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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1963-11-21, Page 14Christmas Gift Suggestions I. Electric Blankets Double Bed Size (11 Heat Controls) $16.75 Bruce, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald McKay, Ann Street, Exeter Electric Hair Dryers Samson Dominion in Deluxe Case (4 Heat Controls) $17.95 It takes time to make FINE PORTRAITS Electric Heating Pads Samson Dominion Distinctive portraits are admired and treasured for years by family and friends. It's a persbnal, ap- preciated gift that only YOU can give. Less then two weeks left for Christmas Delivery. DIAL 235-0970 61e/1/11 PHOTOGRAPH ER PHONE 235-1570 EXETER PAq% 1.4 Times-Advocate, November 21, 1903., MAYOR'S ULTIMATUM Minister tells AOTS 'why I turned collar' y MRS, 1-1AR91-P DAVIS. SpF. AU. ON. NUCLEAR POWER St.. Paul's Fellowship Club was held in the church basement Sunday .evening Nov, 3. Harold Davis led in the devotional part of the meeting assisted by 13111 Waghorn, After a business discussion the president introduced the guest speaker Ivan Lloyd, chief guide at the nuclear plant at Point Douglas. special meeting. Be also spoke of his education during college. days: of his associate rector- ship with a regular pastor for two years and what it means at present to serve the Lord. He was introduced by the program chairman, Irvine Armstrong and was thanked by George 'Wiese, Carfrey Cann, convenor of the nominating committee, pro- posed the following list of of- ricers: Honorary p r aside Rev., S. E. Lewis; past presi- dent, Percy McFall s; president, A u b r e y Tennant: vice-presi- dents, Arthur Geiser and Lloyd Henderson; secretary, Gordon cudmore; treasurer Don Rooth; bulletin editor, Dr, R. W. Read. Killed in accident boy buried here David peter Ellis, IQ, was instantly killed when struck by a car as he was returningto his home after attending a hockey match at Pembroke, Monday, November 18. Ile was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Ellis of Petawawa formerly of Exeter. David was walking on the side of the road in company with his brother and another youth when a car rounding a curve struck him and he died instantly, He had been watch- ing his brother play hockey in Pembroke. Besides his parents be is survived by brothers Fred,Ro- bert, and Roderick and a sister, Brenda, all at home. Two grand- mothers also survive: Mrs, Anna Ellis, Exeter, and Mrs. William Willert, Dashwood. Funeral services were held at the R, C. Dinney funeral home, Exeter, Wednesday, No- vember 20, conducted by nay, J, C. Boyne. Burial was in. Ex- eter cemetery, Pallbearers were Larry 13rintnell, Jim Tomlinson, George Rader, Gerald and Ken- neth Thiel and Torn Nestle, Westinghouse DRYERS The. ACTS of James Street united. Church decided at a m eeting Monday evening to hem a New years Bye party. They also selected a new slate of officers for the ensningterm. Several members of the Men's Cita). from Trivitt church accompanied their rector, Rev. Philip Gamlen, who was the guest speaker for the evening, A newly-formed men's quar- tette, comprising Mervyn Cud- more, Ray Mills, _c`arfrey .Cann and Norman Wolper with George Godbolt at the piano, sang a couple of selections. M, Cud- more led in the devotional. period. The club accepted an invita- tion from the Fullerton club to install their officers on Fri- day evening, November 27. The project committee announced a sell-out of Christmas nuts and it was decided to order a second shipment. W, H. Pollen offered to drive the courtesy car for the month of December. Mr. Gandon announced the theme of his address "Why I turned my collar around." He spoke of his experiences from the time he started out as a salesman; his conversion and call to serve the Lord at a Mitchell man wins world barley championship at Royal J. E. French, Mitchell, won the world barley championship at the Royal Winter Fair this past week. He was the second Ontario resident to win the award in 15 years. Mr. French, right, receives trophy, silver tray and cheque from L. W. Holmes, Toronto, on behalf of the Brewers Association of Canada, donor of the trophy. RAP I. thought in fairness that would tell them what 1 was going to do if things didn't change.- After it was noted that the, arena had lost revenue through the erection of a .carliag rink and a new arena at Centralia,. Ceencillor Wright said: "The. gap going to befilled over- night." Delbridge, to the mayor; "Do you really think it was your privilege to tell them you were going to make a motion asking for their resignation at the next meeting?" Mayor: "Asa member of the board, certainly I have the right to make that motion. The other members can throw it out If they want to but I'm still going to present the motion at the board meeting if things don't change.'' "I told .there," said Simmons, "that they knew the situation and that they should get together end straighten it out or I'm going to ask for their resigna- tion, As far as I'm concerned, we've got to shake this thing up one way or another." Was anyone going to second. the motion asked the mayor'. Delbridge: "No. I think we should let the mayor straighten it out with RAP," Wright: "I'm not going to second it either.I think it should go to RAP too. I know some of the RAP members have been shook up by it." The mayor: "As long as we get 'em shook up, that's what we want." Four spectators were pre- sent at the council meeting to hear the issue. They were Dr. R. W. Read, Rev. J. Philip Gandon, Trivitt rector; Arthur Gaiser and Harold Sissons. Discuss MWODA Rector inducted Rev. Bran de Vries, former rector at Trivitt Memorial Ang- lican Church, was induct ed Monday night to the joint charge of Christ Church, Markdale, and St. Mathias, Berkley, two communities near Owen Sound. Earlier this year appointed to a mission parish in the Ed- monton diocese, Mr. de Vries returned to Exeter after find- ing conditions unsuitable there. Five of the six de Vries child- ren have moved with their par- ents to Markdale. Peter will remain here with friends until after Christmas exams at HS- DHS. A number of friends from the Exeter area attended Mon- day night's induction service. GB COUNCIL —Continued from page one Naughton, principal of the school, and were assured that there were enough older stu- dents to constitute a patrol, Council favored the idea. OPP Constable Ray Gillen() will as- sist in the project. Mr. MacLaren also asked for better lights on Gill Street lead- ing to the school, and the council will forward a request to the Public Utilities Commission to have them installed. Owing to changes at the cor- ner, the tree which was decorat- ed with Christmas lights will not be available this year. John Hood, manager of the PUC re- quested permission to light an- other tree, near the swimming pool at the Colonial Hotel. Per- mission was given. Council accepted the resig- nation of Mrs. Emery Des- Jardins from the Forest Dis- trict High School Board. Mrs. DesJardins had represented the village on the Forest board for ,a number of years, The Hay Municipal Telephone Company requested information about any sale of the properties belonging to Arthur Pugh, ill time that they could report arrears of telephone accounts Let Reg show you the latest heavy duty Westinghouse Dryers featuring various heat selectors. . DIRECT AIR FLOW DRYING , 24 LB. CAPACITY 4 WAY VENTING PORCELAIN TUB Submit plans for addition Dryers Priced From $1139 95 Parents view students' work at Mt. Carmel school Our Lady of Mount Carmel separate school held parents' night Tuesday to show the work being done by students in the school. Above, Principal Mother Raphael shows work book to Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam McCann and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dietrich in one of the classrooms. Parents had no trouble find- ing their children's desks —the pupils not onlyhad their names attached to them, but their pictures as well. One feature which attracted interest was a display of baby pictures of the students, which illustrated autobiographies they had written. --T-A photo Beavers Hardware PHONE 235-1033 EXETER You can't pick this gift off the shelf GB urges site change but offers help anyway GODERICH "We should either get into Mid- Western whole- heartedly, if it deserves support, or else actively oppose it." said zone chairman Howard Aitken, God- erich, in presenting to county council the program of Mid- Western Development Associa- tion. ' "Otherwise, those associated with it are wasting their time, and we do not like that situation. We have definitely a problem here. The only way to decide if Mid-Western deserves your support is to look at the pro- gram." "One part of the association's work in the past couple of years has been an economic research and feasibility study of the area, now near completion, and sec- tions of it we believe are impor- tant to this county." Mr. Aitken was accompanied by Elmer Goebel, of Stratford, general manager of Mid-Wes- tern, and J, Curtin, Toronto, regional development officer, Ontario department of econo- mics and development. Mr. Goebel drew attention to large maps at rear of the cham- ber, showing woodlots and soil characteristics. "The association," he said, "was set up to do a particular job, namely, to promote the area for economic development of all kind s--agriculture, industry, etc. We have an inventory of the resources of the four counties (Huron, Perth, Waterloo, Wel- lington). "From analysis of this infor- mation we will come up with recommendations, possibly to the local municipal level but mostly to the county level or the region as a whole. They still will not be of too much value unless we have the co-operation of all communities within the four counties. We need the ideas of men such as yourselves to carry out a decent program, and this study will give us a pretty sound basis to approach groups with the information we have gathered." Questioned by the warden as to the municipalities participa- ting, Mr. Goebel reported Sea- forth, Goderich, Wingham, and Grand Bend on the county bor- der. Mr. Curtin was asked what advantages there are for a rural municipality joining Mid- Western. "In the past two or three years," he said, there has been established at the federal level the Agricultural Rehabili- tation Development Act which the province has recognized and organized a body to work with it. A vast amount of money has been set aside to deal with what is happening in agriculture gen- erally, in the nation and pro- vince. Some of the data has been produced by Mid-Western. There is a net loss in rural areas, people leaving the land and moving into urban centres. "ARDA (Agricultural Reha- bilitation Development Asso- ciation) requires the direct par- ticipation of town and rural people. You have the nucleus of a committee in Huron in your segment of Mid-Western. "It won't do for civil servants to sit down and say 'this is what people need.' Itere must be ideas and motivation coming from the people themselves-- the grassroots--and this is where the ARDA program needs to be implemented, a program broadly based." Anglican group elects Harness At the breakfast meeting fol- lowing a corporate communion Sunday the Trivitt branch of the Brotherhood of Anglican Churchmen elected the execu- tive for 1964. President is Max Harness; vice-president, Charles Bar- rett; secretary-treasurer, Herbert Broom. The rector Rev. J. P. Gandon presided for the election and thanked the retiring president, Jack Fulcher, and his executive for their leadership for the past year. ontinued from. Page one tioularly because it was aperiod when jobs would be difficult to get, "We must treat our men as they should be treated — like human beings". Boyle then moved that ,the mayor make an apology. "Why should I apologize," said the mayor. He said he still would ask for the men's resignation at tile next RAP meeting if the arena situation did not change, Boyle: "For causing these men undue concern." Delbridge; "Did you ask them for their resignation?"' Mayor: "NO". Delbridge: "There's a story going around about this thing and It's not doing you (the mayor) any good. All we're asking for is a report on what did happen." Mayor; "RAP has been under' the impression since Septem- ber that the arena was going to be booked," The board was dis- tressed to learn at the Novem- ber meeting that little has been done, RAP, said the mayor, was a new committee of unpaid volun- teers who were doing all they could to make the operation a success. It was up to the em- ployees to do their part, lie said. Boyle: "There's nothing but confusion in the whole RAP setup. The recreation part and the arena management are two distinct functions and they must not overlap". The committee, he felt, "don't know what they are doing." Mayor: "We're paying$8,000 to get management. If we're not going to get it, we'll have to get new men." Boyle: "You have to lay down policy as to what is expected of these men." Mayor; "This thing has been going on since September. They have known what we expect of them." Boyle challenged the mayor's estimate of a $2,000 loss in revenue. "The year isn't up yet, You don't know what will happen between now and the end of the year. You can't expect the arena to be booked 100% in November. None of the arenas are booked at this time of the year -- not in Montreal, Tor- onto, Zurich, Hensall or wher- ever it might be. The situation changes each week." Alvin Willert, said Boyle, has no authority to solicit business for the arena. He had never been instructed to do this. "He feels his job is to keep the arena clean, look after the ice and maintain discipline. If someone asks for ice time, he has to see the board before he can give it to them." Mayor: "He's had all the di- rection he has asked for," Councillor Taylor, a former member of the arena board, said that "as long as I've been there, he has always known he is the manager and responsible for promotion." Boyle said the recreation di- rector was not responsible for promotion at the arena. It was not part of his job, nor had he been given any authority to do it. Boyle said he and Councillor Wooden both had investigated the incident and Wooden had agreed to back Boyle at the council meeting. Wooden, how- ever, could not be present. Clerk C. V. Pickard pointed out the discussion should not continue unless there was a seconder for the motion. Delbridge asked the mayor; "Why didn't you do this at RAP meeting instead of at your home?" The mayor.said RAP had met the night before until 1 a.m. trying to straighten matters out. "Rather than wait until December to bring this up to Grand Bend Chamber of Com- merce expressed hope this week that the site of the 1966 inter- national plowing match in. Huron county still might be switched from Seaforth to Grand Bend. The chamber said, however, that if the decision remains as it stands, "we will not with- draw our support" from the match. "If we are welcome, the Grand Bend area is ready to offer personnel to work on plans for 1966." In a letter to district papers, prepared by a three-man com- mittee, the chamber reiterated charges that politics had been involved in the site selection, that the Huron Plowmen's As- sociation (despite frequent de- nials) had "considerable in- fluence" in selection of the Seafortb site and decried the "unjust practice" with which the local committee treated the Grand Bend efforts. Excerpts from the letter, prepared by Rev. Clinton Brit- tain, President Orval Wass- mann and Secretary Wilma Din- nin, follow: "The airport site, we feel, is the very best in the county for this huge event. The airport has 1 1/2 miles of paved runway, 150 feet wide, which would keep the tented city dry and the ex- hibits Clean. There is water, hydro and sewage facilities. "As far as road access to the site is concerned, our high- Ways are now being widened in the village to a 4-lane width on Highway 21 (running north and south) and a 3-lane width on Highway 81 (coming in from the east). By 1966 the Huron-Mid-, dleseX boundary corning- from Highway 4 over to 21 will be paved,. This will make a total Of five paved roads leading to the Grand Bend airport site. "In addition, the township of Stephen was prepared to put in a road to the rear of the airport to provide other access there, "Accommodation here in Grand Bend is the beat in the area, and we are .expeetifig large $750.006 expansion On the lake And at least one other on "Our chamber has a strong membership from Huron County, and of course, as in other Chambers, our thought is for the whole area, not for the village alone. "We note that one point Mr. McGavin made in an interview in The Exeter Times-Advocate was: "The OPA feels that the interest of agricultural orga- nizations is more important that than of Chambers of Com- merce." Well, this may be so, but the Chambers of Commerce do not feel this way about ag- ricultural organizations. For instance, in the village of Brod- hagen the chamber is made up mostly of farmers. We here at Grand Bend have farmer mem- bers, and most certainly are concerned with the well-being of the farming community. "Future plans here include an even greater participationby the farm area surrounding Grand Bend. Both Ontario and Canadian Chambers have strong agriculture committees, "It may be thought that the Ontario Plowmen's Association picks the site for these Matches, — but we are firmly convinced that the local comnre DID have considerable in luence in the decision to stage it near Seaforth. We suspect that even now, a change in site -Could be arranged if the County of }Wr- en people asked for it. This would be a major step--but we feel it would be in the best in- terests of all. "If, on the other hand, the de- cision remains as it now stands, We will not withdraw our support from the Match. "Our previous contribution financially, we estimate at be- tween $550 and $600. This we gave with the airport in mind in particular, but certainly with Huron In mind as well. "The money we consider was well spent, It helped bring the Match to Huron In 1b66. "Our best wishes to the Huron Plowman's Association and the lociif committee of the County of Huron, in their task of doing what is best for the County of Highway 21, which will increase motel accommodation. We are deeply concerned that the lack of accommodation near Seaforth will mean that the county of Perth (which has been in no way concerned with this attempt to have the Match held in Huron) and the city of Stratford es- pecially, will benefit from the influx of people during and prior to the match. We have no ob- jection to this increase of busi- ness to Stratford, but that fine Shakespearian city does not need it. "The business of GrandBend is geared to handle thousands of both weekly and over nigh t guests, This is managed very well throughout the summer, and in. October there would be no problem to find good living quarters for the people who will attend the Match. "It is unfortunate from our Viewpoint, that politics has ap- parently managed to "rear its ugly head" in this matter. "As noted in the Grand Bend Holiday of July 1, 1961, Gordon McGavin at that time was en- thusiastic for the Grand Bend airport site. As quoted from the Holiday in the Clinton News- Record on November '7, Mc- Gatlin said in 1961: "There is no better farming area in the Province," He also agreed that the Airport site would be a "natural". "We are not so much con- cerned with our financial loss in this matter, but we are very conscious of the many hours of volunteer work which went into floats, displays and presenta- tions at the plowing matches of recent years, We believe that this did much to guarantee the Match for Huron in 1966, "Mere than anything, we re- gret the evidence of unjust prac- tice, with which the total com- mittee, set up by the County of Huron, has treated our offering in their behalf, Though Grand Bend Is now legally a part of Larribten, we are de eply in- terested in Huron County and feel a strong affiliation with the people who live and work there, Sketches for the proposed $80,000 addition to the Zurich school have been forwarded to the department of education for tentative approval by Hay Town- ship School Area Board. Tile addition, which was ap- proved by a narrow margin in a vote this fall, involves three classrooms and a gymnasium. The department already has given tentative approval' to the project by authorizing grants on an expenditure of $80,000. Some revision of cost may be required for repairs to the present school. Architects for the board are Riddle, Connor and Associates, London. Meanwhile, it would appear further investigation is being made into the formation of an elementary school area around Hensall, a proposal which re- sulted from dissatisfaction over the Hay township vote. Involved in the area would be sections of Hay, Tuckersmith and Usborne. At a joint meeting of the school board and council of Tuckersmith last week, appro- val was given to a study of the Hensall area. Tuckersmith clerk James McIntosh said that following the joint meeting, council had indi- cated it was in agreement with a proposal by the board that possibility of creating the new Hensall area be investigated. Under the proposal nowbeing considered by the board,School Sections 1, 2 and 10. at the south end of the township, would be released from the present area and form part of the new area, according to area board Chair- man Cleave Comb's. He added that consideration would be re- quired concerning the remain- ing sections, 4, 5, 7 and 9. Var- ious proposals would be studied, he said. Referring to disCussions at the meeting, he said there was a feeling area school boards should be located in an already established community, rather than in a location that was geo- graphically c e n t r al, but not otherwise convenient, He'point- ed out that the discussions were preliminary and no decisions could be taken at the moment. All that was being done now was to make it possible to discuss the matter of the 1-lensall area with officials of the department of education, It was necessary that the responsible bodies—the board and council—express agreement before this approach Could be made. Possibility of establishing a new Hensall area has been dis- cussed informally at several meetings in Hensall. so far it has not been possible to carry the matter further becatice ten. tative approval of boards and Councils concerned had not been received, he said. In the most recent year of record, 1060, m anufactlireS contributed 54,/ percent of the total net value of industrial Out- put in Canada; construction ranked second at 18.0 percent, Agriculture third at 10.4 per- cent, and the cOiribined output of forestry, fisnerles,trapeing, mining and electric power was 16 pereent,