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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-10-15, Page 1HEAD STUDENT GOVERNMENT—Officers of the new student council at SHDHS are making plans for activities this coming year. They were chosen by ballot in a recent election at the school. Seated are Martha Cochrane, president, and Ross Rowe, secre- tary, Behind them are Brenda Becker, left, publicity director, and Joan Guenther, treasurer. —T -A Photo Minist�rs prefer CTA if amendments possible Controversy over the liquor, situation in Huron and Perth! counties has started in earnest launch as officials la ch preparations' for the CTA vote on November' 30. The county organization sup- porting the CTA, although irked at the suddenness of the refer- endum, began its campaign this week with statements to the newspapers. A number of churches in the area have already taken stands on the issue but some, particul- arly those with recently -appoint- ed ministers, plan to study the legislation thoroughly b e f o r e making their positions- public. Prepare voters' list Preparation of . ists*of voters will start October 26 and both sides will share the appointment of the enumerators. Each group will also appoint .one-half of the other officials requiredfor the vote. Although not a public meeting, one of the first debates on the question will take place in Ex- eter Monday night at a meeting of the AOTS Men's Club of James Street United Church, John Huckins, Goderich, chair- man of the legal committee, will speak for repeal while Rev. A. E. Eustace, also of Goderich, will present the pro -CTA argu- ment. Although the vote is still a month and one-half away, The Times -Advocate took 'a poll of district ministers this week to get their reaction to the contro- versy. Views of clergy Evangelist L, Winn -Butler, of Exeter Pentecostal Church: 'We have not had a discussion on it in our church but our folks know where we stand. We do not favor increasing the outlets for liquor and we are therefore in favor of retaining the CTA." Rev. R. S. Hiltz, Main St. United Church: "Being rather new to this area, we have not made up our minds yet but we intend to give the situation a thorough study. The CTA has been good legislation but it is now isolated in this area. In appealing the CTA, we would come under Ontario's Liquor control system of which I am not in favor." Rev. S. E. Lewis, James St, United •Church: ,"I have taken it up with the session because I feel it is the sort of question the church can not stand aside from. However, we have not reached Hunter faces charge here A charge has been laid against a London hunter for shooting a duck on the posted area surrounding the Morrison dam in Usborne township. The prosecution results from stricter supervision of the re- servoir as a wild bird sanctu- ary by Ausable Authority and local game officials, "We are really clamping down," said" Ficldman HIal Hooke, who revealed the, charge had been laid. "Ducks and geese have started to use the pond as a stopping point and we don't want them scared away." He felt hunting in other areas of the Watershed would be imx proved if the Morrison reservoir was protected, "If We get large, flocks corning here they \viii over .f 1 o w . into neighboring. ponds," he said. L5isd0 rheas along the site have agreed to have their farms posted to prohibit shoot. ing, Daily patrols of the area are being made by game and Autho- rity officials. The Authority ' has 'planted . stain along the banks to pro. Wait loud for the migrating fowl, a decision yet. I intend to deal with it from the pulpit at the time," No restrictions According to Mrs. Brcn De- vries, wife of the rector of Trivitt Memorial Anglican Church, "there is no restriction on drinking or smoking' in our church. I personally think con- ditions would be much better under the LCA • than they are now. The people in our con- gregation are at liberty to make up their own' minds on the question and I have no doubt there will be some who are op- posed to repeal." Mr. Devries is attending a conference at Kitchener and was not available for comment. • WINS BURSARY — Miss Anna Hodgins, RN, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hodgins, RR 3 Park- hill, has been awarded a $1,400 national health grant bursary to attend University of Western On- tario for one year to study nursing education. •On comple- tion, she will return to Wood- stock General Hospital to teach. She is a graduate of SHDHS and Woodstock hospital. Await tests in hit -run Police are awaiting results of laboratory tests to continue their investigation into the hit -run. fatality on the Bluewater high- way on October 3. PC D. M. Westover, in charge Of the investigation, reports no charges had been laid but the detachment is tracing a number of leads. An appeal has been made to the public to offer any informa- tion available in connection with the accident which killed Wil- liam Charles Anstay, 20, Gode- rich. He was struck from behind by an unknown car while he was struggling along the highway in search of medical assistance for injuries received when his own car crashed into an orchard shortly before. Where to • find it Announcements '19 Church Notices 19 Coming Events - 19 Editorials 4 Farm News 11, 12 Feminine Farts ,,,,,,,.,,,, 14, 15 Mensal! 6, 9 Looking In With Liz 3 Lutafl ii Sperfs 0, 9 Wanf Ada ................................ 13 Rev. A, M. Schlenker, Zion EUB Church, Crediton: "I want to study the question first. I understand the CTA is difficult to enforce but it could be im- proved with amendments." Rev. A. G. Van Eek, Christian Reformed Church: "I favor re- taining the CTA, particularly if it can be amended. It seems to be agreed that it is a laughing stock as it is now but with amendments it could be quite effective. I think it is a false notion to suggest that people will Clot drink if it is brought out in the open. This is similar to suggesting that crime would de- crease if there were not laws against it. Stigma to excessive drinking "The social attitude toward drinking in Canada is much dif- ferent than it is in Holland, where most of my people were born. There, there was. a stigma attached to excessive drinking which does not seem to exist here. Our people think nothing of having a bottle of beer, for example, but they would not think of drinking to excess. Here, it seems, the social drink degenerates into debauchery. "There is a difference in the attitude of the church, too. Here, in some denominations, you are judged as a Christian on whether you drink or not. Our people don't understand that. Drink does not enter their faith." Rev. Kenneth Zorn, • Zion Luth- eran Church, Dashwood: "I do not intend to take a stand. The members of our congregation — Please turn to page 3 Auto show this Friday Exeter Kinsmen will pre- sent their second annual auto show in Exeter arena this Friday night. Close to 30 models are ex- pected to be on display to the public. Some expensive mod- ' els may be included said one club official. Proceeds from the event will aid Kinsmen service work. Plan ceremony to open new PS Official opening of the new central school in McGillivray township will be held Friday evening, October 23, it was an- nounced this week. Guest speaker will be George A. Pearson, BA, superintendent of elementary education for On- tario, Classrooms in the neW building will be open for public inspec- tion. Eighty -Second Year EXETER, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 15, 1959 Pirko Per 'Copy 19 Coots Radio, it strum.e,nts cut ilot wins ciou.d battle to Iand•safely at C E New CTA committee opposes repeal action As result of a petition pre. sented to the Secretary of State same time ago, asking repeal of the Canada Temperance Act in Huron, the federal authorities have called a vote for November 30. Chairman of Huron CTA Com- mittee, rank R. Howson of Wing - ham, issued the following state- ment: "Insofar as our committee is concerned, information as to the vote came from the newspapers: It finds supporters of the act without completed organization and little time to set one up and appoint their share (one-half) 'of the election officials. "There has been some confu- sion as to the issue itself, and some misinformation, so that it is desirable to restate briefly certain facts. The Canada Tem- perance Act is not prohibition; it o p o , permits the bringing of liquor into the county by common car- rier or by an individual for per- sonal or family use. It does for- bid the sale or exposure for sale of any intoxicating liquor with- in the county. It discourages drinking by making access to liquor less convenient. This is important in relation to forma- tion of the habit by young peo- ple. "Advocates of CTA repeal have reiterated that the act, passed many years ago at Ottawa, is `outmoded.' The implication is that the Liquor Control Act of Ontario is not outmoded. News- Truck flips, man injured One man was taken to London hospital with undetermined in- juries Wednesday afternoon after a station wagon crashed into a loaded gravel truck at the inter- section of. No. 4 and the Kirkton road. Calvert Boam, 46, London, suf- fered leg and chest injuries. Driver of the truck, owned by Sam Sweitzer, Exeter, was Tom Rees, 20, RR 3 Ailsa Craig. He was not injured. Rees, westbound on the Kirk - ton road, said brakes on his truck failed as he approached the intersection. Boam's station wagon, travelling north, rolled the truck on its top, spilling gravel -over the highway and into the ditch. The wagon end- ed up in the northwest corner. PC Cecil Gibbons of Exeter investigated. Passenger injured One passenger required hospi- tal attention and damage ex- ceeded $250 when a car and pickup truck collided at the cor- ner of Main and Huron streets Tuesday at 6,15 p.m. An eastbound truck on Huron street, driven by Garfield Thomson, 51, Exeter, was struck by a northbound car owned by James B. Miller ,27, RCAF Centralia. Don Cowen, a passenger in the Miller car, suffered injuries to his right hand which required treatment at South Huron Hos- pital Miller and another pas- senger, Roy Ewmett, received minor head injuries. Failed to make turn Peter Jeffery, RR 2 Zurich, lost control of his car when he was making a left hand turn off No. 84 about a mile east of 21 Saturday night. The vehicle rolled over in the ditch, suf- fering $200 damage. Smashes through fence Five posts and 80 feet of fence Were knocked down Saturday evening on the Crediton road near No. 4 when Peter Stinson, 22, RR 1 Melancthon, went into the ditch, Total damage amounted to $250. On Thursday, a car driven by Harold Ross Parsons, 28, Exe- ter, went through the dead end of Huron street at the B-line in Stephen 'township. Damage was estimated at $75. Would juniors swap farm truck for wife? Do South Huron Junior Farm.i ors concede that a farm truck is more valuable than a wife? That's the way it might ap- pear but i1: isn't really so, says President Barry Jeffrey, "We would have liked to de- bate that question because it would have been interesting but we couldn't get" team to enter the competition, the juniors president _said. Stith Huron was to have de' bated the rather explosive topic: "Resolved that a farm truck is More valuable than a wife", with 1-lowiok juniors tires Friday night at the county. debating contest „at Soaferth. Fortunately, South Huron had been given the negative side, thereby avoiding e:tposure to pots, pans and other movable kitchen equip. intent, However, Howittt juniors were 'prepared to take the risk in pre- senting the affirmative position. Two other topics will be dis- cussed by the county clubs. Col- wariosh will take the affirmative and North 1-luron the negative on the question of abolition of floor prices for farm products, Clinton and Seaforth clube will debate the topic. Ontario farnis should be .larger, Another fall event sponsored by the county juniors Will be their annual church service set for October 25 m Egmondvilie United Churoh when Dr, Sempletermer ' will be the"speaker, The juinioi' terme ` Choir Will sing. papers all over Ontario contain news headings on items about a week than Huron in a month,' and that Huron should not vote out the Canada Temperance Act 'under the delusion that the LCA will automatically rid the come ty of bootlegging, excessive drinking and drinking by min. ors.' "Certain provisions of the Li- quor Control Act complement the CTA and would assist en- forcement if applied. These were in fact applicable at one time, but under a former Ontario Gov- ernment this valuable aid was withdrawn, Effort h a s been made and will be' continued to have the present premier of On- tario consent to remove this dis- ability. But even as things stand, the committee feels strongly that Huron is best served by the temperance act, rather than the so-called liquor control act, with its provisions for eight different types of sale. "The public will be told that numerous liquor outlets would not necessarily be established in this county immediately on re- peal of the CTA. The fact is that liquor stores and brewer's ware- houses could be authorized at once, without a further vote — and does anyone seriously sug- gest that they would not? The trade is impatient to gain this territory,. now largely protected by the Canada Temperance Act. "Peel, a county somewhat similar to Huron, and formerly under the CTA, repealed it, and now under the Liquor Control Act outlets in Brampton, Bolton, Streetsville and three town- ships, one of the latter with nine. Some of these outlets have re- sulted from municipality votes, but a number of beer outlets were opened, without a vote. "Huron has a good record in Pronouncements upon restrictive legislation. It gave 2,608 majo- rity for the' Canada Temperance. Act in 1914, almost 12,000 for the Ontario Temperance Act (a pro- hibitory law) and when the beer, and wine amendments of 1934 were put through the legislature, both Huron members voted against them. "If all the facts can be ade- quately presented before polling day, the Canada Temperance Act should receive decisive en- dorsement, through a majority of votes against revocation." The county organization sup-, porting retention of the Canada Temperance Act will campaign under the name of Huron CTA Committee: • This name was chosen at a meeting in Wesley -Willis church, Clinton, when preliminary steps teen-age drinking, purchase by minors, raids on drinking par- ties and so on — all under the liquor control act. HEADS ASS'N—Ross Tuckey, of Turkey Beverages Ltd., Exeter, was elected president of the Ontario Carbonated Beverages A. USAF jet pilot from Mary- 39,000 feet, guided only by brief land wen a hair-raising battle! glimpses of the moon, to get out with the clouds Tuesday night' of the cloud formation, when he landed at RCAF Station! Using only a magnetic corn- Centralia, some 500 miles from pass, he steered roughly a north - his destination. Iwest course, hoping to avoid the His radio and instruments un- i great lakes and waiting for a serviceable, the U.S. airman'. break in the clouds. brought his T-33 trainer down! It came over London, when he safely after spotting the CE , saw the lights of the city, Sec. beacon through a lucky break onds later, he spotted the CE in the clouds. ; beason. He made one pass over the station to alert the tower, then came in on the circuit to end his two-hour ordeal, Centralia pilots, many of whom have flown T -33's, said Helens must have had a great deal of difficulty trying to control the aircraft. plane to hurtle to the ground, "He had a pretty close shave," perhaps in the thick of a popu- lated area. Major Willard B. Helms left the Andrews airport base in Maryland at 7.15 standard time Tuesday night for the Belleville base in Illinois. About an hour after take -off, wen he RCAF officials, who said the pilot must have had an "ex- tremely rough time", praised his skill in handling the aircraft without navigation aids at night, Had he not spotted the beacon, his only alternative would have been to bail out, leaving the said one officer, New equipment and a repair crew were being flown in from Maryland to service the aircraft Wednesday. West Virginia, his radio gave out ft h wae out Claim assault and the plane's generator began to fail., Hefl tturn ofall over wo m a n Association at a convention in electrical equipment to preserve Hamilton last week. He is also his- battery. a member of the board of direct- At this point he was flying at ors of the national association. 28,000 feet. He had to climb to 9 CamP ai n for No. 84 includes massp rotest? may not be legally binding. According to one spokesman, principal reasons for opposition to the reversion are the mainte- nance problem and the loss of recognition to the area. The officials say the county dep't does not have the equip- ment nor the staff to service the highway particularly in winter time. If the road was not kept free of snow and ice it would provide a considerable hazard to the heavy truck traffic on the highway. The other point of contention, particularly for Zurich citizens, is that the village would no longer be on a provincial high- way and it would lose the pres- tige this service embodies. Zurich and Hensall officials, described as "unhappy" over their meeting last week with the county road committee have made further plans to continue their campaign to prevent No. 84 highway , reverting to the county road system. A mass public protest meet- ing may be called as a last re- sort if other methods fail. Huron MLA C. S. MacNaugh- ton will be consulted by a com- mittee shortly and a 'delegatino may be sent the minister of highways. Officials of the Chambers of Commerce of both villages were told by the county roads com- mittee that a bargain had been made with the.province to take No. 84 into the county system after it had been paved and im- proved. The committee felt it was morally bound to honor the agreement., Zurich and Hensall officials, however, found the agreement was not made in writing and Dep't approves addition to PS Ontario Department of Edu- cation has given tentative ap- proval to the proposed $60,000 three-room addition to Exeter Public School. Tlie okay arrived Wednesday, Inspector G. J. Geman revealed. The board must now secure "The Chatham News said edi-i the approval of town council to — Please turn to page 3 proceed with plans. A woman can cause peen trouble even when she's thou- sands of miles away. That was revealed this week when police arrested two men on charges of common assault causing bodily injury to a third man, all of them recent immi- grants from Belgium. Principal cause of the alleged offence, according to police, was a girl in Belgium, over whom the men argued. In county jail at Goderich are Walter Meerschman and Lucet Vereecke, both 26, of no fixed address, who were apprehended near Kirkton. Victim was Andre Van Kerr Brouck, 36, RR 1 Centralia, who was attacked in his home. }Ie lives on one of the 'Ellerington farms in Usborne township, Furniture stolen from cottage Police report a quantity of fur- niture stolen from a cottage near Turnbull's grove, on Lake Huron. Thieves removed a chair, chest of drawers, clock, blan- kets and lainps from the sum- mer hone of David Gowdy, Strathroy. ARCA slashes .budget for winter work here One gov't body which at- tempted to co-operate with the federal winter works program last year has found it doesn't pay. The Ausable . Authority has slashed the budget for its win- ter program from $17,000 to $5,000 and even that amount is conditional on suitable projects and weather. The Authority attempted to provide as much work as pos- sible last winter when the plea went out for gov't bodies to help in relieving unemployment. Fe- deral and provincial authorities tENIOR CITIZENS APARTMENT HOUSE OPENS—First building ..of its type in this area . the Whilsmith apartment house for scout citizens is now being occupied. Loot- ed .i. , t. the building houses six self-contained , units ed between Andrew and Senior streets, �' . , .. i.y . e of the first occupants,enjoys a visit for elderly people, above, Altos Darling, ori . o.. is ._ ., e.room livingroom, from his daughter,. Mrs, Charles Snell. The 'units contarrr a bedroom, oo , , kitchen alcove ltild bathroom and a central laundry room is shared by the occupants, u more units dans to' provide shuffleboard court O�vnet' Art 'Whr15i>lrth may add four , pp . ..s and &n, a . .� , .` `YA Photo' beneb.es and landscaped groulYds fol the telial�ts offered grants to offset the cost of the work. However, Authority officials decided that, even with the grants, it was costing thein more to tackle the projects in the winter than it would have in the summer season, Seek OMB approval Ontario Municipal Board now has been asked to approve the restrictive bylaws passed by mu- nicipalities in the flood lands of the river. This is the legislation required by the federal gov't before it would consider financial aid to the building of the Parkhill dam. All townships have agreed to the restriction. However, the picture took e. somewhat dimmer hue this' week whenthe federal gov't re- fused to increase wage scales for members of the civil ser- vice, Finance Minister Fleming in- dicated the governments finail- tial position would not permit it to assume the extra cost. This could mean the gov't would not be prepared to launch a grant program to assist in the financing of conservation pro- jects across the nation. Hay to reconsider SHDHS addition Hay township council, which, has yet to approve the $160,000 addition to South Huron District High School, will consider the proposal again at a meeting Thursday night, according to. Reeve V. L. Becker. Some members of council, he said, felt the estimated cost of the addition far too high but the proposal had not been given fall consideration. He expected a decision would be reached Thursday night. Couples delayed by western snow Mr. and Mrs, Fred Dobbs and Mayor and Mrs. R. E. Pooley, who are on a trip to the West have been held up on their re- turn owing to stow storms. Mr. and 1,frs, Dobbs were stranded in Saskatoon Sunday owing to about ten inches of. snowfall. Mr. Dobbs was on a business trip having purchased two ear loads of feeder cattle. Mr. and Mrs. Pooley have been visiting with. Mr. Orvillex le Hagerman an... family at Regina, The two families planned to return OA Other' when their trip Was de- rayed through the storm,