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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-11-19, Page 1191 Lawyer's stand Serious n.istake to retain CTA Elmer D. Ben, QC, Exeter, produced a bottle of "liquor" in a church basement at Brus- sels Thursday night to show the "intolerable situation" created Iv the Canada. Temperance Act. "It's perfectly legal for me to have this bottle in the church and to .drink the liquor, too," he explained. "The GTA: provides. no control over the .Consumption of liquor," While the bottle was authentic, its contents were not, Mr. Bell explained that be had filled it with. tea. The Exeter lawyer was a member of a two-man panel dis- cussing the issues in the Novem- ber 30 vote on the CTA. It was the feature .of a program which marked the twentieth anniver- sary of Majestic Women's Insti- tute. Hugh C. McConnell, fieldman of the Ontario Temperance Fe- deration, represented the CTA committee and the moderator was Vaughan Douglas CKNK. "The people of Huron county will make a serious mistake if they do not get rid of the CTA on November 30," Mr. Bell stated "In my opinion it is the worst piece of legislation ever devised in Canada. We cannot afford to have this act any lon- ger on the statute books." Mr. McConnell did not agree: "To• forsake the CTA and ac- cept LCA would be jumping from the frying pan into the fire, We feel the CTA has done for Huron what the LCA has failed to do in the rest of the province." "If you are opened up to out- lets, there would be a great in- crease in alcohol consumption in your county," said the tem- perance speaker. Doubts increase Mr. Bell doubted any great surge in consumption. "This is a mature county, a well-balanced. county, not affected by the ra- pid growth of other areas. You are not going to get here the excesses caused by liquor or other allied trades, not where you have a stable and sober po- pulation such as we have in Hu- ron. Whatever act is in force, or even if there was none at all, the situation is not going to be into- lerable for anyone." The Exeter lawyer emphasized that the only outlet which can be established without a vote in some municipalities is the gov't retail store and it would not he opened unless the municipal council concerned passed a re- solution requesting it. The other public liquor outlets would have to he voted in by the people. "Let's be frank about these things. In my town, I would not like to see a. beverage room and I don't think you'll; see .one there. If there was a vote it would take 60 percent of the people to approve it. •That's the fair thing about the LCA you. make the decisions. The act is so secure it only takes 41 per- cent of you to keep out beverage rooms and bars." "As I said, 1 do not favor a beverage room in my home town but if 61 percent of the people want it, then I shall accept it. I am a democrat end I believe in rule by the majority. controls provided Mr. Bell outlined the many controls provided by the LCA and the effective penalties pro- vided. "Certainly there will be violations of the act, ,bqt at least it gives the police art,.opportunity to :lake action against bootleg- gers and open consumption," Mr, 1<IeConnell stated that there will continue to be boot- leggers in Huron county if the LCA is brought into force. "In fact, I predict they will increase. The beer parlors will come in; 1 know it, These are the places where people are educated to drink and when they close for the night, the people go to the bootleggers to continue their drinking." "In Toronto, where we have all kinds of legal outlets, we still have bootleggers. In sone sections we actually have more bootleggers than legal outlets." Mr. Bell challenged that state- ment, He admitted, however, that there will be bootleggers "but the LCA is designed to put them down -- it is fitted up with stiff penalties designed to curb this situation." Mr. Bell also ob- jected to the comparison of con- ditions in Toronto to those in Huron. "We don't have the same situation here." Disagree on policing The temperance field m an stated that Boron will need a great many more policemen to protect the public if the LCA is brought in, He pointed out that Grand Bend, which needed only one policeman when it was under CTA, now has seven. Lawyer Bell challenged this point, stating that all the po- licement available could not, have controlled the "intolerable situation" in Grand Bend under CTA. "The enforcement there has been so much better under LCA that the reeve of Grand Bend has made a public statement concerning the improvement of conditions." Mr. McConnell stated that the amendments proposed by the CTA committee would help to improve the situation in Huron but Mr. Bell contended the amendments would never be en- acted. The lawyer explained that the CTA had been enacted years ago under the federal power to le- gislate in a time of national dis- aster. At that time, there was a great surge for prohibition and the liquor problem was con- sidered an emergency. "It is pretty obvious,"'Mr. Bell stated, "that the federal. gov't would not find that the conditions in Huron and Perth. constitute a national disaster re- quiring the enactment of fur' ther legislation." "If the amendments were e Eighty -Second Year 7 II `xderi (gimesAbuoafe EXETER ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 19, 1959 Prlc.. per Copy 10 C. + . PRESIDENT CHOSENSWEETHEART Mrs, Melvin Gaiser, Sliipka, was crowned sweetheart of Beta Sigma Phi sorority Friday night during the local chapter's annual ball in Bxeter Legion Hall. She is president of the chapter this year and served earlier as secretary. —T -A Photo � Fine two d stroct men over jobless benefits Benjamin Carlisle, Hensall, pleaded guilty to false state- ments to obtain benefits under the Unemployment Insurance Act and was fined $35 and costs by Magistrate Dudley Holmes in court Wednesday. Carlisle was charged with seven offences totalling $156.00 and he was fined $5 on each offence. Ray W. Woodburn, Stephen township, likewise pleaded guilty to a similar charge and was fined $15 and costs. He was charged with three offences totalling $77 which had been re- covered by the commission. Enforcement Officer H. C. Blackwell, London, preferred the charges. Irvine Finkbeiner, of Stephen township, pleaded guilty to a careless driving charge and was fined $15. He was travelling west on a county, road and was in an accident with a car south bound.. «.174. Arnold Campbell, of Exeter; passed, it's my belief they Pastor irked would not come within the juris- diction of parliament and would be thrown out by the courts on the grounds that this is pecu- liarly a provincial problem," he concluded. Control under LCA 'starry-eyed' notion To suggest that the LCA will get rid of bootleggers and juve- nile drinking in Huron county is a "starry-eyed approach to life" stated Rev. Samuel Kerr Sunday in his sermons at Caven and Cromarty Presbyterian chur- ches. "If the CTA is revoked, I be- lieve that then we shall be out of the frying pan, which is not too hot, and into the fire, which may be very hot." Outlining his stand on the No- vember 30 vote, Rev: Kerr said: "I will vote for the CTA because I believe an increase in the con- sumptien of liquor in Huron will make for greater lawlessness, not less, and greater juvenile de- linquency, not less." "And I will vote "against re- vocation' because I would hate to see a legal outlet for liquor on the main street of Exeter. And if the CTA is rejected and the LCA becomes law for us here, •what then? I think we might very well conclude this would be the thin edge of the wedge and that through time — perhaps not very long at that we would have beer parlors." "1 have never seen a drunk on the street since 1 came to Exe- ter. Could I, as a citizen, if I have any sense of responsibility for the welfare of this town, vote for the rejection of the CTA and the bringing in of the LCA? My answer is `no'. Rev. Kerr outlined the position of the Presbyterian church in regardto alcohot,'wlieh is based on the resolution: "We are irre- vocably opposed to the sin of intemperance." The church feels the Christian has the liberty, but not the license, ter drink. "Christian liberty, which is not license, funds its fulfilment only in love," the minister gtio. ted frown an official Church pamphlet: "Then comes the question. Will. Christians Who lthoW their freedom, not think twice before they enjoy, the lux- ury of drink in a world where their very brethren die for want of the bare necessities of life?" Rev, Kerr' Said higher con- Sumption of liquor would create an it on the road, per "`Aletrhol• and gasoline don't 'Mit and a lean at the Wheel tinder the influence is * inert, see to himself and to others On the roads' �.• , .... lie also felt aiicreased eitpert, dilure bei *liquor would create ruhiem. Are this Children irf tlrotr eller �'ertlt going to be less well fed and clothed and edu- cated under the, LCA? Are the worries and anxieties of the mo- ther going to be greater, or less under the LCA? `And what about the broken home — so often liquor enters the picture here. Isn't it true that under the CTA Huron has less juvenile delinquency, fewer alcoholics and few children under the Children's Aid Society than any other counties?" Turning to law and order, Rev. Kerr admitted conditions under CTA are not ideal but he 'doubted if they would be im- proved under LCA. To illustrate his point, he displayed a clip- ping of a recent story in the London Free Press which was headlined: "Beer Bottles, Fire Irons, Weapons in Wild Brawl; Women among 30 in Roadhouse Riot." This, he pointed out, had occurred in an LCA area. bystatement Rev. Paul Fischer, minister of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Zurich, has taken issue with Royal Moulton, general secre- tary of the Ontario Temperance Federation, who spoke at a church service there last week. Rev. Fischer, in a letter. to the Zurich Citizens • News, said he 'found ,"offensive" a state- ment attributed to Mr. Moulton "in which he drags the name of Jesus Christ down to the level of saying that if Huron and Perth and the CTA are wrong, then Jesus Christ and his dis- ciples are wrong" "This to me"; the minister continued, "is an irreverent use of the Holy Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, which we as Christians must guard against. I for one cannot subscribe to the statement." Rev. Fischer also took issue with churches who have been taking. an active part in the campaign. "It disturbs me also to hear about the way churches have been telling people how to vote. Might they not even resent this insult to their own judgement based on the facts which so far have been difficult to deter- mine? I seriously question such interference especially wheri it is done in the name of Christ," pleaded guilty to a careless driving charge. He was travel- ling north on Main street and colllided with a northbound car that had stopped to :make a turn, driving the car 87 feet and causing damage estimated at $1,100. He was fined $15 and costs. Garfield Thompson, Exeter, was fined $10 on failing to stop at the corner of Main and Huron streets. He failed to notice a car approaching from the south. Leon Triebner, RR Hensall, was charged with owning a truck with improper signalling devices and defective muffler. His truck, driven by W, J. Mc- Keever, was apprehended. at Brucefield on September 19 by R. G. Burke, OPP, Kitchener. He was fined $5. Bertram Russell Steels. Lon- don, tolled ops of court„ for $20 'fol` 'speeding % 75. `miles per -hour on the open highway. The charge was laid by PCC Cecil Gibbons. FIREMEN BACK MARCH Exeter firemen are sponsoring the March for Muscular Dystro- phy fund-raising campaign in this area, CANNING FIRM, .P•ti-.C.• REACH AGREEMENT Nine will seek- posts, others still undecided Contrary to an earlier report, none of the members of Exeter council has announced definite plaits to retire at the lend of the year, A number, however, reveal their position is "undecided" at this point. Mayor R. E, Pooley, ,Council- fors Ross Taylor and George Rether and an unsuccessful can- didate in last year's election, Lee Sherman, plan to run again. It's expected that Reeve Bill McKenzie and Deputy - Reeve Chester Mawhinney will also stand. Hensall lady to run again Only one member of Hensall council has committed herself -e1 ctio n at the to stand•for re-election nomination meeting next Friday. Mrs. Minnie Noakes; Hensall's first lady councillor, said Tues- day she would qualify. All others were non -committal. Reeve John Henderson said he would 'announce his decision nomination nigh t. Councillors John Baker and Jack Lavender were both undecided and Coun- cillor Lorne Hay is away hunt- ing. "It has been an. honor and privilege to serve on the coun- cil this, past term and I have endeavored to do my duty with sincerity and honesty at all times, said Mrs. Noakes, who is completing her first year. "I feel we had a successful year but there is always room for improvement. I should be most grateful and humble if the ratepayers see fit to elect me once again. My earnest desire is that all ratepayers be given equal consideration regardless of their position in the coni- munity." Councillor Lavender said h's decision would depend "on' _ie la ' of the • land" nomina't night. "You can work with some people and with some you can't. I have worked with. the present. council and for the most part have been able to get along favorably. It depends on the Reeve Henderson: "if .I have any comments to make, I'll make them nomination night." Sees no opposition to incorporation move • Lloyd O'Brien, chairman of the police village trustees at Zu- rich, said Wednesday he does not expect any opposition to the application for incorporation. The hearing, conducted by the Ontario Municipal Board, will be held Thursday afternoon. "We haven't heard of any op- position and we've been watch- ing for it. But you never know what might turn up." The Chamber of Commerce, he said, is strongly behind .the. move as are the trustees. "We feel we can put Zurich on the map by incorporation. This way, we're nothing more than a little village. "It won't affect our assess- ment. Under the equalized sys- tem established by the county, we are being assessed at the same level as Hensall, Brussels Find no arsenic poisoning in creek sample analyses Arsenic poisoning, which kill- ed one cattle beast this spring, was' not present in two samples of creek Water taken in Septem- ber, the Ontario Water Re- sources Commission indicated to cou'ticil Monday night. The report results.' front coun- cil's request for an investigation following the complaint register- ed - by Preston Dearing, conies= sion two, Stephen, after one of his steers died. Dr, A. E. Berry, general man- ager of the OWRC, reported: "Ca of the samples Was taken where the farm animals drink and the other upstream where the creek flow leaves the town and goes into 5 pumping house to be pumped into the Atisable river. Accdrdini; to the analyses, any arsenic which was present in the creek Last May has now disappeared. "in spite of all efforts to trace this down, there has been no IIRIGADE FURNACE CHECKS The fire de artnient w a s t 'called at 5'45 A.M. Monday to -cheek an overhea�Eed til furnace at the bonne Of Robert Marriage, Mill street. No damage was re= ported, indication as to the origin of it, It %nay be that some insecticides I used to spray farm crops may have reached the stream at that time, or that sortie other inter- mittent source of pollution may be responsible. As far as we are able to' determine, there is no,place in Exeter or in that vicnity which could be dis- charging regularly Wastes of this kind. "I regret that we have not been able to find the source of this pollution but it is obviously something of an intermittent nature not likely connected With any outfalls from premises." Cotincil agreed to send a copy of the report to Mr. Dearing and to ask hint if We wishes any further action taken, Swimming pools Collodi dealt With a dumber of complaints arising from re- cent wet weather,. _ Basennent flooding eatperienced by Charles p. Miller, Huron street;. The tank of Montreal? and Hector 11eyf wood, will be investigated. Two holes front which fill has been taken are veritable twilit - ming pools, p according to g te-� erts' at the Meeting, one is oh thin property be, hind wartime houses on Marlbo- rough street, which was sup- posed to have been filled with rubbish. The other is the base dug for the extension of Thomas street, west of Carling, in the Bakke - Whiting subdivision. Council in- structed Solicitor W. G. Coch- rane to determine if the road was public property or belonged to the owners of the arca. Where fb find if Announcements ,..„,,, 17 Church Notices ............ 17 Coming Events ........„,...... 11 Editorials ...................,..„ -' Perm 'News 11, ,..it Feminine Facts 14, 15 Mansell E, 11 Looking in With .Liz f.. lateen• it :Spots p 6, .1 Want Ads .....W4 n.,,40.,.Y..,.mr” 13 and the other incorporated vil- lages in Huron." The hearing will be held in the township hall, starting at 1 p.m, Thursday. "I'm willing to carryon if the people want the to, because 1 feel 1 have the time to do the job," stated the mayor, "1 would like to see the can- ning factory job satisfactorily settled to the mutual advantage of the people of Exeter and the growers of the, district. We are on the verge of a solution which I believe will be welcome by everyone," Said Councillor Taylor; "I expect I'll let my name stand for council, Councillor Rether: "If I'm nominated, I'll run." Mayor Pooley announced Wed- nesday an agreement has been reached with Canadian Canners Ltd. over the supply of water required for incre*sed produc- tion at the local plant, "The situation appears` very promising for the future of the canning industry in this neigh- borhood," the mayor said, A PUC delegation met with company officials in Hamilton Tuesday to negotiate a price for industrial water over a 10 -year Period. The mayor did pot re- veal the price but he did say that provision was made for pro- portionate increases if the gene- ral rate is raised. "For 1960, the company will require a 10 percent increase in the supply of filtrated industrial water. To meet the demand, the PUC will install two filter and two extra pumps In aucceedinnE years, three .more filters wiz have to be added to provide in•• creased supply. - However, the PUC will not go ahead with the installation of these additional facilities until. the town ID assured by the com- pany that it intends to proceed with its plans for expansion, While it was in Hamilton, the delegation investigated the pur- chase of the filters, eac! of which will provide 300 gallons minute of filtrated chlorinated water, Members of the delegation in- cluded PUC Chairman L. J. Penhale, Sup't H, L. Davis and Reeve Mckenzie, in addition to the mayor. The reeve proceeded to Toron• to where he attended a meet* ing of the agricultural council. Councillor Eldrid Simmons: "I• .. probably will stand if there are not enough to fill the seats but Postpones deC�sl' I'm not sure. I'll sit on the fence until nomination day," Councillors Glenn Fisher, Mur- ray Greene and Bill Musser are, "undecided", Lee Sherman, Huron street, stated: "I intend to stand if. someone will nominate me. I feel there are quite a few things which need to be worked out," Three members of Exeter Pub- lic School Board whose terms expire at the end of the year have indicated they , will let their names stand for re-election. They are Robert SeQuthcott, Ross Tuckey and Ray Frayne. L. J. Penhale, who has been chairman of , the PUC for 23 years, has indicated he will stand for another two-year term. "I had thought of retiring," he said, "bait we have this big project for the canning factory coming up and I would like to see it carried out." , Second accident occurs at bridge Town police investigated three accidents this past week in which damage totalled $400. Another accident, similar to o'nw ast week, occurred near the briuge on No.' 1 Saturday. John Elliott, Church street, was turn- ing south on .the highway when he was struck by a car driven by Miss Udore L. Caldwell, Hensall, southbound on No. 4. Cars driven by Kenneth Mc- Carter, 16, RR 1 Centralia, and Mrs. Mildred Sextus, 38, Huron Park, collided on Main street Saturday. McCarter, who had been parked in the business section, pulled onto the street while Mrs. Sextus was travelling north, A car driven by Barry Thom- as O'Brien, 19, London, struck another driven by Donald Scott, 16, Exeter, on the hill south of the bridge Sunday. Scott had stopped behind Mrs. Ger a 1 d Northcott, who was waiting to turn into the Janeway of Reder's Florist, when O'Brien struck him from behind. on DST resolution Town council entered the day- light saving time controversy briefly Mondaynight but it post- poned decision on the uestion until another .meeting.. The city of Waterloo asked council to support their resolu- tion urging the provincial gov't to set the dates, by zones if ne- cessary, on which the fast time would come into effect and end. Waterloo suggested the legis- lation be permissive, thereby al- lowing each community to re- main on standard time if it wished. Deputy - Reeve Mawhinney didn't like the idea because he felt the cities would dictate and they would probably want to carry fast time to the end of October. Reeve McKenzie stated he was not in favor of permissive legislation. He felt the regula- tions would have to be compul- sory to be effective. Councillor Ross Taylor said he wouldn't he surprised if DST was brought into effect all year 'round. Clerk • Pickard felt district high school boards would oppose extension of DST after Septem- ber 30 becfruse..;it would mean their students would be arriving home by bus after dark. Approve bylaw on No. 83 limits New speed limits on No. 83 highway, at the entrances to town, will came into effect in the -near future, Council passed a bylaw Mon- day night providing for 40 mph zones at the eastern and west- ern ends, now 30 mph zones. The 40 mph area to the west will' extend from the town limits to a point 200 feet east of the CNR tracks. The eastern zone will include the area from the eastern limit to a point 100 feet east of Andrew street. The area between these two zones will remain 30 mph. RADIOSONDE UP FULL YEAR—Exaptly a year from the date it was• released in Flint Mich,,this radiosonde weather instrument landed in a field beside Sodont •school, . _.._.y .... �.... ' .._ .. .r....,... it �•.. ,. . near Dashwood, .It, was spotted l�`riday as floated: to the ground by Gerald Martene, Cliff Salmon aril Xaeelarid Resterne er all of Dashwood while they were driving to Exeter. The instrument was released by the U.S, departmotit of 'Cotnlnel't;e 'Weather . was bureau on rico"vei�n'ber" 13 1958 slid sin once to have gone to a height of 17,000..,o feet before descending', I' Photo Reeve McKenzie said one eI the most powerful groups in - fnuencing the DST question wall the Women's Institutes. He felt their campaign would have a bearing on the decison. Support Sarnia action After some discussion, coon. cil supported a 'resolution frons Sarnia protesting further diver- sion of water from the Great Lakes by the city of Chicago. - Town council will get an ad. ditional $800 in the unconditional grant it receives from the Onta- ria gov't, according to present regulations, The gov't does not revise its population figure, on which the grant is based, until the in. crease is over seven percent. With Exeter's population now at 2,888, the town is entitled to re• to the Huron Soil and Crop Im• provement Association to hold its annual seed fair here around the first of March. Turkey prizes will againbe of- fered by council for winners of the annual Christmas decoration contest for homes. Three tur- keys of various weights will be awarded • Electrical Christmas decora• tions in the town will be lit dur- ing the day,, as well as at night, council decided. The lights will be on from 12 noon until midnight through December until the last week before Christmas when they will be on 24 hours a day. In previous years,, the lights were not turned on until i p.m. Six road signs were purchased to indicate the new parking lot established behind the town hall. Building permits were issued to W. C. Allison, Main street, for roofing; Lloyd Hoffman, for erection of Jehovah's Witness hall on north Carling street; Dr. D. A. Ecker, Main street, two• story addition to rear of house. Decisidn on an application by M. 3, Gainer to erect a house on Fryde boulevard was postponed until the road was completed. Anniversary in James St. James Street United Church celebrated its 97t1i anniversary on Sunday with Rev. Clayten H. Searle, associate secretary of the missionary and maintenance department, Toronto, as the special speaker. Special music for the morning service was provided by the choir with Miss Maxine Reeder taking the solo part in the an- them. Mrs. John Goman sang two selections. Mr. Gordon. Koch, on the piano,accompanied Mr. Lawrence Wein on the organ. The subject fbr the morning service was "Christ's Church and Ours". "Some will tell you that it doesn't mater whether or not you belong to the church. Jesus utilized every opportunity to strengthen his life by attend- ing the synagogue. He realized that many of the leaders in the church of that day wete insin• cere. "Leaders in the church today are not there because they are perfect, but because they recog- niSe the Christian life is the best guide. We do not need td send our children to school or to colleges but it is recogttized that it is the hest thing for ttihem, Parents who bring them children to Sunday School and then call for them afterwards are failing iri their responsibili- es. "Everyone has a responsibility, towards the Church. Few would want to live in a community`' where there was no church or nei school Real estate would soon fall in value. By bur indifference to the church, we are saying by our attitude that we are not in need of a there'll in the tem - inanity. Non. supporters of * church are like barnacles -on the MAIM of "a great 51iiip That gel along for the ride." At the evening serviee a child' rens choir led the 'Service of song. • Mr, Searles subleet was 1, Pilate Would Speak " r sr bibIo; gp r hieal sermon in which the speaker assumed 4the role of the NeW Testament judge. 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