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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-10-04, Page 1rf 11 Eighty•Eighth Year Pop', do s tip too In tribute Memorial window at the Protes- tant chapel, RCAF Centralia, was dedicated Sunday in tribute to 'he late chaplain Rev, F/L Earl Moore, From left are G/C L, H. Randall, DFC, CD, sta- tion CO; G/C E, S. Light, Dl), CD, director of religious ad- ministration (protestant), AF- HQ; Mrs. Elizabeth Moore and her sons, David and Philip, —RCAF photo Property assessment in Exeter has climbed .ever the $3 million mark this year, counoll learned Monday Assessor Eric' Carscadden reported this year's total at $3,025,545, an increase of roughly $140;000 .ever last year. Taxes for 1963 will be based on the new assessment. Population, too, continues a steady rise, totalling 3,124 this year compared to 3i012 in 1061, This rate of growth was calculated at 3.8% by Councillor iroe Wooden, planning board secretary, who indicated, this was a faster rate than that which the planning board had used for its 15-year projection, Mayor Simmons said the report indicated "we're going ahead". Analysis of the assessment increase, requested by the mayor, revealed that well over half of the new investment was in residential construction. The mayor indicated he'd like to see more commercial and indust- rial growth. In answer to questions from council, the assessor felt most of the population growth came as a result of adults moving to town. He indicated the child popula- tion was about the same as previous years. Also up is the dog population, a fact that wasn't greeted with the same enthusiasm as the other in- creases, particularly by Deputy-Reeve Farrow. "We're slipping in that department,"laughed the deputy-reeve who has been agitating for greater control over dogs. during the summer period. Hensall seeks advice on pollution of drain Computer confused Despite the wizardry of mdcleen s day computer ma- chines, they can and do make mistakes, Hon, C. S, Mac- Naughton pointed out this weeks He indicated this was the reason a number local Mei-clients have received Warranted penalty notices for late filing of sales tax re- turns, After receiving teveeal tortiplainta, the Huron MPP learned from the proeincial treasurer, Hon. James A,lan, the notices had gone out in terors "Mr. Allan teid he wished to assure merchants that Where there was no flagrant delay remitting the -salts tax fOOM, there Wet no cause for concern," Deadline for the return is the 11rd a each month. Ono merchant, here who filed his 'II received the pens elty notice, several others had similar experiences. don't ktioet how 'Many have ereteived setts notices," the Herrin MPP said; 'but Where they are obviously a mistake, the% will be recti- 'flee Mr. 'MacNaughton .'said lie would continue to look ,in' 16 the 'Matter. 44' ...r...4.444444444.44 .4.44.144•••••••••••••••••....44444444.444.4.4.4•44.4.44.41.44•4•114Uir"1.1".."11.1111.1... All su 2-year port. ter. eferiZitnesabvocafe EXETER, ONTARIO OCTOBER 4, 1962 Price Per copy 10 Cents A study of the work of the recreation committee and the community centres board, with a view toward establishing closer co-operation between the two bodies, was ordered by council Monday night. Mayer. Simmons appointed Deputy-reeve Farrow, Reeve Fisher and Councillor Bailey a committee to undertake the study and bring recommenda. "What; No dock? Y-e-e-o-wt" That might have been the comment of one of the -three golfers whose car plunged into the Ausable River at Grand Bend Saturday. The trio, riding in a French- made Citroen station wagon, drove onto the beach at South- cott Pines and headed for the river. Thinking the government dock extended cast along the river, the car turned up the grade and over the two-foot- wide cement abutment, It flipped on Rs lid into shal- low water, about eight feet be- low the top of the abutment. Driver Ole Itigard, 43, Lea- den, °seeped with a cut Wider the left eye; Roy Craig, 41, Thainesford, suffered an arm fracture and Raymond Law, 44, London, received only arm bruises. PC Ray Gillette, who investi- gated, said the vehicle Was a write-off. It took two wreckers to haul the wagon out, after the first became stuck, Stu Take a dip after game SSESSMENT $3 MILLION tions to council. The action follows consider- able discussion — and some dig. atisfaction — in recent years over the problem of a lack of understanding or -communica- tion between the two bodies. In previous years, there have been conflicts over finances, arena management a n d personnel duties which invaria bly reached council. While there has not been much controver- sy this year to date, it's indi- cated now that there is a dis- agreement over the amount and cost of ice time at the arena for minor hockey this coming season. Councillor Wooden Proposed the study, indicating he felt consideration should be given to amalgamation of the boards, "I don't want to start a long discussion on it at this meeting but I'd like to throw the idea out to have council consider the appointment of a committee to study the possibility." Farrow supported the suggess than, noting that council isn't thoroughly familiar with the policies and programs of both bodies. "Council is directly re- sponsible for these organizations and we should be conversant with their operations." The mayor felt sonic steps should be taken to eliminate the bickering and establish more co-operation between the boards. Asks about ice policy Farrow, appoleted to the committee eeetres board ear- lier this year, said he persons ally was net Wallin' with the beard's policy, partietdarly, in regards to allocation of' fed, "We have had only five meet. —a ena operation ew pastor fair Christian Re- fo rnied Churth vote but that doesn't say Itotte iiitend to Vote.. I Just feel ever ,one shotild ave an oprrs A St' t Ha itrd Cott ecticut is welcomed to the Christian Welty to state his opinion, PO, rhut ieris ia„ o o , 6)14401. has ,endorsed .twe. year terms for elected repro, eentatives of the tens Members unanimously sup, ported: a suggestion f r p in Ma yor MOW Simmons the t the two-yeer term begin with the ejection for 1963. council, Council instructed. Clerk C. V. Pickard to prepare the enabl- ing bylaw for the next meet- Mg. The more came as a stirariets to At least some .memaer$, since it never has been dia• cussed previously by counen. Nevertheless, there was no dissenting voice when the mayor asked each member for his opinion, Mayor Simmons felt the twin year 'term was warranted for a number of reasons, including lack of interest in the present annual elections, necessity for planning projects over a period of several years,. and the say- ing of .,nomination and election costs. Two types possible Clerk Pickard, who had been asked by the mayor to inter- pret for council the enabling provincial legislation, said the two-year term was one of two choices. The other was a stag. gered system which provides for the election of the mayor, reeve, deputy-reeve and three councillors in one year, and the three other councillors in the next year. Other municips alities, it was reported, have found there is a decided lack of interest during the years when only three councillors are chosen. Mayor Simmons: "I figure we might as well go to the two-year term or not change at all." Clerk Pickard pointed out that if the two-year plan comes into effect, the terms of all public school trustees and PUC commissioners must end this year in order to provide for their election on a two-year basis as well. (Both school board and PUC members are elected on a staggered two. year term basis. For half of them, their present terms do not end until Dec. 31, 1963.) The clerk also noted that the staggered election system must be submitted to a vote of the electorate while the two-year term can cone into effect simply by the passage of a bylaw. Some members felt there was lisborne council has approv- ed dep't of highways plans for bridges and culverts over municipal drains across No. 4 highway under the rebuilding program scheduled for next year. Reeve George Pram, who with Stephen officials attended an earlier meeting with a high. ways engineer, reported that drainage had been well provid- ed for in the area and recom- mended that plans be approv- ed. Drainage engineer .L A. Howes ' Listowel, who also at- tended the meeting, felt the provisions were adequate. A petition signed by George Wright and others on lot 14, concession one, for a muni- cipal drain and outlet across No. 4 was accepted and Mr. Howes was instructed to sur- vey the area and bring in a report. Appeal goes forward The township's appeal against the refusal of Blanshard to ap- prove the bylaw for school boundary changes will go be- fore the minister of education, Clerk H. IL G. Strang report- ed. Ile said the appeal earlier had been denied but that, fol- lowing a telephone call Moe- day morning to the depart- ment the appeal had been des tiered proper and would go forward to the thihister in due course. The appeal concerns the botindarieS for Kirktoe and Weodhem schools, now union sections. Plans meeting The council, Which Will be, host to the county municipal officers' association October 24, Made final arrangements for the meeting which, will be held in the Legioft Hall at Exeter. Road Supt RontlY was authorized to tall tenders New diVitiOrt on liquor vote There was a tient divisioa of strength MotidaY night Witch council passed the Uglier vote bylaws Councillor tteas Taylor voted for the bylaw, leaning only three in opposition — Deputy- reeve .FarroW, Councillors Bai- ley and Wooden, Questioned , about the change, Taylot Said his stand had been misinterpreted in the first place, He felt there should be A vote "to, settle the Ittestion" but he did not think the town should pay for the vote, "it's not council's position to set soineetie else up in busineasitY he stated, "I think We Shotild have it an advantage in the Staggered. system because It would mean that thero were some lopeed men on. ..council every year, whereas. under the two,. year tenet it was posaihie that a complete slate of ioexpor- Pleeee tern le page 3 Dedicate window A large congregation gather- ed Sunday at the protestant chapel at RCAF Station Cent- ralia for a dedication service in memory of the Rev, F/L, Earl Moore who served as chaplain at the station for several years before his death early this year, Voluntary contributions re- ceived from the servicemen and their families of all faiths at Centralia were used to pur- chase a stained-glass window which was erected in memory of Padre Moore, Officiating at the service was Rev. E. G. B. Foote, DD, CD, chaplain general of the armed forces (protestant), who gave the sermon, assisted by Group Captain E. S. Light, director of religious administration at airforce headquarters, and Wing Commander James Dunn, training command chaplain, The unveiling ceremony was performed by Mrs. Elisabeth Moore, Exeter, wife of the late Padre Moore, assisted by Group Captain. Light, Group Captain L. H. Randall, DFC, CD, read the lesson and the master of ceremonies was Squadron Leader John Bon- ham, station chaplain at Cent- ralia. Mrs. Amiel Willard of Exeter played the organ and also di- rected the choir. Soloist was Mrs. S. K. McLeod of Huron Park, Centralia. Forty members of Lebanon Forest Lodge, Exeter, attended as a body and the Ad Astra Lodge of Zurich contributed a donation which has been set aside to purchase a memorial at a later date. The brother of the late Padre Moore, Bruce Moore and his wife of Sudbury, also attended the service. Members of the Chapel Guild provided refresh- ments after the service in the committee rooms of the chapel. for the snow plowing contract for the coming winter and council decided to hold a special meeting October 15, at 8 p.m., to consider the tenders and other urgent business, Request 30 mph zone Council plans to request the county roads dep't to establish a 30 mph zone through Win- chelsea on the St. Marys road. Grants of $100 each were given to the agricultural so} cieties a Exeter and Kirkton, Council met Monday with all members present. Next regular meeting will be November 5, ings this year and, for all the decisions that were made, you could put the minutes of all of them on one sheet of paper": He pointed out the board had received no correspondence from the recreation committee or any other organization in regard to ice time and rates. "There's something wrong." Farrow asked Councillor Taylor, who has served on the centres board for some time, if the board has any policy in re- gard to giving local organiza- tions preference for ice time or on what basis it was allocated. Taylor indicated the board left this matter entirely to the Principal H. L, Sturgis out lined the new interschool ath- letic setup to SHDHS board, Tuesday night and .eported it was still on a trial basis. `We're not fully sold on it, but it appears to be an im- provement", he stated, "since we won't be playing the same teams all the time.'" He told the board that WOS. SA had decreed that the Perthex Conference teams of. Mitchell, Stratford, St, Marys, Listowel and Exeter would have to amalgamate with the Huron school of Goderich, Wingham, Clinton and Seeforth to form one conference. "It may entail a bit more travelling perhaps", the prin. cipal noted, "but there is no great change in the activities." He reported the SUDI-IS teams would continue to participate in track and field, basketball, football, volleyball arid badmin- ton and were also considering entering the curling competi. time Under the new setup the schools do not play a complete home and home schedule, but draw for competitors in an abbreviated schedree. The schools decided to main- tain their two eeefereeces in basketball and thee the win- ners will meet for the grand chainpiotiship and the right to enter W0s8A. playoffs. Elibility rule A 'new eligibility rule has Also been established and stu- eael arena manager. "He books all the ice time — that's his job, You couldn't have board mem- bers doing it because one member wouldn't know what time had been allotted by an- other member." Council did not instruct the committee to investigate any specific steps, such as amalga- mation of the board, but asked simply that "it make a study of the tvork of the two bodies and report their findings to council." It was understood, however, that the committee should look into the possibilities of reorganization of the com- plete setup. dents who do not attain 50 per- cent in their school subjects will not be allowed to parti- cipate in inter-school sports. Last year's final exams will determine those- Who are eli- gible for football, volleyball and track and field, while the Christmas exams will set the standard for the basketball and curling teams, Mr. Sturgis reported the new ruling would seriously hamper the local track team as two of the boys' individual champions bad failed last year and will not be eligible to compete. Only St. Marys, Clithen, Mit. ehell and SHIMS will compete at the fall track and field Meet Hensall council decided Mon- day to request the Huron County Health Unit to send a representative to the next council meeting to advise them regards to the pollution in a village drain. They took the action upon the suggestion of the Ontario Water Resources Commission, who 'pointed out that they would either have to consider a municipal sewer system or take steps to rectify the pollu- tion situation. Reeve Norman Jones pointed out that sewers were out of the . question at the present time due to the heavy deben- ture debt already being faced by the municipality. Pointing out the work entail- ed in checking private outlets in the village, Councillor Har- old Knight suggested they take the OWRC alternative and ask the Health Unit to assist them in checking into the pollution and requesting offenders to improve their sewer system to alleviate the problem. in St. Marys on Thursday, while the other schools will battle it out in a spring meet. Need gardener? The board. gave a brief dis• cession to hiring a gardener to look after the school flower beds after they learned that the horticultural aspect would 'be dropped from the science courses next year. In the past, the students le these classes have looked after the lower beds' as part of the practical work in the course, but will not have time in the Mere. Exeter tee director. Bootie Gravett Met with. the board and requested We of the gym for the physical fitness course .he plebs this winter and also for the ree basketball league. The board seta rental rate of $5.00 per night on. the facilis ties and suggested the two be staged on the same night using both gyms at the same time if passible. "I certainly wouldn't -want the job," he stated. "I would wager that 99 percent of the homes in town would have to make changes." Several councillors agreed with him and some pointed out that they probably were among the offenders who presently have their drains hooked up to the town drain or close enough to cause pollution. To build garage . Council accepted the tender of John Sangster, Hensall, to build the new garage and storage shed beside the town hall, He was one of three con- tractors to bid on the jab and submitted the lowest tender of $1,475.00. The local man, also stated in his bid that he plan- ned to purchase all the mater- ials for the job from a Hensel' firm. Sangster suggested that coun- cil should also consider a drain from the floor in the 19' x 30' structure and said he would be willing to install this on a time and materials basis. He also submitted a cost of 580.00 from Clark and Fuss for wiring the building. Sangster's bid was $235.00 lower than the second bid and over $600.00 lower than a bid from an Exeter firm, In other business, council: Issued a permit to Trevor Wilson for the erection of a $12,000.00 home in the new York Crescent subdivision. The house will be a two-storey brick building. Granted permission to Gor- don Whiteman to put an ad- dition on to his house-trailer. Set nomination night as Fri- day, November 23 and election day as Monday, December 3. Poll clerks and returning of- ficers named were George Hess, Pearl Passmore, W, 0. Goodwin and Mrs. Keys, Paid accounts totalling $2,- 466,10. Appointed P. L. itleNatighton to assist the clerk and reeve in naming jurors, Leatrned from Ernie Davis that he had already started to tear down the old garage be- side the town hall in prepares tion for the erection of the new building. More fun a Osborne approves highway culverts Next week's T-A out on Thursday Despite the Thanksgiving holiday Monday, The Times. Advocate plans to publish its next week's edition on Thurs- day as usual. To assist us in getting the paper out before the week- end shopping period, The Tett requests advertisers to submit their copy on Friday if possible. Co-operation of correspond- ents and other contributors in forwarding their news as early es possible is also res quired. The bylaw sae February lit ilotarilidd Church here by Douwe Boersina, left, president of the consistory, and lt(l„3s n$ stebd date far aPd, ()ego RoopthanS, secretar,, Rev, Stlenstra, who has been serving A, student P let's 'qtiv,"Ps i.1" l'°g141'" minister in Itartford, will be ordained Thursday night here, lie succeeds Rev. A, to ontietS Witten. von. ue put on 6, van Eeit, who oortot this r tot ballott, yea accepted a call to a northern Ontario diarge, tasarzaz.j:L Where. find it Announcements ... 17 'Comings E-vente ....... s ..... 17 Editorials w...........4 Farm News ..... 11, 18 Feminine Fads e see 14, 15 tientell ass -,50 IS 'Uteri -Sports -7a 9 Nine schools compete in new HS conference Upon the recommendation wifh beard To thwart thieves the school's agricultural dcp't, Bearded Bill GOBsniali went the board authorized them to to Michigan this week where barn,p611 a saeltelt°tItLrfontingth6thSacth"al Received his trophy for the wheelbarrow had been stolen best shaggy beard in the Yale this year and. several shovels centennial. and hoes had been missed last , year. 2 Modelled his facial adorn, 'wheelbarrow and for SO laying representative of Santa Claus puTtlheett,briard also gave approval vnrptetr lopthootvtiegrra%nhiel rtIsit.14 tot hbW84 for the purchase of a WV 3. Received an offer to be a for a large Pert Hume store, Other business "It 'was lots Of fun," said Bill, "Even the ears Slowed In other business, the board: authorized ptirthsss. of ,a $10.00 doVva to let the kids say *Bello' 3 reeth for Reineetbrante DaY, Santa while ‘'''18 "ling Otdered payment of inter. up the atteet," Ile Went back to Vale, where Slice preminets to tree agents 4 iii the amount of $1,5671q. This l ie had woe the beard prize, oh the sitily 4 weekend, to pick MS covers $9°°0° be. th e school Ida engraved trophy. He had a building atid $100s000 on the 0U- L '45. friendly that with 'the mayor , „ there, wile Is 4 native of Strati Cave PeaaxpiPtilewriT\vetat2n bt6tttldB1 9tbd7r1:10eV;1;klog-t ifiotAlte'dts, pi:otirett photographerst6 n a nunibpeers eodf er▪ 'and sent the school at 'the Interne- him in a studio and clicked tio1)41 Plowing Match nett their cameras at him for' att Week Owen Sottatl, hoer, "They Must have taken Leatried that the grit would over 100 pictures," claims Bill, i,old their annual intetassebeell lie hasn't decided yet wiles velleyball tournament oh bete- titer take the job as Sees bar 26 with $111)14S host 10 the to taus 'representative for the annual event, and that the apes Port littren department store, vial class would They told me I'd be seen by take itt -ening trip to Ter-tante, over 100,000 children. That, Would take a lot 'of patience.". Y.