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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1964-04-16, Page 14a JENNISON 'CHEMICAL TRUCK AND AREA BRIGADES HOSED DOWN UNDERBRUSH AT ROAD COUNT DE BEAUFORT IN HIS "WORKING CLOTHES" An Opportunity for Prime Investment Township of Osborne 5'/2% Debentures Due December 15, 1969 December 15, 1970 Deeember 15, 1971 December 15, 1972 December 15, 1973 Amount $ 8,000 8,000 9,000 9,000 10,000 Denominations: $1,000 Price: $100.00 and Interest to yield 5.50% Delivery: About May 22; 1964 and may be arranged by any method convenient to ptirchaser. orders for any amount may be placed through the Town- ship Clerk or may be sent by letter Or telephoned collect to: J.L. GRAHAM & COMPANY LIMITED 25 King Street West Toronto Ontario Telephones 363-4411 P. age 14 Times-Advocate, April 144. 1.964 Housewives' fete Alter Huron riding over redistribution/ Schools report success with opportunity classes sorbed by higher departmental grants. While the.classroom required is similar to a normal one, it differs in several impertant as- pects, One is that the furniture is easily moved to provide for group work. Another is that a great deal of materials are re- quired because the stress is. On practical work rather than theoretical or abstract learn- Ing. Age range in the classes should be no more than five or six years and both senior and junior groups maybe establish- ed. Teachers must become quali- fied through attendance at sem- mer courses. "If there is a need, a school can't really be without it," said Rothman."At least that's the way most people look at it". He said the course gives children not able to keep up to work in regular classes "the 06)883; Grey North, 38, 834; Middlesex. wept, 0,731; wet- liugton-Huron, 34,839; Lenin, ton-Kent, 40,235, The populationfigure for the . federal of not , wit? the same as the population fignre for the county of Huron proper. Huron County's popular 40 tor 1963 was given by Huren County Assessor A, Alexander as 50,021. There has been a decline in population in rural areas while metropolitan areas have in- creased substantially over the past few decades, More than 90 years ago, Hur- on County bad over 16,000 more people than it has today, In 1871, according to the Huron Atlas, the population of Huron County Was 66,165. Ninety-two years later, in 1963, the population figure was 60,021. Pttavia sources predict Hiat the WeSter4 Ontario? electoral map is to be revised, Western Ontario' now rep- resented by 23 federal bers at Ottewa, could lose from three to SIX seats 14 the redisr trihntlen! The yardatiolc for represen, than by population would permit one MP for each 70,865 of popu, lation, Since the population of the federal riding of Huron is given as only 48,355, it could mean that more territory would have to be added to the federal riding of Huron to bring its total population closer to the 70,865 suggested, Other ridings likely to be affected because of their pre- sent inadequate population are: Bruce, 29,334; G r e yeBruce, at Pa.shwaod hall Dashwood Community H a 11 was the setting for the spring Meeting and pot Nolc Supper of the Huron WaveS Thursday evening. Over 40 atteeded, The program ipcludeciapiane solo by Mrs. Lorne Johnston* solos by Mrs. Bruce Cann, and a duet by Jennie and Susan Cann, Mrs. Elmer Hair of the central executive spoke briefly. Winner of a draw on a rug was Mrs. Ed. Johns; a cushion, Mrs. Nelson squire and lucky plate, Mrs. Katie Vincent. Plans were made for a pic- nic at Riverview Park July 16, eepertunity to show what they can do at any level they can do it", Over 1,00Q such classes are now operating in the pro- vince, Trustees, worried about re, action from parents, were as- sured that they were pleased with the program, where it has been in operation, and had asked for it, where It had not. The per- ents found their children much happier individuals in the 9P- portunity environment, Area inspector J. G. Burrows chaired the meeting, attended by two other district inspectors who reported on classes now operating under their jurisdic- tions. Want pension compulsory Huron 4-H gilt sale draws buying crowd FIRE THREATENS COTTAGES Square dancers choose officers Elected to offices for the coming season of the Prome- naders last Wednesday night were: president, Mr. and Mrs, Frank Hicks; vice-presidents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mackie; secretary, Mr. and Mrs. Max Harness; treasurer, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fairfield; member- at-large, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Selby; past president, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Tuckey. Members will attend the Stratford Spring Festival Sat- urday and the SWOSDA in Chat- ham April 25. Sup't Gar Myers estimated about 150 men were working with him on that front. — Continued from front page commit himself on the village dump either, but he admitted it caused park officials con- stant anxiety. "We watch it all the time," he said. CAN'T FIGURE LOSS Sup't Myers said he could not estimate at this point what percentage of the trees over the 400 acres would be lost. "Certainly we'll have to write a lot of them off," he said, "but it will depend on how fast the fire went by them." Winds were travelling at about 50 mph during the height of the blaze. The house of William Blewett was threatened several times by the blaze and James Dalton and his wife started moving furnishings out of their home, further north, Thursday, April 9, at 8;30 pm in Londesboro Hall. The project will be similar to last year. In May members will be given a pair of weanling gilts from ROP stock of their breed choice and will keep records of cost of production. Members will return one of the pair to a bred gilt sale next spring. Proceeds from the sale of this gilt will be used to defray cost of the pair and the balance of the monies will go to the club member. It is hoped that in the long range this project will increase the percentage of Grade A hogs marketed by producers in the County of Huron. EstahlishiPent of PPPOtinlitY plasses in tow: and rural. schools in Middlesex has proven highly successful from all Points of View, a number of bOards learned Tuesday night at a joint meeting in McGillivray Central School. The trustees were told, by education officials that ex- perience at both Forest and Il- derton (Oxbow c ho el) has shown: Children in such classes are much happier and gain a sense of achievement they never at- tained in regular grades; Efficiency in learning in regular grades is increased considerably by removal of stu- dents with whom the teacher had to spend special time (the im, provement has been so marked teachers have willingly taken additional pupils in their class- rooms to provide room for the opportunity group in the school). Not a single complaint has been received from parents. One principal described the results as almost "too good to be true", Impressed by the presenta- tion, trustees of McGillivray, East and West. Williams and Parkhill schools agreed to a survey of pupils "to establish if there is a need/P. John Rothman, inspector of special services for this area, said an extensive survey in the U.S. indicates 27 out of every 1,000 pupils benefit from op- portunity training. The special class is estab- lished for children with one- half the average intelligent quo- tient or higher. Admission can be made only after thorough medical examination. The size of the classes range from 16 to 20, depending on age, and, although more ex- tensive equipment is required, the extra cost is partially ab- Seven pay over $200 Birthday bursary A $2,000 National Research Council bursary has been won by Mark D. Bender, RR 2 Hen- sail, who celebrated his 21st birthday this week. The UWO student, who will graduate in honors mathematics this spring, will continue his stu- dies at the University of Water- loo. He's the son of Elton Bend- er. The family moved two years ago from RR 1 Varna to RR 2 Hensel". Mark is a graduate of Clinton HS. SECOND YEAR All 1963 swine club mem- bers who completed their pro- jects will participate in the sec- ond year swine club projects sponsored by the Huron County Hog Producer s' Associa- tion. Members will be required to use purebred gilts born in April or by the end of the first week in May. Most of the members will be able to use a pair of weanling gilts from their 1963 project sow's litter. Fairfield forum members felt rather than participate in the Canada pension plan they would favor the universal old age pension to be received at the age of 65 years. They thought the pension plan should be compulsory for farm- ers otherwise they would neg- lect to apply for it. They should also pay the same contribution as employees under the pension plan. To the question "Should, a minimum pension be establish- ed?" members answered in the positive and also farmers should be able to pay a higher contribution than their income level would warrant in order to gain a maximum pension if they so wish. One big drawback to the pen- sion plan according to the opin- ion of the forum members is the payment into it for so many years, yet if a farmer dies about 70 years of age a wife has no protection whatever—a good life insurance would be better for her. Following the discussion on the pension plan a questionnaire was filled out on the topics dealt with in the past season, the type of broadcast preferred and suggestions for topics in the fall. Election of officers for the coming' season was held. Presi- dent is Maurice Heist; vice- president, Russell King; 'sec- retary, Elmer Powe; press, Mrs. Elmer Powe and the new committee consists of thefami- lies of Melvin King, Russell King, Herman Powe and William Schroeder. Twenty members were in at- tendance at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Schroeder. Co-op launches issue United Co-Operatives of On- tario has launched a new mil- lion dollar debenture drive on the day marking its fiftieth birthday. The debenture drive is the third in the past five years for UCO. The funds raised by debentures will be used for fi- nancing for expanding services. The debentures are available on a 20-year, five and one-half percent interest return, or a 10-year, five percent interest return. JUMPED 100 FEET Chief Mason said the flames were 12-feet high and jumped 100 feet over the road leading into the house of Jim Dalton, former Grand Bend reeve. "We had to get out of there fast." "No man could run as fast as that fire was travelling at times", he said. "We were lucky it didn't jump across the river into the high pines in Beach 0' Pines," said Mason. "It would have swept through those trees like a shot." While area brigades were soaking down the water along the Jennison road, the army, high- way and park crews were work- ing on the westerly side of the fire. BEER CASE —Continued from front page outside the car. They also said Lewis denied knowledge of the beer's existence but later ad- mitted it was his. Lewis was defended by El- mer D. Bell, QC, Magistrate Hays agreed it was "a natural urge" to get rid of incriminating evidence but suggested it would have been better had the participants been more frank with police. The cadi dismissed the case over doubt, pointing out the regulation which now permits the transporting of beer by other than a direct route. RCAF seeks Siskin craft BY D. 5, PULLEN Ass't Ag. Rep. Favorable weather, an excel- lent crowd and a first rate group of Lacombe, Landrace and Yorkshire bred gilts all com- bined to make the first Huron County Hog Producers 4-H Swine Club Sale a success. Nineteen Yorkshires aver- aged $144.30, seven Landrace gilts averaged $125.00 and 14 Lacombe averaged $136.07. Thirty-nine lots brought $5,- 377.50 or an average of $137.88. The top selling Yorkshire gilt was consigned by Joe Jeffrey, RR 2, Wingham, and purchased by Harry Mulvey, Wroxeter for $240.00. The second high price of $185.00 was paid by Mac Sholdice of Walton for a bred Yorkshire gilt consigned by Gerald Smith, RR 2, Brussels. A Landrace gilt consigned by Phil Bisback, Clinton, was sold for $145.00 to Russell Kernig- han, RR 4, Goderich. The sec- ond top Landrace was also con- signed by Phil Bisback and was sold to Laverne Godkin, RR 1, Walton for $137.50. Hugh Rundle, RR 1, Centralia, paid the top price of $200.00 for a Lacombe gilt consigned by Ronald Dougall, RR 3, Ex- eter. Rundle also purchased the second top gilt from Doug- las Boyd, RR 2, Walton for $160.00. Top buyer for the day was Huctwith Farms, Forest, who paid $580.00 for four York- shires. Most of the gilts were sold to Huron County producers, however some were purchased by buyers from the adjoining Counties of Middle sex and Lambton. Remy Ravelle, 77 50-year caretaker Remy Ravelle, '17, died sud- denly at his late residence, Maple Grove, Grand Bend, Tuesday, April 14. He had been caretaker for the Maple Grove syndicate for 50 years. Surviving are his wife, the former Annie Thompson, three daughters, Mrs. Reginald (Vio- let) Chilton, London; Mrs. El- mer (V e r n a) Zimmer, Mrs. George (Irene) Penfond, both of Grand Bend; one son, Stewart, Grand Bend; one brother, Leon- ard, Grand Bend; five grand- children and six great-grand- children. Funeral services were con- ducted by Rev. C. A. Brittain of Grand Bend T.JC at the T. Harry Hoffman funeral home, Dashwood, Friday, April l'7 with interment in Grand Bend ceme- tery. More donors to pool fund 1964 SWINE CLUB This year's 4-H swine club program will get under . way Six more donations were ack- nowledged this week by the Ex- eter and District Swimming Pool Committee. They total nearly $200. W. Romaniuk 4.00 Ted Holmes 10.00 Thomas Vickerman 25.00 H. L. Sturgis 100.00 Hunter-Duvar 25.00 M. Westdorp 10.00 Herm Dettmer 5.00 CROP REPORT BY D. H. MILES Huron Ag. Rep. The only activity on the land is the application of fertilizer on fall wheat and hay and pas- tures. A big percentage of fall wheat fields are not showing much growth. The maple syrup run has been good. SUSPENDS VERDICT Suspended judgment was giv- en to Raymond A. Playfoot, Zurich, also charged with il- legal possession of alco ho 1. Playfoot pleaded guilty and his counsel, C. V. Laughton, QC, requested leniency because the boy had an alcohol problem and was under treatment. The case was laid over until June 23. "You'll certainly be the bene- ficiary of any good report which might come up at that time," said the magistrate. AT THE HIGH SCHOOL By Elizabeth Gosar Youth 'blitz' for cancer Seven drivers paid fines and costs totalling $212.50, mostly over cases resulting from ac- cidents, in magistrate's court here Tuesday. Heaviest penalty of $82.50 went to Edward L. Kehn, Ex- eter, who was charged by Con- stable Lloyd Hodgins for driv- ing while his licence was sus- pended. Robert P. Breen, 44, Cen- tralia, paid $47.50 for driving into the rear end of another car which had slowed down for a railway crossing. There was evidence he had been drinking. It cost Bruce Watson, 29, Exeter, $27.50, to make a left turn directly in front of an on- coming car on the Crediton road. Donald Mitchell, 39, RR 1 Crediton, paid $19.50 for mak- ing a left hand turn near Cre- diton, which resulted in a col- lision with a vehicle operated by Melvin D. Finkbeiner, RR 2 Crediton. Marcel Ferland, 30, RCAF Centralia, was fined $20.00 for failing to share the road which resulted in an accident on Al- gonquin Drive. Angus Hummell, 21, Hay, paid $6.50 for failing to dim his lights. Charges were laid by Cpl. C. J. Mitchell and PC's George Mitchell, John Wright and Wil- liam Glassford. LOSES LICENCE Alfred E. Henderson, 74, of Brussels and London, paid $59.90 in fine and costs for impaired driving through Ex- eter earlier this year. Con- stable H. V. Bergen said Hen- derson forced three cars off the road by his erratic driving on the highway. Henderson's licence was sus- pended for three months. Mrs. A. Mason dies in London Mrs. Annie Mason, 82, died at the home of her daughter in London, Sunday, April 12. She was a native of Grand Bend, the former Annie Gratton, but had been a resident of London for the past 40 years. Her husband, Frederick Mason, predeceased her in 1931. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. RobertSpring- eth, Mrs. James Floyd, both of London, Mrs. Jack Laucless, Petrolia; two sons, Raymond, Acton; Orval, London; one sis- ter, Mrs. Jennie Hotson, Lon- don; four brothers, Max Grat- ton and Fred Gratton, Grand Bend; Paul Gratton, London and Cyrus Gratton, Thedford; 14 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. The funeral took place Tues- day April 14 from the A. Millard George Funeral Home, London, Evangelist Albert W. Joyce, Toronto, officiated. Interment took place in Grand Bend ceme- tery. Contributions to the unem- ployment insurance fund last year were $148.2 million from employees, $148.2 millionfrom employers, $59.3 million from general tax revenues, or a to- tal of $355.7 million; payments out of the fund were $371.6 million. DUTCH COUNT HERE To complete an exhibit of fighter type aircraft used by the RCAF through the 1920's to the present day, the RCAF is attempting to locate one of the Siskin biplanes that were introduced into service in May, 1929. A total of 10 Siskin was pur- chased by the air force and all but one have been accounted for. Aircraft number "A-26" was sold by war assets in Septem- ber, 1946; however, there is no record of who purchased the aircraft. The planned exhibit is being arranged in connection with Na- tional Air Force Day, which is scheduled to take place at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, near Ottawa, June 6. Other aircraft in the display will include a Hurricane, Spit- fire, Vampire, Sabre, CF-100, CF-101B and a Bomaxc. To complete the display, any- one knowing the whereabouts of the Siskin that was sold in 1946, or of Siskin spares, is request- ed to advise the Staff Officer for Public Relations Air De- fence Command, RCAF Station St-Hubert, Que., or write to the Directorate of Public Relations at Air Force Headquarters in Ottawa. be of the most interest to the students and they included home economics, journalism, radio and television arts, photogra- phic arts and furniture and interior design. They are adding courses in nursing and welfare work. There are several grade 13 boys planning to attend Ryer- son next year. — Continued from front page which he rents 17 dairy and mix- ed farms. The rest is in wood production. The Fritz family met the countess in Zurich, Switzer- land, in 1955, when they were FATALITY —Continued from front page mi, Que.; Mrs. A. J. (Lillian) Woodcock, Petrolia; Mrs. L. S. (Maxine) Lamont, Toronto; Miss Mary, town; Gordon, Crediton; Edward, Exeter, and James, London. Pallbearers will by Cyril Blommaert, Norman Tripp, Bill Heywood, Neil Stanlake, Lloyd Moore and Gerald Prance. looking for someone who spoke English. The countess volun- teered to help and the acquain- tance led to a visit to the fa- mily home and, three years ago, the Fritz's visited her ranch in South America. REISTMEN.: Exeter's 1964 taxation levy Monday night about 50 stu- dents canvassed the town on be- half of the Exeter Cancer So- ciety. Each year, this drive is conducted by the students. It was started at 6:30 and by 8:00 almost everyone was finished and we were treated to pop, chocolate milk and doughnuts. The 15 team captains were Susan Dinney, Jim Carscadden, Glenn Shipman, Larry Idle, Karen Jermyn, Margaret May, Joan Dettmer, Bill Beavers, Linda Hunter-Duvar, Doug Huntley, David Beavers, Joan Dettmer, Roman 0 rench uk, Carolynne Simmons and Eliza- beth Gosar. Each team was comprised of four students. I, myself, always enjoy this canvass, since you meet so many people and you are able to help the fight against cancer in some small way. Residential and Farm Assessment Commercial and Industrial Assessment 2,269,525.00 861,928.00 3 131 453.00 Total Municipal Assessment ATTRACTS CROWDS The accident attracted large crowds, not only at the scene but also at the hospital early in the morning and later at the yard of Graham Arthur Motors Ltd., where the wrecked cars were taken. Late Sunday morning and dur- ing the afternoon there was a constant stream of cars to and from the car lot. OPP Constables Harry Reid and John Wright assisted Ber- gen at the scene. Mill Rates: General Purposes Sewers County High School Public School and Separate School Residential Commercial & Farm & Industrial 32.946 37.373 4.000 4.000 13.692 13.692 12.207 13.563 20.855 28.172 83.700 91.800 Details of Taxes General Purposes Sewers County High School Public School Separate School Comm 32,212.83 3,44'7.71 11,801.52 11,600.33 19,304,66 667,02 19,124.96 Resid Total 74,771.77 106,984.80 9,078.10 12,525.81 31,074.23 42,875,85 27;704.00 39;394:42 45,694.87 64;999.53 1,636.07 2,304.00 189;959.23 20.9,084.2X_" Memory garnet Canyou identify the students? Class pieta* of tratieS I and S, HeriSell School; of 1948 may provide some Wen, Weil for the children involved: 'reedier Vida Misa Anita Hildebrand, now Mrs. Robert Cook. Ten of these Yotingsterg, Claims' the owner Of the picture, are married and have a total of 17 children. e.' MISMETZTAMSMIZQUIZO LONG DAY The activity period has once again been eliminated and each of the nine periods is now 40 minutes long. This gives the teacher more time for inStruc tion and they don't have to Worry so much that the bell will ring before they finish the lesson. HOweVer, for some of the students who heVe classes from 9;00 to 1:00 the mornings seem very long, RYERSON SPEAKER Registrar A. Satre of Ryer- son Polytechnical Inatitute came to our school, Wednesday afternoon to speak to grade 12 and 13 students. This sahebl is in Toronto. Ryerson offers technological courses such as chemical tech, riology; business including see- retariel Science and hotel, re‘. Sort and restaurant adrninistra» hen and arts Cotirges. The arts courses seemed to List changes in lime plan Changes in the freight assis- tance policy, under which agri- cultural lime is subsidized by the soils and crops branch of the Ontario Department of Ag- riculture and the Canada De- partment of Agriculture, have been announced, Effective July 1, transpor- tation claims Will be paid only to farmers where. the lithe is used on their own land and only in cases where a Sell test shows a pH value of 6,2 or less.