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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-05-31, Page 1ktvocafe Price Par Copy 10:Cents: Hearing on arson charge Fi D OIL IN CHARRED FLOOR Eighty,Eighth Year .... . .. . : 016. •DY:1 . . 11,40.6i,{1•••• S lall , , EXETER, ONTARIO, MAY 31, 1962 RECEIVES PLAQUE—Ory Vuassmann, president of the Grand Bend and Area Chamber of Commerce is shown above receiving a plaque for honorable mention in the annual competition for outstanding service to the com- munity and the C of C movement. The Grand Bend president received the award from A, Drysdale, St. Marys, who presided at the 50th annual convention held in Niagara. Falls. Mrs. Wassmann and Mr, and. Mrs, John Macdonald accompanied. the president, —Pohto by Macdonald Prize-winning C of C plans active summer Plan to lay charges after safety checks Exeter police warned this Week they would begin to lay charges today (Thursday) for vehicles with mechanical des feet's.. This followed a three-day safety check campaign during which over 150 cars were in- spected try police, according to figures released by Chief C, H. MacKenzie this week. Nearly one-third of the cars elicelsed did riot qualify for a safety sticker. Of the cars brought in for voluntaty inspection Monday and Tuesday,. 24 were fettnd not fit. Chief MacKenzie said he found four cars with defects in 18 he inspected during a spot check., Saturday. Friday afternoon, Constable Lloyd flodgins reported that Only six of 35 tars passed in- spection during a spot check on Na, 4 north of the beidge, In another check ,the sane day, severe out of 18 were not passed. Moat , frequent violation in- volved licence plate lights acid emergency brakes. Other Von- lathe included bead and tail lights, signal and brake hi- dieators, Kinsmen view chemical valley Meter Kinsmen toured the chemical valley at Sarnia lug the club's annual travel meeting Thursday night. The group wept by bus to Sarnia where they were met by Imperial Oil Ltd. repre- sentatives, After, viewing a film oh how oil is refined, Knishilen toured the plants to see the equipment required for various processes. The club learned that all crude Oil 'Used in the chemical Valley is being brought in by pipeline from Alberta. Where to find it Arineunebeidete .. ...... ..... 17 Church'' Nofitot 17 Coining Evetite II Editorials , 4 0iirin Wows .......... ..... „ 11 Feniitillie Nett ... 14 H oman .. 4* Liken .. 16 soots gi Y, g Want Mt .. * V* ) 3 OVER 200,000 miLes—Norman Long, Kippen, who re,. tires this month as courier On RR 2 Kippen, has driven. over 200,000 miles delivering mail to the 72 farms 011 his route during the past 27 years, Ills wife, Tho T-A correspondent_ for Kippen, has been assisting him in recent years. r, Long was forced to retire because, of ill health. His successor is dward MoBricie.—Tqk photo During 27 yea rs Never been late Will dam- :icosts be changed ? Two experts testified in magistrate's .court here Tuesday that a petroleum product—probably kerosene or coal oil—was found in the charred floor of the no store at Hensall which was damaged by fire April 5. They gave evidence at a preliminary hearing ott the charge of arson against the store's owners Nathan affair. The practice has been discontinued in, the last few elections because of lack of in- terest. Indications are that it will not be resumed this year. Each of the candidates must post a $200 deposit, This deposit is lost if a candidate fails to secure one-half of the winner's total. With four candidates in the Huron race, this could well happen. Advance polls Regulations have been loosened considerably on the advance polls, previously re- stricted to people in certain oc- cupations which would take them out of the area on elec- tion day. Now anyone who has cause to believe he will be away election day may cast his bal- lot in advance, The early polling dates are Saturday, June 9, and Monday, June 11. Polls will be eetab- liaised at Exeter, Seaforth, God- erich, Clinton and Blyth, Returning Officer Bolton indi- cates the total number of vot- ers, before revision of the lists, is 25,711, about 400 more than for the last election in 1958. There are 144 polls in Huron riding, An early .decision will be made on. the Perkhill .dem dispute. It was indicated by R. L. Ken- nedy, yieeseneirman. of the Cps tarua Municipal Hoped, who pre. sided over the three-day hear- ing here. The hearing concluded late Thursday .afternoon after sum- mations of cases by the seven lawyers Who participated in the involved argentent over allota , tions of costs toward the mil- lion-dollar conservation project, .Bosanquel. and Stephen town., ships, Who appealed for sub• .etantial reductions in their as- sessments, e o m t a cl their case with the introduction by Engineer H. H. Tedgbare of Chatham of e new distribution of costs which changed the allo- cation for .each municipality in the watershed.. Counsel for the defending municipalities did not place any evidence before the beard, ex- cept that of Professor Donald Clough, Toronto, who prepared the original essessment. He ap- peared at the first sitting -on Anvil 4 hut was not called hack when the hearing was resumed last week, He was at the hear- ing, however, to Advise and assist the defending lawyers, Increases recreational benefit Under his revised schedule. Engineer Todgha'm increased considerably the recreation and conservation benefit to be de- rived from the dam and distrib- uted it over .all the municipal- ities in the same manner as the authority's general assessment for administrative purposes. Then he reduced the Shares of Bosanquet and Stephen, be- cause of their proximity to Lake Huron, and increased the assess- ment against McGillivray, Park- hill, East and West Williams because of their proximity to the proposed dam, He also added a business in- crease charge against Parkhill, based on the attraction of tour- ists, and water supply levies against .McGillivray, East and West Williams None of these had been included in the origi- nal report. Another new factor introduced by the engineer was an assess- ment for artificial drainage against the lands above the dam. He claimed the dam would absolve these areas of respon• sibility for th maintenance of drainage works below the dam. Under his new schedule, the Bosanquet assessment was re- duced from $44,000 to $].4,700; Stephen from $11,000 to $8,000. To compensate for these •• de- creases, he raised the assess- ments against almost all of the r e m ai ni n g municipalities. Among those affected the roost were. Exeter, whose . assess anent was doubled to a total. pf more than $10,000; East Wil- liams, up $5,600, and West Wil- liams, up $4,000. Under the revised schedule, the assessment against Park- hill was decreased over $1,000, which proved somewhat em• harassing for this municipality. In opposing the Bosanquet and Stephen application, it actually was defending a higher assess- ment for itself. Tod g h a in 's re-assessment was attacked by all of the law- yers defending the original schedule. They claimed he had Dad's bullet hits boy, 12 A 12-year-old Stephen town- ship boy, Ronald Stone, is re- covering satisfactorily in St. Joseph's Hospital, London, fro in a bullet wound in his ankle, caused by the accidental dis- charge of his father's gun. Clarence Stone, 42, RR 3 Parkhill, was preparing to shoot groundhogs on his farm early Sunday evening when the gun fired. The bullet went through a door and struck the boy in the ankle, travelling up his leg into the calf. It was removed by Dr. C. Wilson, a London sur- geon. PC D. M. Westover said Mr. Stone had cleaned his gun in the kitchen and his son was ly- ing on a cot in the same room, Mr. Stone reloaded the gun, walked out the door, then de- cided to ease off the hammer, He had partially turned around When the hammer slipped from his thumb and the gun dis- charged into the back door. The incident occurred about 7:30 p.m, No rainfall in forecast The d oesn't "much s needed tain".doeen't appear to be in the offing for this weekend ac- cording to the five-day fore., Cast released Wednesday by the met Section at RCAF Cents • The forecast calls for contin- uing hot weather with the teitipetaterear averaging four to seven degrees above the normal high of 74, The only relief in sight for the dry. spell is a forecast of isolated thundershowers dur- ing the next five ..deys, These showers are expected to bring Iran' one:ttitarter_ in three, quarters tif. an inch of rain to the areat they hit, The figilita released at the Met section show that the total precipitation for the month of May WAS 1.46 This Spears'' to be "slightly . be low average for the Month, HOW69ary in I'M there )gds, only 1.26 inches While in ON' it fell to •-A low of .56 inches,. ether lows oat _record at Cent, fella Are a. AO in 1050 .arid 42. hi 195. 5... It lift a high of not been fair because be had fettered such facts as Hay township bordering on Lake Huron, Exeter being as Close to „Lake ,Huron as some parts of Stephen; and assess ;Rent against lands above Parkhill for relief on ,drainage respensls bilitiee is a similar fashion. .to those lands above the Won- dyke, Todgham's estimate of flood control benefit was consider- ably lower than that of Clough's because the former had used figures on yields cited by New Venice Corporation which were considerably less than those produced by the liaigineler farm in earlier litigation, which — pleese turn to page 3 FOIZMER CHIEF DIES ...Reginald Taylor Vets mourn former chief Funeral. services for Reginald Taylor, 57, sato served as Exe- ter's police chief for over five years, were conducted Satur- day by Rev, Bren de Vries in Hopper-Hockey Funeral Home, William St. A large body of Legion and Legion auxiliary members at- tended a special memorial ser- vice in the funeral home Friday night. It was conducted by Rev. C. E. Lewis, assisted by the Legion president, Eric Hey- wood. A veteran of world war two, during which he served in the Italian campaign and the North. west European theatre, Mr. Taylor bad been an active mem- ber of the Legion and served on its executive for several years. He was appointed police chief here in January, 1953, succeed- ing the late John Norry. He re- signed from the post in Septem- ber, 1958. Previous to that he was employed in the planing mill now operated by Beaver Lumber on Main St, At the beginning of this year, he and his wife were appointed caretakers of Exeter Legion Hall. However, he has been in ill health for a number of months. He died at the home of. Don- ald McTavish, Shakespeare. a relative, where he and Mrs. — Please turn to page 3 A disconnection in the ender, ground telephone cables from the fire hall to Harvey's ans- wering service resulted in a 10- minute delay in firemen reach- ing the scene of a car fire in Exeter Moeday. The fire call was phoned in by Frank Mathers et Mathers Bros, where a ear owned by an empl o ye e, Gordon Bieber, Mooresville, caught fire short- ly after he arrived at work in the morning, However, the call did not get into the answering service be- cause one of the underground pairs of wires had become opened following the extensive work on the manhole at the corner of Main and Sanders street by Bell employees, Hank Green, caretaker at the town hail, heard the phone ringing in the fire hall but did not know how to operate it, After waiting several minutes he reached Police Chief C. IL MacKenzie who phoned Hay- vesde to see if they had a call. He was just on his way to set off the alarm when it was rung by Wes Ryckman, a member of the fire brigade who works at Darling's IGA. He had been notified by em- ployees of McKerlie Automotive who had been phoned by an- other fireman Ray Smith, who bad stopped at Mathers when he spotted the fire in the car. The car was a total wreck and loss was estimated at $900, Out for two days? George Glendinning, an em- ployee of the Bell Telephone, told The T-A. the extension to Harvey's could have been out since men had been working on the lines in the area on Satur- day, or it could have been opened when the call went through lie said he told Fire Chief Irwin Ford he would check the line every Monday morning from now until the repairmen are finished their work, Len Harvey, owner of the answering service, reported he plans to test his line every day to make sure it is working. Noting that the caretaker at the town hall did not know how to operate the call system for fires, Glendineing said everyone around the hall should be in- structed in its use. "This is the best place to take the calls", he said, "because the person knows where the fire is and can tell the firemen when they arrive at the sta- tion", If the call is taken by liar, vey's, the firemen have to call in to them to find out where the fire is. ag society honors Dougall At a meeting of South Huron Agricultural Society in Hensall. Tuesday evening, W. R, Doug• all was presented with an agri- cultural service diploma for meritorious service to agricule Lure. Mr. Dougall has been a mem- ber of the society for 50 years, He served on the beard of di- rectors and was secretary; treasurer for a number of years. Mr. Dougall is a former weed inspector for Huron county, The society is planning far its twilight stock and implement show which will be held Friday, June 8. Feature of this show is the achievement day of the Hensall Feeder Calf Club. . of those who have been missed. If you don't get your name on the list, you can still vote on polling day but you'll have. to be sworn in, It's easier to look after it now, according to elec- tion officials, To qualify, you must be resi- dent in the poll area before the day of the election writ, April 19. Nominate Monday if you're thinking of standing for election, you can still do so, according to Returning Officer Russell Bolton, Seaforth. Dead- line is 2 p.m, Monday, Awe 4. Mr. Bolton said he has re- ceived three nominations al- ready — those of Elston Car- diff, PC; Ernest Fisher, Libe. al, and J. Carl Hemingway, ND?, Another nomination is ex., pected from Earl Douglas, who has announced he will run on the Social Credit ticket, Returning Officer Bolton will be in the town hall, Clinton, from one to three o'clock Mon- day to receive any further nom- inations. In previous years, the nomi- nation was followed by a debate among the candidates which sometimes turned into a lively at the Wondergrove Roller Rink on Friday, August 24. Owner Ed Odbert donated his establishment for the. night and the entertainment committee will be in charge. The group held a similar function last year in Septem- ber. They also held a brief dis- cussion on co-sponsoring a donkey baseball game some time during the summer. A Stouffyille owner contacted the group and has agreed to split the profits from such a show with the C of C receiv- oppeerrcoetnat t: of the show receiv- ing wit look after all the adver- tising costs, while the Cham- ber would have the privilege of operating any concessions on the grounds. They decided to seek further information before reaching a final decision on the offer, Other projects planned for the season include the popular Labor Day beauty contest and the annual puppy raffle, President Ory Wassmann gave a short report on the an- nual meeting of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce that he and his wife and Mr. and Mrs. John Macdonald attended in Niagara Falls recently. Wassmann was presented with the plaque at that time. Norman Lo n g o1 Kippert, who, for the past 27 years has held the position of mail courier Of RR. a Kippen, will retire this Thursday, ilfay 31 due to ill health. Mr. L o n g,„ who is // carried the mails to the CNII, station from the post office at Kippen for 20 years. Once he nearly missed the train out Oc. tober 17, 1958 after change over when the train pulled out at Kiiinett Station before heat, rived. Ile drove to trucefield over 70 miles an Mtn, to Catch it there. Ile has the distinotion of never being late on the mail route. Dorn lit Owen Setind he, came Silver, Toronto, The all-day session was term- inated at 5:30 p,m, after only six of the 14 crown witnesses had been called and the matter has been adjourned until June 15, Silver was remanded out of custody on $5,000,00 property bail whch was put up by him- self and his sister-in-law. Testifying before Magistrate Glenn Bays, QC, Robert Kauf- man, an inspector with the On- tario Fire Marshal's office stated that there were definite signs on the floor where an in- flammable fluid had burned in a distinct pattern. He reported the fire had started at ilk or level and there was nothing in the area that would ordinarily start a fire, Looking at pictures taken by PC Murray Peer of the Mount Forest identification branch, Kaufman pointed out to the court the pattern of the fire on the floor which showed deeper burning where the liquid had been poured. "It appeared as though quite a quantity of liquid had been poured on the floor", he stated, He reported the fire had been centred in a 10'x11' area near the stairway on the second floor of the building and there was no wiring near the source of the fire, Kaufman said he had no way of knowing how long the liquid had been on the floor prior to the fire, but said the substance would have evaporated before a month and would not burn with such a distinct pattern, He reported that there were several cans of paint and bot- tles of shoe polish and shoe dye in the area of the fire but they were still intact except for two broken bottles of dye. He also stated some of the shoe polish had evaporated out of the jars due the intense heat of the fire. Chemist testifies D, M. Lucas, a chemist with the Attorney General's labora- tory in Toronto, reported that a sample of the charred floor given to him by Kaufman car- ried an odor of petroleum and he was able to isolate a trace of a petroleum product in two tests conducted on the material. to 'Xippen from Windsor 28 years ago. He recalls through the years that he .had to traW1 on his hands and knees. to iii ail boxes and wipe snow Off Iii Ors dor to get mitt in during severe Winters. Seine- winters he had to 'drive a horse through sPow drifts five feet deep. Hie wife has bete assisting hini for the past six years, He is married with two &ugh. ters, Mrs. Alvin Utah,. Whither, and Mrs, E Little, Hettsall; one ion Arthur, St, Catharines; t w grandthoghteaa, Marcia *aid Cheryl, Little. Hensall, Mr. Edgar Metride ,or Rip- pot has been appointed as his stiedesset* By distilling the materials in a beaker of water he said he was able to determine that 'the product was probably kerosene or coal oil. He also took an air sample from the jar and took an analysis of the gas but the quantity was too smal to des termine exactly what type of petroleum product was evi- dent. The chemist also performed tests on five bottles of liquids supplied by Kaufman and re- Ported that two of the sub- stances could he the ones pre- sent in the Charred debris, One was a vinegar bottle cone teining an amount of stove oil or kerosene that was taken from the building by Kaufman and the other was a small sample of oil taken from the oil heater in the building. The other three jars contained samples of the fabric shoe cleaner, a fly spray and moth spray, In cross examination by Har- old H, Siegal, Toronto, he re- ported lie had expected to trap more of the petroleum product than he had due. to the strong odor of the jar containing the charred debris, Residents testif Jack. Drysdale, Hensel, the first of the six witnesses to be called, reported he spotted the smoke coming out of the Silco store shortly after 6:00 p.m. and called to Mrs. Ernie Da- vis, who was just coming out of the IGA store, to call the fire department. William Brown, owner of the IGA store, reported Mrs, Davis called back and asked him to call the fire department. Fire chief Byron Kyle re- ported he arrived on the scene about two minutes after the siren had sounded and the fire truck was already there and several men had started to lay out the hoses. He stated he went inte the building and went up the stairs to the second floor with Wilmer Ferguson where they were con- fronted with the fire in an area he described as 10' in diameter just to the left of the steps. The two men returned to the street and dragged a hose up — Please turn to page 3 Mr. Gardiner put the youth on a couch, sent his son David, 19, to look for a car, David found a wrecked Volks- wagen beside the boulder-con- structed driveway. Beside it was a young woman, uncon- scious, and badly lacerated, Mrs. Evelyn lacer, 26, of Waterloo, remains in serious condition in St, Joseph's Hos- pital, London, with concussion and lacerations. The driver of the car, Larry Feick, 19, Strat- ford, is in fair condition with concussion and a broken shoulder. The Gardiners thought it first was a prowler at the door and called police, The accident happened about 1.45 am. Sunday about one- half mite west of the Perth- Huron line, Mr. Gardiner said the youth must have walked about 150 yards to the house after the crash, The Hoffman ambulance, Dashwood, and the Heath. Leslie ambulance, Mitchell, took the injured to hospital after they had been treated by Or. R. W. Read, town. PC D. M. Westover investi- gated the accident. The car Was valued at $700. GT trucks keep going B. W, Tuekey, president of the. non-union Guenther Tuekey Transports Ltd,, said Wednes. day his firm will continue to operate unless there are fur, tiler developments in the rapidly.spreading strike by the 7,200 thick drivers in the Teat sterS' union, "We are Working from day to day, hour to hour," Mr.• Tuckey said. "We don't know Pet whore we stand. There have beep a few clenched fists and several of our drivers have been stopped but there has been no trouble." "We intend to operate as long as We tan, We don't ins teed to take on any new truck- ing which would provoke in, eidents." OPP detachments in the areal affected by the strike have been alerted by Torotitti headtatiattets to literate Melt watch for trouble on the high' way although the directive arr, lielPatea no need for Warta for trucks. fi Phone disconnect fouls fire alarm Grand Bend and Area Cham- ber of Commerce, recent win- ners of a plaque for outstand- ing achievement during the past year, indicated they will not rest on their laurels as they planned their summer activity at a meeting, Mon- day. The summer resort group .plan to stage a roller carnival Are you eligible to vote? Check the list today Is your name on the voters' list for the June 18 election? Today's the day to do some- thing about it, if it isn't. Thursday, May 31, is. the day enumerators set aside for the revision of their lists. They will be at their homes — or some other location designed on the official posting — to add names ANTHROPOLOGIST — Norma Joan Chapman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, C. P. Chapman, Grand Heed, graduates in. major anthropology from the University of Toronto May 3L She plans on continuing He- brew studies in Toronto for the soinmer, then will attend Hebrew University hi Jerusa- lem next year working on her MA in archeology, THREE AWARDS — M aria- Mell Sinclair, daughtet of . Mr, and Mrs, John Sinclair, RR 3 Kippen, was presented with three awards Saturday When she graduated from Stratford General Ifoapltal echol of nurs- ing, The awards were for pro- ficiency . in bedside and obstet- rical nursing and for serving as president of the student aes'rt for 1961.62, HONORS otdREE 130V Sint'. gig, Son 0?., Mr, and -Mrs, H. L, Sturgis, WilliaM St., received his honors degree in physical health and recreational etlitta• Cott at the May convocation of UWO Friday. Beer will join the staff of Gedarbrae Collegiate, Scathorengli, in Septenther ST, THOMAS GRAD petty Ann Horn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Herta, Woodham, graduates front. the selleol of nursing of St. Thomas s Elgin Hospital June (I. aradtlation ex. ercises Will be hold at Alma College. Shewill join the staff at St. Josepit'si tendon, The. 19-year-old youth was dazed and only partially con- scious when he came to the door, said James Gardiner, Thames Road. "He didn't know he'd been in an accident, but you could tell from his in- juries what had happened", Suffer concussions when car hits rocks r. ' * *