HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-07-26, Page 1Eighty-Eighth. Year
EXETER, ONTAF'10, JULY 26, 1962
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Announcements 17
Church Notites 17
Corning EventS ..... 17
Editorials ............
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sports litIORMAN O,
Whrif riAd s . 12, 13
Lite volowrorlown
What a heck
of positioni
Gregory Cornell, 21/2 , .son ,of Mr. and.
Mrs, Jack .C'orneil, liens.all„ fell off the.
porch. of his home Monday afternoon .and
this is how he ended 'up. lie has a frae.
timed right leg above the knee and .a jet,
black shiner, Pr. M. Gans, .Exeter, .wjio
treated the boy, indicates he'll likely r.e•
main in. hospital fer :six weeks. LASt . year
Gregory lost part of a~ finger in a hand
lawn mower, --T-A photo
one of lowest in province
Still no decision
on Parkhill dam
fluor* County has the lowest dentist-population
ratio in southern Ontario and one of the lowest in the
entire province.
This is revealed in the brief recently submitted
to the Royal Commission on Health Services by the
Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario and the
Ontario Dental. Association.
Huron, with a population of
48,882, has only 12 dentists with-
in its borders, giving it a ratio
of one dental surgeon to every
4,074 persons.
This is almost double the On-
tario average of one dentist for
every 2,396 persons.
Here are some other compari-
sons:
Middlesex 1/2,316
Perth 1/3,320
Bruce 1/3,449
Grey 1/3,290
Lambton 1/3,507
York County 1/1,641.
Muskoka . 1/1,869
The brief suggests that a ra-
tio of one doctor to every 1,600
persons is considered ideal. To
reach this standard, Huron
would need to increase the num-
ber of its dentists by 2k,i times
to give it a total of 30.
In an effort to overcome this
serious shortage of dental serv-
ice throughout the rural sec-
tions of the province, the pro-
fession advocates a number of
concrete steps.
Special to The T-A
Huron County stands out as
a strong market, with a buy-
ing power that is better than
average.
The finding is based on an
economic survey covering the
past year's business activity in
communities throughout Cana-
da and the United States,
Despite the fact that the two
Little damage.
to PM cottage
Ontario Premier John Ro-
berts will have first-hand in-
formation that the Grand Bend
Volunteer Fire Brigade is
among the fastest throughout
his province.
On Monday, the local brigade
answered a call at the Roberts'
cottage in Oakwood and it took
them only four minutes to get
there from the time the call
went in.
The fire broke out in a
dryer in the basement being
used by Mrs. Roharts shortly
before midnight.
She reported to Fire Chief
Lawrence Mason that she
smelled smoke in the cottage,
but believed it was coming
from the fireplace which was
burning at the Lime, and didn't
pay too much attention.
However, it became worse
and when she went to the
cellar, found it full of smoke.
The local brigade arrived on
the scene and extinguished the
blaze in the dryer, which had
apparently brdken out due a.
short in the wiring.
The clothes in the dryer
were taken out and tossed in
a laundry basin where they
were soaked and the fire was
put out in the dryer, but not
before the machine was ruin-
ed.
"You're as fast as the city
fire brigades," Mrs. Robarts
informed Mason after the fire,
The. Premier was not home
at the time, having returned
to Toronto on business shortly
after supper.
Drive-in church
reunion scene
The remarkable Sunday
Drive-In Gospel Services at the
Starlight Theatre near Shipka,
which are drawing bigger
crowds every week, was the
scene of an unexpected reunion
Sunday.
Rev. Clinton trittain, new
minister at Grand Bend VC,
took part in the gospel service
for the first time. It was not
only a new experience for him
but it also provided him with
the pleasure of meeting a
friend he hadn't seen in Years ,
The friend was a member of
the Presbyterian Four, a sing-
ing group front Ingersoll. The
last time the men had met was
in Capreol, north of Sudbury,
years ago.
One of the largest drive.in
services ever Sunday drew 142
cars, and heard the message
of Rev. M. Cornelius, of Chat-
ham, and the MacDonald 13r0-
thers of Ailsa Craig. This was
an all Canadian service.
On August 19, the Salvation
Army 13ancl from Woodstock
will provide the music and on
August 5th, these who attend
Will hear Frank Johns, a for-
resident of the area, and Rev,
Elmore Brampton, Toronto,
formerly of Paisley,
Assessor here
joins farm dept
The tray Chick Hatchery in
Exeter, which for more than a
quarter of a century has been
in charge of Mr, Erie Cars.
Mitten, has been closed down
and l‘lr. Carseaddeti has at-
tented a position with the
poultry departMent of the Oil-
Agrictilttiral College at
Gtleligt, of Which he is a
graduate,
Mr, Carseadden's new duties
Will be connected with the
banding and blood-testing of
poultry, Ile Will, be working
out of Exeter where at present
Ile makes his bolt e• Foe a number of years; Me,
Carseaddeti has been the nittni.
4941 as$0880e itt iNeter,
cduntries were just emerging
from a depression, the effects
of which carried over to the
early part of 1961, business
locally showed a rapid recov-
ery.
The copyrighted report, which
gives figures on income and
spending, community by com-
munity, has just been released
by Sales Management.
It shows that income in
Huron County was high in the
year. After payment of per-
sonal taxes, there was left a
net of $65,904,000.
How much this amounted to,
at the family level, was deter-
mined by dividing the income
by the number of households.
The average per household was
$4,453, a gain over the pre-
vious year's $4,284.
What was done with all this
money? For several months
local consumers continued
spending cautiously, as they
had during the depression.
Then, as the signs of the up-
turn became more convincing,
they began -to loosen up. To-
ward the end of the year,
when the economy was again
in full swing, they were spend-
ing freely.
The vigor of this, late wave
of buying turned the year into
a good one for Huron County's
retail stores. Their sales vol-
ume reached $60,669,000, ex-
ceeding the 1960 total of $59,-
463,000.
The rise, 2.0 percent, com-
pares with a 1.1 percent rise in
the Province of Ontario.
The survey gives each com-
munity a rating as to market
strength, taking into account
such factors as income, retail
sales and population. The com-
posite figure is called its "In-
dex of buying power."
Issue warning
about damage
Police this week warned area
youth that charges will be laid
over damage to school proper.
ty
"We'll prosecute any children
found throwing stones or firing
air rifles at any property,"
stated PC C. E Gibbons, Exeter
detachment OPP,
PC Gibbons said Wednesday
all windows had been smashed
on the front of the Usborne
school house south of the Mor-
rison darn, on concession three.
Exeter authorities reported
this week that screens at the
local public school had been cut
by persons with knives.
Huron County is given an in-
dex rating of .2971, which
means that it is considered
capable of producing that per-
centage of Canada's total re-
tail business.
Since more than that was
done last year, .3657 percent, it
is apparent that some, of the
local business comes from out-
side the county.
Economists are predicting
that consumers in Canada and
the United States will continue
spending at their present rates
for some months to come, bar-
ring unforeseen events on the
international front and instabil-
ity at home.
Space
Sharon Edwards, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Beeson Edwards,
Main St. N,, won first prize for
the Queen's Park division in
the space age parade staged by
E x et e r Kinsmen Playground
Tuesday afternoon.
B. 111. Fr anci s, John St.,
former reeve of Exeter, has fi-
nancially "adopted" a 7-year-
old Korean girl, Son Mi Ja, it
was announced this week by
Foster Parents' Platt Inc., Mon-
treal.
"We are indeed grateful to
Mr. Francis for giving 'Ali Ja
this wonderful gift of hope and
help," declared Miss Gloria G.
Matthews, executive director of
Foster Parents' Plan,
The girl is one of four chit•
dren of a widowed Korean mo-
ther who peddles popcorn in the
streets to make as much as
250 a day.
The children never have more
than two meals a day, accord-
ing to the report 'on the family.
Breakfast is a small bowl of
boiled ttirkey, sometimes mixed
with a little i-ice if the mo-
There's still no decision by
the Ontario Municipal Board on
the Parkhill dam.
An official of the board told
The Times-Advocate Wednes-
day the matter "was being held
in reserve for consideration".
There was no indication as to
when the decision would be
given.
The hearing, brought about by
the appeals of Bosanquet and
Stephen townships for lower
assessments toward the cost of
the clam, was completed here
Friday, May 25, after a three-
day session following an ad-
journment in April.
An Ontario Dep't of High-
ways official said Wednesday
negotiations are "coming along
very well" toward the appoint-
ment of a contractor to com-
plete construction work on No.
4 highway near Centralia, and
Clandeboye.
He indicated an announce-
ment would be made "by early
next week" of an award for the
completion of the contracts on
which Langton Contracting Co.
Lt., Leamington, was working
before it went bankrupt.
The official said negotiations
were taking place among the
department, the bonding com-
pany and contractors.
Engineer B, M. Ross, Gode-
rich, said Wednesday he ex-
pects to complete plans for
Exeter's sewerage program by
the end of the week.
They will be forwarded to the
Ontario Water Resources Com-
mission on Monday, he indi-
cated.
The engineer said he did not
know how much longer after
that it would take before tend-
ers for construction would be
called, Ile indicated the OWRC
review of the plans would re-
quire six weeks to two months
but that tenders may be called
before the review is com
pleted.
Mr. Rons said he had been
held up by easement negotia-
tions in completing the plans
for the system. Each time a
property owner requested the
Five take to air
to get breakfast
Five district men joined the
fly-in breakfast staged by the
Hamilton Flying Club Sunday.
Larry Snider piloted the group,
which included Dick Jermyn,
Jim Bearss, Gerald Frout and
Don Bell.
It was early in 1960 that the
federal government agreed to
share in the cost of the darn and
it was expected at that time that
work would proceed the follow-
ing winter, The project, how-
ever, has been frustrated with
delays evpr since.
Last estimate of cost for the
d; in was set at $1,200,000, of
which the federal and provin-
cial governments would share
75%, the department of high-
ways would pay a portion in
consideration of tbe provision
for a bridge over the river, and
the remainder would be charged
to the 23 municipalities in the
watershed,
The bonding company is re-
sponsible for hiring a. new con-
tractor to complete the con-
tracts but it was doing so in
co-operation with the depart-
ment. "It will be a mutual
award," the spokesman said.
The Langton firm declared
bankruptcy two weeks ago with
only about 25% of its work on
No. 4 completed,
Work had barely started on
the revision of the Clandeboye
curve, a section of about seven-
tenth of a mile. The portion of
No. 4 near Centralia had been
built up with soil in prepara-
tion for widening. Culvert con-
struction has been completed.
location of the sewer to be
changed, the plans had to be
redrawn, he stated.
Council's objective for com-
pletion of the sewerage works
is March 31, 1963, the deadline
e s t a Wished for contributory
grants from the federal gov-
ernment.
Age
PENTECOSTAL PASTOR
. Rev. Larry Talbot
New minister
native of Huron
Fredericton, N.B., whose tem-
porary address is RCAF Cent-
ralia, Was attempting to over-
take a sports tar .when the
latter began to make a left-
hand turn Otto . the airport
road. Both vehicles had been
proceeding west,
Will not rebuild
locker service
this week he does not plan to
rebuild. his locker plant which
WAS severely damaged by fire
Ittly 4.
inditated his insurance
WAS not sufficient to erect a
hew plant. Ile also noted that
demand for locker sett/ice has
decreased With the growing
sales of &tine freezers through-
Mit the area,
Mr. 'flay, a former
councillor, said he Will ten.
(blue to Operate his coal busi-
ness in littitall and.
Hugh A. Johnston, 22, Cent-
ralia, driver of the sports car,
and Norman N, Sinclair, 21.
also of Centralia, were treated
for abrasions in the RCAF
hospital and released. PC D.
M. Westover said charges have
been laid.
Town accident
Damage totalled about $sno
in a minor accident on Main
St. Saturday morning, near
the John St. intersection.
Cars driven by Chester Ma.
whinney, Carling St., and Wil-
frid. Shapton, Andrew St., col-
lided. The Shapton car was at-
tempting to turn in to the park-
ing lane when the Mawhinncy
vehicle began to pull out from
the curb. Chief C. H. MacKen-
zie investigated.
Winners
Best costume from Victoria
Park was worn by Steven liar.
risen son of Mr, and Mrs,
Douglas Thltritori, Carling St,
Parade Was, originally sched-
uled for Friday but was rained
out.
It primarily is attempting to
encourage rural young people
to enter the dental profession,
Its members are speaking to
high school students, as Dr*
John Corbett, town, did to SH.
DIIS pupils recently during a
guidance series, outlining the
need for more dentists. Where
other factors are equal, rural
students get priority for entrance
to dental college studies be.
cause it has been shown that
these students are more apt to
return to rural areas to prac-
tice than are city candidates.
Urges fluoridation
Among a number of recom-
mendations made in the report
is one urging mandatory fluori-
dation of communal water sup-
plies in Ontario, a bold sugges-
tion in view of the current con-
troversies. However, the report
states:
Get ready
for election
Returning officer Russell Bol-
ton of Seaforth has been in•
structed by Ottawa to start
preparing for another federal
election some time after Sep-
tember 15.
Chief Electoral Officer N.
Castonguay said in a letter to
returning officers that because
the Progressive Conservative
Government does not have a
working majority in the House
of Commons. he wants to be
ready for an election on 24
hours notice after September
15,
The. letter from Mr. Caston-
guay stated that no returning
officer would be allowed to
resign after July 15 except by
medical certificate. First ship-
ments of new election mater-
ials will start on about that
date, he said.
The returning officer's first
task is. revision of riding sub-
divisions. The letter from Mr.
('astonguay suggested that
ing subdivisions be eat down
to 300 names, a reduction front
the 350 names of the last
election.
Mr. and Mrs.. Belton are en
a trip to England. They expect
to return in several weeks.
Their son, Arthur Bolton, for-
mer assistant agricultural rep-
representative for Huron, said
deadline for revision of sub-
division polls was September
15.
Man in theft
found dead
Allan I). Maxwell, 53, Exeter,
found dead in a parked ear
near 'Cliesley Monday -night, was.
wanted by OPP here on a
charge of car theft,
Leaking exhaust fumes were
blamed for the death of Max.
well, who was in a car on
farm rented by his brother,
Victor Maxwell, RR 3 Chesley.
PC George W. Mitchell, of
the local OPP detachment, said
Maxwell had hetet charged with
theft of a cat from liar's Body
Shop, Alexander Street. lie had
been all employee of Harold
Brintriell, the owner of the
'shop, for several weeks. Pre«
viously Ite worked with Math.
.ers Bros. Ltd. here„
It's believed he moved to this
area last winter. He was ,sep.
rated front his wife and -tam.%
ily, 'who live at Chesic.y.
Dr. .1. IL T. Robinson, to-
toner of Walkerten, said death
Was accidental and no Inquest
would be held, 'The key was
turned in the ignition but. the
tar had run out of gasoline
when the man was found,
rimeral service WAS. held
Wednesday at a Chesley funeral
home.
Str ng market here
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mic survey finds
SON MI IA
Ex-reeve foster parent
'Adopts' Korean girl, 7
To award No. 4 work
Sewer plans ready
eostumes for the
Still accept
camp kid .
RegiStrations are still he.
ing accepted for "Boom's
Kin Camp", the playground
Week at Godetich, Recreation
"We can still take more
children," the director stet-
ecl, "but wed like ft) get
registrations in as quitkly as
possible.
The camp, on the lake near
Goderich, will be held from
July 29 to Aluglust 5, under'
the ditection of Mr. Gravett
and the plaYgeotind superyise
ors here. This is the first
year the camp hat been of.
feted in Connection with the
kinsmen sunitner Pregtant,
New pastor of Exeter Pente-
costal Tabernacle, Rev. Larry
Talbot, is a native of Huron
county who was an executive
in the oil business before he
turned to the ministry.
Mr. Talbot was born in Stan-
ley township, half-way between
Hayfield and Zurich. He was
first a salesman and then branch
manager for the Cities Service
Oil Co.
He has no college degree, nor
dig' he attend any theological
school but he is an ordained
minister of the Pentecostal
church.
He has pastored churches in
Fergus, Niagara Falls, Tim-
mins, Meaford, and Harriston,
as well as having been. an as-
sistant pastor in a Hamilton
church for a time.
Mrs. Talbot is a registered
nurse. The couple have two
sons—David, who enters his sec-
ond year at UWO this fall, and
John, who will be entering high
school,
Mrs. Talbot's mother, Mrs*
S. D. Croft, formerly of London,
will move to Exeter with the
family.
titer's sales have been unusu-
ally good; supper is a thin cord
and barley Porridge. All of the
undernourished children a r
dressed in rags.
Son Mi mother owns a
two-room hovel perched On a Collide at corner
mountainside and rents One Damage totalled $1,100 and
one room to another family for two men received minor in-
Me per month. First Mite for Kin Perk kids itl eks Friday when cars eel-
As a foster parent, Mr, Fran- Went to Roberta. G r a ssi c k, tided at the corner of the
cis contrbutes $16 a month to- daughter of Mr, and Mrs. :Rob. Crediton and the Centralia air-
ward the child's support for at ;t Grassick.1‘
iainSt'gtl°tt rd least one year. 100 kids George K. liessaek, 30, o
Poster Parents' Plan, Which space-'age
has rehabilitated more than event.
100,000 children on a personal
basis since its founding in 1.987,
is MO more than 27,000
youngsters in Greece, Italy,
Franco. `South Korea, South Viet
Nam, Hong Kong and the Phil-
ippines.
There are currently about
5,000 foster parents in Canada.
Over the past 25 years, More
than 600,000 Canadians and
Americans have helped needy
children overseas throng h.
Parents' Plat, either as
individuals Or as members of
groups.
Poster Parents'. Plan, PO Box
65, station 11, Montreal. is
nortDrofit, non-propaganda., nen.
teCtarian, independent, WM-
inent-approved relief organiza-
tion which provides children
who are orphaned, diStraseff,
otherwise made destitute
With the care, edUeatien, and
Metal Supporey need.
"Adopti
t 'they
on" thfougli Plat 1s II.
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Wednesday.
bieetilot Don GraWeit said - , ay, .. elizs 'eq
Police said Wednesday hit-
' and-run charges are pending
against John. E. Boyd, 27, RR
3 Exeter, after an accident
north of town Tuesday night.
Boyd, police say, was the
driver of a pickup truck which
clipped the front end of a
panel delivery it was overtak-
ing on No. 4 about 8:15 p.m.
The panel delivery, driven
by Norman L. Peters, 28, Strat-
ford, crashed into the ditch
and rolled on its top. The pick-
up also careened into the ditch
where it hit a hydro pole,
However, the vehicle pulled
back onto the road and con-
tinued on its way.
PC Gibbons said Boyd re-
turned to the police office
about 31 hours after the ac-
cident.
Both ears had been travelling
north. 'There were no injuries
and damage amounted to
about $400,
. Head injuries
Richard Colter, 16, Crediton,
Was admitted to South. Huron
Hospital Tuesday, night, with a
possible concussion after an
" accident With Albert Gaiser,
71, Crediton.
Beth cars were proceeding
north when Colter struck the
rear of the vehicle operated by
Gaiser. The erash occurred
east of Crediton.
Charges pending
over hit-run here
"Water fluoridation is the
mostly important single public
health measure available to
combat the serious and costly
dental health problem of dental
caries, Without q u e s ti on or
doubt the adjustment of the
fluoride content of a commun.
No edition ity's water supply to approxi-
mately one part flouride to each
one million parts of water is
next week
The Times-Advocate will It i s a
safe, is beneficial, and is not
systemic effects,
production of any undesirable
public health proced-
not be published next Thurs- are which has been scientific-
day,. August 2, to allow mem- ally proven to reduce, by almost.
bers of the staff to enjoy two-thirds, the incidence of their annual holidays, dental caries in children and.
The office, however, will these benefits extend into adult beseocpaeunseduroifng
Holiday
Cthiveicweek,
Action of the parts of the
life."
On-
Monday, August 6, the next tario legislature requiring that
edition will not be in the all community water supplies be roa.ils until Friday,
est, single contribution which
August fluoridated "would be the great-
Correspondents and con- could be made to the eventual
tributors are requested to amelioration of one of the prov-
submit only one budget of lore's dental health problems," news for the August 10 ecil. says the report. tion. The T-A has found it
weeks's news in the one
eildniptioosns.ible to include two