The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-08-30, Page 2Investigate
No, 100
OPP detachment here re-
ported its 100th traffic Aeci,
sleet of "42 this week, a two-car
erash less than a mile east
Of Zurich oh No. 84. Saturday.
Care driven by Mary Ellen
Doyle- 17, RR, 1 Staffa. And
James Masse, 15. Zurich, were
damaged to the extent of
11.200.
Both ears were eastbOund.
Miss Doyle bed just overtaken
a ear operated by Paul Erb,
Zurich, when the Masse
hide. ahead, began to niake a
left-hand turn. No one was
injured according to PC Harry
Reid, ‘vieci investigated.
Another collisirm neat' Zur-
lth Oceureed Friday on No. 84,
A car driven by William Pfaff,
79. RR 1 Zurich. had been
travelling cast and was *lik-
ing a left hand turn when it.
Was struck by A car Operated
by Aolin Cleave, 13, RA 3
Miyfield, who was westbound.
Pt" Reid estimated damages at
$764.
A young Clinton couple, 7,VIt,
And Met, John Filipof, suffer-
#d minor injuries Tuesda',i7
when the front tire of their
Motor scobter blew. throwing
them in the road. The incident
occurred just south of Kippen
on No, 4,
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Dismisses c a rg - e Continued from, page 1
will leave the public school
roster in attend the separate of impair d ed rivin school ell' Ile offset by the
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normal increase at the grade
Schools ready to .,open Tuesday
Cont./inted from page 1
witness stated: ''The driver of
the other car seemed to have
:been. drinking. We speech was
'slurred and he smelled of
liquor."
in cross-examination, defence
counsel James Donnelly, God,
:erich, established that Johnston
thimself was shaken up by the
:accident. Johnston also said
'that the defendant had been
shaken and excited by the pro-
feedings and this could have
been one of the reasons for his
condition.
Donnelly asked Johnston whe,
thee he had given a turn-sig-
nal before going into the cor-
ner and the witness testified
that "I can't remember and if
I' did it was purely automatic".
;The lawyer reminded John-
ston that Hossack had told him
immediately after the accident
that his signal-light was not
"He picked out the one defi-
ciency in your otherwise per-
fect turn. To notice that you
failed to signal must indicate
that he was keeping pretty
careful observation," ,sgt. Donald Colborne, of the
RCAF Centralia air force pe-
Jibe, who was called to the
stone of the accident, told the
court "It appeared to me when
I; first arrived that Mr. Hos-
sack was under the influence
of alcohol."
;The sergeant also mentioned
that the accused's speech was
shirred and that he smelled of
ateohni.
;Donnelly presented another
factor when he stated that the
defendant's car was not in-
sured and that since it was
unite extensively damaged this
cduld be another reason for
Hossack's fraught condition.
pPP Constable D, M. West-
over also indicated that the ac-
cused's breath smelled of al-
cohol, he slurred and was
aninewhat unsteady on his feet.
He became belligerent to those
arpund him, according to the
officer.
In summing up the case,
Crown Attorney Cochrane stated
"E think the observations of
other people are the only way
we have of determining
whether another person is act-
ing normally or not and we
have three witnesses who tes-
tified that he smelled of alco-
hol:"
However, in handing down
hit decision, the magistrate. al-
though he didn't disagree with
the, information before, him.
seal: "The question is whether
he -. can he described as one
whbse ability to drive is im-
paired.-
"e cannot find evidence to
indicate that his actual driv-
ing: affords proof and there-
fore in order for me to find
him guilty I would have to in-
fer: from his physical motive-
tons that he was impaired."
"As for his belligerence, his
beide in a costly accident
could account for that," the
magistrate added.
Noting tnat Johnston was un-
der; an undue tension and
strain. the magistrate said he
was, not prepared to hold that
all his actions were caused by
impairm en;
Tbe magistrate also drew at-
tention to the fact that Sgt.
Colborne had used such phrases
as ""a little slurred" and a
"slight odor" and noted "their
net effect it that they are of
surh a minor nature that I
would have some reasonable
doubt that it was all due to im-
pel ent."
s one of these cases
where the court has to ask it-
self whether the charge has
been laid beyond a reasonable
doubt and for the reasons 1
have already dictated I am
g'iring the benefit of the deubt
to the accused. Case dismia-
Twn ether rhaegee of care-
less driving and having liquor
in. a plaee other than his reei-
denti were also dismissed by
the magistrate.
Gets; 10 days
Gebrge Edward Smith, Hen-
sall, was given 10 days in jail by blegistrete Hays for disor-
derly conduct in Exeter last
week.
Exeter Constable Lloyd Hod-
gins testified that be saw Snlith
On Main St. in Exeter abotit
4:00 in the Mornitig, standing
with a beer bottle in his hand
and a hoisting and swearing.
Later when he returned the
constable found him lying in a
door-way and when lie took
Smith to the police station he
caused considerable disturb-
ance.
In sentencing Smith, the ma
gieleate indicated that "The
people of Exeter are entitled
to steep at night and shouldn't
have to put up with this kind
of nonsense "
Three careless, drivers
Magistrate Hays assessed
fines totalling $65 when three
operators were found guilty of
careless driving.
Edward J, Doucette, RCAF
Clinton, was handed a $30 fine
after being charged with care-
less driving as the result of an
accident on Highway 21.
Doucette ran into another
car that was approaching in
the opposite direction, Dou-
cette was completely in the
other driver's lane,
The young airman indicated
that he had been partying all
night and he was sleepy at the
time of the accident,
Magistrate Hays: "Although
there may be a moral differ-
ence between driving while in-
toxicated and driving while
sleepy, a vehicle is just as
dangerous in the hands of a
driver in either condition."
Donald Kaye Peterson was
fined $20 and costs for care-
less driving that resulted in
an accident at the easterly
limits of Dashwood last month,
The Peterson vehicle, while
travelling on the wrong side of
the road, struck another car
that was approaching from the
west.
When Peterson explained that
he had reached to pick up a
cigarette lighter, the magistrate
admonished: "You're coming
into a reasonably populous
area and the cigarette lighter
on the floor certainly couldn't
cause any damage. It's not
dynamite. Driving requires full
attention,"
Earl E. Gackstetter, Exeter,
paid a fine of $15 when he too,
was convicted on a careless
driving charge.
Evidence revealed that he
had attained speeds of. 70-75
mph while within the town lim-
its and speeds of 85-90 mph
going east on Highway 83, all
the time being pursued by Con-
stable Lloyd Hodgins.
The youth was trying to es-
cape from the constable after
being flagged to come to a stop
on Main St,
Passing fine
Desk Colter, Crediton, was
fined $15 and costs for failing to
turn out far enough to the left
when overtaking another ve-
hicle,
Colter struck a car owned by
Albert Gaiser, Exeter, on the
Crediton road when the Gaiser
vehicle stopped for a hitch-
hiker. The youth stated that he
did not see the brake lights of
the vehicle ahead of him until
immediately before hitting the
car.
-Continued from .rage 1
set by line-casting machines as
is the practice today,
Matilda White, who hired to-
day's publisher, was a daugh-
ter of John White, founder of
The Times. The paper subse-
quently was run by bliss White
and brother John, The late F.
J. Wickwire, who later started
the Crediton News and Dash-
wood Pioneer also was in charge
for a short time.
The paper was purchased
from the White family in Aug-
ust, 1906, by The Exeter Times
Printing Co. Ltd, a company
headed by the late J. G. Stan-
bury, who later became Lin-
coln county judge. It took a
Liberal viewpoint, politically op-
posing The Exeter Advocate,
which was the Conservative or-
gan,
In 1910, Mr. Southcott pur-
chased the shares of John White,
A year later, at the age of 25,
he bought out Mr. Wickwire's
interest and became managing
editor at a salary of $65 a
month,
In 1924, while Mr. Southcott
was in control of the company,
The Advocate was purchased
from Charles Sanders and R. N.
Creech and the papers were
amalgamated.
The charter of the company
was surrendered in 1941 when
Mr. Southcott acquired all of
the capital stack, It remained
in his name until 1953 when Mr.
Southcott took his two sons,
Robert and Donald, into the for-
mation of The Exeter Times-
Advocate Ltd., a private com-
pany.
Operated equipment
Besides, serving as editor,
Mr. Southcott bperated almost
all of the presses and equip-
ment which have 'been installed
by the firm in the past 60 years.
He recalls setting the news on
the now obsolete Typograph
machine, which preceded the
Linotype as line-casting equip-
ment. "I learned to write for
the newspaper by setting the
material sent out by John and
Matilda White," he notes.
In. 1911, the year he became
managing editor, the firm in-
stalled its first Linotype. The
machine remained in the local
plant until 1961, by which time
its place had been taken by
two others,
It was in 1928 that Mr. South-
colt purchased a Babcock-Op-
times press at a liquidation sale
in Toronto for the eum of $500,
It cost him three times that
much to install the machine in
the basement of the plant. The
press printed the newspaper un-
til 1956 and it was with this ma-
chine that The Times-Advocate
won a provincial award for
typographical excellence. The
press was torn down and sold
as junk last week.
Por the past six years, the
newspaper has been printed on
the rotary press of The Strat-
ford Beacon-Herald All of the
composition, however, continues
to be done in the local plant.
Mr. Southcott marks his dia-
mond anniversary at a time
When the newspaper is chang-
ing its production method, Later
this year, The T-A will be
printed by offset, a photogra-
phic process.
In the newspaper field, Mr.
Southcott is a past president of
no, changes in ,Hentall
Prineipel Robert iteabern re-
ports enrolment at Hensall Pub-
he 601001 now has reaohed A
'"fairly Peiletant level", He ex-
peels a total of about 195 pu-
pates, about the as last
year,
'there will be 18 pupils in
grade eight, fen' less' than
last year. Grade seven enrol-
mat is about the same, while
the average of the earlier
grades is about 24,
For the fourth year in suc-
cession, there has been no staff
change at the school,
Usborne number up.
Enrolment in Usborne town-
ship school area is expected to
be about 235, ati increase of 10
over last year, reports Secre-
tary A, G. Hicks, The addi-
tional students, however, will
not cause any problem in ac-
commodation,
Three staff changes are re-
ported for the township, Miss
Carol Johns will succeed. Mrs,
Ethel, Campbell at No, S (Bis-
set's) and Mrs. Jessie Carter,
RR 2 Clandeboye, a veteran
area teacher, will take over
No. 7 (Zion) from Miss Barb-
ara Blewett, RR, 2 Grand Bend,
The new music supervisor
for the area will be A, E. loud-
ney, Stratford. He succeeds
Lawrenee r Wein, Exeter, who re-
signed last year after instruct-
the Ontario Weekly Newspa-
pers Association, He was a for-
mer member of the Canadian
Newspapers Association and a
charter member of the Cana-
dian Weekly Newspapers Asso-
ciation.
He has attended a score of
newspaper conventions f r o m
coast to coast and has been
overseas twice with other Cana-
dian editors on tour of England
and the continent. He first
went in 1922, when he attended
a garden party at Buckingham.
Palace and was among the
group presented to King Albert
of Belgium, It was on this tour,
too, that he and the late R, N,
Creech, then editor of The
Advoate, represented Exeter,
Ontario, at a civic banquet in
Exeter, England.
In 1956, Mr, and Mrs, South-
cott went overseas on a CWNA
tour. While in Rome they had
an audience with the Pope.
Active in community
The publisher also has been
active in local affairs. He served
on the village council here for
two years but was defeated
when he supported a movement
for the construction of a new
school.
He was a member and chair-
man of the board of education,
a member of the arena board
when that building was erected
and later chairman of the same
board.
In other fields, lie organized
the district older boys' parlia-
ment which met for several
years at James St. United
Church: served as Scoutmaster
of the Exeter troop for a num-
ber of years; was recording
steward of James St. United
church for 27 years and Sunday
School superintendent for a
similar period.
In sports, he once won first
prize for the 100-yard event in
a registered track meet at
Stratford in the time of 10 2/5th
seconds, He was president of
the old tennis club and an ac-
tive lawn bowler who competed
in many district tournaments
and was a member of an. Exeter
rink which won one of the
events at the WOBA in London
in 1955.
In recent years, Mr. South-
cott has devoted considerable
time to his hobby, the develop-
ment of Southcott Pines Park
Land Ltd„ a Grand Bend sub-
division in which he hold an in-
terest along with his brothers,
T. Orville and. Rev, E. Earl;
his sister, Miss Stella, and W.
C. Allison, However, he writes
a weekly column, "JMS Jot-
tings", as well as news stories
for The T-A.
Says the veteran publisher: "I
don't ever intend to retire
completely, I'm particularly in-
terested in following the deed,
opment of offset production at
The Times-Advocate which,. rin
coeviticed, will provide this
community with a bigger and
better newspaper than it has
ever had."
ing in Lisburne schoels for 2$
years, Mr. Wein has taken over
flay and Stephen schools for-
merry taught by Douglas Gill,
Grand Rend.
Mr. ilieke said the board has
Made only minor improvements
to the schools this sunnier.
Centro ligation trend
The trend toward centraliza-
tion in Hay township continues
this year with the closing of
SS No. 8, north of Deshwood.
Most of the pupils from NO,
8 will be taken to the Union
School 15. One or two will be
transported to Zurich,
An additional classroom has
been created at Zurich Public
School by renovating the home
economies room. New black-
boards have been installed for
the' room, which has been
painted.
Instruction in both home
economies and manual training
has been discontinued at Zur-
ich,
Mrs. Ruby Neeb, the teacher
at SS No, 8, has joined the
teaching staff at Zurich, Mrs,
Catherine German, Exeter, a
graduate of the University of
British Columbia, will take
over U15, Smokey Hollow, from
Mrs, Iclena Desjardine, who
has resigned.
Purchases bus
In an unprecedented move in
this area, the Hay board has
purchased its own bus and will
operate it this year to bring
pupils from the eastern section
of the township to Zurich,
Bryce Mack, Zurich, has
been hired to drive the bus for
the sum of $749, the lowest
figure submitted by four appli-
cants.
Earlier the board let the
transportation contract to Elam
Shantz, whose tender was
lower that that of Pearson
Auto Leasing Ltd., which has had the contract in recent remarriage of a divorced per-
years. Since
held a PCV licence, the de- son whose former partner is
the Pearson firm
partment of transport request- still living. "The divorced person can go
to another church to get mar-
the contract had not been let
ed an explanation as to why ried and then is welcomed back
Pearson. Rather than do this, into the Anglican fold," said
the board decided to buy its the rector, "I definitely feel
that our church has taken a own bus, for the various two-faced stand on this divorce
schools are: SS 2, Mrs. Violet business."
Northcott; SS 10, Craig Chap- "I feel that maybe we should
man; SS e, Mrs. Evelyn have a court in the Anglican
Schroeder; SS 15, John Pep- church, set up by bishops, who
per; SS 7 (Zurich), William could advise us whether a per-
Thiel. son could get remarried or
not." One of the situations in
which the church could condone
remarriage, he felt, was the
case where a partner becomes
permanently mentally ill.
"There are many other situa-
tions, too."
"I think there should be far
better pre-marital instruction
which would help our people
avoid many of the misfortunes
caused by hasty marriages. We
could prevent many unhappy re-
lationships," he suggested,
Major change in Stephen There is no delegate to the
township school area is the synod from the Trivitt congre-
closing of Fairfield School, be- gation. Frank Hallett, tLondon,
side Centralia airport, and the who conducted services at the
transporting of pupils from church this summer, is one of
that section to Crediton, ac- the lay deleates to the meeting.
cording to Secretary Wilmer
Wein.
With the graduation of a Rob area farmer number of pupils last year,
there are only three or four
students remaining in the Fair- of 100 chickens
field section. They will be Theft sometime Monday
driven to Crediton by Harvey's night of 100 specially-fed Taxi, Exeter, which also trans-
ports pupils from SS 3 (Shag- chickens was reported by A.
ton school) to Crediton. E. Woods, RR 2 Dashwood, to
Mr. Wein estimated enrol- the OPP detachment here. merit would drop about 20 Woods, who farms just north
students to a total of approxi- °aft $Coworbett, estimated the loss
iad
niately 315. This is partly due He said the chickens
to the opening of the separate byl
a yellowish tinge, caused
the special feed. school in Exeter.
There are three changes in
the teaching staff. Mrs. Ruth
Martin, RR 1 Ailsa Craig,
for cleaner corn
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'59 METEOR TUDOR HARDTOP, &cylinder, very
low mileage . $1,795
'59 METEOR COACH, V-8, automatic $1,300
'58 FORD SEDAN, 6-Cylinder, choice of two ..„ $1,200
'58 METEOR COACH, 6-cylinder, choice of two $1,200
'58 CHEV COACH, 6-cylinder .. $1,200
'57 FORD SEDAN, 6-cylinder . $1,000
'57 OLDS 4-DOOR HARDTOP $ 800
'55 CHEV 4-DOOR RANCHWAGON, V-8, automatic,
'56 FORD COACH ... .... $ 500
'53 PONTIAC COACH $ 350
TRUCKS
'57 FORD PICK-UP ..... $ 900,
TRACTORS
'60 DEXTA DIESEL
SuPer
, live PTO ......... $2,1
'54 F R GUSON . . . $ 8
'49 MASSEY 44, motor .. $ 850
'47 FORD with Skyline loader, motor overhauled $ 850
'57 FORD BALER, used very little $ 850
"59 FORD, Woods Bros. Corn Picker, like new 850
'49 COCKSHUTT 30 $ 300
MASSEY-HARRIS 30 $ 195
'52 FORD 2-FURROW PLOW $ 150 '48 ALLA CHALMERS POWER RAKE . $ 100
takes, over the Steinke school
from Mrs, Malian Fleischeuers
At No. 10, north ef.GreenwaY,
Thomas Fowler of .Dnitgannon
will succeed Mrs, Mary Dal,
On, Grand Bend.
Lawrence Wein, Exeter, will'
he leaching music in all of the
schools, takipg over some from
Douglas Gill, Grand Bend, who
has resigned from school work.
No. major alterations or ini
provements were made to
Stephen schools this summer,
according to Mr. W.ein,
Addition ready
at Grand Bend
Will .blacNatightori, principal
of the Grand Bend public
School, reported this week he
expected around 210 students
to enrol for classes Tuesday,
This is approximately the
same number which attended
the local school last year,
The principal reported that
the desks had been installed
in the two new, classrooms and
they were ready for occupancy.
The new addition was inspect-
ed last week by the architects
and was reported to be satis-
factory.
elltacNaughton stated that the
children would attend school
only long enough to register
Tuesday morning and • then
they would be dismissed.
The rest of the day will be
spent in organizing the var-
ious classes by the teachers.
However, the pupils will be
in for a full session when they
return again Wednesday mor-
ning,
Trivitt rector
- Continued from page 1
Sandra Snider
gets 'U' award
Sandra Snider, town, has
won a UWO Board of Gover-
nors' school scholarship, valu-
ed at $200, it was announced
Wednesday.
She qualified as the top rank-
ing student of the graduating
class of SHIMS.
The board of governors pro-
vides the scholarships for the
top-ranking student in each
collegiate and high school in
Brant, Bruce, Elgin, Essex,
Grey. Huron. Kent, Lambton,
Middlesex, Norfolk. Oxford.
Perth, Waterloo and Welling-
ton.
Winner at. Clinton was Bon-
nie Hamilton and at St. Marys
Ernest Backstrom.
Add dock
for canoes
Although nn new camping or
picnic areas are expected to be
opened at the Pinery park der-
tog the annual winter Works
program, one new attraction
will be added for visitors,
Sup/ Gar Myers reported that
a boat .lock would be built for
canoes which will be operated
as an attraction 'by Ron Rorie-
kinson, London, operator of the
new store at the Pinery,
The dock will be built at the
bridge beside the store,
one And kindergarten level,
This year's kindergarten is e,
peeled to number close to 60,
the same es last year.
There will. he two new teach.
ers on the staff, Mrs. Elizabeth
Moore, town, formerly of flur
on Park, ,Ceritratie, will be
leaching a combined grade
four and five room, Donald Tre-
meer. .SeAforth, will be in
charge of a grade six .class
Thee replace bliss Betty (low
dy, who has moved to Isitch-
ener, and Gary Bryant, who is
pursuing his BA studies at the
University of Western Ontario,
Principal Idle revealed that
the music instruction room will
be moved from the gymnasium
to a classroom this year. "We
are hoping to work out a lit-
tle better physical education
program than we were able to
before," Mr. Idle stated,
He said students registering
in the school for the first time
should godirectly to the prin-
cipal's office Tuesday morning,
rather than to a classroom. lie
also pointed out that children
of the proper age, who were
not enrolled this spring, will
still be accepted in kindergar-
ten,
Celebrates 60 years
Don't Miss
the Fair
McGillivray unchanged
There is no staff change and
no increase in enrolment is
expected at the McGillivray
central school, Secretary David
Henry reported this week.
He said enrolment would
probably remain about 275.
Mrs, Ea Ham ilton is princi-
pal of the relatively net cent-
ral school, which has a teach-
ing staff of eight.
Stephen closes school
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