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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1963-07-04, Page 1Challenges Hay 'trustee Ninetieth Year Price per Copy '10 Cents. EXETER, .oNTARpt JULY 4, 1963. beim mbined RC school zone formed in Stephen Lucan's new pool opens in time to beat the heat Adults and children alike in Lucan had an ideal way to combat the fierce weekend heat when the community's new swimming pool opened for public useSaturday. The new pool, equipped with lights, operated from morning until 10 p.m. over the weekend and families from the area splashed into the water. Already officials have received over 300 registrations for swimming instruction. Super- visor of the pool is John Albinson, Sarnia, and lifeguards are Bob Cocrall, Sarnia; Andy Broughton and Ross Howay, London, and Ward Hodgins, Lucan. The pool measures 25 metres by 36 1/2 feet and depth ranges from 2'9" to an 11'6" diving well. --T-A photo Reeve John Corbett has chal, lenged Trustee Elmer Rowe a contest for the reeVe4411) this fall, a re a result of the centre, yerey between Hay council and school area board over the pro- posed addition to ZnriCh school, "After his ..comment in the paper last week, I NO.should give him an answer," said Cor- bett. "So meet him at the polls, if he cares to do so." At the board meeting June 19, Rowe and other trustees placed most of the blame on Corbett for council's refueal to grant the school area board funde for the addition. The refusal led to the school board's request for a municipal vote on the question. Of Corbett, Trustee Rowe said; worked my heart out to get him in there. Now I'd work my heart out to put him out," Said Corbett: "I'm only trying to do the job I was set in there to do, If he (Rowe) beats me, there'll be no hard feelings." See sewer system operating July 20 Investigate house blaze To consult with province on details for Hay vote An inspector from the On- tario Fire Marshall's office, Toronto, is investigating the blaze here Monday night which damaged the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fullard, Huron St. Inspector Stewart Foster said he was here to determine "the cause of the fire" which ap- parently started in the basement of the house on the southwest corner of Huron and Edward about 10 p.m. When firemen arrived, all the doors of the house were locked and initial entry had to be gained by breaking a door window. Later, keys were se- cured from Mr. Fullard who was at the home of a neighbor. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Pen- hale, who live nearby, gave the alarm. Mr. Fullard was at the rear of the building and his wife • was on her way uptown. A pile of clothes was found at the rear of the house. When the front door was open- ed, thick petroleum-base smoke poured out of the building. The couple retired here about 12 years ago. Inspector Foster indicated he would submit a report on his investigation toward the end of the week to Fire Chief Irwin Ford. superceded by a five-manboard governing the combined zone. Trustees named in the five sections are: SS 2, William Mul- ler, John Ryan, Joseph Glavin; SS 5, Carl Radford,JohnNedza, Leslie Mitchell; SS 7, Lawrence Diet rich, Marcel Hulledusch, Jim Houlahan; SS 14, Earl Die- trich, Victor Overholt, Michael Kelly; SS 16, Cornelius Van Raay, Andrew Diepstraten, Frans Boogemans. A similar sone is being es- tablished in Na. 9, McGillivray. The notices to the township stated, "it is expedient that the Roman Catholic Separate School of school sections No. 1 and 6, townships of McGillivray and Stephen, and school sections No. 2, 5, 7, 14 and 16 of the township of Stephen and No. 9 of the town- ship of McGillivray shall be united under one union separate school board." A bylaw was passed authoriz- ing the placing of stop signs on the Exeter sideroad where it intersections with concession 2-3. The concession road will be the through road, subject to approval of department of transport. A supplementary road ex- penditure bylaw, providingfor a budget $5,000 more than last year, was passed. The addition- al amount is required for the purchase of a new grader. Contract for crushing, load- ing and spreading on township roads of approximately 12,000 yards of gravel was let to R.11. Jennison at $1.08 per yard, and 33e per yard for crushing and loading on township truck. The Jennison bid was the only one received. Stephen township council re- ceived notice Tuesday night that a combined separate school zone is being formed in the township to provide more tax support for Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Roman Catholic school. Council learned that separate school zones have been formed in five of the township school sections and that these zones are making application to form a combined school zone with the Mt. Carmel section. In each of the zones, a school site will be designated to per- mit the transfer of assessment of Roman. Catholic school sup- porters within a three-mile ra- dius from public to separate school boards. The move will permit almost all Roman Catholic property owners to pay school taxes to the Mt. Carmel board, rather than to the township school area board. The establishment of com- bined separate school zone and the designation of sites for as- sessment transfer purposes has been made possible by recent amendments to provincial sta- tutes. Stephen RC supporters are the first in the area to take advantage of the changes. The zones are being estab- lished in sections No. 2 (south of Crediton), 4 (Crediton), 7 (Shipka), 14 (Centralia) and 16 (Dashwood). In each case a board of three trustees has been established to make application for the combined zone, which is expected to take effect January 1, 1964. Upon the establishment of the combined zone, the se p ar at e zone trustee boards will be Sanitary inspector J am e s Pinder, Huron County Health Unit, reports that six connec- tions already have been made and approved. Councillors knew of others which have been com- pleted. Council will receive regular reports on the instal- lations. Council gave permission to Clerk C. V. Pickard to send out notices of frontage charges as soon as the form of the notice is approved. Property owners will be given the option of pay- ing the yearly rate of 42e per foot over a 30-year period or of making immediate cash pay- ment for the total cost at a considerable saving. Hay council Tuesday night app roved the school area board's request for a vote on the application for an $80,000 debenture loan to finance con- struction of an addition to Zu- rich school. Because of complications in preparing for the vote, no date was set. The referendum, how- ever, must be held within 90 days after the request is pres- ented to council, which was Tuesday night. Council authorized Clerk W. H. Brokenshire to interview officials in the department of municipal affairs, Toronto, to determine the procedures in- volved. One of the questions involves the preparation of voters' lists since a number of property changes have taken place since the last municipal lists were prepared late in 1962. Both Zurich and Hay property owners are expected to be en- titled to vote, since the village remains within the township school area. Council was dis- turbed to learn that wives of property owners would not be entitled to vote unless they were registered as co-owners on the lists. Deputy-Reeve Delbert Geiger questioned if Zurich taxpayers Three-time winner Max Harness, local Ontario Hydro driver, won the western region's truck roadeo for the third time last week, the first person to do so since Hydro began the safe-driving tests. Harness out-pointed 11 other top drivers in the region who had no accidents during the past year in a set of tests carried out on an old runway in Lon- don. He previously won the competition in '59 and '60. Turn down zone change suggested "there are a lot of divisions within the divisions" over the question. "Everybody knows what they don't want but nobody says what they do want." At the start of the meeting, councillors complained about press reports containing the names of members who move and second motions and the pub- lication of the discussion lea- ding up to motions. They felt only the motion should be re- ported. Press representatives poin- ted out that both the discussions and names of movers and se- conders of motions were public information, since any ratepa- yer has the right to attend and observe council meetings or to read the minutes of the mee- tings. Council deferred action on a request from Dashwood fire brigade to increase mainten- ance fees from $125 to $200. Hensall to provide would vote on the question, since Zurich council had appro- ved the issue of a debenture loan. Clerk Brokenshire pointed out that the request for a vote was directed to both Zurich and Hay councils and he expected ratepayers in both municipali- ties would vote. However, this was another question which would have to be cleared up. Another point is whether or not each municipality will have its own returning officer or whether one person will act in that capacity for both. Council did not discuss the question at length. When Clerk Brokenshire read the school board's request, Councillor Jack Tinney said: "We don't have any choice, do we? You fellows wanted the vote." Geiger: "Not unless we change our minds and okay the debenture." Councillor Hendrick said he felt many voters would hesitate since the location of the school would not be indicated on the ballot. The others felt, how- ever, that this would be under- stood. Tinney: "I don't think we can deny the school board a vote. Let's pass it and get on with something else." Councillor Ti n n e y earlier pay for conventions Beverage rooms? Recount will decide Hensall council agreed Tues- day night to pay members 10 cents a mile and $12.00 a day for attendance at approved con- ferences and conventions. A condition of the remunera- Staffa youth killed, seven injured here The question of whether or not Hensall will have beverage room licences hinges on the re- count of ballots, scheduled for Wednesday, July 10. A change of only two bal- lots, or the admission of several rejected ones, could swing the men's beverage room result from "no" to "yes". Present percentage is 59.71, just afrac- tion short of the required 60%. A few more would be required to change the result for women's and escorts' beverage room, which now standa at 58.55%. In both questions, about 35 ballots were rejected because voters failed to mark them pro- perly with an "X". Maurice Tudor, operator of the New Commercial Hotel, re- OK road change in closed session Hensall council met inclosed committee Tuesday night to dis- cuss an apparent disagreement between two mill owners over the closing of a portion of Wel- lington St. Council, after requesting the press to leave the meeting, heard representatives of both Cook Bros. Milling .Co. and E. L. Mickle and Son. Following the committee meeting, a motion was passed "that the street on the north- west c or n e r of Wellington Street, approximately 11' x 55' be closed and in case of a law suit, Cook Bros. will assume village portion of court costs." An 18-year-old formerStaffa youth was killed in Perth and seven persons were injured in area accidents over the holi- day weekend. Scott Harburn, RR 3 Dublin, was killed when he was thrown from his car as it flipped end- over-end three times south of Dublin Saturday night. The youth attended Staffa school and was raised in that area. He was a truck driver for Jack Sadler, Staffa. Three passengers in his car escaped injury. They were Ger- ald Aberns 19, RR 1 Mitchell; Brenda Butt, 16, Seaforth, and Pauline Stapleton, 17, Dublin, SUrviving besides his par- ents, Mr. and MrS. Fred Her- btrn, RR 3 Dublin, are two brothers, Ted of Staffa and Don Of Wandatock and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Walton McNicol. Funeral service was he 1 d Tuesday at 2 pm in the Heath- Leslie funeral hoMe, Mitchell. Burial was in Staffa cemetery. BROTHERS INJURED Gerald Keller, 26; and his brother, Ronald, 22, Dashwand, both suffered fractures when the half-tan truck in which they Were riding 'went out of control south of Dashviiand Mend ay afternoon. PC William Glassford sai d the vehicle struck loose gravel, Skidded into a ditch, hit a hydro pole and ended up on its side. , The older brother suffered broken ribs and the younger Sustained a fractured collar bone and head injuries, Darn- tO the car was estimated at $100. HEAD-ON COLLISION TWO, ladies and two children Were, injured Sunday morning, about one and a half miles north Of Thainet Road Chtirch When two cars collided head-on on the ,Slope Of a hill. Mrs, Anh ICeller, 25, RR 1 Marys,St. suffered lacerations to her shoulder, khan and dibOW and possible chest injuries. Her tWO,Childran, one and Oriehalf, 'and Dale, two and One,- half, received numerous elite and briiieeek Driver of the_ other cari _ Lorretta M. Barry, 28, /21t 2 Dublin) suffered a corn-- pound fracture of her left thigh, laceration. to 'her. elbOWS,, JO, and forehead, tion schedule, which r e s u 1 t s from previous discussions, is that councillors must submit written reports to council of the meetings attended. The agreement was reached earlier in the meeting but dis- cussion on it was revived later. Councillor John Baker broached the subject again be- fore council adjourned and Councillor John Lavender felt that at least the drivers should be paid for mileage but "if we want the job bad enough we will go anywhere regardless and we're gaining the education at the same time. I always had to pay for my education." Reeve Jones stated that he has never been paid anything for attending any meeting "but if you want to change it you can." Councillor Fred Broadley stated "there's always a fi- nancial clause when a man is interested or trying to get into politics which is a drawback" and John Lavender, referring to the recent Huron mu nic i pal meeting, stated that "the money wasted was terrible". John Baker felt that council's warning had helped in the fact that $130.00 had been collected from the sale of dog licenses. Earl Campbell stated that there were only about six left to his knowledge. Chief Davis will accept coun- cil's proposal that he receive a raise in salary rather than join a pension plan. The motion states that Mr. Davis will re- ceive $100.00 at the end of this year $200.00 next year and so on till his salary reaches the sum of $4,000.00. This is in lieu of the pension plan originally discussed. Councillor Broadley asked that the PUC look into the situa- tion that people are watering 3 their lawns froth a tap in the basement rather than have an outside tap installed and pay the charge of $2.00 per month. "It isn't fair that people without an outside tap are watering their lawns as much as the people with one and are getting out of the charge." Councillor Lavender asked Chief Davis if "he had been cracking the whip or is it be- cause of what has been said in the press about the holey cars, that it has certainly improved". : Chief Davis replied that he thought things Were better until Mrs. Jesele Cameron told him that this last Weekend Was ter- rible with cars backfiring in the early hours of the morning. Building permits were grant- ed to Williain .Mickle. tWO silos; Witlialt Clement, pole barn; Mrs. J. W. Drysdale and George ArMetrong, aluminum siding, and to Clarende Lenalian, siding and roof. Council decorum breaks under heat The heat was too much for Clerk Murray Des Jardins and Coun- cillor Orval Wassmann, Grand Bend, Monday night. Normally well-dressed for the municipal gov't sessions, the two appeared in shorts to beat the over 90-degree temperature in the council chambers. Councillor Wassmarm's suspicious glance at the photographer was justified. She just couldn't resist taking this picture. --Dinnin photo After receiving a petition from property owners in the area and learning officially that certain non-conforming uses can be permitted by a com- mittee of adjustment, council Tuesday night took no action on a previous request to change the zone of a portion of Wel- lington St. from residential to industrial. The area in question is the south side of Wellington, be- tween William and Carling. As- sessor Eric Carscadden, who owns a former hatchery build- ing at the corner of Welling- ton and Carling, requested the change in zone last meeting, pointing out to council the town may lose assessment of pro- perties in this area rendered useless by the zoning regula- tions. A petition signed by 18 pro- perty owners in the area op- posed the suggested change. "We feel," the petition said, "the substantial investment in residences and the potential of future investment in residential construction in this area could be jeopardized seriously by any change in the bylaw which would permit undesireable industrial or commercial development." The request for a change was referred last, meeting to the planning board. Councillor Joe Wooden, secretary of the board, reported a committee of adjust- ment could consider allowing occupancy in a non-conforming building provided the use is an improvement over the previous occupancy. In this specific case, the re- gulation is interpreted to mean that some non-objectionable in- dustrial use could be permitted in the hatchery building. Ad- jacent property owners, how- ever, would have an opportunity to appeal the ruling. Wooden explained that coun- cil could appoint a committee of adjustment or set itself as the committee if it so pre- scribed through bylaw. He urged that such a bylaw be enacted but no action was taken Monday night. After learning that the On- tario Municipal Board has given tentative approval to the bylaw amending the original zoning regulations, council proceeded to give the amending bylaw three readings. It will come into ef- fect upon receipt of the official approval of the provincial board. Exeter's sewerage system will be in operation by July 19 or 20, council was told Monday night. Charles Kernenyffi, OWRC engineer, reported through Clerk C. V. Pickard that Gaff- ney Construction likely will meet the contract deadline of July 20. The 22-acre lagoon, final portion of the project, is nearing completion. Clerk Pickard also reported on the contractor's responsi- bilities in the final phase of the work. He said the firm would be responsible for 'settlement on roads for one year after the work is completed. Street surfaces are being finished now. One application of dust layer will be placed on gravelled streets. Emulsion and chips will be placed on the first block of Anne St. and black top will be placed on Huron St. Backyards, where digging has been done, will be levelled and topsoil applied where needed by next week. Lawns broken up will be sodded. The firm also is responsible for sodding of the lagoonbut the OWRC has ordered that this work be delayed until Septem- ber when the grass will have a better chance of surviving. It will take almost a year for the lagoon to fill up once the system gets into operation, ac- cording to the OWRC engineer. He feels it will be next summer before there is four feet of sewage in the pond. Council instructed its roads committee to examine condi- tions of the streets with the OWRC engineer before the con- tractor leaves the job later this month. CAN'T PAY CASH Among other discussions on the sewerage project, council learned it cannot pay cash for the three small extensions to the original plan which have been authorized. Council's original intention was to pay for laterals on Anne, Huron and Main St. south, out of current funds, rather than put the cost on the debenture debt. An OWRC official has ad- vised, however, that council can apply the amount, roughly $13,000, against the overall de- benture loan. WILL CANVASS HOUSES Works Sup't Paisley will start a house - to - house canvass Thursday to arrange for pro- perty laterals on those streets where permission has been re- ceived to use storm sewers for sanitary disposal. The streets include -William, from John to the river; Gidley, from Senior to William; Vic- toria, from the public school to William, and Senior from Sanders to Gidley. The charge of $70 will apply for a connection from the pro- perty line to the sewer. The householders will be respon- sible for the cost of taking sewage to the property line. Council has pointed out that the $70 charge for installation to the property line will not apply beyond this initial period when the majority of connec- tions will be made. If the con- nection is made later, the cost will be considerably higher. A five-inch line will be laid from the sewer to the property line, and at least a four-inch line is required on the property. quested the recount last Thurs- day after the initial tabulation by Clerk Earl Campbell revea- led the close result on the two beverage room questions. The dining and cocktail lounge issues passed with comfortable margins of roughly 65 and 63% respectively. In a letter to Clerk Campbell Tuesday, Judge Frank Fingland set the date for recount Wed- nesday July 10 at 10 a.m. Ac- cording to regulations only Judge Fingland, Clerk Campbell and Mr. Tudor, the "yes" side manger, will be permitted to attend the recounting. The "no" side did not appoint a manager. Maurice Tudor said last week he would not make any definite plans for remodelling of the hotel until the recount was com- pleted. Asked if he would pro- ceed to apply for dining and cocktail lounge licences if the others were not approved, he indicated he probably would go ahead, However, he said his original plans were to include facilities for all four licences. Clerk Campbell calculated 79.71% of the eligible voters used their franchise. A total of 452 voted. Of the 1,808 questions answe- red (each was on a separate ballot), a total of 125 ballots were rejected. It would appear about 30peo- ple marked their ballots incor- rectly, according to the rejec- tions of the deputy returning of- ficers. Most of them, it would appear, would likely be young voters casting ballots for the first time, or others who have seldom marked ballots in the past, since Hensall authorities have never rejected so many ballots in other types of elec- tions. The results of voting on the various questions were: Dining lounge--274 to 148 or 64.92%, with 30 rejected bal- lots. Cocktail lounge--271 to 158 or 63.17%, with 23 rejected ballots. Men's beverage room--249 to 168 or 59.71% with 35 rejected ballots. Women's beverage room-- 243 to 172 or 58.55% with 37 rejected ballets, PC G. M. Mitchell estimated damage to the cars at $1,300. INJURED IN DITCH Lawrence J. Ziler, 29, RR 3 Dashwood, suffered head and arm injuries when his car went into the ditch on the Crediton road extension, just west of Na. 81 highway early Sunday morn- ing. Damage to the vehicle was $700, according to PC Glass- ford. A rear-end collision on No. 83, east of Dashwood, caused $175 damage to cars driven by Benedict Pizezdziecki, 33, Guelph, and Gary J. Camp, 20, London, Saturday afternoon. Post graduate course S/L R. F. lViacLaren, RCN, is taking a three-year post gra- duate course, leading to a mas- ter'§ degree, in naval archi- tecture and marine engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. lie was one Of nine selected by the navy for post gradhate billets, of which only a few are in this field. A graduate of Queen's University and SlibliS; he joined the navy in September, 1959, and has re-" Gently completed an 18-month tour Of duty on beard HMCS Chaudiere, a destroyer escort in the Atlantic etnitheand, He is the son of Mr. arid Mrs: W. F. B. MacLeren, brand Bend, and his Wife is the for- Met Marion Ale X atider of Thernet Hoed, They are living he* in Arlington Heights, Mast. Considerable vandalism has taken place at Riverview Park. The booth has been broken into twice and $13 in cash and some candy was taken from the build- ing early Friday morning. The recreation office in the booth was also entered, papers ripped and strewn about. The lifeguard stand twice has been tipped into the water and the swimming platform has been broken. Ward' Kraft, manager of Mc- Kerlie Automotive Ltd. store here, is in St. Joseph's Hospi- tal, London, recovering from a coronary attack suffered Sun- day. Sunday afternoon he had attempted to assist lifeguards in controlling some unruly youngsters swimming in the pond. * '* A total of 240 children have enrolled in the Vacation Bible School which began operation Monday at, the Thames Road Mennonite Mission. Classes are also being held in the Christian Reformed Church, the basement and double garage at the home of Rev. Stanley Sauder. Trans- portation is being provided by bus and card. Twenty-one adults are conducting the classee. * * A smaller crowd than prObably due to the holiday Weekend, attended the decOre--, tion ady service at E x et et ceinetei Sanda. The 100F decorated l 'seine 1 y 46 gi,dved and the :Legion honored 27 deceased veterans. Guest ePeaker was Rev. MM. dUeet,Centralle, and radnwed Istrid Wag lit dance. In 'charge of the 'proCee- ding§ 'Were Douglas trifitnelli first Viee,preeident of the to- and, PletelierilOOF' noble gtand. ". Ostittson) photO area to beat 90-degree weekend 01 the Pinery andlOperWeeli,Thie aerial of shows pertion the crowd on tie Grand tend beach early Mondayitoine iennd even the b"each was toti hot Monday and Jilet sweltered at herlie, •• d s swarm to beach .Record crow The iditedhoke resort- area. seldom have accOmOdated as indny people as they did over the Weekend when temperatures rose to 98. Grand Bend WaSjammed8nriday.e.6 were the preViiidial. parks ',437 ,'•V•Z, :^7,=17;;:nrnt.Z 444 AnnouhcenientS . . 10 Church Notices 10 cpMidg tventd ........- Editorials . Feminine Pacts '1st Palleibg 5 HenSall o • ea if 4 .,.. 11 Sports . 6