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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-06-07, Page 1no. doubt as to liability of the corporation,,,," referred the matter to its insurance company, rep- resented by W. I. Hodgson Ltd„. which :covers the muni- cipality for liability. The core- PenY earlier refused to take action on Mr, Dearing's Incorporated in .the plans for the town's sewerage system is .the use of the Marlborough St. pumping station to divert the flow from the Anne St. drain and -creek into the William St. storm sewer, from where it will he pumped, to the proposed treatment lagoon near Mr, Dearing 's property. nvestigate shooting Police are investigating the shooting of "Collet", a large police dog owned by Liberal campaign manager Joe Gone, emit tom The dog, 31S years old, was found dead early morning Fr- cloy, June 1. lie had been hit with a rifle bullet, Another shooting of a dog on Huron St. west is being inves- tigated by police, Damage dispenser Soft drink dispensers in Exe- ter, Clinton and Brussels were broken into over the weekend, town and provincial police re- port, Two town machines were lo- cated et Stan Frayne's general store and the Fina station. Amount of money taken is not known but the machines were damaged to the extent of about $100, Wins sword from RMC Lt. J. Glenn Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs, Clifford Allen, Fullerton, received two awards at the graduation ceremony at Royal Military College of Can- ada over the weekend, Re received the gold sword of the college for -efficiency and a cash award for draftsman- ship. He graduated with a. bach- elor of engineering degree and received his commission of lieutenant in the 1st RCR's. As cadet wing commander of the college. Lt. Allen took the salute of the march past and accompanied Lt. Gen, 0. Walsh, CBE, DSO, CD, on his inspec- tion. of the cadets, Lt, Allen is a former resident of Thames Road and: attended SS 2 'Osborne, He is the grand- son of Mr, and Mrs. T. C. Al- len, Exeter north, and Mr. and Airs. A, W, Etherington, Us- borne, His parents were guests of the college for the graduation. WINS RMC AWARDS . .1, Glenn Allen SCHOOL CHILDREN WELCOME LIBERAL LEADER PEARSON IN FRONT OF EXETER LIBRARY BUILDING urha firm gets road contract, expect to start with oil this week Eighty.01910 Year EXETER, QNTARIQ/ 4.p.N.,a 7, 1942 Price Per Copy 10 Cent§ Pearson rushes through South Huron 00 IDS GREET MIKE A jovial, jaunty Mike Pearson, exhibiting no strain from his rigorous campagin, relished an enthus., la.stic welcome from the school children of South Huron. Wednesday afternoon. Hundreds of kids, happy to be outdoors on el„ sunny day, greeted him at St, Joseph, Zurich, Hensall and Exeter, as the Liberal leader travelled to London for an .evening rally. Ha practiced his French at St, Joseph, received; a red, carnation at Zurich., signed a school guest book at Hensall and met a much younger Mike at Exeter, AD four to debate Four candidates in Huron will take part in an election debate next Tuesday in Sea- forth, it was announced this week by the Huron local of Ontario Farmers' Union, It's probably the only time this campaign the candidates will appear on the same plat- form. Mrs. Thomas Govenlock, RR 5 Seaforth, announced the meeting, which will start at 9 p.m. in. Seaforth high school. It's open to the public, As expected, Returning Of- ficer Russell Bolton accepted four nominations for Huron Riding at Clinton Monday. Here is the official listing in the order the names will ap- pear on the ballot: Cardiff, Elston, RR 4 Brus- sels, farmer, Douglas, Earl, Bayfield, in- vestor and tree farmer, Fisher, Ernie, Goderich, elec- trician. Hemingway, J. Carl, RR, 3 Brussels, farmer, Plan rebuttal Huron PC's plan to "answer Pearson" next week, following the trip through the riding 'by the Liberal leader Wednesday. Arthur Maloney, QC, MP, Toronto, will be speaker at a Conservative rally in Goderich Monday night, PC's say he'll answer Pearson's statements here. Exeter Liberals opened their campaign headquarters here Monday night, It's located just six doors north of the PC's office on Main St., opposite The T-A. Perhaps buoyed by the chil- dren's exuberance, Mr. Pear- son was in excellent spirits. Even the signs, "Let's Liqui- date Pearson," here didn't phase him. They met him as he came to Exeter and es he drove by the car lot here where local dealer Jack Pearson is having a liquidation sale. "I don't approve of that", he called laughingly from the beige Cadillac in which he was riding as it drove by the lot where the "Liquidate Pearson" sign had been moved out near the street, The Liberal leader was aes companied bs Huron candidate Ernie Fisher, who introduced him on every occasion as the only Canadian to win the Nobel peace prize. Also with him wag former MP Andrew McLean and other cestriet party offi- cials, along with the charter bus carrying the national press, Sing in French At St, Joseph on No. 21 high- way, the children greeted him singing "0 Canada" in French. Pearson thanked them and wished them good luck in the same language, then told the crowd this was good practice for him with his Quebec tour coming up. Acknowledging that the chil- dren were ea the middle of writing exams, Mr. Pearson said, "I, too, am trying an ex- amination, and I hope I will be as successful as I know you will be", He greeted Father Bordeau, the parish priest, and local residents who gathered for his stop. Arriving at Zurich, the en- tourage was greeted by the Clinton Legion Pipe Band and the PS and separate school children who 'marched to the community hall, leading Mr. Pearson who was in a convert- ible (owned by Jack Pearson). — Please turn to page 2 Where to find it At1110U11C0111eritt .. ..... ...... 2 Church Notices 18 Coining Events 18., 19 Editorials 4 Farm News 12 Fethinirle Facts ..„. 14, IS Hensa II , S Lutaii 17 Sports 6/ 7 Want Ads .. 12, 13 ) tr , Dearing says he will :toe Can't use that gun on dogs — or bikes Heiler and two of his young sons escaped uninjured, Aire. Keller suffered 4 broket wrist, skull injury and 'severe lacers. dolls; eeVell-year-Old Eugene health unit a complaint over the number of rats infesting the ruins of the Town and Country Restaurant at the corn- er of Nos, 4 and 83. Councillor Farrow felt coun- cil should take action in clean- ing up the eyesore but Mayor Simmons said. 'the Own did not have the authority to clean up private property. It had been revealed earlier that the owner, William Poul- ton, had requested the town to clean up the site and add the cost to his taxes. The mayor indicated there was some com- plication in connection with the property and he felt the town should not become involved. Feject family name Council again rejected the use of family names in 'the des- ignation of town streets when it decided to call the road on the south side of Victoria Park "P'ark Street", The road runs received a fractured skull and several cuts. Damage to the Frayne car is estimated at $1,800 and to the station wagon, a 1962 model, at $2,000. Constables John Haveron and Kenneth life- Kay of the Sebringville detach- ment, Ontario Provincial Po- lice, investigated the accident. Three ambulances from Mit- chell and Stratford were re- quired to take the injured per- sons to hospital here. When a wrecker attempted to move the Keller station wagon it was found that the collision had damaged the transmission and the wheels were locked. it was necessary to use a cut- ting torch to cut the drive- shaft. and replace the wheels before the vehicle could be towed away, !es- William and Market For the second time in recent years, council. has abandoned plans to use a tranquilizer gun to control dogs running at large. Not long after council decided to try the gun again, humane society officials protested to Mayor Eldrid Simmons that the prectice was illegal. It was also learned that Or- angeville police, who earlier had reported success with the gun, ran into difficulty when one of the_ gun's "needles" lodged in a dog and bad to be removed by a veterinary. Thee thwarted in his proposal for canine control, Deputy- Reeve Farrow turhed the 'prob- lem back to .Reeve Fisher, pol- ice committee el-minim Far- se)W, sanitation chairman and chief coMplaiiient on the dog situation, had been challenged with the job by Fisher and Simmons in a bit of council 1161'0p:toy, He relinquished it on the grounds that it was a police shatter, The situation now? Councillor Ted might said Monday night the chief had re- ported the pollee Were "really going at it", now that. the Way check is over, One dog has been taken to the pound. Fisher said Wednesday the police were going to check owners for dog tags, hle Wesel, sure that the ponce were going: to try to catch strays. NOW the bike's,' fob Cubmaster Earold Sisson S toiliplehied bitterly to council Monday night about the lack of eillereenient of the bylaw pro. hibititig bicycle riding Oh the between. streets. Reeve Glenn Fisher suggested the street be named after the late John Norry, who was pol- ice chief here for many years and who lived on the street. He was supported by Council Bai- ley but the two were outvoted. Councillor Joseph Wooden, who was critical of the designa- tion of "Eastern Avenue" in the new development on the east side, suggested more serious consideration. be given to the naming of town streets in the future. Councillor Ross 'Taylor de- fended council's decisions. Sell property near tracks Town property immediately east of the CNR railway be- tween the projection of Sand- ers St. south below the projec- tion of John St. was sold to Lou Bailey for a boxed plant busi- ness. Town. council received. notice. Monday night that Preat Dearing will sue for damages allegedly resulting from -.eon- laminotion of the Anne St. drain. As he has indicated to..eoun- ell before, the Stephen town- ehip farmer believes poison from the creek has killed live. .steels on his farm on at least two occasions. He also seeics damages for loss of uses of land and drinking water for Stock, A letter from his lawyer, E. D. Bell, QC, stated that Dearing also will seek an in- junction to stop "dumping of deleterious substances" into the drain. "elf any settlement is sought before commencement of ac- tion," Mr. Bell's letter said, "steps should, be taken before June 10 after which action may be .commenced without further notice." The letter explained: "About two years ago 1 wrote to you le connection with a loss suffered by Preston Dearing in respect to animals poisoned by deleterious substances dumped into his open drains and creeks by the corporation of the town of Exeter. This action was not proceeded with at the time, "Now it appears that due to the same cause, Mr. Dearing has had a further loss of which be has given you notice in the amount of $900 in respect of poisoned animals. There seems Deer killed in Stephen There's deer in the country. A car driven by Anthony M. Martens, 31, Crediton, hit one of two deer which bounded onto the highway in front of his car Monday about 8:15 p.m. on the Crediton road, near No, 81. The deer was killed by the impact. Car suffered $200 dam- age, according to PC George Mitchell. Hits driveway hole A car driven by Lorne K. Kel- ler, 20, RR 3 Exeter, skidded sideways into a tree after it struck a hole in a driveway on a Stephen township road. The accident happened Sun- day on the extension of Huron St., just west of the Dashwood road. None of the passengers in the car were injured, Damage was $200. One man injured One man was injured and damage totalled nearly $3,000 in a three-car crash on No. 83, just west of Dashwood Thurs- day night. A car driven by Edward Czerniawsky, 30, RCAF Clin- ton, went off the road and hit two parked cars, which had been operated by Marion Jean Rader, 30, RR 2 Dashwood, and Jacob W. Schroeder, 29, RR 2 Dashwood, h e Czerniawsky car continued on and broke a telephone pole. Seek new school lines Three area township councils Usborne, Biddulph and Bien- shard — are attempting to alter their public school boundaries to conform to their municipal boundaries. It's a complicated procedure involving school sections, union sections, township school areas and proposed central schools. At its meeting Monday, Us- borne passed a bylaw enlarging Its township school area by the inclusion of the Usborne parts of Kirkton and Woodham union school sections, The bylaw must receive approval from the town- ship of Manshaed and the min- ister of education, At the same meeting, Usborne council considered a draft of a Biddulph township bylaw to in elude the Biddulph part of the Usborne school area le the Bid- dulph School Area No, 1. Us- borne did not object to the draft. This action follows a joint meeting of Biddulph, Blanshard and, Usborne township officials iii Lucan, May 23, to discuss the boundary issue, The meeting resulted frorn petition by .1a ratepayers from the Bictchtlph .eeetioe of the Us- berne township school area (former Whalen section), ask- ing Biddulph council to enlarge the Biddulph school area to in- clude the old original school section No. 8 Biddu1ph, Meeting with the three coun- cils Were, the trustees Of. Us- borne school board; Ronald Crozier, chairman of the Bid- dulph board, and Clifford Ab- bott, secretary, along with In- spectors Howard Schletzbetter, Middlesex, and. Jehti Gentari, According to the minutes Of the mooting taken by Vsbothe 'Clerk H. H. G. Strang, 'it was generally generally ,agreed by the three ebuncils that likely future de- velopment and building of heal public echeele by school area boards and the creation of ensuing debenteke debt thereby falling on the public school sup- potters could best be edibles metered by the respective school. Area. beards where public school boundaries coincide with Mum, eipat boundaries." , VISIT oHIO BY AIR Doh McGregor, William St e wee one of four thee who vis- ited Needs in Ohio by air over the weekend. Gordon MeAlpile, the pilot, Clarenee Morgan end Jim . Welsh, all or. the Ailsa Craig area,formed the party which went to sidewalks, Council jousted with him for ,awhile, time' turned the prob- lem over to the police commit- tee. Sissons pointed out his prob. tem in teaching Cubs to obey the laws by staying off the side- walks With. their bikes. They see other boys riding on the walks, "right past the pollee even". "What's the sense of us preaching about it, if it's not going to be enforced," he asked. He wondered if the police were "afraid to bite the hand that feeds them". Fisher said he's seen the pol- ice give quite a few warnings, Delbridgez "0 lir bylaws should be etforced, that's for sure, but nobody's been killed on the sidewalks and there have been children killed on the roads arm this town," — Please turn 10 page 2 The Bailey tender, for $200 an acre, was the higher of two for the property which meas- ures more than three acres, Council decided to close the ex- tension of John St. and to in- clude this portion of land with the Bailey purchase, The other tender came from Verne Postill who offered $200 for the complete parcel. Request clean-up Council lamented the condi- tions surrounding a landmark in town — the Simcoe St. site of the residence of the first set- tler in Exeter, James Willis, According to complaints, weeds are heavy and high around the property, which 'is vacant. There's a patch of poi- son ivy on the boulevard in front. Council requested tLe present owner, James Willis, of Kirkton, to cut the weeds and instructed the streets committee to the poison ivy. Council also ordered a clean- up of the town's lot in the Whit- smith subdivision. The lot was provided for recreation pur- poses under subdivision devel- opment regulations, Poles for a feeder hydro line are on the property. Still no word. on GB water Grand Bend council has still received no word from the Ontario Municipal Board re- garding the proposed $377,000 water system, The board held a meeting in Grand Bend on April 5 to hear objections to the system but the decision has still not been, reached. Frank Campbell, projects of- ficer with the OWRC, reported to council by letter that the OMB member who sat at Grand Bend has been emit:Mu• ously engaged since that date lalonidt, has not presented his re- Hensall awards street contracts instruct E. Davis to remove this deadwood. Permission was granted to remove or repair the dead and dying trees. Councillors John Baker and Mrs, Noakes, after an examin- ation of the exterior of the town hall, requested council to advertise for tenders to paint the building. "Can we expect the stores to spruce up if the town hall is a mess?" Baker asked. Building violations Reeve Norman Jones noticed that several 'were in the pro- cess of constructing buildings but had not applied for per- mits, E. Davis was asked to investigate this matter and to remind the violators that per- mission from the council was necessary before new or addi- tional construction was car- ried out. Permits were granted to Al- bert Scholl for a $15,000 reno- vation project to a store re- cently purchased: to William. Rooseboom to make a $3,000 repair to his Queen St. home, and to George Thompson for the construction of a $300 car- port, Fail to pick up tags. Clerk Earl Campbell reported that there were still sonic 20 persons who had failed to pick up tags Mr their dogs, "People who don't pick up these tags make me mad,' exclaimed Baker, "They should be made to pay double," answered ewe- eillor Knight, Councillor John Henderson suggested that council might look into the possibility 'of ad- ding this fee to the violator's taxes, "We'll send Ernie out to collect them" exclaimed. Campbell, Jones read a letter from the district forest ranger saying that lie had had several corn- plaints concerning the fire at dump. He requested that an le- vestigatiot should be made into this potential danger. Clerk Campbell and Davis reported that they had extinguished a fire burning in a large trot in the dump whey the Mehth. The dump is now locked and signs belie been posted, The council reported that $900,05 was spent during the month of May. Clerk Campbell was quick to point out that this would be much higher once the road repairs started. Other best sines s included authorization for the ..m,irchase Or an electric heater for the library, the purchase of a sees Mid hand tire for the tractor, the purchase of two 'no exit' s gtis for the pump house road, and the elloeatiett of earth from the road excavation, Follows ambulances finds injured parents Application of prime oil and asphalt emulsion on town streets should begin before June 15 and will be completed by the end of the month, council learned Monday night, Clerk C. V. Pickard reported he had received this assurance from the Caswelt Paving Co. Ltd., Durham, the company to which council let the contract during a special meeting May 30. Clerk Pickard reported the company's equipment has not yet been approved by the de- partment of highways, under a regulation which became ef- fective recently, hut that the officials did not expect any dif- ficulty. Contract was called for the supplying of 12,500 gallons of asphalt emulsion with 650 tons of 3/8" stone chips and 4,000 gallons of prime with 50 tons of sand. Cost for this amount will total $7,070 under the Caswell tender, which was the lowest of four The highest totalled $9,100. Council is expected to have more prime and asphalt ap- plied than was stipulated in the tender call, although this is still to be determined. Roads Chairman Bailey re- ported the department engi- nears are expected this week to dig test holes on several roads to determine the work required to bring them up to standard for surfacing, Refer to health unit Council referred to the county le g' and g"cral lac"Atias• accident on Highway 28 aboUt 011C-half mile south of Mitchell. The southbound 'rho COltishOS WON described as "improving' and "net station wagon, left, was involved hi a heaci,on collision with the '61 model car, oat", tight, All four passengers of the car, Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Prayrie and Mr. and Two Exeter couples, who were among seven injured in a two-ear crash near Mitchell early Saturady night, are now "satisfactory" and "improv- ing", according to Stratford General Hospital Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Frayne, William St., and Mrs. Frayne's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cornish, Carling St., are suf- fering from fractures and la- cerations, The two ladies have the most extensive injuries. The Exeter couples were travelling to Sebringville to visit the Fraynes' son, Peter, and his family, when they were struck by a southbound station wagon driven by John Keller, 37, Weston. PC John Haveron, Sebring- ville OPP, said Wednesday a charge of dangerous driving has been laid against He will appear ih Stratford court June 13, Peter Frayne, expecting his parents and grandparents, dis- covered their misfortune at the hospital shortly after the crash, Working in his garden at Sebringville, he heard the three ambulances scream by on their way to Stratford. "Something, compelled me to go," be said, and he followed the ambulances to the hos- pital, Mr. Frayne, 54, who was driving, has a !endured right forearm and lacerations to face and head; Mrs, FrAYtitl 48, has a fractured pelvis, dis- located left hip, fractured wrist and arm, smashed fingers and several lacerations. Both Mr. and Mrs. Frayrie were de- scribed as "satisfactory", Mr. Cornish, abort 74„ has a fractured left arm with leeeratiOtte; Mrs. Cornish, 68, has a fractured arm, tom. pound fracture the right SIX IN HOSPITAL — Six persons Were hospitalized Saturday night following art Mrs. 'Prod Corhish$ Meter, art in Stratford General 'Hospital With multiple hi. juries. The driver of the station wagon, John Xellet, Weston, was treated and re= leased, but his wife and sevens ear son, Eugene, are hi hospital, Two younger sons escaped injury, Hensall council let two tend- ers Monday night for a $6,500 road repair and improvement project. Both tenders were let to the Levis Construction Company, Clinton, the lowest bidder, pending approval of the de- partment of Highways. A 300 fool: stretch along Brock St. and six feet along York St. are to be excavated and to be filled with pit-run and, crushed gravel. Pavement will be laid along 300 feet of Nelson St., 100 feet of York St. and 300 feet of Albert. The pavement is to be put down in two coarses, one and three quarter, and one and on quar- ter inches thick, Ernie Davis reported that the north end of Nelson St. bad been clearedof brush and tin cans. "For the last time, I hope," he commented. He also informed the council that the street witching had been com- pleted for this year, Plan to remove trees Having received several re- quests from local citizens to re- move dead trees which were both an eyesore and hazardous, the councillors decided to tour the village with the intention of examining the foliage and to • •