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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1963-08-29, Page 1NEW BIDDULPH SCHOOL NORTH OF LUCAN WILL BE PARTIALLY READY TUESDAY Boy ,run over still 'tserious' Price Per CePY 10 Cents Ninetieth Year .EXETER, PNTARIQ, AUGUST 72, 1903 Randal Reeler, eive-yeareeld e'en of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Repier, 1111 e Dashwood, mains in serious copditionie$t. Joseph's Hospital, London. Pi- ter being run over by a pickup truck early Tuesday evening. " The lad has a broken right USH SCHOOLS FOR OPENI Pollution endangers lakeshore swimming • • "No swimming" signs may have to be placed along Lake Huron In the Bayfield-Goderich area within a few years because of increasing pollution. This was indicated by Dr. R. M. Aldis, director of the Huron County Health Unit, who revealed this week that regular bacteriology tests of the water have been made throughout the summer all along the beaches. "Restriction of swimm in g within the next few years is G shoulder, injuries to his left shoulder and arm and facial beside being driventhe t o house ay parking s h isrpeodt lacerations, tie apparently was playing near the lane when the truck was man, John Newey, 30. The lad may have been trying to jump on the running board when he fell underneath the wheels. The vehicle was a one-ton pickup. Dr, V. Gulens, Dashwood, at- tended and the boy was sent immediately to London hospital in Hoffman's ambulance. Let contract for GB span SHOP EQUIPMENT SITS WHILE CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES AT CLINTON SCHOOL Seventeen apply for naturalization Applications for the next na- turalization court to be held by Judge Frank Fingland, date of which has not been set, number 17. Thirteen applicants list their country of origin as Holland; two are citizens of Germany, one each from Belgium and the United States. Applicants includef, Marinus van der Hoek, RR 1, Dashwood; Gesina Westerik, RR 1, Zurich; Jeltje Verbeek, RR 2, Zurich; and Hendrika Van Steeg, Hen- salt. well within the realm of pos- sibility," the director states, "The tests show increasing in- cidence of pollution." Investigation has r esulted from complaints along the lake shore of the increase in the amount of algae covering the water. While the lower lake level has been partly respon- sible for this, the main cause is the pollution which causes the scum. "The algae itself is not un- healthy," said Dr. Aldis, "but the sewage problem indicated is not good." LOOKS FORWARD TO POOL The director said he was pleased to learn of the campaign to provide a swimming pool for Exeter and community at River- view Park because of the con- dtion of the pond in which swimming classes have been conducted in recent years. Tests taken at the pond this year have been "on the bor- derline", he reported. The unit takes regular tests of all swimming areas in the county and Dr. Aldis said: "The best results we get are where the water is circulated and chlorinated. There's a great need for a pool in the Exeter area." WINS PC NOMINATION , lion. C. S. MacNaughton PC's hail minister Assault gets term, racing brings fines Awarding of the contract for construction of the Ausable Ri- ver bridge over Highway 21 at Grand Bend has been announced by Hon. Charles S. MacNaugh- ton, minister of highways. The award has been made to Bet and Bot Ltd., Oakville, and the overall cost is estimated at $588,000. The contract includes grading, drainage and gravel base from the junction of Highway 21 southerly, half a mile, including the Ausable River arch culbert on No. 81. Work on the project is sche- duled to start September 16 and completion is anticipated by June 30, 1960, The bridge will be located just south of the intersection of Highway 21 and 81 and will replace the present single-span truss structure now in use. The new bridge, with an overall length of 166 feet from end post to end post, will be a cast-in- place pre-stressed concrete, rigid frame structure with a clear span of 116 feet, last year's 760, The projected figure usually varies al ter opening day, however, because of unexpected changes, The lower number requires two less classrooms, The cafe- teria and the typing room no longer will be needed for class- es. STAFF TOTALS 28 There are 28 teachers on the staff, compared to 30 last year, and two of them are new. Miss Erma Hoffman, formerly of Chesley high school, will teach science and mathematics, and Mrs. K. M, McCauley, wife of the Ausable authority Heldman here, will take over home eco- nomics. She has been teaching at Seaforth for the last two years, The school has additional secretarial help this year. Miss Jean Essery, RR 1 Centralia, will be assisting Miss Doris Swartz in the office. To accommodate the addi- tional office staff, the guidance room has been moved out of the office area and located in the east end of the commercial room. A partition has been erected in the room and a door cut through to the auditorium for the guidance office. Twenty-two classes will be formed. Grade 10 will have the largest number of classes 6. Both grades 9 and 11 will have five rooms; there will be three 12's, two 13's and a special commercial with 16 students. Again this year, school will start at 8;50 a.m. and continue until 3:50. These times were es- tablished last year to permit the Clinton students to arrive at their classes earlier. Hon. C. S. MacNaughton, who was given an enthusiastic no- mination by Huron PC's last night, takes off almost imme- diately on a series of speaking engagements, He'll be addressing a number of other party nominations throughout the riding in the next week. Friday night, he'll speak at the St. Thomas nomination and Saturday wil address the PC convention in Kingsville for Essex South. Tuesday night, he will speak at Peterboro and Thursday, he will be in Barrie. Hon. William Davis, minister of e due at ion, spoke at last night's meeting in Clinton to a large crowd. Mr. MacNaughton was unopposed for the nomina- tion. The Liberal convention in this riding will be held Tuesday, September 3, in Hensall town hall. None of the party's pro- spects has made a public an- nouncement yet of an intention to run. Stewart tackles tour .d after visiting ri . Agriculture Minister William A. Stewart, officially nominated as the PC candidate in Middle- sex North riding last week, al- ready has embarked on some province-wide speaking enga- gements as Ontario's election campaign begins to warm up. After spending several days in his own riding, the Granton area farmer took off for four meetings this week and has more scheduled the following week. Tuesday night he was guest speaker at the PC nomination working under orders and ne- cessary precautions were not provided by the company. The magistrate said word should be conveyed to the com- pany to rectify any similar con- ditions by providing lights for implements as well as tractors. Harry Knip, Clandeboye, also paid $15 and costs for driving extra wide farm equipment on the highway without any warning signals. Gary Heywood, 17, Exeter, paid $15 and costs for backing his truck into another vehicle after he had stopped to talk to a friend at the corner of Main and Huron streets, July 24. Rodney McLaren, 21 , Cro- marty, was fined $20 and costs for making an improper turn which resulted in an accident at the intersection of No. 4 and 83, July 13. Donald A. Traquair, Ottawa, was assessed $10 and costs for speeding up to 75 mphonNo. 83, July 18, Three here win at CNE Conetruction of two new schools affecting area students is being rushed for the opening of the fall term Tuesday. At Clinton, the million-dollar vocational addition will not be completed but is expected to be "usable" by Tuesday morning to accommodate the 1250 stu- dents expected. Principal John Cochrane said the construction firm will work through the weekend in an effort to have the roomsTarle ei_ rextraead board . htaokl eidrasy .htaos clean up over the BIDDULPH TO OPEN TOO F3iddulph township's new cen- tral school, although it won't be finished, will also be open Tuesday. "We're going in anyway," said R. R. Crozier ' Liman, chairman of the board, "This will cause less upset than at- tempting to start classes in the old schools," lie indicated the finishing of the gymtorium , teachers' rooms and other facilities is being left to concentrate on get- tine the classrooms ready. "We expect the eight class- rooms to be ready to go. In fact, we plan to start moving in equipment this weekend." Biddulph officials anticipate an enrolment of about 260 stu- dents Tuesday, An eight-man staff has been hired under Prin- cipal Fred Barden, former vice-principal at Ilderton. An official opening ceremony for the $200,000-plus building will be held later this fall, possibly early in October. Mr. Crozier said a week's delay over financing arrange- ments helped to delay comple- tion. The week threw sub-con- tractors' schedule out of or- der. The delay, he said, resulted over a misunderstanding be- tween the local board and the municipal board. Architect for the school is Riddle, Connor and Associates, London. The contractor is Ross Urquhart, also of London. BLAME CONTRACTOR At a meeting of the Clinton secondary school board last week, members blamed the con- tractor for not keeping up to the construction schedule which he had undertaken. The work is being done by Lavern Asmus- sen, Kitchener. Del Philps, chairman of the advisory vocational committee, was reported as being "greatly disappointed" in view of the fact that the board had been pro- mised faithfully the s chool would be ready for occupancy. About 150 students from the South Huron area will attend Clinton classes this year, prin- cipally to receive the vocational training which will be offered in the addition, The school will operate 46 rooms - its capacity - in its first year and will have a staff of 61, including Principal John Cochrane. Two less rooms here ON TIME COMPLETION OF AUDITORIUM AT BIDDULPH MAY BE DELAYED FOR SEVERAL WEEKS UNMINS! ' "ZRENNIEMOZAged.itiLAVE:' . EMOMMIMMAIMOVii .. ..... .UMW Next week's edition of The T-A will be published Thurs- day morning as usual, despite the Labor Day holiday Monday. Correspondents and contri- butors are requested to for- ward their material as early as possible to help the staff meet the deadline. Advertising deadline is ex- tended to Tuesday noon but merchants are requested to submit . their copy earlier if possible. At least three district com- petitors have captured major awards at the CanadianNational Exhibition this year. Dalton Finkbeiner, Exeter, won the senior champion stal- lion award in the Arabian class with his Ibn Imaraff inthe horse show. Preston Dearing and Son, RR 1, Exeter, again swept the Dor- set Horned class at the CNE, winning all the champion and reserve champion awards, as well as all first prizes in the class, The Dearings also took every second prize but one. A Berkshire boar owned by Ross Cottle of leirkton won the reserve grand championship at the exhibition Saturday. Mr. Cottle's entries also won first prize in classes for boars, 12 to 18 months; boars six months and under 12; boars un- der 12 meths and four pigs. SPEAKS ACROSS PROVINCE . , Hon. William A. Stewart Accommodation atHuron South District High School will be relieved this coming term by a drop in enrolment made pos- sible by the opening of the vo- cational training centre at Clin- ton, 'This year's enrolment is ex- pected to be 710, compared to After unscheduled 'toot' at Dashwood Steamboat whistle settles n Dashwood's new steamboat whistle has settled down to rou- tine duties following an unex- pected "toot" shortly after its arrival in the community, The whistle's early gambit, however, caused some fun in the community. And it's des- cribed here by Irvin Eckstein, night watchman of the planing mill: "Quite recently the manage- ment of the Dashwood Planing Mills Ltd. secured a large Mile tle, a really big steamboat fog horn about four feet in height. After sonic polishing and clean. ing, the teeter was placed in positiOn where it could display its teesitel qualities. and peace was once more re- stored. Now that the steamboat has docked at its berth, it is operating well and we will try to keep it controlled from now on. "The amusing part of this incident was, the many queries about it. Some thought a shi- varee was in progress. t yen the dogs in the community joined in and let theinselves be heard in no uncertain terms. "We humbly apologize to the citizens if we have disturbed you so much but we'll try not to let it happen again. "This proved several things to us, such as the potential of tne whistle and the quick res- ponse in a crisis. "This is only one of the many incidents that a night Watchman experiences*" Truss bases at Exeter arenaget repairs just in -time RAP ettramitteeta tietielert td Medertake Yepaire pi the thin' beets EXetee heeled this &'f elee Was a timely one. Arena Manager Mein Willert, right, and Leine genii, a member of the C. A. McDowell Ltd. cOnsteeetion examine 'rotting of the Weed Wail has taken place since it was encased in cement abtiut 10 years ago. Wiliert estimates scene poste have sagged as much as heir inches. Bases are being' cut Off above the deteelokated sections and Weeded Oti cement pills Whin tied about flee in"che"s' above the 110the There are 22 poste to be repaired; abed half the Work is dettiPleted. meeting for Kent West riding and Wednesday night he add- ressed the party's nomination in Oxford county. Tonight (Thursday), he will appear with Prime Minister Robarts on a CFTO-TV show in Toronto. Saturday, he'll open the Onta- rio Steam and Antique Show at Milton. Wednesday, Sept. 4, he ap- pears at the Wentworth riding nomination and Thursday goes to North Bay to speak in the Nipissing riding, "We're spending as much time as we can in our own riding but it looks like we're going to be kept pretty busy during the next four weeks," he said. In his absence, his riding campaign will be taken over by an organization already geared for action. "We're fortunate in having a tremendous group in Middlesex North who have vo- lunteered to help us. I'm pleased with the strong, young executive working here," the minister said. Two eampaignmanagers have been appointed. Doug Banks, London, will look after the urban section of the riding, which includes parts of the City of London. In charge of the rural campaign will be Bill Frank, Hyde Park, ".very active young farmer and seed dealer". "They're doing .tremendous job," said Mr. Stewart. "Al- ready they've lined up a more aggressive-type campaign than I've ever had before." As for general indications about the outcome at this point, Mr. Stewart commented: "In all fairness, it's too early to make any predictions. There hasn't been time for any trends to establish. I have to confess, however, that the people I talk to, both in my own riding and elsewhere, are veryoptimistic. I just hope there isn't too much optimism, because optimism develops apathy and apathy can lose elections. u r organizational M e e t- ines in Middlesex North have been the most enthusiastic I've ever experienced. I've never seen anything like it before." "I frankly feel the opposition has very little to go on as far as an issue is concerned be- cause Prime Minister Robarts has done such a fabulous job in the year and one-half he's been there. He's taken hold of this government andbrought the legislation of this province up to date in every sense Of the word. This is a Modern, young On/eminent which believes in tackling the job in a forthright honest way, just like the aver. age citizen would meet his pro- blems." About 130 attended Mr. Ste- wart's nomination in Medway High School, Arva. Chairman of the meeting was liaroltICer. belt, Lbcan, president of the Middlesex North PC ASSOCitte then. The itOthilletiOti was Made by Fred Kingsinill, London,- and seconded by Fred Ileaman, Mc. OfIlivray township, "Its first attempt to declare its presence, however, was something of a failure. Undaunted by its initial set- back, the big noise Maker broke the stillness of the night of its own accord, disturbing the peace of the citizens to quite some extent. "The night wetchtnan said a few words, hurried to seek equipment to hush the big baby but had to ascend to the roof to close the trap. "In the meantime, a few of the citizens roused themselves from bed to ascertain what could be done. Jim Pinnate, residing close by, hurried out of bed and, without taking much nine to dress, ran over to help. The part of Jim that wasn't dressed didn't deter him Iii any way. Stuart Wolfe also came to as. sist. "But they only added to the dilemma of the watchman by pulling On the cord just when the Wein-nail had it quieted down. Finally Maurice Nlumpp came along and we had it all under control, "It would take too much space to define the -Mechanism of this monster and describe why it Started Shch antics, Suffice it to say we got it quieted down Announcements 6 ., 15 Church Notices „ 12 Coining Erveilte :6. 6.e. 12 Editorials ..... Perin News . reerlinine Pacts "NPancies 8,0 Hensall bf4V11011-0 tiOe 4 13 Sports 4***W**11.1* 817 Want Ads' • kir 10 One man was sentenced to 11 days in jail for assault, two paid $60 each for careless driving and two others $50 each for racing as a result of hear- ings in magistrate's court here Tuesday. "You had no right to take the law into your own hands," Magistrate Glenn Hays, QC, told Ross Gould, Exeter, before giv- ing him a jail term. Gould pleaded guilty to punch- ing Basil R, Goodine, Exeter, in the face July 26 in Exeter after an argument over the dimming of lights, Goodine said Gould passed him on No. 83 highway while he was returning from Dashwood. At Exeter, Gould forced Good- ine to stop his car and accused him of not dimming his lights. Donald Dundas, 16, Crediton, and Raymond Varley, 20, Ste- phen township, both paid$50 for dangerous driving, a charge which resulted from racing on the Crediton road, PC John Wright said a Dr. Clarence Buck, Toronto, was forced off the road to avoid the two cars which were speed- ing. The cars, carrying five passengers between the ages of 13 and 17, collided at this point. Magistrate Hays said the boys should be taken to a hospital to see the people who have been reduced to "mere vegetables" because of such irresponsible driving. The licences of the drivers were suspended for one year. IGNORED SIGNAL Robert Smale, 18, Hensel], paid a $60 fine after it was re- vealed he ignored a warning to slow clown while he was driving in the married quarters at RCAF Station Centralia. The court Was told the youth had been squealing tires and taking cor- ners at a high rate of speed, Richard Noble, 21, Exeter, who also ignored an order to stop, was fined $60 on a care- less driving charge. Constables Harry Reid, OPP, and Harry V. Bergen, town, said they tried to stop Noble who had been squeal- ing his tires. They apprehended him athis home. Noble's licence was suspended for six Months. PAYS $35 FOR LIQUOR Joseph Ayotte, 17, Dashwood, was fined $35 and costs for having liquor in his car August 9. PC Bill Glaseford said Ayotte drove away from the police cal' when he signalled Co stop "be- cause he Wa.8 frightened," Donald Bain, 28, Stratford, paid $2,5 and costs on a care. less driving charge resulting froth an accident on NO. 83 high- way July le. VEHICLE TOO WIDE Driving a vehicle which was tWoefeet OVerWitith brought eatelets driving conviction and fine of $20 and costs against Gordon W. Pree, 10, RR 1 Frankfort. Free was operating a trace tor drawing a wede pea loader Which was involved in an ac- cadent on NO. 4, ,duty 17. The. vehicle was owned by Canadian Canners, tette, town. Elitier D. 13e1I, 00,elefeedille Free, said the ad Vie e d Was Cl!' l] .wm,51%8 NIGHTWATativiAll tritt