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Sewer system
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How Muchsewerage an
Exeter .afferd2
That's whet town ..council
Yeas to find oilt before, it
takes any enten ,on the OWRC
Tenon which was presented
Fride,y night, A ,.delegation
from council — including Ma
Y01' Pooley; Reeve Mckenzie
and 'Drains Cliairmari Ros'aykrs
— will interview Cam-
MiSalon officials in. Toronto
OMn. t.o determine the answer.
The conimissioe. 'recommends
A complete system costing over
haifAniiuion Oilers. But thiss
cautioned Clerk C, V. Pickard,
Weida pit the inunicinelity's
debt well. over the limit of 25%
of its .assessment,
The pont mission's second.
proposal was a 8245,000 scheme
which would. provide lagoon,
type treatment facilities plus
the addition of 15,000 feet of
wham, sewers to the pre-
eent storm sewer :system,
This Appeared to be the
tildst popular. suggestion
among councillors eluting Fri-
daY's discussion. It could pro,
Fide two trunk lines down 'An-
drew and William Streets into
which could be fed Main St,
A nd east of the lines.
FULL. REPORT, PAGE 14
However, the $245,000 „pro-
ject might put the town over
its debt limit, too, This could,
Mean that council would have
to settle for the $113,000 sug-
gestion which would provide
for treatment only of the pre-
sent storm sewer flow on Wil-
liam and Main St.
Council discussed the corn -
mission's report %vitt). C. S.
MacNaughton, Huron MPP,
Return officers
of film council
At the annual meeting of
South Huron Film Council held
in the library basement Tue.s.-
day evening, president, Rev.
S. E. Lewis; vice-president,
Rev. A. M. Schlenker; trea-
surer -librarian', Mrs, 'H il t o n
Laing, and secretary, Mrs. Je
M. Southeott were re-elected
for 1961.
Directors appointed were A.
B, Idle, Greg Harness, W. L.
Henderson, Rev. A. E. Holley
And Rev. 1.1.. •S. Hiltz.
Annual reports were given.
A workshop for training pro-
jectionists with a follow-up
session was held in April 1960
and, another is planned for this
year.
The constitution for the or-
ganization was formally. adopt-
ed and ways and means to
publicize the use of the films
housed at the library were
discussed.
Mr, Lewis chaired the meet-
ing.
Cochrane
heads IP
Former mayor W. G. Coch-
rane was elected president of
the newly -incorporated Exeter
Industrial Development Corpor-
ation at a meeting of directors
last week.
He beads the non -share coins
pany which has been establish-
ed to promote industrial and
commercial growth in the com-
munity. It will act on behalf
of the town. ,
Vice-president is It, D. Jer-
myn, former councillor and
one of the founding directors
of Mid -Western Ontario De-
velopm ent Assecia tion.
Other directors include Eric
Campbell, Murray Greene, H.
L. Snider, Ross Tuckey and
Jack Weber.
Treasurer is Chester Ma-
whinney and secretary, Don
Southcott.
Working with the• directors
will be two councillors, Ralph
;Bailey and Eldrid Simmons.
The mayor and reeve are auto-
matically members of the com-
pany,
The .directors agreed to con-
duct a public competition to
secure a slogan for the cor-
poration's use in industrial
promotion. Prizes will be $15
and $10.
Property and advertising
committees were appointed.
Regular luncheon meetings will
be held the fourth Thursday of
every month,.
• Cold snap
continues
The present cold snap, Nvhich
moved into the area ,etiursday,
shows no sign of letting up and
the met section at RCAF' Ste.
tion Centralia reports that the
temperatures will remain about.
10 to 15 degrees below normal,
The normal high for the
month is 30 degrees, While the
average low is 16.
Since last :Fri(lay, the Wei.
`perature hAsn't been Over the
15 -degree mark and has driers-
* ed as low as tour degrees be -
IOW zero. The average high in
these five days has been
Slightly over 12 degrees.
The met section fOredatt
Calls for d ntinuuig cold
ther over. the weekend, but it
eXpeeted to 'moderate slight-
ly. Snow flurries are expected
te dump about two incheson
the district over the neXt six
data, •
SneWrall for the Dad week
Was .1.2 inches.
Teniperaturee for the at
five dAyS:
Low High]
FridaY• 4 11
S a ttirdaY ,„ 4 ,
Sunday , :2 11
Monday 4 12.
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who is a member of •OWRO,
He Mohamed that the Aosta
were "rough" .estimates And
could only be used as a guide,
said ,cooneit's first step
woulc1 be to .0elhorize The corn.
missioq to proceed with plans
for sewerage, Council then
coula appoint an _engineer for
the project, who would be sub-
joct to the kpproval of the,
comrnission, to provide des
tailed plans, specifications and
estimates in co-operation with
the commission.
One factor which will Affect
the extent of the system which
council can, undertake will be
the ;mount .of charges pre,
paid by individeal, :property
owners who will receive ser-
vice.
This, and many other fac-
tors, had to he taken into con.
sideration, the MPF' stressed,
Council :members discussed
numerous phases of the propo-
sals, all in exploratory fashion.
It heeame obvious,however,
that xio decision .could be
reached until the council „dis-
cussed the program with the
commission.
Will study
central
*Osborne township school
area board 'plans to investigate
the possibility of erecting a
central school.
The decision was made at
the inaugural meeting of the
board following considerable
discussion with Public Inspec-
tor G. John Goman, who out-
lined the advantages of cen-
tralization. •
The question has been raised
several times in recent months.
Reference to it was mathe. at
the nomination meeting for the
township and it was discussed
at a meeting of Theme§ Road
ratepayers earlier this month.
Harry Dougall, RR 1 Hen-
sel!, was elected. chairman a
the board for 1961. Vice-chair-
man is Gerald Prout, RR 3
Exeter, and A. G. Hicks, RR. 3
Exeter, remains •secretary -
tree surer.
Others subscribingto the.
oath of office, administered by
Clerk G. H. G. Strang, were
Ken Simpson, Morris Hern,
and Delmer Skinner.
Secretary -treasurer Hicks
presented the 1960 financial
statement showing a very sub-
stantial bank balance.
Additional insurance And me-
dical coverage for the school
children was purchased from
the W. H. Hodgson Insurance
Agency;
Plans were made for visit-
ing the various schools in the
area as soon as possible to ar-
range for repair work in the
near future.
Membership was subscribed
in the Ontario SchooL Trustees
and Ratepayers' Association
and the trustees' council,
Tom MacMillan, of Exeter,
offered to provide the same
supply service in 1961 as in
former years.
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PRODIGAL "SMOKEY" RETURNS TO CE HOME
.. . he cuddles up to happy Sharon Gibson, 8 '
Smokey' brings back
a mysterious Jail(Ie)
,
"Smokey" a tom cat, re- He'd lost his kitten fur, of
,
turned to •his home at Huron course, but still had his un.
Parklast week and thereby usual markings. He even ans-
hangs a curious tale and a
mysterious tail,
And this is a straight story
but it concerns a crooked tail.
"Smokey" vanished in mid-
July last year front the home
of his mistress, eight-year-old
Sharon Gibson, daughter of
F/O and Mrs, C. L. Wilson,
129 St. Lawrence.
He was still. a kitten apd,
since he'd been a gift i..0M
friends at Grand Bend, the
Gibsons were unhappy to lose
him.. But their search was un-
successful.
Last week, Sharon burst into
the house with: "Mom, I've
found Smokey!!'
wered his name.
But his tail's been injured
during h s adventures. It
won't stand up, even when he
tries to look angry, Poor Smo-
key can spit and 'fume, arch
his back, but his old tail just.
limps.
How could any cat look
fierce with a limp tail? That
may ,be the reason Smokey
-
decided to return' to
Lion,
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RT DIAL
FEBRUARY '62
Seek Huron survey
Need new laws
for trade school •
If Huron county gets a new
technical -vocational school, it
will have to break new legis-
lative ground to do so.
This was indicated by the
proponents of the school, Hur-
on County Farmers' Union;
who plan to interview the dep't
of education about it.
"There's no legislation at
present to cover establishment
of this kind of school in an
area like Huron," said Direc-
tor Robert Taylor, Varna. "But
we feel if we can impress
upon the gov't that there is a
need here, we will be able to
get the legislation."
First step by the enion will
be to request the dep't of
education to take a survey,
ing Seaforth Monday night.
Not getting results
"The biggest concern we
have is that we're not getting
results from our present high
schools," Mr. Taylor said. Of
the total high school enrol-
ment in Huron of between 3,000
and 4,000 pupils, not • more
than 200 are graduating, he
pointed out.
Only tile survey would reveal
the type of school required,
but Mr. Taylor hopes it will
include courses in agriculture.
There are indications, he said,
that OAC 'Will become a uni-
teui‘riorn..1; a
excluding many of the
might have to be raised, there-
bystandards at Western Ontario
youths who now attend this
Agricultural School, Ridgetown,
up by a new institution in
versity, in which case the
school. This gap could be taken
y 1 o r indicated the
Federation, Women's Institutes,
and Horne and School organ-
izations have supported the
, proposal. The union hopes to
get further backing from other
I Huron groups.
I
"We're asking that a survey
he taken to determine the
need for another type of
school. We'd like to find out,
why so many youths are
leaving our high schools be-
fore they finish grade nine or
ten."
• The survey should indicate
what other type of training
could be given which would be
more useful, he suggested.
Concern over jobless
"We're concerned about the
statistics which reveal filet
805; of the people who are un-
employed have grade 10. edu- One neW member; wa,s ap- cater De ut -Reeve Fisher
Consult official
on rec director
No action will be taken on
the • appointment of a new
recreation director for Exeter
until the committee confers
with the regional representa-
tive of the community' pro-
grams branch of the Ontario
Dep't of Education, it was re-
vealed at council meeting Mon-
daye night.
Deputy -reeve Glenn Fisher,
a member of the committee,
told council he expected a
meeting would be held this
week to determine what course
of action the •branch would
approve.
The resignation. of Larry
Heideman, the present dtrect-
or, becomes effective Saturday,
January 28
Dial telephone service will he introduced in
Exeter in February 1962, W. W, Haysom, Bell Tele-.
phone manager for this region, has announced, •
Work will ,start soon •on the project which
will include the construction of a new one -storey
building to house the automatic dial crossbar
switching equipment,
'The overall cost of, the dial conversion, in-
cluding the cost of providing new long distance
facilities, has been. estimated at •almost $460,000.
Initially. Exeter's new dial
hers, This will he sufficient,
office will have the capacity barn to .a point just south or
overhead cable from there to
to serve 3,000 telephone num- , Church St. and then place
years to come, nsterfvorioeocasdtes.,: Thames Road."
1 will be erected on the east
taoccoloredeint gtotloopphroensee
Clerk C. V. Pickard refi.orted
mends in this area for some the new onestorey bulletins
side of Carling St„ between
There will be no change in'
the toll -Tree calling arrange-
ments which now exist be- Staff announcement
tween Exeter -Crediton and" Members •of the company's
and Exeter -Centralia, , staff were informed officially
Co -incident with the intro-. of the conversion at a meet -
duction of dial service here,' ing here Thursday,
new telephone numbers will go Installation of dial service at
into use. These will each con- Crediton, is Peal. completion.
sist of seven figures. • 'Changeover date has been.
established as February 19. •
The dial project will require
the modernization and exten-i When Exeter goes dial next
year, it will complete conver-
sion of outside wire and cable,
Ision of three exchanges in this
end of the'county. Hensall will
iningenttse.lephones by dial, instru;
'be the only area still on corn -
mon battery south of Goderich.
More underground cable Among the mutual ex -
It was revealed at council changes, the Hay system is
meeting Monday night that .planning to install dial at
the company plans to install a Grand Bend next year but has
ground
considerablecable.amount of under- not announced plans for its
other centrals at Zurich and
In a letter, the companyilDashwood. SimilarlY, the. Blan-
ehard system has completed
said that "as a part of our
we dial installation at Sebringville
work for dial conversion, but there hes been no an-
onpropose placing a new cable
William SL from Welling- nouncement yet concerning the
ton to Thames Road to permit Eirkton or Granton exelaanges,
the removal of all our over-
head cable on Main St. north
and the replacement of exist-.
of Sanders.. First crashhere
"We propose to put buried
cable on the east side of Wil- -
since new year
Exeter almost completed
the first three weeks of 1961. •
without a traffic accident.
First of the year occurred
Saturday night near the inter-
section of Main and Wellinr:-
ton. It was minor, involing
mittee for 1961. He is Gordon
Baynham, who succeeds .Ar-
thur Clarke.
I Other members are Lloyd
Cushman, Rev. Bren de Vries,
Max Harn s, Harold P 7
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cation or less." pointed to the recreation com- I and Councillor Ross Taylor. abcnit $90 damage'
A car driven by Wes Sims,
•16, skidded into a vehicle
I • parked beside Wellington St.
Liberals deny !St udy garbage service I which had been operated by
Ronald Truemner, Huron St,
by the local detachment of the
Huron Liberal officials say
raise .sa anes of police OP'P this week.
•
After six months on the leader change
lamb. Smokey had returned to
No accidents were reported
the fold. He's been master of
the house ever since. his "en-
gine" working overtime.
they've heard of no movement
to oust provincial leader John
Wintenneyer.
Commenting on reports Qui
Eof Toronto this week which in-
Kit1
xeter rkon pupils
dicated that a section of the
party seeks the leader's resig-
nation,lim Taylor of Hensel'
e . said: "There's nothing to it—
ops in speaking tria s it's just a silly rumor."
. Two grade 12 youths copped
first prizees in the annual sen-
ior public speaking contest
held at South Huron District
High School, Tuesday.
Diane Delbridge, 17, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Del -
bridge, Exeter, won the girls'
division, while a 16 -year-old
TOP GIRL SPEAKER
. Diane Delbridge
BY 'OkAtott
fivt tett
Mr. W.intermeyer also denied
the atory He announced that
Kirkton youth, Ron Marshall, a giant policy-making rally of
son of Mr, and Mrs. Lorne the party is being planned for
Marshall, copped the boys' this summer.
event. Jim Taylor was one of thel
Fifteen speakers competed }Juron de1e'ats tn th partys'
and the judges had to 'deliber- federal, rally recently.
ate for nearly a half an hour
before reaching their decisions
on the five-minute talks.
The Exeter miss shoSe
"What it Means to be' a 'Cana-
dian" for her speech, while
Ron spoke on "Conservation .of
Wild Life." The two will re-
ceive $10 prizes donated by the
students' council at SHDHS.
He ether McConnell, 16,
daughter of S/L and Mrs. Don-
ald McConnell, Huron t Park,
and Roger Cann, son of Mr.
and Mrs. • Art Cann, Exeter,
placed second in the competi-
tions and will receive $5 prizes
for their efforts.
Heather was one of six of
the speakers who chose "Ex-
ploration of Space" as a topic,
while the Exeter youth spoke
on his experience at Older
Boys' Parliament which he re-
cently attended in Toronto.
Judges for the competition
were Mrs. John Corbett, W. G.
Cochrane and Rev, ft; 'Hiltz,
all of Exeter. The junior pub -
tic speaking contest will be
held in the auditorium Thurs.
day afternoon.
Other speakers, in the order
they appeared were: Fred
Desjardine, Carole Itegartli,
Xandra Ilusche, Barbet% Mc-
Donald, Pat Rowe, Bill Syst-
rna Joe Houlahan, • Sandra
Snider, Lawrence Howard,
Sandra Sharrow and Mary
Sha
Members 0± the seVen grade
11, and 12 classes congregated
in the auditorium to' hear the
speakere.
SefOreateeeterneeete2rennkleitieM.T01
Where to
find it Marks 101 Monday
Town council's sanitation
committee will investigate
what savings might result
from ' having garbage collec-
tion done. by a private contrac.
tor.
Several -councillors noted
Monday night that other towns
appeared to be paying less mo-
ney for this service by putting
it up for tender.
In one community with a po-
pulation of about 4,000, a con-
tract had been let for $5,600.
Exeter's cost for 1960 has been
estimated at $7,200, which
CELEBRATES 101 YEARS—Mrs Agnes J. Baird, rosi-i
dent in the Queensway Nursing :1-tinle, HonsAii, wiul
mark her 101St birthday Monday. Although confined to
her bed, she enjoys fairly good halth and can muster
a hearty shine. She waS born in New ; Jersey, moved to
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Canada when she WM one year o'ld;,,
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Annotniceinente ,,,,,,,, 15
Church Notices IS
Corning Events 13
Ediforiels 2
Farm Newl.
Feminine Fedi 11, 13
14ensell 7
Lecen .... .. 14,
Sorts , 4, $,
Went AJ 11
Aonuay, jentlary 30, Mrs, hand to...:r461, no, CenCeSSiort
Agnes J Jaird patient At&ante.*deere she continued
iztint.swo, Narig grIt let resi-,Ohpe nearly 80 years
and 'Where:bet* grandson, Stew;
HenealL will 'obsere her 10151 tah.d, now i,eside. Her
n the Aye Confine 'lo het be , husband twea in 1927.
Mrs. Baird 15 in fairly good Before Wining -Ifie Mint
health and anjoye three nicals Ing hoot 'here gee eeeiesa with
11. day, hoe son, 'I', R. Baird fr& Srt1de.
tern in Newark, 'N'.;t,, shr Md. ,
tarne Ashfield Township As She- 0AC1 a son, grandson„ two
4 chilli of Onetaf tied al great, grandsons And A .0W:
.19 She moved With terhtL5 geolddatighthr,
does not include depreciation
on the truck.
Former sanitation chairman
Ross Taylor suggested the
committee "look into this idea
— we might be able to save
money."
Chairman Claude Farrow
suggested "it would have to be
a- substantial saving" before
council would consider the
change.
Said Councillor Musser, a
member of the committee:
"We can have a meeting on IL
but I think things are going
smoothly now,",
Approve increases
Increases totalling $500. -were
granted to members of the
town police force, following a
report of the police committee,
Chief C. H. MacKenzie will
receive 53,800, an increase of
$100; Cpl. John Cowen, $3.100,
an increase of MO; and Con-
stable Lloyd Hodgins, $3,300,
an increase of $300.
No raise for council
Council approved a motion,
without discussion, to keep the
salaries of its members at the
same level as in 1060. The
mayor will receive $500L the
other Members, $300 each.
At the inaugural meeting, an
increase was discuSsed. This
time, however, Deputy -Reeve
Glenn Fisher moved that they
remain the same: it was sec-
onded bY Councillor Eldrid
Simmons and passed Without
co m m
Negotiate on roads
Council deferred action on a
request, from Canadian Can,
ners Lld, for the, opening and
closing of certain roads lead-,
ing IMO the company's pro -I
Pptorrtt,3ilo'n of Nelson front Carling
The company asked that the
io Marlborough streets be
dosed and that Marlborough
and Carling streets east of 1\l'el-
son be opened.
Connell decided to eliseesS
the ficials,1148 r‘ev;4u.eshr itivirsanmY
irou,.,1 Own Sehmtm,
Cochrane.
Spur fire meeting
At the request 0±
Irwin rm.& Alm
`tireed to arrang
with area towns
protection "withi
"vlsile
Cf 'Ford'
mellibers of tl
were concerned
" this Molter
ifig fire for ts
eiodsIiodn,
_AlaVer Nolo
IM Offitials had ag
following
Session anti tha
were being made immediately.
Chief. Ford indicated the
town's fire truck becomes ob-
solete this year, "It's 15 years
old," he said. "We can't sell
it — it can either he kept as
a second machihe or we'll
have to junk it„,
He stated 'that the brigade
does not wish to create animo-
sity over the situation but the
members do not feel it wise
to answer rural calls with the
present equipment, Because it
does not have. a large capa-
city for carrying water, the
prseent truck is almost use-
less for fighting rural fires,
In addition, no protection can
be given town property when
the machine is out of the mu-
nicipality.
He said that unless some ae
tion was taken soon, ttle me
bars rnight refuse to gc; ,nu
a run. "I'd hate to sec
happen," the chief comm(
Make $25 grant
In other business, cm,
Made a $25 grant to
ron Soil 'and Crop
ment Ass'n;
Approved a building
for construction of a 11.
on Huron St. east for
Down.
Learned from Cler
Packard that registr
1990 included 331 bir
five less than 1959),
and three still births.
Agreed to pay its
levy of $160 to Mid
Ontario Developmem
and appointed coUncilit
Bailey and, Murray G
represent the (own '
ganization.
Won twice
in elections
1 William T. Webster, who
served as a councillor both.
before and after Exeter be -
carne a town, died of a heart
I attack at his home on Main.
4St. north Sunday. He was 57.
Mr. Webster was first elect-
ed to village council in 1934
;•when he stood second in the
}polls. At the end of that year,
1 Exeter was elevated to a.eowne
and Mr. Wbster agai
council seat.
A native of Exe
of the late '
Thom as
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