The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-02-22, Page 1.;•'5,$)ti.=40t
Eighty-Eighth Year gxgigg, ONTARIO, FEARVARY 22, 1902 Price Per Copy 10 Cents
protests police costs,
seeks extensions to piers
RECEIVES ,COMMENDATION--Queen's Scout Charles 4, Browning, Jr„ Crediton,
has been commended by Governor General Vanier, Chief Scout of Canada, for the
"prompt and efficient way in which you extinguished the flames that engulfed your
father" in an accident in November, 1960. The citation, above, is presented by
Doug Harrison,Exeter', assistant district commissioner, right, Witnessing the pre-
sentation are the Scout's father, Charles Browning, Sr., and A. J, Sweitzer, chair-
man of Huron District Council.
Lauds Crediton Scout
in annual awards list
November.
Charlie jr., who is in grade
10 at SHDHS, joined Cubs
when he was eight and became
i senior sixer with all profi-
ciency badges but one before
joining Scouts. He received his
Queen's Scout badge in Winni-
pig in April, 1959. The family
moved to Centralia about two
years ago and Charlie is now
troop leader, of Centralia '13'
troop.
His brother Allan, 14, is also
in 'B' troop and another bro-
ther, Lee, 10, is a member of
the Crediton Cub. pack,
Grand Bend council will ask
the federal gov't to extend. the.
harbor piers to solve the Pr91.)•
tem of the river channel fill-
ing up.
Ory Wassmann, president of
the Grand 'Bend and Area
Chamber of Commerce, met
with council and read a letter
from ,1, W, Murphy, Latnbton
MP, pointing out that budget ---1 - • • - - • • • a • had been .set aside for dredg-
ing at Grand Bend in 1962,
"1 have made strong repre-
sentations to the minister of
public works for a permanent
solution to the harbor prob-
lems," Murphy stated, 'be-
cause of the importance ,of the
fishing and tourist: industry in
the area."
Murphy said be had been
advised by the minister that
there is an item of $14,300.00
in his estimate for dredging al
Grand Bend in 1962.
"That's no good," Stewart
Webb pointed out, "We need a
permanent solution."
Webb suggested council take
action on the problem immed-
iately in an effort to have the
work done this year.
Wassmann pointed out it was
an election year and they
should get things moving.
Council decided to write the
engineer's department in Lon-
don to see what they have.
found in recent soundings
taken in the river channel.
Stores seek
rear lanes
ATTENDS MODEL UN
Charles Mickle, Hensel,
Charles Mickle,. Hensall, a
third-year student majoring in
history, and John Gilbert, of
Stratford, a fourth-year politi-
cal science strident, were
chosen by the international af-
fairs commission of the Uni-
versity of Western Ontario to
represent the university at the
Model . United Nations Security
Council at the St, Lawrence
University in. Canton, New
York, from February 22 to 25.
Delegate to
model UN
County road costs
draw mayor s. ire
The heavy tax burden.- of reported: that several muni-
Huron county roads came cipalities in the province are
under fire in town council considering pulling out of
meeting Monday night, in the county administrations,
middle of some good-natured Too many miles
joshing.
It all started when Clerk C. Mayor Simmons: "What beats
V. Pickard reported $22,000 of me is why Huron needs 400
county taxes had been prepaid, miles of county roads when
o saving the town a discount of other counties don't have any
several hundred dollars. more than 200."
County rates last year Fisher: "I think the de.p't of
amounted to some $39,000 for highways will step in and cut
that down." the town, of which $9,000 of the •
road Portion was rebated.. The Simmons: io‘g be ..hope.
somebody will It doesn't look rate is going up one more mill
for roads in 1962. like . our reeve and deputy-
reeve are going to do any Councillor Joe
Wooden brought up the ques- thing," he chuckled.
tion: Has anyone studied county Farrow objected: "Just a
council services to determine if minute, Mr. Mayor, I was just
the town is getting good value? going to say that if the dep't
Mayor Simmons: wonder of highways doesn't step in,
if it would cost us that much the reeve and myself will take
for services if we weren't in action," He led the laughter
the county? If we could pay with that one.
half the rate, it wouldn't he so
bad but that road outfit is
strictly for the birds."
Deputy-Reeve Farro w: "I
have a nation that to secede
from the county, a p p r o v al
would have to be given by the
provincial government." it was
annual charges which are esti-
mated at $24,600.
These are: frontage charges,
calculated at a certain cost per
foot; an annual connection
charge; an increase in the
water rates for connected con-
sumers or for all consumers
or for both (present rate is $30
a year for • domestic consum-
ers); and of course, additional
mills on the tax rate.
Council has considered to
date a number of proposals,
submitted by' the OWRC,
Engineer Ross and local of-
ficials.
The OWRC's original pro-
posals, with which the authori-
ties are not satisfied, at-
tempted to raise most of the
revenue from the connected
users, Since there would be
only 100 in the first stage, how-
ever, the char g es figured out
to as high as $95.00 Per ton•
nected house, This is based
on the so-called "average"
aAt'IMPICAOstiVaeMataMitt.tN.Q
Boy Scouts
celebrate
The businessmen endorsed
the planning board's redom-
mendation that parking areas
be established behind the
stores. Merchants also sug-
gested that a study be made of
a two-hour parking regulation
on Main Street,
Appointed to the business-
Farrow did point out, how- men's committee were Howard
ever, that the urban municipal- Holtzman, Murray Greene and
Hies are at a disadvantage Irvine Armstrong.
since they are outnumbered in view of this development,
two to one by 'rural. representa- the association decided to post-
tion on county council, pone a highway sign advertis-
Simmons: "I agree that l.ng project which it had been
—Please turn to page 3 considering for this year.
property with 60-foot frontage A 24% increase in the water though they do not object to
and assessment of $2,800.00. bill for all consumers (an in- the increase for users.
crease of $7.20 for the average A further proposal was sub-
More general levy home), plus 2.5 mills on the mitted to council Monday night
assessment (another $7.00 for by Clerk C. V. Pickard which
the average home). Cost to the, eliminates the general increase
non-user under this plan would in water rates. This suggestion
be roughly $14,00 pet' year. is:-
in addition to this $14.00, the A frontage charge of 62e per
connected user would pay front- foot, a connection charge of
age charge at 420 per foot, plus $4.20, a 75% increase in the
an annual connection charge of water rates for users only,
His letter said: "It is my $4.20, plus an increase of 50% plus five mills on the tax rate.
feeling that the OWRC pro- in the water rate. This would This figures out to a total an-
posals place too much of the cost him a total of $58.60 per nual cost of $77.90 per connect-
cost on those people who will year, ed dwelling plus $1.4.00 for the
- be connecting at Stage One non-connected home.
level. Oppose water rate and not sufficient cost on Obviously the problem is still
the rest of the owners and ten- It was later learned that the in the discussion stage and
nants who will later use a across • the • board increase in there may be major changes
large proportion of the sewage water rate may not be -pernliss- yet.
wOrks,' able. In addition, .PUG officials One development c 0 u n c i 1
This is what Mr. Ross pro- are opposed to, an increase in would like to see is an altera-
posed: the general water rates al- — Please turn to page 3
Engineer Ross in his propos-
al, felt all of the property
owners in the town should con-
tribute more toward the cost
of Stage One, since this is the
main system to which all pro-
perty owners will be connected
in the future,
sewerage charges be?
Dial (Allover here this week
was a "clean one", district
municipal officials were told
Tuesday by Bell's district com-
mercial manager, George Bat-
chin.
"We haven't had any serious
problems," he reporte
'There are- always a few
'bugs' to work out but in this
case, we're happy to say they
have been only .minor ones."
Mr. Batchin chaired a tun-
This is Boy Scout Week
and the active groups in
Exeter are celebrating with
enthusiasm.
A number of displays are
being exhibited in town
store s; Revert, Scouts,
Cubs, Guides and Brownies
A re wearing their uniforms
to school; the annual Scout
church parade will be held
Standby when the grotipS
march to Main St, tiC for
the 11115 service,
Scout Week is also cele-
brated in this week's T-A,
with a full .page of stories
and pictures on 'page 13,
Announceniehts IS
Chtirch Notices , 15
CoMing, Events ..... „ , 15
Editorials 4
Farm News
..... •
s 9
Feminine 12
Hensall
LUCatt , 14
Sports /
Went Ads 11
How much will
"Dial-A-Prize Game" placed F. Beavers.
, Participants in o n d 's Beavers Hardware was B. W.
nearly 400 calls answering ques-
tions about local affairs, the
six sponsoring stores report.
Each of the merchants re-
ceived at least 60 calls.
While most callers had the
right answers, some apparent-
ly had not read the questions
correctly and in one instance
there appeared to be some
doubt of the correct answer.
lack Smith Jeweller posed
the question: "H osw many
churches are there in Exeter?"
and found some arguments
over the answer of nine sup-
plied by The Times-Advocate.
Some persons contended that How much will Exeter pro-
the Jehovah. Witnesses' King- perty owners and water con-
dom Hall was really a hall and. sumers pay for sewerage?
That's the question town not a church. While most of
council is attempting to decide,
the wrong answers recorded with the help of the PUC, the as eight, one caller gave seven Ontario Water Resources Com-
and one had counted it.
mission and Engineer B. M. Ralph Sweitzer, of the Inte-
Ross of Goderich. rior Shop, had approximately One special council meeting
12 incorrect answers out of his already has been held on the
65 calls regarding: "Who was problem, along with several
the last reeve of the village of unofficial meetings. Tuesday,
Exeter?"
town officials and Engineer
While the correct answer Ross will meet with OWRC of-
answer was Ralph's father, A. ficials in Toronto to go over 1. Sweitzer, lie received the the figures again.
names of R. E. Pooley, Ben- The objective is to establish son .1:11.ckey, Glenn Fisher and rates which will be acceptable the late Bill MacKenzie,
to both the connected user and
the non-user. As Deputy-Reeve Wrong man
Farrow expressed it, at the
Although many callers knew special meeting Friday night:
Hon, Charles MacNaughton "We want to come up with held government position, rates that will be as fair as
they apparently didn't know possible to all the ratepayers." exactly what it was,-
Since the immediate prOject,
His name was given on four Stage One, involves principally occasions at -the North-End 13-A trunk lines, pumping stations who wanted to know the mem- and lagoon, the number of ber of the House of Commons, property owners who will be
Ottawa, and it WAS even given able to connect to the system twice at Fisher's Hardware is limited to an estimated 100. where the information required These 100 properties are prin-
WaS the warden of Huron, cipally along Main St. where
The question over the oldest there are a number of second- living 'former reeve of Exeter storey apartments, bringing
brought the names of R. E. the number of water users to Pooley and Chester Mawhinney. approximately 200.
The totted answer 'Wight by Other lines of the proposed
system run along Anne and
Huron streets but because these
Cars pile up may be classed as interceptor
or trunk lines, property owners
may not be allowed to con-
on Icy roads ,icepard isse the town's chances
nett to them since this might
Of receiving financial aid from
A rasil of nn Central Mortgage, which re-
----'- stricts its assistance to tru k roads this past, Week spoiled line construction only: the good traffie ec or records Still to be determined, and throughout the distriet for the
first part of rebruarY, this will affect the estimate's,
Am is how watch of the proposed
D6ill age totalled over S4," Stage One construction Will he in seven's " accidents reported elassified as trunk work, the local detaehinent.
Monday, a ear driven Although prOPerty owners
J, Williams, 47, sutfar,„ won't be allowed to connect to
thinks. "the first year t Oa- ed $300 damage Wien it went ale ney may be able ta de out of control °II Na, 21 „and AO the sedond year''. Thit wont(' striiels tree about fent hdes mean that an additiOnal 56 north. Of the jUnetiert With property OWtiers Watild become PC Cecil Gibbons Said the ear users,
skidded off the road hear the
end of a etirvet Charge eroeotals
'Cars driven by iodic WaYne, The loWil hatt toile pt ineitial
oss•Pleale turn tb 1140' 3 Sources Of rei/elitie to Meet
Proposed provincial police guards could also he .consid.
contract .for Grand Bend. was ered as a type of policing.
described as "rough — damn "We can't afford it unless
rough", by Reeve Bill Sturde—we get some help", Councillor
vant at council meeting Mon- Stewart Webb pointed out.
day night. "We're really getting a rough
Sturdevant out the deal", stated. Rollie Grenier.
terms of the contract calling Sturd e v ant said Grand
for eight OPP officers to be Bend's proposed 10 mills for
stationed in Grand Bend at a police protection was .over
cost of $11,117,98, It calls for twice as much as the town of
one full-time officer and addl.- Exeter had to raise.
portal officers coming in on He told council that Exeter
May 1, 3 and 30 and •tottr on only set aside 4.9 mills for pro-
June 2Q. tee-Um He also listed the fol-
The seven additional offi. lowing municipalities' costs;
cons would be stationed in Parkhill, 1,85; Forest, 2.59;
Grand Bend until September Strathroy, 3.93; T h e d f or cl,
3. 4.15; Watford, 2.7,
The contract also stipulates Overrate GB that the municipality pay the • Sturdevant stated he thought_ services of a part-time steno the OPP commission over-
grapher from May 1 to June rated thepopulation of Grand 19 and full time for the remain.. Bend, He pointed out much of der of the summer. traffic was caused by Plai- ne hiring of a stenographer the ery Park campers, rather than was not included in last year's GB visitors. contract and turned out to be He pointed out that; the OW- a major issue between council KC had used the figure of
and head of the detachment, 7,000 residentsin the summer Cpl Neil Chamberlain.
for the survey on the water Chamberlain was turned while the. police corn- down twice in his request for system
a stenographer, but finally
ceived assistance when seve- re- 11.enudsss.1°r1 apparently
figures recorded on busy week-
used the
ral mer chants contributed
funds to hire one. Council plan to meet with
The new contract is an in- Attorney General Kelso Rob-
et•
year's
e
record
un a se of $2,8a16m.908
amount,
over last erts when they travel to Tor-
onto next week for the Good.
Costs even higher
Roads convention.
Sturdevant submitted fig- Issue last appeal
ores to council which indicated Council decided to send one
policing costs in Grand. Bend mere letter to the four per-
will amount to over $15,000.00 sons who have lax arrears
this year, and at least 10 dating back to 1958, pointing
mills will have to be set aside out that if the taxes are not
to cover it. paid by March 16, tax sale pro-
Besides the contract and the ecedings will be started,
stenographer's salary, theClerk Murray Des ,larding
stated that two owners had summer resort has to pay over
$2,000.00 for abstract expenses paid after receiving the first
the police officers and also for letter. "1 think we should make it such as meals and milage for
rental of accommodation, point blank that we're not fool-
The village also pays a ape-- tog around", Councillor Earl
dal constable $500.00 a year to Datars stated.
look after the school crossing He questioned the cost of
and Sturdevant pointed out that tax sale proceedings and was
the $1,500.00 spent for life- informed that all costs were
levied against the properties
and it wouldn't cost the muni-
cipality anything.
Clerk Des Jardins submitted
the total to date on road ex-
penditures, mainly for plow-
ing streets and sidewalks. So
far it has cost $294.00 for these
services, slightly higher than
last year.
However, council felt it was
still in line with their budget.
"We have to have the ser-
vices anyway", councillor Ste-
wart Webb pointed out.
Lucky few
land in jail
A 17-year-old Crediton
Queen's Scout, Charles E.
Browning jr., has been com-
mended by Governor General
Vanier for helping to extin-
guish gasoline flames which
engulfed the youth's father in
an explosion over a year ago.
The citation was included in
the annual list of Scout honors
and awards announced Thurs-
day by the governor general,
who is Chief Scout for Can-
ada.
L, H, Nicholson, Deputy
Chief Scout, in a letter to the
Crediton youth, said Major-
General Vanier "has asked me
to commend you for the prompt
and efficient way in which you
extinguished the .flames that
engulfed your father,"
'I would like to take this
opportunity of adding my own
commendations and best
wishes.''
The citation was presented
In Scout Browning I? uesday
night by Asst' District Com-
missioner Douglas Harrison,
Exeter, and A. J, Sweitzer,
chairman of Huron District
Council, "We're proud of you,
Charlie," said Harrison.
Gasoline exploded
The incident, took place in
November, 1960, when the
youth's father, Cpl. Charles E.
Browning of RCAF Centralia,
was changing the carburetor
on his car, parked beside his
home at Crediton, •
Cpl, Browning said some gas
from the. fuel line spilled on
the engine and vaporized, pen-
,etrating his beard, hair and
wool shirt. When the son tried
to start the car at his father's
request, the engine backfired.
"There was just a flash,"
the father recalled, "I was on
fire from my waist up to the
top of my head, I dropped on
the ground and rolled over to
put out the flames but they
were all over my head. Char-
lie rushed over and. beat them
out.
"The doctor told me," conti-
nued the father, "that it could
have been fatal if Charlie
hadn't, come to the rescue."
Cpl. Browning received sec-
ond and third degree burns,
requiring five days in hospital.
and three weeks convalescence
at home,
Enthusiastic Scouts
The award couldn't have
gone to a family more enthu-
siastic in Scouting, Cpl. Brow-
ning has been a Cub leader for
almost 10 years and has been
instrumental in organizing the
Crediton pack which started in
Most dialers correct
1 d . • in !al-a-prize game
Russell. Electric's question
of: "Who was the first mayor
of Exeter" brought forth the
names of W, G, Cochrane, R.
E. Pooley and A. J. Sweitzer,
as well as the correct answer
of Ben Tuckey.
Draws for the major prizes
donated by each store will be
conducted Saturday night.
These boys will be the two
Jelegates representing the UK
on the Security Council,
Ten other universities from
'.he U.S. and Canada will each
have two representatives there.
Each university delegation will
represent one of the member
nations of the Security Council.
These delegates will discuss
and debate resolutions present-
ed by the different universities
and topics of current inter-
national issues such as Indon-
esia's claim to Dutch New
Guinea.
The United Kingdom's resolu-
tion which will be proposed by
al a meeting Tuesday morn- the two delegates from West-
ern calls for the creation of a
West-
inc, Exeter Businessmen's As- free -city to embrace all
socialion appointed a COMMit. .—East and West,
tee to investigate the estab- This free city, according to
lishment of 3ervice lanes and thereasonlduti ionn, heldpweiatelebeby teir
national authority until such
n
parking areas behind Ma in trust
St stores when sewers are in - time as a satisfactory settle-
stalled, ment of the entire German
The association acted on a problems can be made, The
recom m end a tion from Exeter
resolution)ecity afnrd
irthitesr access routes
s
Planning Board, which offered
to co-operate with the merch- hive ginutaeitiannatteioendal anpdengearrriosrocneesd
ants in the project.
Under the proposed sewerage There are five permanent
to Security Council nations and plan, easements wilt have
be secured for laterals which six non-permanent ones. The p will run behind the stores permanent ones are the Re-public of China, U.S., U.K., housesancl
permanent nations are elected
h e planning board sug-
on Main street
f rom Wellington to Huron Russia and France, The non-
streets.for a two-year period.
gested that the service lanes
eauld be, established at the
s.: go tiat ed: ean 'cutover here game _time the -easernents are .1
Study parking limit • I
siren heralds dial
Blocked from London
Norm Walper and his wife
were among many area rest-
dents who spent the night try-
ing to get home from London.
They had taken their daugh
ter, Sandra, back to Victoria
Hospital, where she is in train-
ing, and let London around
10.30 p.m.
They arrived iii Meter at.
6:45 a.m.
Walper estimated that there
were 100 ears attempting to
get through between Elginfield
and Exeter. Many merely shut,
ward, for the, night in their
ears, While others shovelled
and worked their way homes
"The Main problem was that
the snowplows couldn't gel:
through because of the eats on
the side of the read", he ex-
plained, "The big trick was to
get them out of the way so WO'
TOUR NEW BELL DIAL PLAISI'r HERE—District muni- Sup't Hugh Davis, Bell Traffic Supervisor Tom Hunter, could get moving,.
aiPal Offidials made a close inspection Tuesday afternoon Miss Mary 'Wells, former chief operator here; ReeVe "We moved 21 oars a row
of the mechanical brains which run t. xeter's new tlial George Prayne of Usborne; mayor tid r id $i mmotts, in one Spot so the plow could
get, nieving", be reported,
system, Above, Northern tlectric Co. craftsman Jim liteeve Glenn Visher, Councilors bill Mussel and JACK e local clothier reported lie
.Schroeder explains operation. of auxiliai.y battery power Delbridge, 'Boll officials 'described the cutover here Sun, arrived about one-half ofilo
(right) le a pOrtit),11 of the grottp. From left are Pti( day morning as a "dean' one, ,-.Doerr
cheon at; the Dufferin Hotel.
Tuesday where town and dis-
trict authorities celebrated the
successful cutaver with Bell
officials. Afterwards, the local
authorities were taken on a
conducted tour of the new plant
on Carling St.
Mr. Batchin said the "cross-
bar 10" system installed in the
Exeter office was superior to
much of the dial equipment in
other offices,
"Your community had to
wait several years to enjoy the
benefits of dial service," he
said, "but there is some com-
pensation for waiting in that
you now have the finest equip-
ment available."
"We believe you can look
forward to fast, accurate, de-
pendable service for many
years to come."
Mr. Batchin was pinchhitting
for W. W. Haysom, Bell dis-
trict manager at Goderich,
who is still recuperating from
injuries received in a traffic
accident several weeks ago.
Testifying to the efficiency
of the new system was George
Lawson, former manager here,
who placed the first call. Sun-
day morning. Mr. Lawson
called relatives in Florida by
DDD, didn't have a hi" of
trouble," he reported.
There was another "celebra-
tion" of sorts Sunday morning
about 2 a.m. when the culover
was made, The fire siren blew.
It was a false alarm.
Lucky Sunday night travel-
lers went. to jail!
While this may appear to be
a contradiction, those travel-
lers who were able to get as
far as Exeter and get shelter
in the local cells and through-
out the town hall were much
more fortunate than those who
spent the night in their cars
along number four highway.
Cpl, John Cowan reported
that about 40 pet-sons spent the
night at the town hall. They
started to come in shortly after
midnight and the last strag-
glers arrived around. 2:30 a.m. •
While three or four enjoyed
a night's rest on the cell
bunks, the rest sat up in
chairs or attempted sleeping
on the floor. He also reported
several persons spent the time
playing cards, with four tables
in play at one time,
"They appeared to enjoy
themselves", Cowan stated,
Many of the persons made it.
to Exeter in their cars, while
others had to walk back into
town after getting stuck in
drifts both north and south of
town. Many were airmen re-
turning to RCAF Clinton.
The Central Hotel and the
Les Pines Motel were both
filled with travellers who left
the roads to get out of the
storm,
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