The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-07-20, Page 1Eighty -Eighth Year
SAILORS DUNKED -Lou Bailey and Bill Belling, both of Exeter, are shown with
their capsized sail boat in Lake Huron, about 200 yards from the pier at Bayfield.
The pair were racing in „the annual Grand Bend Yacht Club race, Sunday, when
a freak wind hit them from behindand dumped them and their belongings into the
lake. Belling lost a' portable radio, his watch, $150 in his wallet and $1,000 in
plieques. The couple were towed to shore by their lone competitor, Silver Swallow
I, skipped by Dr, Harvey Cowen Exeter, with GB Holidayeditor, Bill Bat. Batten, on
board.
-Holiday photo.
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Lou Bailey and. Bill. Belling,
both of Exeter, had their
chances of winning the annual
Grand Bend Yacht Club race
to Bayfield literally sunk, Sun-
day.
The pair were about 200
yards from the Bayfield pier
when a freak wind bit them
from the rear andoverturned
their .small sail boat, dumping
them and their belongings into
the lake.
Their only competitor in the
race, the SilverS wallow II,
skipped by Dr. Harvey Cowen,
Exeter, with Grand Bend Hol-
iday editor, Bill. Batten, on.
board, was about 50 yards in
front of the pair and quickly
returned to tow them to shore.
It was an expensive swim for
Belling, who lost his trousers
and shirt containing his watch,
$150 in' his wallet and over
$1,000 in cheques.
A portable radio
'lost,
• Skin divers returned to the
s 'ne, Monday, but found no
ace,
'the missing articles.
Was close race
The two sailboats had been
staging a close battle all the
way in their three -and -a -half
hour trip and the .lead had.
changed several times.
Both skippers had their sails
flet up to catch the breeze
was also
Recover
two cars
Grand. Bend provincial police
recovered two stolen cars over
the weekend before their own-
, ers knew they were missing.
Lloyd P. Keating, 18, RCAF
Clinton, has been charged with
theft after he was apprehend-
ed in Grand Bend driving a
brand new 1961 car without
licence plates. Police say the
car was taken from. Pearson
Motors Ltd., Zurich,
PC Ed M'antin, of the GB
detachment, detected the ve-
hicle in the resort at 4. a.m.
Sunday, Investigation was con-
ducted by PC D. M, West-
over, Exeter.
Keating has also been charg-
ed with driving. without a
licence.
An 18 -year-old. Toronto youth
pleaded guilty in Sarnia court
Monday to theft of a convert-
ible from in front of the Colon-
ial Hotel, Grand Bend, Con-
' victed three times previously
of car theft, Richard Hether-
ingtonwas remanded in cus-
tody until July 24 for sentence.
Police stopped Hetherington
to check on. liquor violation
whentheir investigationshow-
ed the car had been stolen. It
Was owned by Mrs. Fred
Spoher, Sarnia, whose husband
• is a bartender at the Colonial.
T®enforce
c
e
GB 'stops'
s
P
Cpl. Neil. Chamberlain, Grand
Bend OPP, warned this week
that his detachment will make
an. immediate drive on stop
street enforcement following
approvalof municipal bylaws.
Wednesday, the village re-
ceived Ontario Dep't of. High -
Ways approvalof the new stop
street :regulations, which in-
.creases the number of inter-
sections at which motorists
must,come to a full halt. All
the .intersections have been
.properly, narked.
"The bylaw .is now enforce-
able, ct
the corporal said, -d
'We will enforce it."
Councilrevised the bylaw
"after receiving complaints re-
=,garding speeding on the back
'streets of the municipality.
ENJOY LAKE CRUISE
Mr, and Mrs. Lloyd Taylor,
,1-luroii St., enjoyed a cruise, up
the northern part of take Hun
on to Sault Ste, Marie last
Week on the "SS Norgoina",
blowing from the northwes1.
and the Cowen boat bad sue.
denly hit. a calm about 150
yards from the pier.
When the crew of the Salver
Shallow I turned to how
see
their competitors 'were faring,
they s otte sail p d the sa 1 Matting the
water. '
A freak wind had caught Bai-
ley and Belling from behind.
It came out of the storm on
les
the lake. Naturally, the sails
were in the wrong position and
both men were seated onthe
wrong side of the boat far the
freak gust and they were in
the water before they could
prepare for it,
Two weeks ago, Bailey and
Belling spent the night an the
lake in the boat when the wind
died and they couldn't reacli
the Grand Bend harbor,
Gas and bread prices
show increases here
Gas and bread prices have
gone up by one to two cents
in Exeter.
Price of No. 2 gas at local.
stations now varies between
thel price,39.9,and d a d 41,9.
However, the majority are
selling at 40.9, • a' one -cent in-
crease.
A survey. Wednesday at noon
DASHWOOD PASTOR
Rev. William Getz
Zion greets
new pastor
The new pastor of Zion Lu-
theran Church, Dashwood, the
Rev. William Gatz of Port Ed-
wards, Wisconsin, will be in.
stalled into office on Sunday,
July 23. The service will be
held at 3:00 p.m,
Women • of the parish will
serve .refreshments to all mem-
bers and visitors after the
service.
Rev. Harold Scholz,pastor of
the Monkton - Logan par 1 s h,
counselor of the Circuit, and
vacancy pastor of Zion congre-
gation, will be the efficient for
the installation. Rev. Philip
Fiess of St. Peter's, Stratford,
president of the Ontario Dis-
trict of the Lutheran Church
will preach the sermon,
Mr. Gatz is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Avolt Gatz of Port Ed-
wards, Wisconsin. Following
graduation from high school, he
was employed in the Nekoosa -
Edwards Paper Co. ,for a year
and one-half. Rye enlisted in the
Guard, and follow-
ingCoast training in the electrical
school at Groton, Conn„ he was
assigned to Port Townsend,
Washington, for active duty.
Ile received his honorable
discharge in 1955.
In September, 1955, he en-
rolled in Concordia Theological
Seminary, Springfield; Illinois,
to prepare for the ministry of
the Lutheran Church, Missouri
Synod. In the summer of 1958
he did field work in the Iron.
wood, Michigan, and Eagle RI
-
ver, Wisconsin area. His vicar-
age year was spent in Strat.
ford. There he met Miss Tritely
Shellenberger, whom he mar-
rigid• in Kitchener, -on August
27, • 1960.
He was recently ordained in.
to the holy ministry, in his home
town by the Rev. L. 1i. Goetz,
the same pastor who confirmed
him in 1946.
showed Graham. Arthur's Tex-
aco and. Mathers Bros. Shell
at 39,9.
The two at 41.9 are Hunter-
Dover and. Sons Ltd. with Im
perial, the company which is
reported to have led the in-
crease, and Bob's Fina.
Nine other stations in town
are selling al: 40.9.
Bread' 'up' one cent '• •
-
Price of Wonderbread al;
local stores went up to 20
cents Wednesday morning,
Others remained at 19 but are
expected to increase by next
week.
The two local bakers, Ers-
man's anis, Mayfair, announced
a one -cent increase Wednesday
morning. Their new prices are;
=sliced, 170; slice d, 18e;
sandwich loaf, unsliced, 18e,
sliced, 190.
Local. bakeries said increases
in wheat and flour prices
forced the change,
:METER/ ONTik.R1O M Y 20,. 1961
5,
titer
Attempt settlement
in subdivision issue
An attempt to settle the dis-
pute between town council and
Contractor Arthur Whilsmith.
over the Orchard. Park subdi-
vision wilt be made this week
with both sides being repre-
sented by legal counsel,
Contractor Whilsmith ap-
peared at council Monday night
with his lawyer, :fames Don-
nelly, Goderieh, "to iron out 1
the difficulties,"
Council instructed its proper-,
ty committee and the town so-
licitor to negotiate an agree-
went. The committee was not
empowered to make a final
settlement, however.
Monday night's preliminary
discussion indicated there re-
mained some points of Conten.,
tionand perhaps of misunder-
standing.
Counsellor Donnelly told coun-
cil the contractor had already1
lest one client because of eoun-'
cil's refusal to grant a build-
ing permit two weeks ago ancl.
was indanger of losing others.
"We have an honest resolve to
work this thing out, the law-
yer stated.
Council withheld the permit
on three counts: pending reg.i-
tration of subdivision plan,
completion of Sanders St. east, '
and payment of the contrae-!
tors account with council.
Disagree on road
There was an obvious con-
fliction over completion. of the!
subdivisionroad, which: council
required to be constructed ac-
cording to engineer's specifi-
cations. Donnelly, who said he
consulted Engineer • B. Al'. Ross
Monday, indicated the engineer
had found the road acceptable,
n had'not actu-
exce t that l e
C .
lyp
gravel meover. the depth of r e p�
"cover, ■�/
Donnelly pointed out that It
couldn't be submitted until the
agreement, with council was
completed. The contractor in-
dicated he received the town's
draft of the agreement three
weeks ago and put it in the
hands of his lawyer shortly af-
terwards.
Pay full cost?
Discussing the terms of the
agreement, Donnelly asked if
it was council's intention to re-
quest the contractor to pay the
full cost of the road even
though he owned only one-half
of IL,
Pooley: "kIe is responsible
forbuilding
i the the
road h
to
engineer's specifications." He
indicated it was the contrac-
tor's responsibility to work out
any sharing of cost with the
other owner,
Price Per Copy 10 Cents
pital cost
r five years
PRIEST DIES IN CAR
... Rev. I, J. Poisson
The council c had refused tocon-
,
Friday mass
�d
strut the road for Fred Dar- i •
a
ling, who owns the south half,"
when hea e^
access to
S
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his buildings east of Fryde bau- •
r
le
void. highwill 1 h
Requiem mass � J
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Donnelly noted the street conducted at St. Peter's church,
appeared on the mtuucipal plan St. Joseph, Friday at 11 a,m.
as a road. Council pointed out I for Rev. Isidore ,1. Poisson,
it had never been developed the parish priest who died en -
and was merely a lane until route to London hospital late
recently. Tuesday afternoon.
Donnelly objected that thel The body is resting in state
draft agreement made the con- at the church until the service,
tractor responsible for. instal- at which Rt, Rev. A. P. Ma-
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T e mayor pointed out that •
A five-year forecast of capital expenditure#
approved by town council lYlonday tight, projects a.
total investment of more than half a million dollars
by the municipality between now and 1966.
Over three-quarters of this amount is esti-
mated for sewerage,
The forecast also indicates cons ructto and s a rate rhes
the investment willbe at least $ e
partially offset by a. debt re- will be paid for out of general
Municipal levies.
School not certain
The separate school forecast:
was provided by members of
the preliminary board estab-
lished here earlier this month.
The board has not reached a
for sewerage in 1962 and a , decision yet on proceeding with
further $75,000 in 1963 will re- [the project but, if it does, it
tirement of some $400,000 plus
an anticipated increase in as-
sessment of $400,000 during
the same period,
Town officials indicated the
initial investment of $225,000
quire a significant increase in would anticipate an initial in-
t t f $40 000 ' 1962 d
the, tax rate, However,
from ves men o an
1963 on the burden will be 1$20,000 additions inn 1964 and
lessened because debt retire- 1966,
meet will equal or surpass the Another $6,000 is included as
projected capital outlays. ; a portion of -the town's share
owar t
t d construction n
0 of the
e strequested b
o ca
T e 1 r1,
Parkhill dam. Council has el-
and
the Ontario Municipal Board i ready allotted $2,000 toward
and prepared ley Clerk C. V. project during the current
Pickard, anticipates a total year,
capital investment of $585,0001
between now and 1966, Of this y'No school additions
amount, $425,000 will go toward w Clerk Pickard stressed that
sewerage. I the forecast was an estimate
An initial sewerage invest- only and that it could. be upset
ment of $225,000 in 1962 iso by other expenditures unfore-
expected to instal trunk lines 1 seen at presept. He also point.,
and the treatment lagoon. Fur- { ed .out that no provision was
then projected expenditures of !made for an` addition to SH -
some $200,000 over the next 1 DHS, although. one might be
four years would provide for necessary if the composite
laterals. A rough, estimate in- ' school at Clinton is not built.
dicates this would give dispos- (SHDHS board the same night
al service to about one-half of approved agreement f .- the
the town. county school and indications
Other anticipated expendi- are that 'the project will' be
tures include $50,000 toward undertaken.)
PUC hydro facilities; $25,000 The forecast also does not in -
toward PUC waterworks. and elude any further expansion at
the public school which ap-
pears to have reached maxiµ
mum enrolment, particularly
with the possibility of at Ieast
one separate school,
Retire $401,848
During the same period,
council will reduce the muni-
cipal debt by $401,848, an exact
� approves contracts
a�rme� county school
Clerk Pickard, presenting a
verbal report from the engi-
4.neer which hail. been 'given the t"uc not. 'board. unanimously .gave
same 'day, said Ross would no(F
approve the road because, it its; approval to an agreement
was not wide enough, did /not 1°1'the operation of the pro-
have enough gravel and the posed vacational school for Hu -
gravel that was used contained
ren County at Clinton at a spe-
too much dirt,
"As soon as the road. is com-
pleted we take some ac-
tion," said Mayor Pooley. "Mr,
Whilsmith repeatedly refuses
to do what he agrees to do.
We want the people who deal
with him to be assured that
his agreement will be met.
On the question of the regis-
tration of the subdivision plan,
night:
The agreement was to certi-
fy the distribution of costs and
student support from the four
high schools taking part in the
project,
The main concern of the
board was the costs to be ap-
propriated to each school that
sends pupils to the Clinton tech-
nical school.
The method to be used by the
vocational school i.s to estimate
•
meetng h
�l
Ra�hazardin. Janomuary teachhe number of pu-
pits frschool that drill
be attending the school. in the
at Grand Beharb�rcost ffall term and dPterne the
to each school from this
estimate.
Grand Bend village council
at its meeting Monday, re-
quested the Department; of
Public Works to take imme-
diate action. to remedy the
"critical" situation of the river
mouth.
An engineer from the depart-
ment was in the Bend, Mon-
day, taking soundings of the
water depth between the two
piers and depths ranged as
low as three feet in some
areas.
Several of the boats of the
fishing fleet operating out of
the summer :resort have expe-
rienced considerable difficulty
entering the harbor with their
boats loaded with fish,
'Ory Wessmann, president of
the Grand Bend. and Area
Chamber of Commerce, re-
ported that some of the boats
had even considered going to.
Sarnia because they w e r e
afraid of the shallow depths
at Grand Bend.
"It's a serious situation when
our own fishermen have to con.'
eider that type of action,"
Wassinann stated.
Damages boat
Last week, a 50 -foot Chris
Craft cruiser, owned by Morti•
mer Feder, Detroit, Michigan,
'Christen'
sten
e truck
fr ruk
The district's mutually-
awnd fire truck, which ar-
rived Wednesday night, gets
an official reception tonight.
Town council has invited
officials from Usborne, Hay,
and Stephen to a "christen-
ing" ceremony here during
which the machine will be
inspected and demonstrated.
The $15,000 truck, pun,
chased from C. E.• Hickey
and Sons Ltd,, was driven
here from Montreal by Cour,
ciilor Bill Musser, a t>iember
of the fire brigade. He flew
to Montreal Monday to take
delivery,
ran aground on the sand and
bent bothshafts on the twin -
engined luxury boat.
The boat had to be towed to
Sarnia, Sunday, to have the
damages repaired. Feder en-
tered the harbor earlier in the
week during a storm and had.
hit bottom as he was being
tossed by the waves.
Alfie
Daym an, docking mas-
ter,' who assisted the engineer
in taking the soundings, re•
parted that the sand had
formed to 30 to 40 -foot wide,
sand bar that extended from
the end of the south pier al-
most to the north pier.
"If the boats 'keep tight
against the north pier, they're
all right," he said, "but they
can't do it if there's a storm
or the lake is rough,"
B:e said the water was about
eight feet deep along the north
pier.
Should 'extend pier
peeve ;lames Dalton said,
"1 don't know why the depart•
ment doesn't extend the pier
to alleviate the situation alto
gether. They're spending thnti-
sands of dollars in dredging
there now."
dredged
been
The riverhas
several times but fills in after
severe storms on the lake
Councillor Stewart Webb sug•
gested the fishermen should
complaint with the depMt-
mend., "If they put up enough
ion •
holler they might get action,'
he said.
Contact officials
Clerk hurray A. Des Jat'chns
contacted the office of the; dis-
trict engineer _ ori Tuesday
morning, but C• N, Serdgge.
was out; of town for the week,
Mr. Mckay, deputy district
engineer of the departments
harbors and rivers branch,
said that the soitnclings had
been talce►t fctllowiitg a letter
from =d. W. Murphy, Lambton
MP.
Ile, Old the clerk that the
soundings Would be computed
and sent to headquarters„ and
any further directionwould
come from higher officials,
" e_ . -...,..er! that
111y personal opittron is
t.al.
a drag ]lite will be used o
legiate thep'-resetit situation and
cut a channel. between the
*Ott" he said.
Board chairman Larry Sni-
der stated: "We feel the cost
of sending the pupils to Clin-
ton will be just about the same
as to •what it is here at our
own. school."
The question was raised that
the schools might continually
estimate short of what the
probable enrolment will be.
However, it was indicated by
Eugene Howey, secretary of
the board, that the advisory
board of the vocation school
would clamp down on any
schools doing this and make the
school give a more realistic
estimate.
Carfrey Cann added: "I think
they will be trying to hit as
close as they can to what the
enrolment from their school
will be."
The technical school is going
to operate on a cash basis as
far as possible and this is the
reason why an estimate of the
total number of pupils to be
enroled in the school .in the
coming term is required.
Chairman Snider said.: "11
costs 25/ more to educate a
pupil at a vocational school
compared to an academie
school but actually we stand
to make more money since we
receive a grant of 704 of the
teaching costs atthe school and
three-attarters of the costs to
our school will be for teach -
Transportation expenses will
also take up a large portion of
the costs to South Huron but,
according to Mr. Howey, "this
is a home outlay and is sub-
ject to grants."
Where to
find it
•
Announcements ,......... 15
Church Notices 15
CmniEvents ,,, 15
Editorialsnq 4
Farm News 9
' Feminine Facts ,,,,,,,, 12, 13
tHensall 5
ucan 14
Sports 4, 7
Want Ads .... 13
n�f
The South Huron board,com-
mended the way in whichthe
government and its dep't of
education. are "bending over
backwards to try and get this
thing going."
The reason for this, accord-
ing to Mr. Snider, is because
"they feel there is a new type
of education coining to the
schools. The whole education
system is changing over to a
vocational rather than an aca-
demic one andthe government
wants to change with it."
figure based on debenture pay-
} meets to which, the town is
Two members from South Hatt committed already,
ron were delegated to sit on • Two debenture issues for
theadvisory boardthe
w o
dv son bar for.e new
Y.
technical. school, Garnet Hicks wartime housing will be paid
Usborne representative, of. the; 'off by 1964 and the loan on the
South Huron board and JimWilliam St. storm sewer wilt
b id b 1365 D b tun
•tinted ,
e repa. y e en e
Taylor, Hensall, were
app debts on the high and public
representatives of this dis-
tract.
The advisory board of the
vocational school will have the
same fua.s h. municipal assessment durinj
school hoardsnction and otwiller makehighthe five-year period was based
all. decisions connected with the on the average increase actual -
operation of, the trade school, lv experienced during the past
five years. This works out at
about 280.000 a year, or a total
of $400,000.
Projected expenditures by
years are:
Parkhill dam 1962 • $ 6,000
Sewers 2225,000
Separate school „,,.....5 40,000
schools, waterworks and arena
will be reduced.
Forecast on the increase le
NAMED TO COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD-Representi:•. ;
Exeter on the new million -dollar county composite
school board at Clinton will. be Garnet Hicks, right, Us-
borne representative on the SHDHS board, and Jim
Taylor, Hensall, representing area industry. Mr. Hicks
is also secretary of Usborne schoolarea board. Mr. Tay-
lor has been a member of Hensall public school board
for five years and is resident sales .manager. of General
Coach Works of Canada Ltd.
TOTAL 2271,000
Debt retirement $ 76,415
1963
PUC Hydro 2 25,000
PUC Water .. 5 15,000
Sewers .... $ 75,000
TOTAL 5115,000
Debt retirement, 1964
.2 79,480
PUC Hydro $ 15000
PUC Water 2 10,000
Sewers 5 50,000
Separate School $ 20,000
\t $ 95,000
De'.t retirement $ 81,147
1945
$ 50,000
Sewers
"OTAL e 50,000
Debt retirement. 8 80,717
1966
PUC hydro . >; 10,000
Sewers -.. ..............S 25,000
Separate School $ 20,000
TOTAL 5 55,000
Debt. retirement :$ 84,089
WINS STEREO.
Mrs. Irvine Armstrong won
a portable stereo by convict-
in contest spon-
soredt 1 a p
ut a jingle Forrn N��rr l �
g
;t g
sored by a welt knewn food
.. e f
irni,
v of 300 third.
• ._
Shc was enc
appoint area officers
raze winners.
An a,eelication for a New nration of a ;arty in Canadian
Party Club was forwarded to
the national committee for the
'r a result of the
Party .s e
New 1
�i v V
meeting held 'ail the town hall,
Friday night.
politics thathas been three
years in the making.
Have you ev r heard of a
e
�:r oater
More democratic tvay of start-
ing a Party," he asked? "1
Applications there rcceivecl
am not here to sell you some -on s .1 , t e
from l Clinton which indicated i thing, I am here to aslc you to
become a part 111 making lHs
that, a club could be started in t
the , i•ea 'as well, conntry the best in the world.
f a 1 It can only become that by
Gcotge Rielier,. the organ- having the mo ofcl critic
Feet from the Ontario coni-} ..._._ .. d . ..end
ovcrnment that takes are of
inittee for the 'New Party, told its own people first. "
those present, that ire would be Will_ Glazier, Chnt0n, was
spending a lot of time 111 t:he elected acting nresident of the
area. He said that he found the Exeter club although lie will: -
farmers
very interested in the prababl transfer to the Clitt- !
new political movement. Y When i
p ,., ton group when it is formed.
"The New ,.'Party, will be Alvin Guilford, Exeter, 'was
what you make it," he said. named acting secretary.
"Not teenthe name is known Directors include ,1. E, Ce•
at present, If t'ou clo not be- Ivan, M. L. Melutyre, C. W,
neve that Fattier of the old town, of the Exeter attic, '1y,.
job can do the then you Van dei° Wier, RR '1 Wood'
should be
i represented at the barn Robert, Johnston and,9
founding convention. Through 14Trs, hired: ;Johnston, Mlutton,
your delegates, your voice can About 30 persons attended
be heard in Ottawa in the for- I the tiiceting.
Although safety officials
stress the point of having 'too
many people in a boat, a'.
Quebec start found out it: is
an offcned fiat to have enough:
people in your boat.
The charge was laid b,
Constable Murray Semple on.
Monday when he spotted Eagle-
son all alone in his boat while
he was towing a .skier. The
charge 'ivts laid 'under the
"Canada Shipping Ad,
The regulations state that at
lust two Persons enlist be in:
a 'boat while.another person i5
being towed
1 t. r $tins, Be
on in a e
sides the driver, there must be.
one other.' t0 watelt 'tile skier
in ease of accident or diffia.
bully,