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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-08-09, Page 1vacate gi,hty,Ei9 iltli Year exe-reFt, ONTARIO, AUGUST 9, 1942 Price Per Copy 10 Cent* eeekeseeZesee,..e sea& ecision seeeee„,„ eeeeeeeses PLAYGROUND AT SUMMER CAMP—Eighty members of Exeter Kinsmen summer playground spent a fun-filled week at the Goderich summer school camp where they participated in swimming and track and field meets, as well as crafts and other activities, Here's a group in the camp pool. At the rear are supervisors Linda Johnson, Bonnie Turvey, Bob Schroeder, Greg Harness and Norma Young. lies Director Don Gravett was in charge of the camp. —Gravett photo ticipants were covered with gooey egg yokes after missing their catches. However, all was not lost as champions were de- clared in four division. The champs included: junior, Joey Cosgrove and David Halliday; intermediate: Graham Hern and Bill Fairbairn, John Loa- der and Mike Kearney; sen- ior, Fred Simmons and Grant Hooper. The long-ranee throw- ing honors were captured by Jessie Shane and Camp Direc- tor "Boom" Gravett, Wining cabins It was a .nip-and-tuck battle for lop honors in the girls' cabins point race. Cabin two won by a one-point margin over cabin one, the score being ua to 117, The winning cabin consisted of Leader Judy Tennant, Junior Leader Marg Bos ch Susan Page, Janice Loader,Ruth Ann Kerr, Jane Tuckey, Christine Tuckey, Linda Lowery, Jo- Anne Whilsmith, Susan Bailey and Wendy Doerr, In cabin one were Leader Anmarie Kraft, Junior Leader Linda Wells, Jane Broderick, Connie Mackie, Kathy Lachine, Bonnie Leiria, Judy Ferguson, Susan Broadley, Nancy Gifford and. Judy Jory, No, 6 cabin winner Leader Hank Gosar, along with Junior Leader Bob Bea- vers directed No. 6 cabin to the championship in the boys' division by compiling 107te points. Closest cabin to them was No. 7 with 99, Included in the winning cabin were: Leslie Shane, Donald Shane, Bruce Fetcher, Joe Darling, Jack Darling and Bob Dobbs. — Please turn to page .3 Accidents piled up in this area over the civic holiday weekend. There were seven crashes. in one of the worst traffic week- ends in the district's history. Fortunately., few victims were. injered, and none seriously. N erns - missed the detour sign in the thick fog and skidded through the barricade into plywood ce- ment form piled on the old roadway. The accident occurred about 4 R.111, and damage was estimated at $100 by PC George Mitchell. In the same fo, g a eat 'driven by Arehit Crer, or, 16, Strat- ford, struck a cow on No, 83 highway just West et Exeter. Damage totalled Aleut, $400. PC Mildly]] investigated two Other accidents Sunday, At leee- eell a ear driven by Alden C. Vanstone, 34, llensall, struck a peeked vehicle 'Owned by The Linstra ,also Mensal!. The ac• eident, which caused about $200 damage, Occurred on Welling. ton St. Grant Westlake, 21, RR 3 Ex- eter, lost 'control of his ear Ott COrittSSlat lour, llsborne, lust north of 33, and struck a large boulder tit the 'ditch, .causing some '$250 damage. Pitkul, traits ear Wednesday, vehicles driven by t - Edward S e tk, 83. ashwood, anti Stanley Thomson, 87, Forest, were invelved in a col. i lision nst vast of Dashwood on 83. The :ettlele ear was back- ing Out of it driveway when it was etteick by the Then-Wen pickup truck travelling test* Damage totalled $225, Mrs. George ose v y, 36, London, former Huron Park resident, is in South -aural Hos- Pl an to dredge again E aucl with fractured xibs n and husband's tar missed the bridge detour north of Exeter on NO. rand Be 'harbor 4 TitZeSugsy1 No .ir se worthy irst S ,Sae "Stele r Co-operation from three fronts — the .campers, the staff and the weatherman — turned the Exeter Kinsmen Club's first summer playground camp into a rousing success. A total of 80 youngsters rang- ing from eight to 15 years, with a staff of eight, spent July 29 to August 5 on the Gode- rich, Summer School camp site some three mile snorth of God- cliche The group, which totalled close to 80, devoured tremen• dous amounts of food as the Lake Huron fresh air and morn- ing and afternoon swimming periods seemed to develop hearty appetites. Many of the campers gained weight but none could beat Mrs. Jessie Shane, the camp nurse, who put on six pounds! Enthusiasm about the camp ran so high by the end of the week, that plans have been made to operate the camp dur- Will pave Bluewater Towland Construction Ltd., London, has taken over the work on No. 4 highway at Clandeboye and Centralia. The London firm is complet- ing the contract started by Langton Construction Co. Ltd., Leamington, which went bank- rupt last month. Work includes the revision of the Clandeboye curve and a short stretch of No. '1 neat Centralia. About 25"e of the contract has been eorepleted. London firm finishes No. 4 Ontario Dep't of Highways has awarded a contract for hot mix paving of No. 21 highway north of Grand Bend, it was announced this week by C. S. MacNaitgliton, Heron MLA. The contract went to Sterling Construction Co, Limited, Wind- sor, who submitted the low tender of $149,557. The contract covers the high- way from Grand Beed to St. Joseph, a distance of 7.4 miles, dredged last Summer, larger boats are still having diffienl. ties where the sand and silt has blocked it tip again, and one fishing tug was repotted stuck for several minutes be- fore freeing itself recently, Wassmenli also reported that large yacht had tried for a tionsiderable length Of time to get in the harbor, but Was stopp ed about 25 feet in front of the pier, 47; 4 se•le se, ;:• r C S s: ing the same week again next summer, Feature of playground The camp was organized by Recreation D i r e c tor Don "Boom" Gravett, who devised the idea as a shot-in-the-arm for the annual summer play- ground. Staff members in- cluded Mrs. Mary Gravett, camp mother; Mrs, Jessie Shane, camp nurse; and play• ground supervisors, Judy Ten- nant, Bonnie Turvey, Linda Johnston, Joan Dettmer and Anmarie Kraft. Competition was keen Keen competition prevailed throughout the seven-day camp as cabins, numbering nine in all, worked continuously for points in order to win the ca- bin award of the week, There were several ways.in which the youngsters could collect. points for their cabins, Many of these were given for special events in which everyone. participated. Special events throughout the week included scavenger and treasure hunts, a hike down the shores of Lake Huron, a track and field meet, an egg-throw- ing contest, a swim meet, a backwards day, organized pil- low fights, a campers vs. staff ball game, arts and crafts, campfires each night with each cabin taking its turn providing skits and songs, cabin clean- up specials, vespers and morn- ning watch. Backwards fun Possibly the most humorous part of the whole affair was "Backwards Day" which took place. Saturday, Everyone, had to wear their clothes back- wards all day, walk backwards, eat supper with a knife and spoon only and go through the entire days program back- wards. The campfire was held in the morning (although a kangeroo court was held at night) and instead of cabin cleanup, it was cabin messupl And what a mess the cabins were! However, don't fret mo- thers, the. lads did an excel- lent job in clean-up period later in the day. Many of the boys can. wheel mops and brooms pretty Egg-throesing contest The egg-throwing. c teet drew a hundred laughs as par- "They won't be Able to dredge out there will they?" enteetioned Councillor Stewart Webb. Wassmetm reported 'that the work this year, watild probably not 'be done with equipment on the pier, but rather it would have to be on a barge in the lake. Last year, when Lee ,lemil, son did the Week, only 1,500 cubic yards were removed and the Work was done by a large scoop moved onto the pier, as only the river 'charted between the piers was cleared at that time. Where fo Antiouteceeriente ...... ........ .. 15 Ch urth Notices ,...............,... lt Coining EVOOta s. IS Editorials 4 Fenn Now . , . 9 Feminine Vet% lts 12 Luc en an 14 Sports . 4, Y. Want Ads 10,, 11 ii,....:.,...,...:............,:,...:.4:ia.;z:;: i...:.........i Resi ro Residential tax rate in Hen, sail is down two mills this year because of the increased provincialscimoie grants to the public At its meeting Tuesday night, council set the residential and farm levy at; 68 mills, two less than last year. The commerc- ial and industrial tax rate re- mains at 75. The decrease in residential is due to the $15 per pupil grant to the public school which is applied against resi. dential assessment only. Clerk Earl. Campbell said the grant amounted to about $2,500, which represents approximately two Last year, the public school budget rose six mills to bring the levy to the highest in the village's history. Must have incinerators Council passed a bylaw at their Tuesday meeting requir- ing all ratepayers of the com- munity to burn their garbage in proper incinerators, The councillors were acting on a complaint from Clarence Lenaghan that, neighbors of his were burning garbage without bothering to put it in any kind of container. In a letter to council, he state trees." d. that "the flames were sometimes as high as the Said Mrs. Minnie Noakes: "We should stop everyone from burning in town and make them go to the dump." Council was most concerned a bout businessmen burning their refuse but they also de- cided that all ratepayers in the village should be made to comply with the regulations. Council agreed that there was a fire hazard because of the manner in which some of the businesses in the blade burned their garbage. and they decided to curtail the activity before any harm was done. Harold Knight stated; "There is only one man in Hensall who burns his garbage pro- perly and that's. Harold Bon- thron with his incinerator," Council wondered whether the businesses on his side of the street could make an agreement with Bonthron to Ilse his incinerator and the businessmen on the other side of the street could have, one built and use it. However, council was deter. mined that something should be done, They decided "the best thing to do would be to have everybody build a proper ineinerator. Not only proper to them but one that would pass an inspection by a council rep- resenta tvie." Council decided that they would let the building insnees tor, Ernie Davis, and Fire Monday, a car driven by Nor- man Kelly, 47. RCAF Centralia, was_ struck by a truck driven by Thomas 13. Kirkby, 47, Us- towel, as the former was,mak- ing a left-hand turn off No. 4 onto Waterloo St, Both ears had been travelling north, according to Exeter Constable Harry Bergen, who estimated damage .at about $400. Saturday, Aug, 4, a car driven by. David Stanley Hunt, 11, RCAF Centralia, slid through the intersection of the Centralia sideroad and the Ctediton road and tolled over ift the ditch, causing $200 damage. Friday night, 'cars driven by Donald P. Masse, 18,Zurich, and Peter j. Hunter, 18, Strat- ford, were involved in a 'rear. — Please turn lo page l Chief Donald Kyle kink after the inspection of the incinera- tors. Overhaul tractor Members of the council also agreed to have the village tractor completely overhauled at a cost estimated by them to be between $300 and $500. Ernie Davis reported that the tractor motor had been acting up again and he had taken it into Hyde Brothers to have it repaired. He told council that repair- ing the motor would probably cost between $100 and $150. He also reported that installation of a' new one would he around $200. Council debated putting a new motor into the machine because "the rest of it might fall apart at any time" and. they also wondered whether the council should buy a new tractor be f or e a proposed building for the new piece of equipment had been built. Davis also remarked that a Mrs. Anne E. Millar, 148 An- drew St. S., notified council by letter Tuesday night that she would not sign the easement agreement for the proposed sewer through her property., Mrs. Millar cited four rea- sons for her refusal to approve the sewer, the location of which had been changed from the ori- ginal plan. She urged that the sewer he built where it was ori- ginally laid out. Mrs, Ttfillaa told council: "1. This plan is not to the ad- vantage of people living in this block on William St, Therefore the sewer to be built would be best constructed as near as pos- sible to Main St., the purpose of which is to serve Main St, homes. "2. This block has already been. surveyed and the, stakes are now in place and to change the plan will necessitate the expense of another survey, "3. Approximately 10 years ago the sewer was constructed new or rebuilt Motor might last for two years before giv- ing out. Council then decided to spend the $500 to gel the entire machine overhauled so that they could make the whole out- fit do for another two years before having to buy another tractor. In other business council: Decided to find out, whether Bob Simpson would fill up with concrete a decaying tree out- side the home of Harry Law- rence. Council was told that Simp- son would do it for $15 and they decided this would be cheaper than having it remov- ed, Learned that. W. H. Venn, formerly of Hamilton, would be the new district municipal engineer operating out of Stratford. Filed a suit. against the estate of Nathan Silver for business tax of $14,10 and RUC charges of $11,91; other suits — Please turn to page 3 on William St. This was done at considerable inconvenience to us. We were informed that this was to serve William St. homes when sewerage came in- to effect for the town. There- fore at that time, at consider- able expense to us, we had our home connected to the sewer in the proper manner. "4, At present we are giving every consideration to the sale of our property which consists of our home and three lots, all having access to the William St. sewer. To sign this agreement. and option for easements would he very detrimental to our sale." Mayor Simmons, who had spoken to Mrs. Millar previ- ously, told council that. the route of the sewer had been changed to avoid several ga- rages and a brick budding. He felt the matter should be left with the Ontario Water Resour- ces Commission, which is act- ing as the town's agent for the project. 'Town council Tuesday night postponed decision on a re. quest for a liquor vote in Exe- ter.. Mayor Eldrid. Simmons felt that. a "full council" should he present to discuss the ques• tion, Only five of the nine mems hers attended Tuesday night's meeting. The request for a vote came from Miss Amelia Acheson, owner of the Central Hotel, through her legal advisors, Bell, and Laughton. She asked council to consider a vote on all types of licences. Council at first agreed to postpone decision until its next meeting August 20. However assets to the communities. Earlier this year, the indust- rial development body urged Exeter Businessmen's Associa- tion to support a bid for a li- cence but the merchants' group came to no decision at that time. In the immediate area, liquor votes have been successful in. Stephen township, Zurich, Clin• ton and Seaforth. Licences were turned down in Goderich. when it was learned that sev- eral councillors would not be able to attend that meeting, it was postponed indefinitely, It's expected to come up at the first meeting in September. The letter, written by C. 'V. Laughton, QC, said: "Pte ase be advised that our client, Miss Amelia Acheson, has asked us to write council requesting you to give consid- eration to holding a liquor Note in the Town of Exeter for all types of licences." The letter concluded: "Trust- ing that you will give this matter your immediate and usual considerate attention „" There was little discussion on the request by council. Coun- cillor Taylor asked who Raid. for the vote and was told by Clerk Pickard that the town would, although in some cases the applicant offers to pay the expenses. The Liquor Licence Act of Ontario gives council the auth- ority to call for a vote without the submission of a petition. Council must, arrange a vote if it is presented with a petition containing at least 25 per cent of the electors. This is the way the act reads, in part: the council may, and on petition as provided in' sec- tion 72 shall, submit to the electors all or any of the ques- tions in section 72". Section 72 (2): "Where a pe- tition in writing signed by at least 25 per cent of the total number of persons appearing by tho last revised list of the municipality and qualified to vote at, elections to the assem- bly, requesting the council to submit one or more of the questions set out ... is filed with the clerk on the munici- pality and with the board, the council shall submit such ques- tion or questions to a vote of the electors." The five questions which could apply in Exeter's case are: "Are you in favor of the sale of beer only under a public house licence for consumption on licenced premises to which women are admitted? "Are you in favor of the Ask survey for industry Council Tuesday night re« quested the Mid-Western Onta- rio 'Development Association to conduct an industrial survey of this community, The survey, which will be undertaken by the association in co-operaeion with the Onta- rio Dept of Economics and De•. velopment, will determine the industrial potential of the area and the particular advantages the community offers for devel- opment. Similar surveys have already been conducted in communities in the MWODA area. Coutteil made the request at the singes' en of the industrial development corporation. Mul- ray Greene, the town's repre- sentative on MWODA, .explained the program to council. Council also approved repre- sentation at a manufacturing qps portunities conference. in To- ronto in November. Mayor Simmons urged that the town, development, association and businessmeri make an all-Out sales effort at this forthcoming conference the first arranged by the Ontario Department of Economies and Development, tall drain tenders With jive submission of plans from Engineer D. N. Aoss, mtirit. agreed to call for tend- ers for construction of the. San. dors St. drain required by the separate school being erected between Carling and Maribor rough streets. Three area Dien -- C. P. Dietrich,. Robert 'low- cliffe and Samuel Sweitzer — will Iv requested to submit bids on . the werk. Because of council members on holidays, the proposed joint meetire of the roads and drains committee has not been held and will not likely be sehed. tiled until September at least, it was indicated. Outside of 'the separate school drain, ,council has blade rio -decision tin drain. -age work for the year. tutored bicycle 'bylaw Reeve Glenn Tither reported the polite terumittee had in• structed the force to enforce the bylaw prohibiting bicycle tid- ing on the sidewalks, partiot. tatty in .the Main St. business. Please WA 10 page C Grand Bend council were in- formed by George Jackeon, d eputy minister of public Works. that the dept planned to dredge 12,500, cubit yards of sand and silt from the local harbor to facilitate boats which are again having difficulty entering the harbor. The notice stated that the work would be done PS soon as possible if "a good priee" can be obtained froie, a dredging contractor. Ory Wassmatin, president of the Chamber' "Comnierce, reported that the notices were already itti several newspapers and the tenders would be con- sidered on August 15. "We've requested prompt action," Wassmami staled, "to have the work done before the end of the season." Although the harbor was find it ► Accidents pile up on holiday weekend ential mill rate s two at is ensall efuses to approve easement for sewer Receives watch for 25 years service Roy Webber, Main St., recently was presented with a watch by officials of Can. adiari Canners Ltd. ill recognition of his 25 years of employment with the company. The presentation was made by Wayne Paxton, western district supervisor. ton. Mr, Webber is a viner and husker boss at the local plant. From left are Don Graham, plant manager; Mr. Webber, Mr. Paxtori, and Clare Wyatt, plant super- intendent. .,-.--Doerr photo CROWD GATHERS AROUND ACCIDENT IN WHICH TWO woe INJURED HER 'TUESDAY 4 Francis MtNoll, Huron Stir vifA$ Thrown oral tf tor ..o1611,0 `Milli tot, still 'ott highway Plan to remodel hotel facilities Commentin; on the request to council this week for a liquor vote, Miss Amelia Acheson of the Central Hotel stated that "we feel it is time the citizens of Exeter were given an oppors Melly to say whether' or not they wish licenced facilities in the town", It has been nearly three years since Huron county voted out the Canada Temperance Act, she pointed out. Miss Acheson and her brother, Charles E. Acheson, stated that they were prepared to make extensive renovations to the building to provide first class accommodation and dining fa- cilities if the town approved a licence. Explaining the request for a vote on all types of licences, Miss and Mr. Acheson said it would allow the public to de- termine what it wants. "We don't feel we should say what licences the public should be permitted to vote on," said Miss Acheson. Exeter Industrial Develop- ment Corporation has for some time expressed itself in favor of a liquor licence for the town, feeling that the community would benefit from the addi- tional investment, trade and employment. sale of beer only under a pub- Its members conducted a lie house licence for consump- survey of other nearby centres lion on licenced premises to which have licences and it was which men only are admitted? generally agreed that they were "Are you in favor of the sale of beer and wine under a din- ing room licence for construc- tion with meals on licensed pre- mises? "Are you in favor of the sale of liquor under a dining lounge licence for construction with meals on licensed premises? "Are you it favor of the sale of liquor under a lounge licence for consumption on licensed premises?" A three-fifths majority is re- attired to approve any of the licences. „„.