The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-12-20, Page 1STORES OFFER IDEAS AND VALUES FOR
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Containing Christmas Features, 'Religious Message,
4-Color Holiday ~at'eeting . . Pages 9 To 24
Young farmer killed
in head-on collisi n
Eighty-Eighth Year pc.ETgR, ONTARIO, DECEMBER 20, 1962
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'Hi-Time' features dances, singing
The orchestra, glee clubs, drama club and dancers from a number of grades will
entertain during SHDHS 'Hi-Time, show Thursday and Friday nights, Above, pre-
paring to present the Oslo waltz, are Laura MacMillan, Yvonne Fisher, Sandra Prout
and Joan MacNaughton, all of the Exeter area, —T-A photo
Plan RAP' committee
for rec arena, parks
Christmas gifts for a Korean boy
Main St, UC Sunday School children dramatized the Christmas welfare work they
are doing during their annual yuletide program Wednesday night, Dec, 12. A
play, Written and directed by Mrs. Don Wilson, one of the teachers, described
what was being provided Xorean bey by the Sunday School's campaign to "adopt"
him through a relief agency. Presenting their gifts above are, kneeling, from left,
Kathy McDonald, Lois Porter, Michelle Harrison; standing, Mary Wilson, Susan
Timken Judith Walters,Miriam Uiltz (the Korean "boy"), Janet David, Jane Mc,
key, Christine l'Uokey, --T,A photo
ismiss charge of arson
over Hensall store
by the chairmen. They included
John Stephen, Blanshard, fi-
nance; William Amos, flood
control; Joseph ,Bryan, land
use; Lorne Hay, public rela-
tions; Wellington Brock, refor-
estation; Robert Love, conser-
vation areas.
Chairman Freeman Hocigins
conducted the meeting, Ap-
pointed to a nominating com-
mittee to bring in a slate of
officers for 1963 were John Ste-
phen, Elgin Thompson and Wil-
liam Amos,
The meeting was held in
Parkhill town ball. Annual
meeting of the Authority is
expected to be called some-
time during February of the
coining year,
held but no date has been set,
For Cronyn, requiem high
mass will be offered Friday at
10 a.m. in Our Lady of Mount
Carmel Church. In charge of
the arrangements is the Murdy
funeral home, Lucan.
The young farmer is survived
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Cronyn, RR 2 Clande-
boye; sisters, Mrs. Lyle (Mary
Theresa) 'Revington, Arn, Rose-
mary and Michelle;: brothers,
Patrick, Larry and. Paul,
,The warmth and spirit of
Christmas has been brought
much closer and made more
meaningful for many sick, aged,
And needy persons in the area
this Christmas. •
Responsible for this are many
energetic welfare activities un-
dertaken by service clubs,
church groups -and other or-
ganizations to ensure that every-
one will have a chance to en-
ACCIDENT VICTIM
James J. Cronyn
Re-organization of Exeter's
recreation, community centre
and parks administration under
one body — which will prob-
ably become known as "RAP"
— was approved by town coun-
cil Monday night.
The recommendation for com-
bining administration of the
units came from the special
committee appointed by coun-
cil this fall to investigate the
lack of co-ordination between
the recreation and arena be-
dies.
The formation of RAP (which
stands for''recreation-arena-
parks") will be tried without
changing the town bylaws at
the present. Council will ap-
point the same men to the
community centres board that
it names to the recreation com-
mittee in 1963. It will give the
same group the responsibility
of parks administration, which
has been undertaken by a
council. committee in the past.
There will be seven members
including two from council.
of food which they will distrib-
ute among area families. The
hampers will be given to local,
vets at Westminster Hospital
in London and vets who have
recently returned home from
there, the Exeter Nursing Home,
shut-ins, while the majority will
go to. teedy families throughout
the district.
This year the local Cub packs
and Scout troop are aiding the
Legion in their work by clonal!
big. toys which will be included
along with the food going to
the needy families.
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PC Harry Reid, who'investi-
gated, said the crash was al-
most head-on,
Cronyn apparently got out of
his car, a 1962 Galaxie, after
the crash but collapsed in a
snow bank at the rear of the
vehicle. He was taken into the
lobby of the hotel, where he
died while an ambulance was
on its way to take him to hospi-
tal,
Cause of death was described
as pulminory edema --- fluid in,
the lungs.
Miss Cook was thrown out of
her car, a 1960 Consul, and
landed in deep slush on the east
side of the road. Her ear, val-
ued at $1,200 was wrecked,
Damage to the Cronyn ve-
hicle was estimated at $1,400.
An inquest is expected to be
Authority approves
increase in '63 levy
R. E, Pooley, who is in charge
of the project this year, and
Bert: Ostland will be delivering
the hampers the last: three days
of the week anti the two will
distribute to In gifts .of food
' and toys before Christmas.
CAS "very busy"
The . Huron County Children's
Aid Society -at Goderich re-
ports that it is "very busy"
trying to sort and send out do-
nations of feed and Clothing.
However,. Miss Clare McGow-
an, director" of the county or-
innization, admitted that "it's happy sort -of busy",
She indicated that the so-
ciety will send out around 60
large Christnias boxes contain-
ing' -food and elothing to needy
families throughout the county.
• Miss McGowan stated that do-
nations of food, clothing and
money have conic in from nu-
merout groups and organiza.
A near head-on collision in
the heart of Centralia police vil-
lage killed James J. Cronyn,
34, area farmer and large
turnip grower, about midnight
Monday.
Cronyn died in the Dulferin
Hotel, Centralia, shortly after
his car struck another driven
by Miss Margaret Cook, one of
the proprietors of the hotel.
Miss Cook was hospitalized
overnight at South Huron 1-1()S•
pital with minor abrasions and
bruises, She returned, home
Tuesday,
The accident occurred on Cen-
tralia's main street, county
road No, 1, just north of the
hotel. Miss Cook had driven
from the rear of the hotel and
has turned north on the county
road when she was struck by
the southbound Cronyn car,
Ausable River Conservation
Authority approved Wednesday
afternoon a 10 to IS per cent in-
crease in its municipal levy for
1963.
New budget calls for the 23
municipalities in the watershed
to raise about $24,000 In 1963,
compared to the $21,500 re-
quested this year,
The increase is required to
meet rising costs of admiaistra-
tion, maintenance and develop-
ment of conservation areas, Fur-
ther work in erosion control in
the Port Frank area is also
maintained,
The budget also calls for
two special levies on the town
of Exeter — one, of $900 for
maintenance at the Morrison
darn, and $3,060 toward pur-
chase of two .properties to ex-
tend RivervieW Park,
Total budget provides for an
estimated expenditure of $65,000
of Which the provincial govern-
Ment svill provide $31,00.
Of the total expenditure, seine
$30,500 is allotted for ashninis
'ration and operation; $3,250 for
Conservation services and $5,500
for maintenance.
Allocation for development of
sundry conservation areas is
$0,6.30; reforestation, $6,000; ex-
tension of Riverview' Park t Ex-
eter, $6,800; development of the
Lucan conservation area, $1,400;
and winter works $5,000.
„Muth of the maintenance and
conservation services work is
in connection With the opera-
tion of the authority parks in
Various parts of the watershed:
A report from the Conservation
areas advisory board indicates
attendance at parks during
1962 exceeded 30,009.
Dam prominent
In connection with its major
projeCt, the Parkhi dam, the
alitherity authorized
ll
tile lint of
M, Dillon and Co. Ltd., Zen-
dori, to proceed with engineer-
ing, work of, the Million-dollar
project,
Before the project can pro-
ceed, Ontario Municipal Board
still must givo its apprOval to
each Munitipalites contribution
toward the authoritys share of
the OA Of the dam While the
0MB has apprOved allocation
of apportionment of the test, it
Still Must, rule on the financial
ability of each municipality to
raise its Share,
teperts of all advisory hoard*
Of the authority were presented
we grant
toward park
Hon., C. S. MacNaughton,
Huron MPP, announced this
week approval of a provincial
grant of -33,400 to the Ausable,
River Conservation. Authority
for the extension of the Ex-
eter Conservation Area.
This conservation area, com-
prising 21/2 acres of land on
the Ausable River in the town,
will be enlarged by the ac-
quisition of one, acre of land
from William Johnston and
Lee Learn.
Tihs conservation area will
provide greater public access
to the Ausable River and,
consequently, greater use by
the public. It will also give
the conservation authority a
small measure of control over
development along the river.
The Town of Exeter will
contribute a major portion of
the authority's share toward
acquisition costs.
Pleva lauds
zone bylaw
A widely-know authority on
planning, Dr. G. E. Neva,
head of the geography depart-
ment of the University of West-
ern Ontario, has commended
the town for preparing the re-
stricted area zoning bylaw, now
under consideration for adop-
tion.
"I wish to express my con-
gratulations to the town of Ex-
eter," he wrote council, "for
the important restricted area
zoning bylaw that has been
prepared for consideration
"The town of Exeter is in a
very interesting stage of de-
velopment in that the urban
growth, which recently has
been confined to the large me-
tropolitan centres, will move
during the next decade to the
towns and cities located in the
economic corridors of the
Great Lakes area,
"Exeter has an excellent po-
sition in the geography of
southwestern Ontario and I
know that as the years go by
your citizens will be extreme-
ly happy that they used the
planning process to guide this
development."
Copies of the zoning bylaw
were sent to all property own-
ers in the town and in the im-
mediate surrounding areas on
December 6. Deadline for ob-
jections to the legislation is
today (Thursday).
A number already have been
received by council, it has been
reported,
joy the cheer and charm of
Christmas this year.
Nearly 25 different organiza-
tions in the. district have col-
lected and donated food, cloth-
ing, money as well as time and
talent to make the season a
little brighter for these folk.
Exemplary of the many proj-
ects is 'that of the Exeter Le-
gion, The local branch is again.
this year making up hampers
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This group will replace the 19
men on the present commit-
tee s.
"RAP will have one of the
biggest jobs of any board in
the community," Said Mayor
W. E. Simmons, who pre-
sented the recommendation. "It
will handle a lot of money and
its operations can have quite
an effect on our mill rate, one
way or another."
Before asking for council's
approval, the mayor listed
both advantages and disadvant-
ages of the joint administra-
tion. These, he noted, have
been studied by other munici-
palities in co-operation with
the community programs
branch of the provincial gov-
ernment, which provides grants
toward recreation expenditures.
Encourage co-ordination
Deputy-Reeve 'Farrow, origi-
nal chairman of the commit-
tee, indicated provincial autho-
rities were encouraging muni-
cipal attempts at co-ordination
with a view to revising legis-
lation which has created the
tions from all over the -county
in large quantities. "We arc
very, very grateful.""
A number of local and dis-
trict groups have made dona-
'ons to the Children's Aid in
Goderich . to help fill the so-
ciety's „Christmas boxes.
The Rebekahs of .Exeter and
Hensel], brought gifts to their
December meeting and then
turned them over to the CAS.
Other donations were made. by
the Kippen East WI, the Zion
Lutheran Ladies* Aid in Dash-
wood and the Dashwood WI.
Other pealed's
Other clubs and organizations
in the area have found a variety
of ways .and means to spread
the spirit of the season.
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multi-headed administration of
recreation in smaller centres.
Among the advantages of the
joint administration, said. Sim-
mons, are greater co-operation,
more efficiency, establishment
of a line of authority, the op-
portunity to plan the recrea-
tion program more effectively
and more efficient use of main-
tenance staff.
The disadvantages included
delegation of more responsibil-
ity to the professional staff,
the possibility of over-empha-
sis on seine particular phase
of the program, and the haz-
ard of providing too little funds
for development of parks in
view of the immediate require-
ments of recreation activities,
Set up regulations
The mayor said the commit-
tee ,would be required to meet
once a month, on the second
Monday. In addition, members
of the committee would be
asked to resign if they missed
two meetings in a row without
reasonable grounds. The secre•
tary-treasurer would be re•
quired to keep separate ac-
counts of the three different
operations.
There was little opposition to
the proposal from other coun-
cil members, once some mis-
understandings h a d be e n
cleared up. Councillor Ross
Taylor, however, felt the joint
administration would mean a
considerable amount of work
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Town council agreed
day bight to invest up to $3,000
in the development of low-
lying parkland_ in the north-
east comer . of Riverview Park.
Mayor Simmons estimated
that from three to four acres
of property to the north •And
cast of the pond -can be, re-
claimed there through the use
8otcutailtlibfrii:tim the sewerage in-
The project was initiated by
the mayor earlier this year
when permission was secured
to create a road into the
swampy area to allow dump-
ing of fill taken from town
projects It was estimated then
that it, would take (ludo a
number of years to reclaim
the land:
With the sewerage installa.
Con underway, however, the
fill is piling up rapidly and a
bulldozer is required to spread
the loads.
Mayor Simmons told council
Monday night that the volume
was such that the bulldozing
expenditure may amount to
$2,000 or $3,000 if the project
eentinues, He felt count
should either authorize the
work to continue or stop it.
The mayor urged councillors
to 'view the project before,:
making a decision. It was not
his intention to 'WI" the
scheme, be said.
Answering emestions. The
mayor rioted that some three
to four acres of'park could be
created there. and access could
be provided by means of a
That wonderful yule spirit...!
50 bonus winner
;fudge p. $, MacKenzie, Wal,
kerton, sitting in county court
at Goderich, Wednesday after-
noon acquitted Nathan Silver,
47, Toronto, of arson in, con.,
neetion with .a fire in his store
at Hensel]. April. 25.
Accused had been committed
for trial by Magistrate Glenn.
Hays, QC, following a, two-day
preliminary hearing here in
June,
"The evidence does not satis-
fy ire in my own mind, beyond
a reasonable doubt, that this
fire was wilfully set," said his
honor, "nor can I see that the
evidence is sithicient to con•
vince me beyond a reasonable
doubt that the accused wilfully
set this fire. I have grave
doubt and I find a case is not
established in my mind,
therefore find the accused not
guilty.
"Titanic you," said Mr. Silver
from the prisoner's box. Crown
Attorney W. G. Cochrane,' QC.,
Exeter, conducted the case, The
defence was in, the. hands of G.
Arthur Martin, QC, noted Tor-
onto lawyer, assisted by Robert
Carter.
Four officials carried into
court the exhibits put in Tues-
day durin,
b
testimony of 14
witnesses: Jack Drysdale, Wil-
liam. Brown, Hensall Fire Chief
Byron Kyle, PC Murray Peer,
D M, Lucas, of the provincial
laboratory; Inspector Robert
Kaufman, of the fire marshall's
staff; Alfred Scholl, Morley
Fraser, Harry and Annie llor.
ton, Irene Davis, PC C. E. Gib-
bons, Byron Matthew, of Gran-
ger-Taylor dry goods company,
London and Davis L. Smith, To-
ronto accour.tant.
Did not show connection
Mr. .Martin argued that the
crown had failed 'to -show any
connection between his client
and the fire which pretty well
burned out the interior of the
Hensall store. A minute amount
of some petroleum produce had
been found by analysis of wood
in the burned area hut, said.
counsel, it might have been
there for years and there was
nothing to show preparation or
intent on the part of the ac-
cused.
"Motive and opportunity are
not sufficient," said Mr. Mar-
tin. "Is it in accord with human
probability that if the accused
were going to set a fire he
would select the busiest part of
the day with people coming and
going?
"The petroleum product may
have been put quite innocently
and normally on that floor. We
cannot exclude the knocking
over of a kerosene lamp if
there was ons."
"There was not great over-in-
surance and there was evidence
Mr. Silver had dropped his in-
surance at Dresden and Park-
hill stores and increased insur-
ance on the Hensall store be-
cause operations were consoli-
dated there. There is no evi-
(knee that Silver was insolvent
that he was temporarily hard
up fo: cash.
"Assuming motive and oppor-
tunity that would still n o t,
amount to evidence. I submit
there is no evidence to estab-
lish beyond a reasonable doubt
that this fire was incendiary.
Crown Attorney Cochrane
heavy smoke seen by those who
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Okay up to $3,000
on park fill program
12 band•bridge over the river at
22 the east end of RivervieW
4 Park. It will flso provide au
18 Reino Wynla, 17, RR 2 Hensall, won the fourth "1301111$ area for (lunging snow relnev.
10 draw Friday provided by Exeter tuslitcs8mon/s Associa. ed from Main St.
21 lion Which entitled hat to 30 35.00 merchandise eertifi. councillors e r c hesitant
1 4e eate's. She receives theM from, President Warren .May, Derise i n v i ew of tine aniioipats 4), 11 about the additional park ex.
This 1;Iridays draw Will provide some lucky Winner ,cd cost of the purchase. of
with $200 in merchandise value from Exeter stores. Please turn to page 3
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