperous Huron (Special to The Times.Advocate) Huron County maintained its standing during the past year as an above-average market. Despite the fact that the time was one of national business re- cession, the county was able to turn in a good performance, with its income and retail business held at a high level. The local data is contained in a copyrighted survey of buying power, just released by Sales Management. Every part of Can- ada and the United. States is covered. Earnings were high in Huron County during the year, it shows, After deduction of personal taxes, local residents had a net spend- able income of $50,715,000, a gain over the $46,316,000 of the prev- ious year. How much this amounted to, on a per household basis, was determined by dividing the total income by the number of house- holds, 1t came to $3,359 per unit, The income gain in. the year was 9.5 percent, which was greater than the rise in the Dominion as a whole, 7.]. per- cent per household. In the Prov- ince of Ontario there was a 4,2 percent rise. In Huron County, the public optimism that prevailed was of benefit. to local merchants. Al- though buyers were cautious and refused to go into debt for luxury items, they did not cut down in the way people did in many other communities. Retail business, as a result, was good, with local. stores gross- ing $52,101,000 in the year. The volume was $50,378,000 in 1957. The real pickup began in the last quarter. Since. then business PUC lauds emloyees In reply to criticism expressed in town council meeting recent- ly, the PUC has recommended its employees for "a very effi- cient job" in the installation of new water mains. Two weeks ago Councillor Ross Taylor complained. the PUC left open an installation ditch on Simcoe and. Edward. streets for three weeks, causing inconveni- ence to residents in this section. He indicated he had received a number of protests from house- holders. In a letter to PUC Sup't H. L. Davis an.d.:bis staff, a copy of which was forwarded to The T=A PUC Chairman L. J. Penhale stated: "The Commission made a stu- dy of this matter and. we are sa- tisfied that our staff has done a very efficient job and every ef- fort was made, by working over- time, to gets these, installations completed in the shortest time possible. "The commission wishes to thank our staff for its efforts in the recent water. installations." Mr. Penhale revealed trenches Lor both the Sanders -Edward street: and the Andrew street mains were dug on June 4 and both were filled in on June 19, a period of 12 working days, Dur- ing this same period,• the staff installed three new services, re- placed two others and repaired two breaks in six-inch mains, in addition to regular duties. The staff, he said, worked a total of 134 hours overtime in order to have the mains installed in. time for council's road oiling program. All interruptions in water service were made during the early morning to avoid in - !convenience convenience to consumers. Launch phone survey n inGB exchange area A house-to-house survey of the representative makes his call, Grand Bend Central exchange Naturally, cable and central of - area to determine the equipment fice equipment will be ordered needed for the proposed cutover in a size greater than the anti - to dialis being made by the Hay cipated requirements. However, Municipal. Telephone, System, it as is often the case, any surplus was announced this week by Sec- facility might very well be de- retary Reginald G. Black, Zur- plated by additional requests for ich, service between the date of ori- The system recently appointed ginal survey and actual. cutover. T. Harry Hoffman, Dashwood, to For this reasons users are re"' quested by the system to be sure 'theyr are when ther- s sur- vcy vcy man calls. "Mr. 1-loffnian, who is fully conversant with the system's plans and policy, will be pre- pared• to answer question and give information as to the type Of service which willbe available and the rate thereof, "Non-residents who niay wish to apply for service and who are not present when the survey is proceeding,should apply at the office of the sys'teni in Zurich. "lir. Hoffman begins his sur• vey near tie farm of Elgin Hen- drick and will proceed southto the Grated Pend village area, It is anticipated the survey will be. Completed during the summer Months. e make the survey. in 11 i. s announcement, Mr, Black said: "The survey, which begins im- mediately, is designed to com- plete the original application for each property owner in the area for service effective at time of conversion to dial. When com- pleted it will provide the systeee with pertinent information as to how much service and the type of service which Will • be required at time of cutover. This informa- tion will be the system's guide wheft it subsequently orders cable and dial equiptneit. "The System," the anrlotliic& nient continued, ''Cats Only glib fanteeSSeeeled et C'tltover„date of the iiatitr e• applied Mr when the has been moving forward and 'is !now setting out toward new high ground, A yardstick of each commu- nity's rate of business activity, in relation to its full potential, is given in the survey through a buying power index".This is a weighted figure based on pop- ulation, retail volume and buy- ing power. Huron County is given an in- dex rating of .2798, which is the percent of the nation's retail business that night be accounted for locally. Since the volume last year was larger than that, .3452 per- cent, the answer is that the local market is a trading hub for a wide area around it, Exeter girl YEC„queen M A 16-yearold Exeter girl Ma- rilyn Ha>Iijal.!'on, was chosen Tie - County Yoiith. kr. Christ queen at a :banquet in Wingham United Church Saturday night. She was seleeted from among 14,000 high school students and members of seven Bible clubs in three counties on the basis of activity in church work and scholastic ,achievement. Daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Ge- rald. Hamilton, Marilyn: was crowned in a ceremony wit- nessed by 150 persons at.the. banquet. She received. a Youth For Christ bible and a dozen red roses. Named king was a Wingham boy, Laurie Stuckey. A grade 1.2 student: at SHDHS, Marilyn' has been 'promoted to g§do ].3 'with second class hon- or3ti ” • She has just com.pleted a term as president of. SHDHS Bible Club, which has a membership of 43. She is also an active mem- ber .of the young people's group at Exeter Pentecostal Church. The queen's parents were among those who witnessed the crowning. Others from this area included. Mr. and. Mrs. Morley Hall, town, and Mr, and Mrs. Edgar Cudmore, RR 1 Exeter. The Hamilton family moved to Exeter six years ago. Mr. Ham- ilton .is accountant at: Guenther Tuckey Transports Ltd. Swear in q'ua'd to Exeter force Lloyd Hodgins, 32, a former guard at the Guelph reforma- tory, will join Exeter's police force at the end of this week. He was sworn in Thursday. A native of Biddulph, he is the son of the late Leonard Hodgins, Bid.dulph, and Mrs. Hodgins, now living in London. Mrs. Gerald McFalls, Huron street, is a sister. Mr. :Hodgins fills the vacancy left by the resignation of alobert Aitkins. who accepted a chief constable's position at Thames- ville in June. Request approval of revised bylaw Ausable Authority has submit- ted a revised bylaw for approval of district municipalities in its efforts to secure federal govern- ment .participation in the con- struction of the million -dollar Parkhill dam. Ottawa originally requested municipalities to' restrict con- struction of all types in areas af- feeted by former floods.' Because of objections from landowners in Bosanquet, the bylaw was amended to restrict all but individual buildings nec- essary for the operation of a farm, including residence, Bosanquet will consider the bylaw at a council meeting Mon- day. Both West Williams and McGillivray townships have ap- proved the bylaw; Stephen town- ship has indicated it would also okay it. If federal participation is se- cured, it will mean that 75 per- cent of the cost will, be shared by Ottawa and Queen's Park, Where to find . t Announcements 1S Church Notices 15 Coming Events 15 Editorials 4 Farm Newt 9 Feminine Facie 12 'Mensal( 5 Leukine In With )Vit ..,.,, le' r Lucen .,.,.,. 14 Spor13 WentAde .................w.�.....:x� YOUTH CHARGED — Fourteen - year -old Steven Truscott, Clin- ton, was formally charged Tues- day with the slaying of school- mate Lynne Harper, 12, follow- ing Juvenile fudge Dudley Hol- mes' ruling that he be tried in an adult,court..He will. appear in magistrate's court, Goderich, on July 3 to hear the charge. Pre- liminary hearing of the murder charge was tentatively schedul- ed'for Friday, July 10, and Mon- day, July 13, Canvassers who started this week to circulate in Huron county a petition requesting a vote on the Canada Temperance Act are receiving heavy support in some areas, it was reliably reported Wednesday. "The percentage of signers is amazing,” stated John E, Huc- kins, councillor and former mayor of Goderich, who is c h a i r m a n of the sponsoring group, Huron Citizens' Legal Committee. One canvasser in Hay town- ship, ownship, he revealed, got 50 signers in 54 calls, 1n. Goderich, another man received 80 names in one block. Officially the canvass started Monday, although in Hay some men were out Saturday. No the open. The names of the members of the committee will be announced as soon as its formation is completed." Assisting Huckins is Eric An- derson, Toronto,. who is a con. sultant on local option associat. ed with the Brewers Warehous- ing Company. He was active h the repeal of the CTA in Mani- toulin Island and Peel county, in 1950 and '51, Both men have been to Ot- tawa to confer with officials of the federal government to iron out the mechanics of the vote. When the committee obtains the requirednumber of signa- tures, the petition will be filed with the county registrar of deeds and public notices publish. ed to that effect, It willthen be action is expected• in Exeter forwarded to the Secretary of until the and of this week. State of Canada, Hon, Henri Councillor Huckins stated the committee hopes to have the Courtem anche. If the petition is approved, required 7,500 names — one- quarter of the number of voters in the last federal, election—by the middle of July. It is expect- ed most .of the required number will be obtained in towns :tn the county but the committee will move into the townships if necessary. The canvass came as a corn - pike surprise to most people, since no public announcement of the move had been made. "We have been working quietly over the past 'few weeks getting or- ganized but we are now pre- pared to bring everything into Six Centralia officers ranted promotions Six Centralia officers received University of Toronto and re- joined. the medical branch of the RCAF in 1953. At present, he is pharmacist medical sup- plies officer at Centralia. Fit. Lt. Harker, of. Magrath, Alta. saw service with 419 Moose Squadron during the war and. re- enlisted in the RCAF in June 1951. Priorto coming to Cen- tralia, he was a flying instructor at Claresholm, Alta. A member of the staff of PTS, he resides in Buren Park. Flt. Lt. Watson, Toronto, served in the RCAF as an ob- server during= World War two. He re-enlisted in the accounts branch in 1953, and lives with his family in Huron Park. He will shortly leave for Winnipeg. promotions and four were grant- ed perm.anenl: commissions in the mid. -year promotion list at RCAF Centralia this week. Awarded the rank of Squadron Leader was F/L D. A. Dolan, Ottawa,. ' director of language training at RCAF Station Cen- tralia: ° Five promoted to Flight Lieu- tenant were F0. R.. A. Caske, F0. R. D. Fabbro, P0. C. S. Horrell, F0. W. S. Harker and FO. J. H. Watson. Permanent commissions were granted F0. P. Giles, F0. T. 3. M. M. Trudeau, F0. J. D. Thom- as and. F0. D. F, C. Garland, all flying instructors in, Primary Training School. Sqdn. Ldr. Dolan enlisted . in the RCAF in 1942. After the war he instructed at St. Patrick's College and Carleton University and obtained his master of arts degree in political science. He re-enlisted in the RCAF in 1948 and prior coming 'to Cen- tralia was attached to RCAF headquarters in. Ottawa. He and his family reside in Huron Park. Flt. Lt. Caskie, Toronto, is a flying instructor in the PTS. Single, he joined the RCAF in 1952. Flt. Lt. Fabbro, Winnipeg, Is an air observer with PTS. He was a meimber of. 440 CF -100 Squadron at Bagotville and an instructor at 2AOS Winnipeg be- fore comingrto Centralia, He re- sides in Huron Park. Fit. Lt, Horrell, Windsor, also residing in. Huron Park, served as a wireless air gunner in Europe and the middle East during the war. He obtained his, Bachelor of Pharmacy at the SQDN, LDR. D. A. DOLAN F/L R. D. FABBO F/L W. S. HARKER IF/LHORRELL F/14 . WAYSON the gov't is required to issue as order in councilauthorizing the chief election officer to conduct a vote, regulations of which are identical to those applicable in a federal by-election. A straight majority vote in required for the repeal of the CTA. "My TA- "My principal reason for or- ganizing this campaign is to put a curb on juvenile drinking in Huron county," explained Huc- kins. "Under. the CTA, there is no control but under the Liquor Control .Act of. Ontario police have the authority to do some- thing about it. I find many people, particularly parents, are disturbed about the situation." In. Hensall, canvasser Jim Sangster reported over 240 had signed the petition in two days and he still had a considerable portion to contact. He expected lo get a totalof at least 350, "The public are fed up with the CTA," he said. "They want something done about it." "When I ranfor council in Goderich this year I made it clear. that I intended to do, something about the CTA if 1 was elected. I was encouraged by the fact that: I placed third in the election for council, This' indicated to me there was strong support in Goderich," Huckins was mayor of Gode- rich for six years. Anderson, who has been as- sociated with many liquor votes in the province, explained the situationwhich would apply the CTA was repealed. Municipalities would revert to the status they held prior to the introductionof the CTA, he stated. Exeter and Clinton were dry by .local option; the other towns were wet. In Exeter and Clinton, no out- let of any kind could he operat- ed without a vote. In the other areas, however, including Hensall and Zurich, the Ontario gov't could author- ize the operation of government liquor stores and brewer's retail stores and issue licences to pat- riotic organizations such as the Legion, without a vote, However, no hotel or tavern could be granted a licence without a vote resulting in a three-fifths ma- jority in favor. United Church presbytery in Huron, representing the largest religious group in the county, is definitely opposed to replac- ing the CTA with. the Ontario LCA, incoming chairman Dr. J. Semple, Seaforth, said Wellness day. "The presbytery as a whole is opposed to any change," he stated. He noted, however, that Huron Presbytery United Church Men, a laymen's group, has re. quested Ottawa to make amend+ ments to the CTA to make at more effective. Dr. Semple said presbytery officials were not aware that the petition had been launched.. As a result, it has not taken any official action. He indicated a specialmeeting may be called to consider this latest move. Rev, W. F. Krotz, Dashwood, chairman of. the Huron County Temperance Federation, was not available for comment. He is moving to a new charge At Golden Lake, Huckins indicated he had ape proached numerous public rep- resentatives in urban centres in the county and had been given encouragement by most, Many, he indicated, planned to commit themselves in favor of the re- peal of the act. ..---Please turn to page S Guard purse, police warn Families pianii.itig to the die. Wet centres to see the Queen should beware of pick pockets, Constable+., C 1i1 Gibbons of tho local OPP detaclielent warns, 11;,eports revealan„, o'r.ganizec gang is operating or the grounds at the various :functions at which. the Queen 'appears. Some of the operators are women and said to be Amerieaii. In: one town alone, the sum of $4,000 is said to have been te, ported stolen by pick pockets, Operation et tibia is alleged rte be by nasals. tleen a selling buttons,- ietereof the the ed Pring Philip,, R c