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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-05-17, Page 1.sssssess 'swiss:toss And away they R0.1 Frolicking calves hit wide-open spaces It wasn't too hot. Tuesday for these Angus calves to celebrate their several mock. races before the young legs were tired after the hat freedom when they were let out to pasture at the "Palangus" farm day, The registered herd is owned by G. K. Crocker, who also has on No, 83 between Dashwood. and Exeter. The lively calves staged a pond. on his farm which is stocked with thousands of goldfish. • •• Wes eselS1.,SelsSeXISSeealterseseSeSses•W s'eS.tesessisSeSess:-sss:••• ss • • • : 40: e xefercalmesahccafe EXETER, ONTARIO, MAY 17, 1962 Price Per Copy 10 Cents ss• Eighty-Eighth Year Rob Dashwood store TV, RADIO LOSS $2,400 manent roads, He said many towns throughout the district are suffering from similar dust nuisance. Grader work on town streets Monday and Tuesday aggra- vated the problem locally, Sanders St.—the road oiled by residents at their own expense —was among those worked up by the grader and the dust is back in that area. There has been no indication of riots yet nor has any local doctor reported a serious case of suffocation. Area papers win awards Three Huron .newspapers have won awards in the better newspaper's competition sport- sored by the Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association, The Times-Advocate 'placed second, for best: all. - around newspaper printed in towns of under 3,500 population. Clinton News-Record placed third in the same division, which was won by the Blenheim News- Tribune, Two awards were won by the Zurich Citizens News. It plac- ed third for papers printed. the under 1,000 'population class and third for papers showing greatest improvement over last year. These and a host of other awards will he presented at a luncheon Friday during the an- nual convention of the Ontario group at the Hotel London, London, Guest speaker al the lunch- eon will be Hon, John Roberts, QC, Ontario premier. isstssesasosOsessiseessessessseesessioAses14 SUFFERS THEFT LOSS , Joseph Zimmer, Peshwood Local teacher named to board ) uelass 01.4 s sass 0.55tg.igy$Xm 111 Commence work .on $55,00 0.00 separate school in Exeter Sisters :perferni- Moving into the era of great 0 hands and vocal: groups, 'the three McCarron sisters gave their version of an old favorite made popular hp the Andrew Sisters, "Apple Itilossom Reminiseent of the tarlr 1.1 bands of Harry Janie& "Bono Goodman, -and Arlie Shaw, the T.tarmototies band set Tett -dant.: ing 'with "Sweetheart of Signet 14 Chi", "Tenderly' and "Beer Barrel Polka" 'which teetered 4 accordion plas-er Arian Haber.: Doh Storie, on trumpet, gave a 01 10 smooth professiona l pertorm-, 16, 17 Ajict of "Tammy,' as did Don Kemple, on clarinet, with hid 4 Please tern '10 page 11 Ready -for Jong sitting on Parkhill dam issue CIRCULATION First Quarter '62 3 ,606 More 80's for holiday Up patrols for holiday Hear arson charge at Goderich today New tender call delays road work At the spring assembly of FWTAO for this region held in Sarnia High Park School on Saturday Mrs. Clifford Jory was elected as one of three directors to the Provincial Board of FWTA.0 for a term of two years= The other two named were Miss Edith Tomkins, London, and Miss Tna McKennitt of Owen Sound. Mrs. „Tory attended. the all- day session culminating with a banquet in Central Baptist Church. A capacity crowd filled the TAM, McCurdy School audito-- num on Saturday, May 12, for' the third annual Spring Revue, presented by the girls' glee clida, the Harmotones band and the pupils of the school. This year "Spring Revue for '62" presented a show entitled "'Through Th e Years". The audience was taken back down memory lane in song and dance which showed nothing short of professional calibre talent. The fastmoving, two - hour Another call will be issued for tender's on the proposed colas and chips -program for Exeter streets, Councillor Ralph Bailey revealed this week. This will delay application. until well into June, it was in.- (neater!. Roads Chairman 'Bailey said not a single tender had been received from the, original call which was made in a daily newspaper. The notice now will be placed in a commercial publication which will reach more paving firms, District OPP and Exeter Bailey said the highways Chief. C. if, MacKenzie this dep't recently changed the week warned, motorists :to drive specifications for application of carefully over the first sum- colas and chips, requiring the • men holiday weekend comings'nse of expensive machinery in up, laying down the crushed stone. Theresa :lane Carey, daughter PC Cecil Gibbons in charge This restricts the number of of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Carey, of the local detachment said companies able to handle the Mt, Cannel, was one of 76 police will concentrate on pat- work. nurses who receive d their dip- rolling district roads over the Tuesday, Engineer C. it lomas at the graduation exer- weekend and that the OPP Neilans of the dep't of high- cises of St. Joseph's School of traffic squad may he in the ways district: office at Strat- Nursing, London, Friday night. area with radar. ford inspected the town streets Chief C. H. MacKenzie has with members of, the roads ordered his men to watch for committee. Chairman Bailey tr al (I c violations on town reported the engineer was streets. There have, been ac- "quite pleased" with, the. con- Mehl-free recordshere over dition of the roads here. the two previous Victoria Day Asked about a solution to weekends and, the chief hoped the dust problem, Neilans in- this performance could he re- dic.ated there :was none, except peated.. for the construction of per- The high 80-degree tempera• tures prevalent the area for the past three days that have sent kids flocking to their favorite swimming holes are expected to remain for most of this first summer holiday weekend.. The met section at RCAF Centralia reports the five-day forecast calls for the warm weather to remain through Thursday and Friday and cool- ing slightly on Saturday and Sunday. The cooling break will be ushered in by intermittent rains on Saturday and Sunday, but these are not expected to dampen holiday activities too much as only one-quarter to three-quarters of an inch of rain is expected in the widely scattered showers, Ties record An 88 recorded on Tuesday tied the previous high record- ed by the met section since they started tabulating district weather figures, The existing mark was set on. May 5 of 1949. Wednesday's tem p e rature was expected to reach the 88- degree mark as well, and there was a possibility that it would eclipse the mark, The high temperatures eras- ed previous all-time records when it, hit a sizzling 92 at To- ronto airport on Tuesday. The lows recorded during the night also broke previous marks as it dipped only to 60 on Tuesday night, Charge of arson against Nathan Silver, 47, in connec- tion with the fire at his .dry goods store in Hensall, will be read in Goderich court Thurs- day, PC Cecil Gibbons in- dicated this week, The case is expected to he remanded to 'Exeter court, Fred 'Hunter, son of Mr, and Tuesday, May 24, Mrs. Harold Hunter, ER 3 Ex- Silver was released from der, graduated, in chemica I Huron county jail Thursday, engineering technology from May Ill, after posting a $10,000 Ryerson Institute of Technol- property bond, ogy, Toronto, Friday. lie leaves lie was arrested at his home next week for Kingston where in Toronto about 1.1 a.m, May he has accepted a position 10 by PC Gibbons and inspee- with 'Du Pont of Canada Limit- for Robert Kaufman of the Ontario fire marshall's office 'Rawlings Construction Company,. Aylmer, started excavating for the. new separate, ;school in 1111 ater. Monday, and plan to have, the two. morn 1.1:fittitibri s ompided for September opening. The school, to be limed the "Preeious :Mod Separate .School,'' has already two Ontario Municipal Board ef. fit:leis are expected to spend most of next week here listen' hag to the dispute over assess- merit for costs toward con- strnetiell of the AusAble Autb. ority's Parkhill Dam. The hearing will start Tues. day, May 22, at p.m. in Ex- eter Town Hall. It's expected to last at least three days and perhaps will extend into the fourth, The hearing comes more than a year after the original assessments were sent to the member municipalities by the A -usable authority. The appeals :by Bosanquet and Stephen townships were lodged before June 1, 1961. Since then, there has been scheduled an examination for discovery, followed by three exchanges of legal correspond- ence outlining the disputes The appealing municipalities first outlined their grounds for objection, after which the authority and other muncipali- ties filed their rebuttals, The appellants' answers to the re- buttals followed that. The hearing was originally scheduled for April 9, but it was postponed after a three- hour session. Nine lawyers and two engineers representing 12 of the member municipalities And the. authority itself were present: for the hearing hut only one witness had been called before adjournment was made, Both Stephen and Bosanquet townships have requested 50% reductions in their assessments toward the cost of the dam. On the basis of present esti- mates, Stephen's share of the cost is $11,230 and Bosanquet's $43,851, If their claims are up- held, half of these amounts or a total of $27,500 would he distributed over the remain- Lodge gets new collars Exeter Lodge No. 67, 100E, held an open meeting with members of the Pride of liuron Rebekah lodge and friends in the. Exeter Commun- ity Centre Saturday evening with about 175 persons pre- sent. Highlight of the evening was the dedication of new collars for the, officers of the Exeter lodge by Charles M. Ga.y, Grand High Priest of the Grand Encampment, assisted by Oddfellows from Moore- town, Brigden, Oil Springs, Wyoming and Sarnia, who came to Exeter by chartered bus. The visiting :team, dressed in colorful costume, presented 18 new collars to the Exeter brethren, 'Noble Grand Harold. Rowe of Ihe Exeter lodge presided. A short program opened the meeting with musical numbers by Wayne Rowe, William Stan- lake and Ross Taylor, with. Ross Rowe at the piano. Miss Kathy Hern sang a solo •and Miss Glenda Fisher favored with tap dancing. Add boiler at canners Construction of a boiler building on the west side of the, Canadian Canners Ltd, plant here is under way, The building will. house one medium-size boiler and pro- vide space for an. additional one to be installed at a later date. The structure will measure 52 x 39 and the contractor is Clarence McDowell. Construc- tion Ltd. The new . boiler will he cons tinted with the present boiler plant on the west side of the building. 'Both will be used in the operation. Lions elect Darling Exeter Lions Club, meeting at the Dufferin Hotel, Centra- lia, Thttrsday electea 'a new slate of officers for the new year, beginning July 1. President is 'Fred Darling; past president. Andy Sneigrove; vice - presidents, Tom McMil- lan, John. Gornan, Herm Detts met': secretary, Gerald God- bolt; treasurer, Ken McLatigh- lin. Lion tamer is E. B. Hopper:, tail twister, Mel Gaisen dieet- tors for one year, Jack Doerr, Harry Strang:, directors for two years, Bob Middleton, Sorry Webb, Dedicate organ at Main St..UC A new Sunday Scheel organ wa' dedidated Monday night during a tinnily program at Main Street UC, The Chord organ, a gift of Mrs. Noble Scott in memory of her husband, was dedicated by the Minister; Rev. P, S, MRS. The family night prograni fol. lowed, with organ selettittris given by Malcolm and DotiglaS Insley. A duet Was sung by Christine 'Rickey and Miriam Mt. David Grainger introduced the selections. A film- "The hiving Stone", was shOwil depicting the life of an Eskirnet fatnily, bundh COMmittee included Mrs. Percy Met Mrs. ft, mcKnig,lrit, Mrs. L. Porter and , Grainger: ing 111.Unicipalities in the water- shed. Total cost ,of the structure is estimated al over $1.200,000, but the federal and provincial governments will pay 75r;. of the cost. In addition, the stee'i of highways will contribute- a portion for construction of a road .over the dam. The re- inanities' has been ,charged against the municipalities in the watershed. Graduates Alarilyo Strang, eldest daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. tf, ii. G. Strang, RR 1 Hensall, gradu- ates in household science on Friday from Macdonald Hall, Guelph, with her BLISe, de- gree. She plans to intern at Montreal General Hospital in the fall. Meanwhile she will be with Victoria Hospital for the summer, 11 PC D onald Westover is be- ing assisted in the investiga- tion by the identification branch of, the OPP at Mount Forest , PC Westover said the rob- bery was similar to one in Wingham about a week ago when an estimated $1,250 of merchandise, including re- cords, was taken :from the Cruikshank store 'there. Several other break-ins of the same nature have been re- ported in other Ontario stores, indicating there may be an organized operation in this field, Zimmer graduated with his BA from University of Western Ontario in 1960. Be had been running his TV store on a part-time basis before that to help finance his education, His father died several years ago and his mother assists him with his shop in Dashwood. This September, Zimmer will join the staff of Beal Technical School, London, to teach math and science, performance, which was di- rected and produced. by George Shippey, music supervisor for the school, was filled with songs and dances ranging from early minstrel favourites, nostalgic vaudeville song s, vivacious Charleston dancers, down to the present day show tunes from broadway musicals such as "Oklahoma!" "Carousel," and the current hit "Wildcat" Covering the years from 1848 to 1962, the show. from its open- ins, moment to the final curtain call, was a colorful, scintillat- ing extravaganza, The- opening curtain proved to be a show stopped when the sixty-voice girls' glee club ap- peared in ea:tidy yellow blouses, black slims, enormous purple bow ties, and yellow skimmer hats. ReMiiiiscent of old min- strel days they sang such old :favourites as "Old Folks at Home", "My Old Kentucky Home" and a medley of many Others. Model tOstuines In keeping with the theme of the chow, models appeared throughout the evening showing costumes of an earlier era, ranging from a champagne-col- ored gown, fully equipped with bustle, to 'Boardwalk bathing heauties of the turn of the coo- tury, to an elenzant burgundy, c'hif'fon dinner gown of the 1030's. Where I. find it Crime reports double in '62 Number of crime reports filed by the Exeter detachment of the OPP has doubled 'thin year over last, it was revealed by PC George Mitchell this week. A total of 28 have been filed since the beginning of 1962. Contributing to the total is a rash of hreak-ins along lake, shore summer properties north of Grand Bend. PC Mitchell zep,Orte'n three cottages al. Cantin's Beach, St. Joseph, had been entered last week. About $60 worth al household articles, including a floor scribber, electric blanket and bed lamp were stolen, Loses tool box A tool box containing $20(1 worth of wrenches and repair equipment was reported stolen from :the Taylor Motors Ltd, lot at Zurich Saturday by Giles Pelletier, Nelson St., Exeter. Pelletier said he left the box in the used ear repair yard for about, two hours before he dis- covered it missing. F/O R. 1). M.cCallum, script writer and narrator for the show, provided an interesting a n d humorous commentary through the entire perform- ance. He described the cost- umes worn and gave pertinent facts which occurred during the years presented. New York's Central Park was never so colorful as when the glee club presented their' "Scene in The Park". Joined by the "B arbersh n Boys" they brought back such old favor , ites as "In The Good Old Sum- mertime", "Sweet Rosie Grady", and "Sidewalks of New York." Comedy interspersed Comic relief at just the right moments was provided by the "Barbershop Boys" as they marched on stage giving an idea at what the well-dressed troops wort during the 191.4, 1918's. Their "Over There" and "Kathy" brought the house clown Gordie Greenwood's: letter in leis buddy from. "sosnewhere in Fraece" gave ari insight into sus( how the war was won. A syncopated v c rsion ilf "Five Foot Two" by the band provided enough encouragement for the boisterous Charleston dancers,. attired in flounced dresses, complete with black earters and headache bands, as they shim rut i e d their way through a rousing version of t110 •CMtle.goil of the 1020's. io Lon.d on , Mr, Silver operated the Silent store in Hensall in the build- ing recently sold tn Alf. Scholl. it formerly was owned by W, 0, Goodwin, He also operates one at: Parkhill and had. another at Dresden, which is now closed, Silver publicly criticized the district fire departments for the manner . in which they handled the blaze at his store on April 5. Three fire. departments — Hensall, Exeter and Zurich — fought the fire which threaten- ed to destroy a large business block. Tonight! Exeter Kinsmen plan a house-to-house canvass to- night (Thursday) on behalf of the Salvation Army. Members will call door to door starting about 6 p.m. teachers under contract and the board is presently in the process of Lucio compiling the assessment list, which IS expected to be approximately sorts ...... $150,000,00, The atchitects" drawing by `Nolan and Glover, London, Want Ads — is shown, here. Sod,turnirig rites will be held Sunday, . 4 AnnaUncenlents Church' NofitrS Cooling Events Editorials Sarin News Feminine Facts Hensall • 1., • .• A 23-year-old university graduate. Joseph .Zim- mer of Dashwood, suffered a $2,400 loss over' the week- end when professional thieves broke into his TV and radio store. Stolen were more than 400 TV tubes, valued at an average of about $4,00 each, as well as a portable television set, three radios, two record players and a "tube caddy" repair kit containing about $500 worth of tools and tubes. Zimmer discovered the break-i.n about 10:30 a.m. Sun- day, Entry was gained by smash- ing a small rear window which allowed the thief or thieves to open, the lock on the inside of the hack door, Span musical memories at Huron Park PS revue