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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-07-27, Page 3st s. r, s. of Mutual fire .ad:••• follows truck?. • A eitIttial Aid , plan for !Went, et:I-Operative fire pi Option threegheet the Sou Htlron district may result fro the purchase of the new fi truck by Exeter and Usbern StePhert and Ilay tewnships, was revealed Thursday nig during the "christening' car Melly for the machine. Ontario Eire Marshall F. Anderson, Guelph, announc that he will prepare shortly plan under which the nernero fire departments in , the ar ce-ordinate their servic to provide for organized an complete fire protection f the entire district, The plan must be approve by all the municipalities an fire department which will b involved before it will tak effect. ' The mutual aid program ha hcen discussed in Huron h fore but never seriously co Metered in this area becaus of the lack of equipment. Th new machine. however, rem dies this conditioe, Under the plan, the area o service for each brigade wi be accurately defined. as we as the manner in which extr echines can be. called int e-rvice in the event of majo fees. A chain of assistance 1 e teblished under which eac .e..cemmunity is protected eve when its own machine is calle to another district. Asks "master plan" Reeve Glenn Webb, Stephen, •celled for the development of Seine type of "master plan" wider which the services of the various machines could, be co- cirdinated. His proposal was supported by Fire Chief Irwin Ford, Ivho noted that it was important from the standpoint of the new emergeney measure, or civil defence, organization. Fire Marshall Anderson said he hoped to submit such a plan to the community in the near future, Officials of the four partici- pating municipalities met on Thursday night to inspect the new machine and to attend a reception sponsored by Exeter at the Legion hall. Exeter fieetnen, assisted by a representative • of the manu- facturer, C, E, Hickey and Sons Ltd.. demonstrated the truck's ability to pump water at the high, school grounds, Five hoses were spewing out aeproximately 625 gallons a memte through the maghine. Afterwards at the Legion hall. Fire Marshall Anderson said be was "(mite impressed with the truck" and stressed the importanee of the protection it would provide to the area. He larded the municipal represent- atives for the "gciod job ,you he'se done ihi providing your relizens with adequate fire, Welting equipment' . Chief Irwin Ford expressed the appreciation of himself arid the members of the fire brig- ade to the municipalities for the purchase of the machine. "We have been fighting for this for •a long time because we felt it was needed." Lauds co-operators ef. th 111 re e, it ht e - C. ed a 4$ ea Ps or cl d e e $ e- n - e e e - f 11 11a 0 r s n d Mayor Pooley lauded the co- operative spirit shown by all the municipalities invelved in providing for mutual protection. He also stressed appreciation to the fire brigade for its faith - fill services throughout .the years. Usborne's reeve. Clayton Smith, noted that the purchase has increased his township's tax rate this year by two mills. However, "I. think the money New officer OAC grad John T. "Terry" McCauley, 29, Bowmanville, a graduate of OAC, succeeds H. G. "Hal" Hooke as field officer of the Aesable authority here. The t r a nsfer becomes effective August 1. Mr. McCauley has been field officer for three conservation authorities in the Peterborough district since 1959, when he was .appointed to permanent staff t of the Dept. of Commerce and /Development. - Mr, Hooke takes over as field officer for the three authorities which Mr. !McCauley served — Central Lake Ontario, Ganar aska and Otonabee Region — plus a new one just formed, the Crowe River. The transfer appears to cater to the interests of both officers. Mr. Hooke; a graduate in for- e'stri y, will be n, charge of the conserve tion program in the forest areas around Peterbor- ough, Mr. McCauley's OAC background, specializing in field crops, will assist him in pro- moting conservation farm prac- tices in the Ausable Watershed. A rtakive of Brantford, Mr. McCauley attended sehools in Montreal and Toronto before entering OAC. He graduated with his BScA degree in '59. He worked with the Ausable au- thority during the summer of '59 and that fall spent several months with the Grand Valley authority in Guelph. His wife, Marilyn, a native of New Liskeard, is a graduate of Macdonald Hall, Guelph, and has accented a home eco- nomics teaching position with Seaforth District High School for the coming year. The McCauleys ha Ve tWo children, Norman, 19 month, and Alisha, now 10 weeks old, They have moved into the Wein hrnise on the corner of Main and Simcoe, recently Va, cated by John Burke, At townienville, Mr. McCait- ey served es secretary end liulletin editor of the neWly- forined Kiwenis club there, His !lobbies include tennis,* chess Juld photography, has been Weil spent". Reeve Glenn Webb, Stephen, stated "thls is the first time something ince this has been tried in our area—I'm sure it Will be succeesfill", Reeve V, L. BecJter May, was impressed with the equip- ment. He hoped it would never have to be used but, if it was, he felt confident it would do a good job. Dan Dailey, the Hickey rep resentatiee, rioted that the district has not experienced the tragedy of loss of life through fire in recent years. He hoped the maphine would help maintain that record in the future. The new truck will feed water throtigh six lines --three 21/24nch hoses; two 1.Ve-inch, and one one -inch high pressure hose, The one -inch high pressure hose, which can be fed from the 500 -gallon storage tank im- mediately on arrival at the scene, is broken. up into small sections to prevent current flow through the hose in the event of an electrical blaze. Specifications of the machine include a gross vehicle weight of 25,000 pounds; a 245 engine which gives it a top cruising.; speed of from 65 to 75 mph. Equipped, the truck Will weigh about five tons, Seek funds for new flag Donations are being received toward the purchase of a new 161st Battalion flag for pre- servation in Trivitt ‘Memorial Anglican Church,' according to Mayor R. E. Pooley. The mayor, Max Harness and Kenneth McLaughlin at the Bank of Nova Scotia are accepting contributions toward the flag which must be custom- made since there are none available. The 161st Battalion is the unit under which many district veterans served during the first world war. Wally Wein sports figure Wallace G. Wein, 46, Dash- wood, prominent sports figure, died Tuesday night in Victoria Hospital. He has 'been hi fail- ing health for the past two years, Closely connected with Dash- wtiod's" ball andhockey. teams for many years, Mr. Wein served as a member of the On- tarWBaseleall A.Ssociation for several years. He also was president of the Huron -Perth Baseball League and president of the Cyclone Hockey League. A farmer, he operated a sub- stantial acreage in the Dash- wood area. He also served as a cattle buyer and was em- ployed for a number of years by district hatcheries. Funeral .service will be held Friday at 2.30 p.m. in the T. Harry Hoffman Funeral Home, Dashwood, with Rev. M. James officiating. Interment will be in Dashwood Evangelical UB cemetery. Pallbearers will be Milford Merrier, Mervyn Tiernan, Sid Baker, Elgin Kipfer, Ralph Weber and Harold Stire. He was the son of the late John and Ann Wein, Dashwood. Surviving besides his wife, the former Ninia Smith, Ptarkhill, are one'son, William; two sis- ters, Mrs. Gordon (Kahle) Baynham, Exeter, and Mrs. Harry (Margaret) Parsons, Detroit; three brpthers, Ken- neth, Grand Bend; Floyd, Dashwood, and Sheldon, Strat- ford. Tribute is .aid to the former sports figure by Derry Boyle in his column, "Boyle's Ban- ter," this week on page six. Eighty -Eighth Year 'Emergency measure' Order dredging othar or xeferz EKETER, ONTARIO, JULY 21, 1961 Price Per ,Copy 10 Cents SHE'LL THROW LOTS OF WATER !—Exeter firemen put the new fire truck to the test Thursday night to show district officials how well she could perform. Through its six lines, the truck can pour 625 gallons a minute at 150 pounds pressure. She carries three 21/2 -inch lines, two 11/2 -inch lines and one one -inch high pressure hose which can be put into play immediately on arrival. Streams will go as high as 130 feet and as far as 210 feet. The truck, with a 245 h.p. motor, has a cruising speed of from 65 to 75 m.p.h. and will weigh about five tons equipped. Equipment includes a portable pump to allow firemen to use rivers, creeks or farm ponds —T -A photo Grand Bend council was informed by wire Wednesday that an emergency contract hi;c1 been let by the federal deet of public Workto dredge the dangerous shoal in its .harbor, ' Clerk Murray Des Jardins said the contract has been let to Lee .Terinison, grand Bend, to dredge 1,600 eubic yards from the shoal. Thetelegramdescribed the work as an "emergency over 200 yachts during the me summer season. it's expected Jennison will Recently, a large American start the work Monday. A 'cruiser ran aground on the dragline will be employed to shoal and suffered further remove the fill, damage because of the difficult Earlier this week, Grand entrance. Bond. Chamber of Coriamerce sent a wire to Public Works Minister F. C. Walker pointing the harbor. More stickyout the "critical situation" in The chamber said the re - was almost unable to g,et in ? sort's commercial fishing fleet! days coming and out and several operators were considering moving else- There's more sticky weather where, The industry represents and thunderstorms on the way, a gross revenue of about $150,- according to the met 'section 000, plus an investment of; at RCAF Station Centralia. over $259,090. The chamber also noted that Forecast indicates thunder- Aenerican yacht publications storms probably Thursday snitigelgeerfollwoewaethderby onwwarmerand °havefthe carried shallow 71:epic:Is a v aGranding Bend. The. resort plays host te It should cool off lae toward tSunday, however. Although the weather has been abnormal for July, it asn't set any records. Rainfall for the . month to ate has been 9,49 inches, This mount has been exceeded by our Julys during the past 14 faelliarnsg, thihe jgrioya:tels9t5,07..73 inches, So far, there have been '10 days with thunderstorms this month. In, 1948, there were 14 during July. Rainfall has been recorded five of the past seven days when the heaviest fall of 1.26 inches on Thursday, July 20.. Showers Monday totalled near- ly an iech. Humidity, high most of the week, hit 100% Tuesday night. It held from about 11 p.m. Tuesday until daylight Wednes- day. The high for the week was SS degrees on Sueday. Low of 48 was recorded late Wednes- day night, July 19. SIGN COMPOSITE SCHOOL CONTRACTS-4feeting in the •Clinton' District Collegiate Institute Thursday, July 20, chairxnen'fancrsecretaries of four • secondary schefok boardssigned contracts regarding the sharing of costs in 'operating the proposed new 'vocationa1 school to be built in Clinton. Seated, from the left; with pens in hand (each one signed five copies) are chairmen William Craig, Auburn, Goderich. Collegiate; Irvine Tebbutt, Clinton; Larry Snider, SOuth Huron District High School, and 11 ugersans mterested to tour General plant Although newspaper and gerian discussions are one of a number of developments which have resulted from Gen- eral's interest in export trade, which began about three years ago. "We feel there is a lot of potential in the export • market," he stated. 'Earlier this year, Mr. Smith and other company representa- tives took part in the export sales conference at Ottawa arranged by Hon. George ' Hees, federal minister of trade and commerce. "At that time we talked to representatives from 28 foreign countries," the general manager revealed. Complete govt' contract Eight units manufactured by General under a contract front the justice dept' have been delivered and are being set up now at Petawawa. The units include bunkhouse, kitchen, dining unit and washrooms for penitentiary inmates. F ill left,Douald M. Scott, inspector, secondary stkols; Jehn. rank s, Seaforth High School. Standing, from the LavClinton, tice-chairman, Cwho -witnessed' all'signa- tures;.. Harold C. Lawson, secretary, Clinton; Eugene Howey, secretary, Exeter; W. E.- Southgate, secretary, Seaforth, and D. John Cochrane, principal of CDCI and! of the proposed new school. The secretaries applied the official seal of their own school districts. —News -Record photo Four HS boards sign contacts to operate composite school The co-operation of four high retary Ed. Jessop was absent), and from Clinton, Irvine Teb- butt, RR 2, Clinton, chairman, and Harold. C. Lawson, secre- tary; John Lavis, vice-chair- man,witnessed the signatures. This moves the initial plan- ning for the new vocational school one more step along the way. The signing followed the receipt of tentative approval from the dept. of education for the addition as planned. Form advisory board From now on the next step is for each of the co-operating boards to name two'representa- tiyes to the vocational advisory committee (C 11 n t on names school districts in. Huron County toward erection of a composite vocational school was made of- ficial Thursday night, when chairmen and secretaries of each board met in Clinton Dis- trict Collegiate Institute to sign the contract agreements. Each signed five copies and affixed the official seal of his board. Attending were: from Exeter, Larry Snider, chairman, and Eugene Howey, secretary; from Seaforth, Frank Sills, chairman, and W. E. Southgate, secre- tary; from Goderich, William Craig, Auburn, chairman, (sec - Retiring ARCA officer receives f�ssiI tributes H. G. "Hal" Hooke, retiring field officer of the Ausable Authority, received unique gifts in tribute to his six years of conservation service to the watershed during an informal farewell picnic in Riverview Park Friday night He was presented with a pen holder and hook ends made out of petrified :fossils from famous Rock Glenn, near Ar - NEW FIELD OFFICER I; Ti McCauley kona, where the Authority has established one of its popular parks, The presentation was made by Chairman Freeman Hodgins following tributes from a num- ber of the authority officers, Mrs. Hooke received a silver candy dish from. Mrs, Carl Hume, the authority's new secretary -; treasurer and Mr. Hooke's stenographer during his tenure here, Almost all of the Authority inembete and their wives from the 24 municipalities in .the watershed attended the fare- well fete. In a prepared address, Chair- , inan Hodgins said Mr, Hooke had progressed "from one dem development to another" dur- ing his service with ARCA, - "When yoti came to us, the Eseter (Morrison) dam had been proposed and was thout to be built. As you leave us, the Parkhill dam has been proposed and is about 14 be The chairman cited some of the highlights of the authority's progresS Since Mr, Hooke was appointed its first permanent field officer in 1955. "We have worked together le the field of conservation and have Watched the A u s a b 1 e authority develop: the fent Ponds from about a hundred In over 800; our Atisable forest frtim about SOO acres to about 3,000 acres; our recreation areas from one at Arkona and one at Port Franks to the six we now have. We have to- gether seen the Ausable mouth at Port Franks change from the new to the old, to the new and back to the old." Form e r •ARCA Chairman John Morrison praised the field officer for the co-operation he had given to authority officials over the years. "For diligence, hard work and staying -with -it, Hal Hooke has W'. Vice-chairman W e 1 1 i n gton Brock lauded the contribution both Mr. and Mrs. 'Hooke have made to community life in Exeter and area. "They took part in many worthwhile at- tivities and have been gob(' citizens", C. E. "Zeb" Janes, Lampton East MPP and a member of the Authority: "We're sorry to see Hal go—he has done an excellent job", Other tributes were paid to the field officer by AndreIv Dixon and Larry Scales, the zone forester at Stratford whO was a classmate of Mr, Hooke's, The picnic was Arranged by the public relations advisory board under Chairman Lithe Hay, Mr. Hooke leaves Attgiot to assume field officer duties for 'few' conservation authori- tieS in the Peterborough dist- rict, three) making up a nine -mem- ber committee.'In each case, a board Member is to be named, plus another member from in- dustry (either an employer or an employee). Then the Clinton board meets and officially appoints those recommended to act on the ad- visory committee. So far Exeter is the only board to make its recommendations: A. Garnet Hicks, Usborne Township farm- er, and James Taylor, Hensall, resident sales manager of Gen- eral Coach Works of Canada, Ltd. Though Mr. Hicks is secre- tary of Usborne Public School area board and Mr. Taylor «has been a member of Hensall pub- lic school board for five years, it is not expected, nor intended that connection with public school boards should be a rand. site of membership on the vo- cational advisory committee. Duties of the advisory com- mittee through the next year, are expected to include plan- ning for the various courses to he offered in the new school. The Clinton District Collegiate Institute board will be essen- tially responsible for the, con- struction of the new building, and later on for the operation of it, but on recommendation of the advisory committee, Neither Seaforth, Clinton or Goderich boards have made their appointments yet. To hire architects Among first tasks of the new advisory committee and the Clinton board will be to ' hire an architect. Then blue- prints can be prepared; they must he approved by the On- tario dent. of education and then tenders can be called. 11=4=teiTeenieVe4=ele:Jeee.',ee; Where to find it Announcements 0, 13 Church Notices 13 Coming Events 13 Editorials 4 Farm News 9 Feminine Facts 0 Hens. II / Lucan 12 Sports ,.. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ........ 41 / Want Ads 3, 11 It is essential that the new building be finished by opening day of school in the fall of 1962. This is -the first composite school which will be governed by more than one school board to gain approval of the Ontario dept. of education. Until now, each vocational school has been erected by one board, and then it has (if the situa- tion warranted it), opened the school to pupils in 'other dis- tricts. This applies to H. B Beal Technical School and to s Clarke Sideroad school, both in v London. Students from Huron a County have been enrolled in n each of these schools. In these h cases, the school district from which the pupil comes pays for tuition at the London school. radio reports last week were exaggerated, the Nigerian gov't is definitely interested in the purchase of mobile units from General Coach Works of Canada Ltd., Hensall, it was confirmed Wednesday by Wil- liam C. Smith, general man- ager. IMr. Smith said Nigerian rep- resentatives are expected to visit the Hensel plant within the next, 30 days to see how the units are constructed, They will also visit other Canadian industries during their tour of Canada. The delegation will he ac- companied by a multi -linguist manufacturer's agent, Steve Z. Laufer, Montreal, who is Gen- eral Coach's African represen- tative. Mr. Smith indicated that earlier reports of a $500,000 contract being negotiated were not correct. "All we know at the moment is that they are hewing definite interest. No alue has been established for contract; no delivery date, o starting or ' ending dates ave been arranged." He confirmed, however, that the negotiations may lead to "a big thing for Hensall." No mobile homes are In- olved in the negotiations, he larified, "We are talking bout mobile health clinics, chools, libraries and similar units -- it's more along our industrial line." Mr. Smith revealed the Ni - POLICE CHIEF IMPROVES vc Chief C. H. MacKenzie, who a Is ill in Victoria Hospital, Lon- don, is improving favorably, He will be in hospital at least another three weeks, %.. , • •-•.•.). • ANOTHER CAMERA WINNER—Cpl. Herman Reufeld, Huron Park, tries out the movie camera he won this !week in The TkAYS "Milne of the Weer' feature, He's 'the feurth Welty perStni it) Capture the prize Father 1of fotir boy a and two gititt the corporal. has plenty of I Subject* for his movie.making* --T-A photo Lad admits area assault A 19 -year-old Zurich youth. Lynn Barry Doerr, pleaded guilty in magistrate's court here Tuesday to indecent assault involving small boys. He was remanded in custody in county jail at Goderich until Thursday when he will appear for sentence. Magistrate Glenn Hays, QC, requested examination of the youth by two doctors for a re, port at Thursday's sitting. Doerr was not representecl. by counsel. The youth was charged Mon- day and arrested Tuesday by PC George Mitchell, Exeter' detachment. The alleged offencetook place in Zurich and Hay town- ship. Big. crowds despite rain. Despite the rainy weather of the past two weeks, good crowds have been attending the Sunday evening gospel services at the 8tarlite DriVe- In Theatre, Shipka. The showers have prompted the committee to enlarge its slogan, Which ft 6 W reads: "Come as yeti are end hear from your car --and if it rains, still the Same". Over 100 ear's, with an esti- mated 450 to 500 people attend- ed Sunday night's service to hear Dr. Harry Faught of the Danforth Gospel Tabernacle, Toronto. He Spoke ori the sec- ond coming of Chtiat, Dr. Faught and Paul 1V1ilid4 the outstanding trumpet' SO10, ist, supplied :Special intisid, -416iise Mtn to page 2 •