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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-04-12, Page 1GB system a 'must' doctor tells hearing greatly," he added, "I wouldn't drink the water Sittedevant reported that (he down town," he Stated, section east of the highway He pointed out that Grand was the problem area and this bend hAd only one industry, is whore most of the perman- that Of. tourists, and if a set', eel residents most. "The situa- ious epidemic over broke out lion is gradually worsening," beeatiae of the lade of safe he reported, drinking water, the (Hilary Ks. eeoive 21 eblections would his gene. De, Fred BoyeS, 'MOH 'for Grand Bend, was not as semphatic in his report to the board,. pointing out that most pe'op'le do have a suitable supply of Water. However, he. Poifited Out that due to the fad most people. drew their water from Welk, the hotels le Grand Bend lied not been able to develop pro, per StWage beds in te.ar of contaminating the wafer sup- plies. He also repOried that the 4mouriornoliq lack of Water would Make it Church Noticits difficult for iskpansiati in the Corning . Event 19 Stintinee resort, especially EdifbrialS the business district, NioWs ,, .. Feminine Fa4ft . 14 koeyt CeinCertied Hensall WAS one of the first persons Reeve Bill Sturdevant, who c ucan • iiilflate sports 'etio to btait aa wan ... i4„ Water supply, said Council was teneettied over" the ii e al t 14, Dr. E. A, McMaster, Grand angle and also the quantity of Bend, told an Ontario Muni- water in the village. eipal Board s hearing on the He pointed out that the proposed $377,000 water system section west of the town hall Thursday that the need was was situated on sand and most "imperative", people lied plenty of gOod The local doctor told R. L, water but "I have my doubts Kennedy, vice-chairman of the about; the rest of the murti board, there had been consider- cipality," able stomach sickness in the "The amount of river water resort last summer and he felt .th a t is being used concerns me the cause was the water. Of the 21 written objections received over the water Sys- tem, only two aired their pro- tests at the hearing, s•-• Please tern In pagd ltiMstssIMs: Where to find it in 3 ')NE KILLED, ONE INJURED IN CENTRALIA CRASsc: LARGE' >Wk DP SPECTATORS WATCHEb THREE AREA BRIGADES BATTLE TiiNSALL 'BLAZE SHDHS QUEEN—A picturesque garden scene, complete with a wishing well, forms a background for Mary Shaw, chosen queen at the annual, At-Home dance at SHDHS, Friday, The garden scene was just a part of the beautful spring decorations used in the gymnasium and Mary at least can attest to the reliability of the wish- Town won't operate its sewerage system WINS AWARD—E. 3. Nor tn. triton, son. of Mr, and Mrs. B. Norminton, Hensall has been awarded a $2,400 Na- tional Research Council schol- arship through which he will inspector Robert. P. Kauf- study for his doctorate degree m an , of the fire marshall's district office in at the University of Toronto, He won his first. NRC scholar- London, has made no announcement con- Ship last year and is corn- sensing his investigation into plating his master's qualifica- tions at UWO in applied ma- the Silco Store fire in Hensall Thursday. thematics. He is one of 50 Thy, Western Ontario residents to inspector spent five receive the award, hours Monday combing the damaged building in an at- tempt to discover how the blaze started. His investigation is continuing. The fire, which threatened an entire business block in the. village, was extinguished by volunteers of three, brigades from Hensall, Zurich and Ex- eter, Using as ninny as seven hoses, they 'poured hundreds of gallons of water into the structure to prevent the blaze from spreading, Fire Chief Byron 'Doc" Kyle, Hensall, said the fire began near the top of the stairs at the back of the second storey, From there it moved into the rafters and merchan- disc of the top 110017, The fire chief revealed the investigation by the fire mar• shall's office had been request- ed by an unnamed insurance adjUSter. Owner Mason Silver, Toronto, who had been al, the store dur- ing the afternoon, was on his way back to the city when the blaze was noticed, Silver said this week that his damage would execed $50, WA, He, was critical of the way the blaze was fought. "The fire was belittled 100,;, wrong," he stated. "It. Mild have been Out out with a fire extinguisher: it was discover. eel shortly after it started, I understand, instead, they Made a inaiee fire of it, cutting holes in the roof and breaking all the windows." Thera Was more water dam a ge (Imola fairs than fire dam , age upstairs, he said. A part time employee in the store, Mrs, 1J, I. .Davis, Said the smoke Was so heavy she couldn't got near the origin of the blare shortly after if was 116ticed, She. Said •filek DrySsiele, ftil the hardware a CNIA8 the street, netted the smoke and called Students' title crowns co-ed's HS activities Exeter's pretty Mary Shaw plans to enroll in the honors was crowned students' queen history course ,at the Univers- at the annual SHDHS At-Home ity of Western Ontario. dance Friday. For the 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, George Shaw the crowning put 'the "finish- ing touch" nn her busy life in sports and student functions at the school. It was the first time in seven years the students had given the honor to a grade 13 student and put an end to the A small garden was set up three-year reign of grade 12 in one corner and proved a candidates, Although many of popular spot for picture taking. the queens have gone. on into The garden contained imita. grade 13, another Exeter girl, lion flowers and a small wish- ing pond complete with 'run- ning water. The other candidates and their escorts were: Sandra Snider and Tim Gratton, Gail Farquhar and Dale. 'Purvey., Ruth Miller and Bob Graham, Jude Snelgrove and Frank Zu- hal, Anne Marie Rowe and Howard Rannie, Heather Mc- Connell and Dean McKnight, Pat Crosby and Bill Mary Jane Hoffman and Bob Johnson, Linda :Ha yter and Art Mull a rd. Each of the contestants and the queen was presented with a gift by members of the student council. Plan to go north with furniture Active life Exeter Furniture Limited is Mary has been active in all currently working an an order student functions since. con- of church furniture to be in- mencing her high school. edu- stalled at the, Guy Indian Resi- cation and has been a member. deatial School, Guy in of five of Miss Seigner's northern Manitoba. Perthex champion volleyball The school is about 20 miles and basketball teams. from The Pas, Manitoba, which The popular young miss is north of Lake Winnipegosis, referees many of the exhibition and almost 500 miles north- games the local juniors play, west o f W' • mmpeg h y road. and participates in track and Installation has to be made field events. by the Exeter firm, and D. Last year she served as s ,s,„ (4„., is planning on secretary of the student coati- "' """""* motoring out west to do the in ell after holding the treasurer's • jo b on the paper staf f the year stallation work on the furni- before.. An accomplished pian- t ist, M ary sings in th e glee Mrs. McCaffrey wilt be ac- club and. performs in. drama companying her husband on. and verse speaking. this long trip into the rugged Active al. Caven Presbyterian northland, and. they hope to Church, she teaches 'Sunday bedoig psroonviine cels offorourbinegee the School, sings in the choir and."western is a member of thR y oun g turning to Exeter. Both Mr. women's group. and Mr's. McCaffrey had lived Following her graduation she riniagtehe west before their mar- The contract was called and awarded by the Department of Citizenship and immigration, which looks after the Indian affairs in the north, ^f, Discovery of theft of almost broken into in the same area. 5000 worth of household articles according to police. from two Lake Huron cottages From the home of Airs. Aucl- river the. weekend brings to rey Spencer, London. thieves more than 30' the number of took a vacuum cleaner, stereo break-ins which have occurred record player, electric heater, in cottage subdivisions over rug, 12 wool blankets, towels, the winter, hedsheets, face cloths and sim• Police estimate total loss to liar articles. date of more than $2,000. Taken from. the home of Miss Many other thefts may not Barbara Grainger, also of Lon• have been reported yet he- don, was another vacuum cause owners have not checked cleaner, e heater fan and bed their premises since last fall. pillows. Two hreakins found over the Investigations by police this weekend took place in the Ce• winter total In in Oakwood dcrbank subdivision, north of subdivision, seven in Dennm- No. 83 on 21. Several other me Beach and six in Cedar- cottages appeared to have been hank. Seek councils' help for Dashwood centre Dashwood organizations. an- xious to erect the community centre for which they have been working over a number of years, are seeking the co. operation of two township coun- cils to get the project: under wa,V. Dashwood Men's Club and fire brigade., who have joined believe, they can start, imme- forces on 'the $20,000 project, diately if they secure the $5,000 grant available from the. pro- vince and contributions of $1,500 each from the townships of Stephen and Hay, To qualify for the provincial. grant, the property must be. vested in the. name of the townships through a joint agreement. The, agreement is now being prepared for appro- val of the township councils. Councils held a joint meeting on the project; two weeks ago and both have held. separate discussions since. Stephen council has agreed to do what- ever Hay township decides, Hay discussed the proposal at its meeting last week but post- poned decision until a future meeting, The Dashwood groups are prepared to accept responsi- bility for maintenance and ope- ration of the building hut they require the. official backing of the councils in this connection to he eligible for provincial as- sistance. Sees no difficulties Stephen's deputy-reeve,,lim Hayter, who is also co-chair- The cause of the airplane man of the. community centres crash which killed one. Cent- project, told The Times•Advo- relic flying instructor and cate 'this week he foresaw no seriously injured and burned difficulties raising the funds another is still unknown, but for, the building if provincial F/L Harry Mathes, public and township support is se- relations office r, squelched cured, rumors that the men were "We already have more than performing aerobatics when he $5.000 raised, including the site reported they were. on a rou- and we have been promised tine. flight, F.'0 substantial donations to make The town won't operate its $267,000 sewerage system when construction is completed. Council learned Thursday night that the OWRC — not the (own — will operate the system for the first 30 years at least. This came as a surprise to members of town council. They were well aware that the com- mission would act as the town's agent in getting the system in- stalled hut they were under the impression that the. coms mission would turn the system over to council when it was completed, Council's concern was at least partly dispelled by En- gineer B. M. Ross, who indi- cated the commission would give, careful consideration to any requests made by the town in connection with the opera- tion of the system, The engineer also pointed out that the operation and main- tenance of the system was not a major task He said he had allotted about $4,500 a year for maintenance in the estimates, and that .some person would he employed to cheek the opera• tion of the pumps daily, Add Thomas street Town council also learned that the OWRC would permit connections to the system on Two teachers hired by board The Exeter Public School board hired two new teachers this week to fill the vacancies Ieft with the resignations of Miss Betty Goalie and Gary Bryant. Mrs. Earl Moore, widow of the late Padre Moore, RCAF Centralia; has been engaged to fill one position, while Don- ald Tremeer, Seaforth, has ac- cepted the other, .the Thomas St. drain, as well as the previously approved drains on Gidley, Victoria and William Streets. Council passed bylaws bind- ing the agreement between the town and the water resources commission on the construc- tion and operation of the sys- tem. Council alsopassed a reso- lution confirming that "the cost of providing service connec- tions shall he horn by the owners of the lands to which such connections are provided and such cost must be paid in full at the time the C01111110^ tions are provided", Owner's cost $200 It's estimated the flat fee will be, $75 for each hookup, which will extend service to the property line. 'Each owner will he responsible for bring- ing his own tile. to the proper- ty line, cost of which is esti- mated al an average of about 4125. Houseowners thus will he required lo pay a total of about $200 for connection. Other resolutions and bylaws passed by council confirmed the rate of charges approved by council at a previous meet- ing. This includes a one-third increase in water rates a frontage charge of 42 cents per foot, and a four-mill levy on the assessment, Councillor Ralph Bailey, who favors adding more laterals to the system if they can be fi- nanced through current. reve- nue, questioned the engineer at length as to the capacity of the system. Ross indicated that an additional pump would be re- quired at the river 'pumping station and more pond area would he required to handle any great increase in connec- tions t.o the system He said each proposed lateral would have to be studied individually to determine how it would af- fect the system, Eighty Bill MacKinnon, Hensall, es- coiled the queen at the dance. Spring theme The gymnasium al the school was gaily decorated in spring colors with a large Maypole set up in the. .centre with streamers running to it form- ing a false ceiling. ing —T-A photo Joan Thomson, was the, • last queen crowned while a 'mem- ber of the graduating class in 1955. Once again, the students' choice was a well-kept secret, known only t.o Lloyd Hender- son and Doris Schwartz until student council 'president Peg- gy Goddard opened the, sealed envelope t.o divulge the winner at midnight. However, Mary confesed she had a hit of an idea that she had won 'previous to the. an- nouncement. "Every time I went; by Mr. Henderson he gave me a funny smile," she. said. But, when the winner was de- finitely known she. threw her hands up to her face and was as elated as any queen has ever been. "All T can say is thanks," she told the large crowd on hand to witness the ceremony. Says fire damage exceeds '50,0.00 to her as she was on her way home. Harry Horton, husband of the operator of the store, came down with the key to the -front door but -they couldn't get near the back stairs, Mrs. Davis said. Silver was preparing to close out his business, since the building has been sold to Scholl, of Scholl's Market, the store to the west, There was some smoke and water damage to the . second storey of the Scholl building. Fink's Plumbing and Heating, the stars to the West, was pre' lected by a„fire wall. Four men donned air packs to get inside the smoke-filled building, They were Bill Fuss and Wilmer Ferguson ,of the brigade and Gary Middle-UM and Ray Smith of the Exeter department. EX.ETER, QNTARIQ, .APRIL 12, 194Z up the balance", he said. He also indicated the main- tenance cost should not be a problem, once the building is erected. "With the number of organizations who will use. the hall, and the activities which we will he able to sponsor with the facilities provided, we Teel there ;should be no problem in meeting the ope- rating costs year after year." The two Dashwood men's groups got together at' the first of the year to seriously tackle the project. The corn- munity have been discussing it for some time because of the lack of an adequate meet- ing place and banquet hall in the police village. Site already purchased Dashwood Men's Club origi- nally spearheaded the project several years ago and pur- chased a four-acre lot near the darn south of No. 83 highway. In the past year or so, the volunteer fire brigade has been pushing the project. by spon- soring a number of fund-rais. 7 og events. Earlier this year. the two — Please turn to page 4 W. 'Thomson, 26, Price Per Copy O Coda Still plans apartments Tim proposed 45-unit apart- ment building for Exeter has been dropped according to its promoter, Len Veri, press- dent of Exeter Produce and Storage Ltd. He indicated, however. that, he is considering the erection of a smaller apartment build- ing. "We're convinced there's a need for one in Exeter," he said. Veri also is extending his business development along No.. 21 highway north of Grand Bend, He's erecting a drive-in restaurant just to the north of his long market stand. Con- struction work is being done by Milton Keller and the building is expected to be com- pleted by the middle. of May. Additions have, been made to the, market ,stand to handle shrubs and evergreens. The stand will open ibis week. Group honors OPP corporal Cpl, Neil Chamberlain, head of the. Grand Bend OPP de- tachinent for several years, was guest of honor at a sur- prise party held in the Impe- vial Hotel, Tuesday. Over 100 OPP officers from all over the district, many- of whom had served in Grand Bend, plus municipal officials and friends honored the. police officer prior to his transfer to Strathroy in May, PC Ron Smith, Forest, who will be married next week, was also honored at the affair and both men were presented with wallets and a sum of cash. Cpl. Chamberlain Zt,0 re- ceived a marble desk set and the Forest constable was pre- sented with party tables. esakmocafe, more than $2,000 lake cottage thefts Aerobatics not cause of fatal crash: RCAF Victoria, B.C., was killed in the c r a ,s h which occurred about 0:00 a.m. Friday, while Ft:0 P. B. Gillette is recuper- ating in Westminster Hospital. London, where his condition is reported as fair to good., He is reported to have suf- fered from a fractured arm, fractured leg and burns to 15 percent of his body, INfatties reported the men were practising landing in their Chipmunk aircraft when they crashed into a drainage ditch in a field just off the north end of the tarmac. Five airmen rushed to the burning plane in an effort 'In free Gillette and two of them were singed by flames. S/L F, E. "Red" McLaren, in charge of training, his deputy, Fils Ian McKenzie. and F/L Dave Walker drove to the crash in McKenzie's car, while, Psi, Peter Caws and EIS D. P. L. Robbins, who were. in a hangar when the crash occur- red, also hurried to the scene. McLaren and McKenzie were both singed by flames from the wing and fuselage as they worked to free Gillette and the others took over to get him the rest of the way out as the crash truck and ambulance drove up. C IC L. H. Randall reported that a board of inquiry has been appointed to investigate the crash. S'L Marfleet of the Central Flying School at Saska- toon has been appointed to head it along with members of the accidents investigation branch of the RCAF at taws. A military funeral for Thoiun- son was conducted in the Pro. lestant Chapel on Saturday by- S'L the Reverend George Fee, CD, Parade commander wan Moe Teton and the ,es- coil commander war F,L Cal Drake, The body was taken to Lon• don by Dinney Funeral Horne, Exeter.. where it was transfer- red to Victoria. for burial. F/O. Graves accompanied the bedy on the train. Cook brothers purchase farm The 100-acre farm of the, late Dr. ,lathes Bell at Ilensall was purchased by brothers Pe• bent and Douglas Cook al the auction Saturday for $22,000. 'Four other men bid on the. pro. porty. Contacted this week the broa fliers indicated they had no immediate plans for the farm. They operate Cook Bros. Mil, ling CO. Ltd.