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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-01-11, Page 9• • Dufferin Hotel Grand Opening r. -e4 Lounge for sportsmen With symbols of the old west on wall panels and drapes, this dining lounge is designated as the "Sportsmen's Room" at the Dufferin Hotel, Centralia, it seals 30 and caters Informally with breakfast, luncheon, dinner, or snack menus. Although the Dufferin once was one, of the many saloons in the area, Its present modern :facili- ties are decidedly different from the old days. They'll be open for inspection this Friday night. —T-A photo Hensall council ^WO 'rho Tirnes-A wry, 11 Ciood: Luck to :Centralia's ,Modern Hot.01.1 The Chef cooks with GAS The Dufferin Hotel uses gas to. prepare its .delic, 1011s meals because it'S. fast, clean, even heat, - You, too, should have modern gas range in yotW;.. home. Call us- for prices./ Bottled Gas and Gas Appliances Grafton Hotson SALES AND SERVICE Phone 156.W Grand Bend 4 p Consider perjury 13 pieta of beer and part bottle of whiskey. `"The authorities might well —have charged you .fer being under age," the magistrate told, the youth. "You MAY feel YOU are •close enough but the line. has to be drawn some place and you just have to wait until that time", Ti fens e lawyer, Douglas Page, London, pointed. out -the youth's father was pointed, court And said be. would see that it did not happen again. 'He's still able to take his aon to .the woodshed, its he?",. Magistrate Hays questioned. Chester Cornish, Exeter,' who pleaded guilty. to .a charge of being unlawfully intoxicated in apuhtic place ..and for having wine in a place other. than his residence, was fined a total of $35.80 on the two charges. He was picked up on the first charge after Chief C. Mac- Kenzie received a complaint that, the man was • wandering along the street near his home in an intoxicated condition en January 3, The second charge was laid by Constable Lloyd Hodgins en Dec. 24, when he spotted Cor- nish walking along the street with the top of a wine bottle protruding from his coat pocket. Cornish spent the night and part of. the next day in jail, before he was released on bail. Failed to yield Two area drivers, Mrs, Mar- garet Kirkton, and Bar- ad:it Sturgis, Exeter, were both. fined after they pleaded, guilty to similar charges of failing to yield the right of way. Mrs. Allen was fined $10.00 and costs after she had, be- conic involved ana accident at an intersection near her home. She said, she did not know that she had to yield the. right of way In the car on the right, and further explained that she could not see the other car due to a sharp rise in the road. "You have, to he very, very careful", the magistrate point- ed out to her. "It can be a fatal mistake not 'to know the laws of the road". ' Sturgis was fined $5.00 and costs for failing to yield the right of way at a yield sign at the corner of William and Gid. ley streets on Nov. 24, when he was struck by another car that had the right of way. "I wasn't sure of the mean- ing of the yield sign", he stat- ed, "and felt had plenty of time to get through the inter- section", Be said be had made a mis- taken judgment of the speed of the approaching car. Lorne Ballantyne, 24, 'RR 3 Exeter, was fined $10.00 and costs after pleading guilty to a charge of failing to turn out to the right to allow half the road for an oncoming vehicle. Ballantyne had been attempt- ing to turn into his laneway when he was struck by an on- coming car while he was in the process of making his left hand turn into the lane, He reported he had not seen the car because it had only one light and he had been hindered. I in seeing the car due, to the fact j , h:arg.es that the automobile following it was .driving with. its bright. lights, Pcrilad to repert Alvin Macicenuaa formerly of Boo Statioa. Centralia, and; now stationed in Ottawa, was fined a total of VS.00 and coats after he pleaded guilty to the two charges in a letter to the cour t. Ile was charged with failing to report an aPcident and fail' ing to stop at a stop sige. The charges were laid after he was involved in an accident with a car driven by Peter Toornstra• at the intersection of the Crab.- ton and Centralia roads. /11.a Oconee, south-bound on the concession road, failed to stop and struck the .other car which was making a left hand turn as it came clown from Centralia. The two went to Exeter and were given an estimate of the damage to Toorest.res. car and he was paid $140.00 in cash by AlacKenna al that time. Joornstra was previously con- victed of failing to report the accident. Robert. 1), Ayers, Melon, was fined $2500 and costs. for failing to file his 1960 Income tax returns, — Continued from page 1 $3,000,00. Councillor John, Baker poin- ted out that the $3,500.00 sal- ary "was still not too much," "The average laborer gets that much," he said, "Laborers don't usually have to put in the hours that Ernie does, either," Mrs, Noakes said. She pointed out that Da- vis had worked most of Sun- day attempting to get someone to sand the streets. Clerk Earl Campbell was also given a $250.00 pay bike, bring- ing his lake-home total to $2,250,00. Council also set up a scale to give the clerk an in- crease of $100,00 for each sub' aequent year until his salary reaches $2,500.00, Reeve Norman Jones pointed out that "there's much more work to the clerk's job than there used to be." "It's almost a full-time job, now," Minnie Noakes replied. Install lights . After a lengthy delay, coun- cil fleetly gave the Hensali PDC permission to install 12 fluorescent lights in the busi- ness section and more, the pre- sent lights to intersections on King street. The request had been before touncit on two previous meet- ings but had not been passed because the PVC had not given an estimate of the cost Of the work, However, they learned, Mon- day, that the present lighting bill would only be. increased $194,32 per year, This figure also includes cost of installa- tion. "It's for the betterment at main street, that's fee sure," councillor Noakes said, Knight suggested that coune oil also consider better light- ning on the out-skirts of, the village. "You're into town be- fore you realize it," he said. "Most people don't start slow- Mg clown when they come in from Zurich until they reach the railroad tracks." Following a request from Stephen township, council de- cided to send the clerk and reeve and Lorne Hay, the vii' lage representative on the Ausable Authority to a meet- ing to be held in Stephen in connection with the proposed P'arkhill darn, However, their solicitor, W, G. Cochrane, QC, Exeter, said in a letter that he doubted if much could be gained by such a meeting, He pointed out that. the meeting was open to all members of councils in, all the Municipalities and said that as many as 150 people could be in attendance, He also noted that further delays in the col strection. of the dam could cost all the et- nicipalities more money be- cause the 75% which is covered by Federal and Provincial grants .is dependent upon the work being. conipleted three years, of• which one has already expired. , "The attendance at th e meet- mg is up to council," Coch- rane said, "but I see no .bent- fit from such a meeting," NO cianeer The source of the volatile odor that has plagued some re- sidents since November is still a mystery, but an official from the Fire 'Marshall's office has reported. that there is no clan- ger of an explosion. An engineer was sent by the Toronto office to investigate the situation but could not, find the source of the ga.s or oil, that is evident in some drains. He took several tests and re- ported he couldn't final any- thing of an explosive nature. In other business, council: Granted permission for reeve Norman Jones and clerk Earl Campbell to attend the meet- ing of the Ontario Association of Rural Municipalities to be held in Toronto on February 12. and 13. Issued a building permit to Ed Fink 'to alter the former fish and chip establishment and make downstairs apart- iil Decided to prepay 56,000 in taxes to the, County of Huron, Set semmil tee:, The following committees and hoards were net up at; the in- augural meeting: Relief administration— Nor- man Jones. Ausable Authority — Lome Hay. Building Inspector — Dave Sangster. Street committee — John Henderson, Harold Knight. Property committee — Me Noakes and John Baker, alWODA representatives — Minnie Noakes and. Norman Jones. 11 ev. B oss 'M a cDonald of Carmel Presbyterian Church gave the invocation at the in- augural meeting. Town topics a • :aa'aaa, . Mrs. Oran Moir, St. Catha- rines, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Frayne and Earl and other relatives the past week, Mrs. Homer Matz, Cass City, meet of Mrs. Cecil Skinner, town, died in her 74th year. Her. husband, Homer Matz, was a former Credit:on resident. Mr. Glen. Belling of the Bank of Nova Scotia, and Miss Jo- anne Scott, of Kingston, Ja- maica, are. speeding two weeks with Mr, and Mrs, Robert Bel- ling, Gar,v Rowctiffe returned to Agricultural College, Ridge- town, after spending the holi- days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, William Reaveliffe, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Delbridge left Tuesday for a holiday in Jamaica , Mrs. Harry Strang is. visiting th is week in Toronto. She will attend today (Thutaday) the 60th anniversary of the WMS of Woodbridge Presbyterian church where her mother was president for many years, —Continued :from pago 1. the car", the magistrate said, "It really axt gr answered. "You were really worrying?" th e magistrate .asked 'bun , et was", Baxter replied,• I had known there was other beer in the car f would have got •out". .15iecks. statement Gill testified that .he was the sole owner of the beer and had 1.10 three bottles out of a case of-12 in •ear before -going up Own that evening. He said he. left the other bottles at home In the refrigerator, He told the. magistrate that. he bad only one beer 'that night, "If you'd go en a fool's jaunt. up the beach on one 'beer, rd hate to think what you might do with five", the magistrate said. Gill slated that he peaked up the. other two men at a restaur- ant and they had not been, drinking and bad decided to drive up the beach when Bea- ter het him that he could not do it , Different story However, Tiedernan, who did not get to court until the after- noon session, furnished the court with an entirely different story of the incident which took place after midnight on Dec. 22. Ile said the two men picked him -up on the street and at that time, they were accom- panied by Tiedeman's brother, Walter. tie said they drove around for awhile and then took Walter to get his car. The three returned to the beach and started to drink from a ease of 24 bottles that was in the back seal: of Gill's car. He reported that they had a couple each after Gill had. told him, "don't be shy of the beer in the. back seat". They then drove north on the beach and parked their car and took the case of beer and put it under the steps of a cottage nearby. He said that Gill got out of the car and brought back three more beers for them to drink, "When we saw the officers, Baxter threw his out the win- dow and. 1 poured mine on the floor", lie said. Tiedeman explained that he did. not; drive a ear and had not appeared in court because the other two had not picked him up before coming, to Ex- eter for Tuesday's session, "Mere may well be a signifi- cance in Mr. Gill's failure to pick you up", the magistrate said. other liquor offencet Gerald Latta, 20, London, was fined 520.00 and costs after he pleaded guilty to a charge of illegal possession of alcohol. He was stopped. In Exeter by Constable Lloyd Hodgins, who smelled the odor of beer on. his breath. Latta told the officer he. did not have a key for' his glove compartment or the trunk, both of which were locked. However, the officer took the youth's 'keys and opened the glove compartment and found Name reps in Hibbert The Judge was stern, and righteously indignant. "I can't think of anything worse than a man beating up his wife." he said to the defendant. "What made you do it?" "Well," said the cunning man, "She kept saying, 'Hit me! Go ahead and hut me! I'll have you brought. before that laid-headed old baboon of a udge and hell fix you!' " Members of Elbhert 'Council at the inaugural meeting sign- ing the declaration of office were Reeve Earl R. Dick, Councillors A, Ducharme, C, Toney, H. Norris and J. Drake, Rev, A,. Daynard opened the :meeting with scripture read- ing and prayer, • A bylaw was passed appoint- ing the following officials: Dr, M. Stapleton, MOH; W, O'Brien, sanitary inspector and school attendance officer; E, R. Dick, BOIL It. Burchill, sec. BOII; T. Laing, weed inspector; C. Kerslake, livestock valuator Reeve, Dick was appointed member of the Ausable Author- ity and Clerk Burchill named as welfare •administrator for 1962. The regular meetings for 1562 will be held on the first Monday in each month, at, 1 p.m, for the months of jam, uarY, February, March, No- vember and December, and from April to October at 8 p,m.. Mrs, Lloyd Elliott was hired as caretaker for the 'township hall. It was our privilege to install the Plumbing in the hotel We Salute The DUFFERIN HOTEL et .0.44.44a. Jas. L. Leitch Phone BA 7.4234 Lucan Our, prices are as reasonable as our service is reliable, Call us for estimates when you need plumbing installations or repairs, LONDON Phone GL 1.8000 is a proud contributor toward the remodelling of the A bouquet to the new DUFFERIN HOTEL On Hs Grand Opening This Week Plastering Done By Leslie A. Ritchie 435 Leverage St. LONDON LANGFORD Best Wishes to the Dofferin Hotel from DOBSON Interiors tastefully decorated and furnishect.by congratulates the buffo-6n Hotel On its Official Opening this week We Wit416 pleased to supply Itictib6e And building preikiefi atid lredeteratiett 5LE US ti .5t FOlt: YOUk itU11.151N6 1178-0UlitEMENtS When 'Y'ou' ViS4 fine Dutteriiii You'll Be Protected tfy A tsurebte Dobson Roof Phone 285 Exeter Phone 227,4277 -1