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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-02-08, Page 1Eighty•Eigh h Year 37 ER, PNTAR.1 -.FORVARY 190 Price 'Per Copy 1Q cent4 Town council Monday night approved A. telephone system for the police dep't which. will permit citizens to make con- tact with the force 24 hours a. clay. The system, proposed by Police Chairman Fisher and Mayor Simmons, includes five GB to air water plans Grand. Bend council has call- ed a public meeting to be held in the town hall, Tuesday, to answerratepayers' questions concerning the proposed water system for the summer resort. Councillor 'Earl Deters, a member of the. water commit- tee, reported that five appeals had already been registered with the clerk and said the Meeting was called in the hope Of stopping other appeals from ratepayers. "Other people may he con- sidering entering' appeals," he stated, "but may not if they have the answers," He added the meeting was also Webbed in the hope of creating mote interest in the project and. en- lightening residents on some of the aspects of it. Prank Campbell, projects of- ricer of the OWRC, and Jack Norman,. an engineer of M. M. Dilloh Company, London, the consulting engineers on the project, will be on heed to atiewer the questions, This is the .first public meet- leg called to expleitt the de- tails to the residents. Welfare costs show itiCreaSe Town's welfare payments this winter are the highest they've been for many years, Council Monday night approv- ed expenditures or nearly $800 for relief, groceries, fuel, sup- Momentary old age assistance and nursing Dottie care. for in- digents. Six persons hi We town are now receiving the supplement', ary assistance of $20 a month. Council accepted responsibil, ity for another indigerit patient Monday night. tit most instances, the town is reimbursed for $0 per cent of the welfare costs by the provincial gov't, NEW CAdO SIL G. C. E. Theriault has been named chief administration officer of RCAF Station Centralia. He replaces Allan 0. Puttonen, who retired at the end of Janu- ary. A native of Gaspe, Que., S/L Theriault came to Cent- ralia in December, 1960. -RCAF photo Hay sup t retires James Masse, Zurieh, has retired as road superintendent of Hay township after Serving In that position fee 18 years, Council Accepted his reeienes Lion Monday, It became effect- ive:February Appointed acting superintend- ent isf Doug Armstrong, the township's grader operator. Mr, Massa, who will be 12 in May, was (tamed road MO in 1944, Previegs CO thet he served with the department of highways for hind yearS, li`cather of one of Canada's largest families ahildren, Mr. Masse and his late wife celebrated their golden ivied' ding antilVaraary July, 1060., Mrs. Messe died One month 'licit last of. their Child,. 04 WAS Inertled in 1058. CHIEF MAGISTRATES PAY TRIBUTE TO L. J. PENHALE Former chief magistrates join in Penhale tribute Negotiations are continuing still in regard to the provision of accommodation at Clinton for students from SHDHS this coming September, The board learned the ad- visory hoard for the composite school had agreed in Novem- ber not to plan to open the vocational training until Sep- tember, 1963, which would leave the SHDHS hoard with a serious accommodation prob- lem, However. further negotia- tions are being made with the Clinton board, it was indicat- ed. Sets policy for busses The board learned that Mr, Guenther, because of his con- tract, felt he was duty-bound to send his busses an the routes if at all possible, In order to lessen his respons- ibility in this regard, the board passed the resolution giving him. permission to use his own discretion. The board felt the parents should accept some respons- ibility in sending their child- ren, particularly since it is impossible for the school of- ficials to know the weather conditions throughout the area. Parents are not required to send their children if they feel the weather is not fit. for travel, the board pointed out, Approve supplies The board Approved purchase of a $132 vacuum pump for the science department and $72,00 worth of supplies for modern language instruction, Principal H, L. Sturgis report. ed the English department is establishing reading labs at the grade. nine level to improve reading ability. Grant stay to Kendati A stay of execution to April 17 was granted Arthur James Kendall, 51, by acting Chief Justice R, E. Laidlaw Monday, Kendall was sentenced to be hanged on Valentines Day. He was convicted Oct. 27 of the murder of his wife, Helen, after three. of his children broke e silence of nine years and told of seeing hire drag the body of ...Mrs. Kendall from their lonely cottage in Bruce County in .August, 1052, Mrs. Kendall's body was n e r r fottbd, Kendall originally was ten' teeced to be hanged Jan. 23, but. Air. Justice W, D. Parker greeted a stay of executioe earlier in cohnectioe with a later appeal, The Ontario Court of Appeal deliberated only eight minutes Jan, 23 .before uttertimousty dis- missing Kendall's. appeal. llis oxectainn was set. for' Feb. .14. Yesterday's stay was granted to permit all appeal to the. Su., prow Court of Canada. The Court: of Appeal rep turned its decision without calling out W. C. tow. titan, director or public prose. taibriS, for hie arguments sup- porting the eotivictioit, Counsel for :1(efidell. Mr. DOM. al'. gucd that Me. Justice Parker, the Wet judge, bad misdi- rected the jury. T. forces Us orno voba Council refuses. central PS funds nion tip and stated 'that the tractor had already been in use for 16 'years, and it was second hand when they bought it, Complete work The paving on Nelson, 'York and 'Wellington streets is near the Hensel] public school and was excavated and filled last year in preparation for pav- ing this year. The cost of the work was es- -Please turn to page 3 of People against it. They should have a. vote. beeetese they have to pay for it." Weetcolt: "I didn't think. I was. on the spot et all, This is school hoard_ business, that's. my opinion." Frayne: "A lot of people felt the school hoed: .proatisett them a vote during the Information meetings. I know at our meet, ing fiari'y tCheirmen Doggett): said he thought There should be a vote on it." During the discussion, two Biddulph ratepayers in, Whalen section, Ken Hodgson and Alton Neil, attempted to determine their Position in the event Us- borne built a central school, They said Biddelph .expects to erect one before September Auseble watershed municip- alities rejected Bosanquet's bid to scrap the million dollar Parkhill dam project (luring the authority's annual meeting in Parkhill Wednesday after- noon, Following a welter of. argu- ments over parliamentary pro' cerlure, authority member ,s finally voted 6 to 17. against rescinding the motion which adopted the major flood con- trol - scheme, Following that, the authority agreed to instruct the execu- tive to see if construction of the dam could be started while the decision on distribution at costs was still before the mum- cipal board. As Bosaectuet indicated two weeks ago, its council instruct- ed representative Robert Love to present a motion stopping the Project, The resolution ask- ed that, unless an effort was made to reassess the municip- alities so that they all were in. favor, the proposed construc- tion be cancelled, Chairman Freeman Hoclgins said he could not accept the motion because it was con- trary to one already on the minute books. Former chair- man John Morrison made a motion that no action be taken on Love's motion and 13 of the 24 voted in laver but this was ruled out of order because the Love resolution • had not been accepted. G. C. Henderson, Thedlord, and Love moved that the mo- tion adopting the dam scheme be rescinded, That was follow- ed by another -motion proposed by William Schlegel. and Love, to take the vote by secret bal- lot whichelost,• Henderson's mo- tion was defeated 6 to 17. Those voting in favor included Love, Henderson, Schlegel, 'Ed Hendrick of Stephen. Fred Mc- CASTS DECIDING VOTE . . . Reeve George Frayne prove two mill ..hike rate reaches nine Special session on sewer rates Hensall investigates garage, road paving Four of the six chief magis- trates with which lie hae served out the PUG during the past 27 Years holped to pay tribute to L. J. Penhale Thursday night at a banquet in his honor at the Legion Hall. The veteran commis,sionee, who eetired at the, ced cif 1951, reeived a large barometer in recognition of his service of more than a quarter century, The presentation Was made by PUG Chairman W, Coch- rano and Coramissioner R. E, PoeicY, both of Whom served aliMISMISSIMMUMISZel with Mr. Penhato es chief mag. istrate, lefe, PooleY succeeds Mr, Pelthere on the commis- sloe, The dinner else featured the presentation of safety awards to PUG employees were present with their wives acid htlehatide, Among the other mayors arid reeves who paid tribute to Mr, Penhale were B, W, Tue. ky, reeve OM to '48 and mayor in 1951 and zee, reeve hi '49 and 'SO, The e o nt in is 8 iori e 1. also served with the late W. D. San- ders, from '37 be e'80, and the 11 fate Therhee L. Pry de, in ps ..... eed 39, P 1J C' Chairitian Cochrane, ni,MINaszmtforuzziMittlit.V. WhO was Mader of teremettesi Simmons has called' a spe- cial meeting of council for Friday, Feb, 16, to study the rate structures. He hopes by that time to be able to recom- mend a more reasonable sche- dule. The mayor indicated Engl. neer B. M. Ross, Goderich, who planned the project, also felt the, OWRC proposals could be modified, At council meeting Monday, -.Simmons asked that the pro- posed rate structures not he read since they would only cause confusion and anxiety, "There's no sense causing a fuss about this until We know where we stand", he, told coupe ciL The OWRC schedules pro- posed annual charges of from $83,92 to $95.56 on a house with an assessment of $2,800, Usbniile emincli. Welled down more at sea .thee if we -did go. Tuesday afternoon, the town- ahead." Atop eehool area beard's an- It was established that a pllcaticn fee funds to build a :simple majority would carry central school, forcing the the project. hoard to request a vote of the Councillor Ward Hern: i'yoo property .owners, are putting us. in qeite a spot," Reeve .George Freyee vast Trustee MorriS Herat "Yeu're the tleeidiug vote after the not on the spot. The ratepayers four counciliors split evenly- on put us in to look after the the issue. education of our .chlldi'en, ft's Cpuneilloes Archie Mitering- .our responsibility," ton and Roy Westcott moved Councillor Horn: "Yes, but that the hoerd's application to we have to raise the money," raise $180,000 by debenture be .- aOlareved. Councillors Ward r ""dent """ 1"."approved. Hera end Delmer' Skinner op' clonia.n; "There' a ee'eeedeet posed it, for approving this debenture Date for the vote has not issue without a v°t e. The high been set but it's expected to school has a debt of about h e conducted early this spri ng, $$00,000 and Usborne is re. All persons listed on the cur, eponeible for 19% of that rent voters' list as owners of amount, Did the ratepayers property within the existing vote on any of those issues?'" school area will be eligible to Etherington: "Well, to get cast ballots, Thames Road se e, things going, I move we aps (ion, because it has not yet prove the application," become part of the area, will Frayee; "Is there a seconder not get a franchise. for the motion or do we have another motion?" Unanimous in rogoest Councillor Herm "I move The school hoard's Applies- we have a vote." tion requested $180,000 to cover Clerk Strang said such a the cost of construction of A motion was out of order. Coun- eentral school with eight class- oil could only approve or dis- rooms and an auditorium, The approve the application, It board urged colletl to approve could take no other action. the 'expeediture, eliminating Councillor Skinner: "I'm in the need for a vote, The formal favor of a central school but I application. indicated the trus• want a vote on it," tees were unanimous in the Councillor Westcott: request, second the. motion. I have Chairman Harry Dougall ex- every confidence in the school plained that the board request- board, I haven't heard much ed an additional $20,000 to add opposition to if," an auditorium which was not There was a short pause included in the board's origin- after the tie, before the reeve al plans. Because of increased east his vote. "I disapprove grants, he indicated, the extra it," he said. cost could be met without eels- The school hoard retired to ing the proposed rate above 1.1 consider whether or not they mills, one more than the cur- would call for a vote, rent rate. Councillor Here: "If the Inspector G. John Gomart people want it, I'll go for it." said the auditorium would pro- Skinner: "There's quite a lot vide for physical training, as well as assembly exercises. Chairman Dougall pointed out it would also serve as a. public meeting hall, The inspector reviewed esti- mates of costs with council, pointing out that he had allow- ed margins for error in each case. Be noted that the cost of borrowing has come down somewhat and the township could probably sell its deben- Lures for about 51/2 per cent, Chairman Dougall said he had received transportation estimates from Exeter Coach Lines of from $10,500, if both high and public school pupils were collected together, to $13,- 000 if the PS children were picked up separately. Reeves favor vote "During the past two months, I have talked to all the reeves in Huron. and I did not get any of them to think other than that there should be a vote on it," stated. Reeve Frayne. "I don't want to see the township divided." Gorean: "Is a vote going to bring them together?" Frayne "The school board can bring them together by selling the people." Govan: "T. don't think so, We know pretty well what people think after our series of, information meetings." Councillor Etherington:"Why should we force the trustees to go out for the next two .months to sell it?" Dougall.: "Taking into con , sideration what has happened in other centres, our feeling is that we would gain nothing by having a vote, We might be Major food chain plans GB market Grand Bend council issued a cheated it hoped to have the commercial building permit to building open by June 1 of this Verdane Construction Co„ Lon- year' don, Monday, for erection of a Accept bid $20,000 grocery store fee one After a lengthy discussion, of the five major chain con- ,i`ici,TcfnGuanccUPtgronitl Toron to, obri d too! terns. chase of debentures 'for "tele Bill Evans, realtor, London, $40,000 addition at. the public and John DeWittee, a repre- school, Nentatiee of the construction The bid was the highest, of firm, met with council to dis- five r e. c e i v ed and offered cuss the erection of the 44' x $100.14 for each $100,00 deben- 100' store and reported they ture at six percent interest, had purchased the properties The other bids received were; of Earl Deters and Bob Jen. Bakers Bond, 1)8,51; Midland Mon. Securities, 913,5; Bell and The Store will be built on the Goullock, 99,10, and Isat'd, Jennison pr o per t y an d the Robertson Co„ 96,04, Datars lot will b e used f or In other business, council: 'parking. The location is just; Made a grant of $5.00 to the tiorth of the Grand Bend PUG Tearnbton County Historical So- office on Member 21 highway, eiety for their 1962 Member- The London men "` did w; d ship and re-appointed Mrs. Gill as their repre- e, Paid identify the chain store brit W t in. sentat i ee, Paid accounts totalling $1„- 762,3.1. Instructed their A s a h e Atttlietity repretentetiee, Manoee, to use his own good judgreent if Boseequet present= ed their motion to qttash the Parkhill dam at the Anneal meeting. Where to f;nd it said, "the town has been for- that, in the entire first year he imitate to have had such an served. Customer's have grown able servant". (ions 597 to 1935, and capital Added. Mayor Eldrid Sini- plant has i n c eAsad :from thanks", main citizens of Exeter $57,000 to $372,000. owe you hearty vote of waterworks, aterworks, length of reale has grown front six to ft Among the adjectives 511(1 miles; per capita consumption cheeses used by speakers in -teem 40 to 139 gallons per day; tribute, was farsighted, diligent, yearly consumption from 29 capable, energetic, titledfish million to 150 million gallons service, an example of respon- per year; and customers 316 to Sihie service to the community, 1,201, Peeltele, in reply, said Employees Pet Keatin g, he had found all past councils Veen Poetill and Bob l'ooley and staff members "eo.opera. accepted safety Wards front (hie and helpful"„ He expres. the Electrical service League. sod appreciation to those who of OnigtioA.hd the American had, wonted With hint. WaterworksAss'n for eceideel- "I know I'm leaving the corn- free operations in 1959 arid mission iii good hatitN," he. 1990. ellairMati Cochrane said, stated, arid then with a the awards "were indicative of "I ehould be able to sleep at stlainfotfyactt utlleisa,tu the staff has to- night% without, any worries," scientously observed tho Proper litipreseive peoeeSSe Among the guests were Ken Perhaps the greatest tribute, ,T„montan, former PUG mann- trolne the figures gel", and his wife, and Mrs. Vv Sealed by Manager L Da. Hemiessey, wife of the late vis of the progress and devel- PUG employee, Leo Hennes- omen( of PUG services since say, Me. Perihale jellied the eefil- lilissiett in 1935,A hydro denstner service fun Olitpleted the program In hydro, consumption. has and its story provided an ap• grown from WM(/' kilowatts to propriate ending - that of a more than 10 million, more municipal, commissioner being power was used in the, last, honored top hi ntlbtinteOee io month of M Ponhale's, service the Community. 1GG2 at nthe mills, two more than it has been for the. ' SHIMS board Tuesday night set its tax levy for past six years. Increased cost of instruction. and transportation, as well as provision for the larger enrolment this com- ing September are among the major items responsible for the increase. The new high school levy, along with the county increase of one mill, means all South Huron residents will pay at least three more mills in taxes this year, unless their municipal councils can cut their own bud- gets to offset the increases. SEIDI-SS bit dget presented ewe 35% while the townships Tuesday night by Secretary E. are responsible for 63%. D. Howey showed instruction Stephen . will contribute the expense rising from $176,000 to largest amount of the hew an estimated $193,000. ti ele levy, $20,389 or 25,43 per cent are 29 teachers on staff this of the total. Hay's share is term ' com pared to 26 a year $16,480 (20,55%); Exeter, $15,442 ago. Two ed or in three tember. more may (19 „ nen sail, 55,176 ,25 ,7,:,1 ; f_t s borne, $14,886 be requir Sep With the increased enrol- ‘" (6.46';.); Grand Bend, $4,326 ment, transportation cost is (5,40c •-); Zurich, $2,987 (3,62 e) expected to rise from $55,$00 to $60,000. and Tucker-smith, 5587 (.73%). The board budgeted $6,000 Still up in stir for capital outlay to modify it'hoeomse a ftehtiesr i aS e p into t m btewro c 1 f l atshse- y icnontlipnotse.itteo stealki°e°1cairse not of threeaido creased enrolment, If Clinton does begin voca- tional classes, this amount may he required to meet additional transportation costs, The board first considered an eight mill rats but dis- covered this would not only wipe out its surplus hut leave no margin for error in the estimates. Members agreed the addi- tional $15,000 raised by the extra mill should he included in the budget. Operating on seven mills last year, the board showed a de- ficit which reduced its surplus from 547,000 to $30,000. The board budgeted for the following expenditures; instruc- tion, $193,000 ($176,000 in 1961)1 instructional supplies, $10,000 SHDHS board Tuesday might ($96,000); administration, $10,- Exeter Coach Lines Ltd., to th authorized E. R. Guenther, ); plant operation, s02000,00(0 ($ $8,70200 use his own discretion in &- ,200): plant main use tenance, $3,000 ($2,500); auxil- eidi"g when a route or a day iary services, $2,000 ($1,500); too dangerous for school bus. tuition fees, $2,000 (1,000); travel. transportation, $60,000 ($55,600); during I:'1te action followed eritleism capital outlay, $6,000 ($2,500); $2,000 (33,200); of the operation of the 1.:.1, ises cafeteria loss, last Tuesday's storm. margin for error, $15,000. Some parents felt the child- PrOvincial grants are expect- ed to increase from $174,000 to ren's lives were jeopardized $180,000 and tuition claims are travelling in such weather, estimated at $34,000, compared In connection with the same to $29,000 last year, problem, the board also: Of the total levy for the high Requested the co-operation of school, urban centres cantle- t ownshi p road supernitendente in notifying the operator when roads are blocked; Urged parents to use, their own discretion in sending stu- dents to school. telephones and employs. on a part-time basis, the .answering service of Harvey's Taxi, At the main. telephone in the police office, there will be a four-key switchboard which will permit the policeman on duty to divert calls to another station when he leaves the of- fice. He will be able to switch the, calls to his own home or to the homes of the other mem- bers of the force, depending on. what arrangements are made for answering at the partjeu- lee time. When there is no one available at the residences, calls will be diverted to Har- vey's answering service. When he leaves the office, the constable will notify the answering station of his plans in order that lie may he con- tacted. If he is nearby, he may spot the red light outside the office which goes on when a call is made and he will be able to Lied out from the an- swering station immediately the substance of the call, In ease of emergency, the answering station will be able to summon off.duty officers or the OPP if necessary, "With this system,'' said Mayor Simmons, "the citizens should receive en answer' arty time they call the police sta- tion." 'the lack of an answer, particularly in lime of acci- dent or emergency, has been one of the major' complaints in the past, he noted, "We feel this setup will be superior to the recording sys- tem which is used hy Some totV1IS", said Reeve Fisher. lie explained that under' the re- cording system, the c alter leaves a message for the eon- stable on a machine provided by the. Bell company. When the constable returns to the office, he. is able to determine who has tried to contect the :depaet- ment while ho, has been ab- sent The obvious disadvantage of this system is the delay which 010Y beeur between the lime the message le recorded and the iime the. constable returns to .the office. Reeve -Fisher said the pro., posed switchboard s y s 't Weald NW. about $35,00 a 1401101 and. Harvey's service would be . -additional $20,1)0 monthly, bringing Cost to about $660 a year. He pointed out that the. PUC used a similar le:lent-Met syS- COM to provide 24.hour tmer., goitcy eervier in tortheetieri With th0 Following a lengthy discus- sion at their meeting, Monday, Hensall council agreed to sub- mit their plans to the dep't of highways calling for 600 feet of excavation and fill on Yerk and Brock streets and 1,300 feet of paving on Nelson, York and Wellington streets. They also plan to find out if they would receive a subsidy for the erection of a new stor- age garage they plan to build to house the tractor, snow plow and mower. Clerk Earl Campbell told codedl that the department al- lowed townships ' to include such buildings in, the road ex- penditures that are subject to the subsidy, but he was riot sure whether they followed the same procedure for urban mu- nicipalities The cost of the new 20'x25' cement block garage was es- timated at $1,200 by reeve Norman Jones Council consid- ered the building when Camp- bell pointed out that the vil- lage's tractor may do the sum- mer, but they would have to consider purchasing a new one shortly. He suggested they would have to have some place to put it before they bought it, as the present garage affords no protection. Jones backed. Campbell's opi- 13 e °tiling Events 13 EditWeals / Fart* Neves, .„ ................ 9 Peininitie #ttete '10 Hensall r 7 Wean 12 SOcirfs 4, S, 4 Want Acti Announcement% ... . 13 church Notices osanquet fails to kill darn plan Leod of Arise Craig, and James Stewart, Lobo. Said Chairman liodgins: have every confidence in the Ontario Municipal Board to do the job which is theirs. They will evaluate every source of information available to ar- rive at a fair assessment". Considerable more discussion over•. procedure and regulation developed during the election of officers but Chairman Free- man l-lodgins was returned without opposition; k o be r t Love won an election for vice- chairman. over Wellington Brock and Charles Corbett. The executive includes John Stephen, Blansh a r d; Bill Amos, McGillivray; Joe Bryan, Biddulph; Lorne Hay, Hensall; Wellington Brock, Usborne; Charles Corbett, Lucan; El- gin Thompson, Tuckersmitb, and Ed lie.ndrick, Stephen. Mayer Eldrid Simibons told council Monday night lie was not satisfied with the rate structures suggested by the Ontario Water Resources Com- mission to pay for the proposed sewerage system. The rates were contained in a letter to council last week with three different schedules of frontage, water rate, con- nection and mill rate charges, The mayor revealed talks al- ready have been held with PUC officials in an attempt to devise a more acceptable schedule of -payments by property owners and water consumers. Five-phone system for police contact