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teglon ladies rally Will repair
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AT T,HE HIGH ScHOok,
By Elizabeth Gosar
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GRAND BEND
Members of the Ladies Auxil-
iary to the Grand Bend Brench,
498, Royal Canadien Legion,
were hoste sses Wednesday
evening to the annual rally of
Zone 4-A.
Representatives of auxilia-
ries from Arkona, Alvinston,
Cerunne, Forest, Grand Bend,
OH, Springs, Petrolie, Sarnie,
Theeferd, Wyoming and Watford
attended,,
Meg. Wilfred RaVelle, Presi-
dent of the hest auxiliary con-
vened the meeting and Mrs,
Aaron Wilson, Alvineton, was
pianist. Colour bearers placed
1$ flags across tee front of the
Legion hail, where the rally was
GB seeks action
when it started to rain it was
called off after only a few
of the morning events had been
completed.
Ali first; second and third
winners are eligible to compete
at the wcw.4. meet this Saturday
Members of the Grand Bend Legion Auxiliary executive are phown here with some of the special
guests at the zone rally held in the resort last week, Seated from the left are: Margaret Richard-
son, Toronto, past Provincial president; Pat Revelle, GB President; Bezina Snelgrove, zone com-
mander, Standing in the rear are: Dagmar Hoperoft, Audry Hutchinson, Lennea Statton, Vilda
Clark, Gladys Crown, Dee Rath, Thelma Waldron and Olive Lovie. --T-A photo
Works foreman Jim Paisley
repoetee this week Gaffney Coe,
strecteen compapy would be
commencing work immediately
to repair damages to back yards
and streets caused from the
sewer excavating.
He indicated so me pepple
' were becoming a little impae
tient, but said conditiens would
be restored as closely as pee-
sible to what they were before
digging commenced,
Paisley asked council for ypl-
unteeee to assist him in deter-
mining what coedition some of
the streets had been in, as some
of the work had been done before
he came to town.
Since he started, Paisley has
taken pictur es of all areas
where work was done and can
easily determine to what extent
they must be repaired.
Reeve Fisher, Deputy-reeve
Bailey and Councillor Wopden
volunteered to assist in this
work.
On questioning from Council-,
lor Boyle, Paisley stated the
construction firm would also be,
repairing damage s to side-
walks.
Seek EMO co-ordinator
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job with the long Victoria Day
weekend.
William Cochrane is the
parking lot attendant. On the
beach parking is regulated, and
25 cents a day is charged in
the fenced off area, during busy
.periods of the week.
Paul Wa.dsorth, Toronto, who
has had experience with the
Harbour Police of that city,
outlined to council an idea he
has for running swimming
classes both at Grand Bend,
and other municipalities and
cottage areas along Lake Huron.
Money received from these
classes would pay for trans-
portation to the lake and life-
guards for the area. Also, he
hopes to have a beach patrol,
which would warn vacationers
of the dangers of using inner-
tubes and other beach toys in
the water.
Council asked him to return
to the next meeting, June 1 to
report on progress made in his
organizational work.
held, and preeiclente of all pere
ticinating gepepe formed a
semi-circle !Were them,
Mrs, Margaret PieherOen)
Terente, immediate past-pre-
eiderit of the Ontario Provincial
Command was guest epeeeer,
Also preeent was Mrs. Bezina
Snelgepye, Wyoming, pee come
mender for the local zone,
Mrs. Snelgrove reported a
total of $20,000 raised in 1963
from a total membership of 360,
A cheque for $151 was sent to
Westminster Hospital on be-
half of the zone.
Mrs, Snelgrove .aleo noted
that the auxiliaries in Ontario
had contributed e13,000 toward
bursaries for veterans' child-
ren lest year.
The provincial convention
will be held in North Bay in
September and Mrs. Ra y elle
will be the delegete from Grand
Bend. The Dominion convention
will be next week, in Winnipeg.
The 1965 zone 4A rally will be
on May 5, in Sarnia.
Winning draw tickets were
held by Mrs. Iva Brooks, Sar-
nia; Mrs. Lois Metcalfe, Oil
Springs and Mrs. K. Kerr,Sar-
nia. Proceeds form the draw
will go to the Westminster Hoe-
A buffet luncheon was served
by the Grand Bend auxiliary.
tossing firecrackers in to cars
and business places Miring the
holiday weekend were discusse
ed. A village bylaw prohibits
the setting off of any type of
firecracker, rocket or similar
explosive anywhere within the
village.
There is no law prohibiting
the sale of these items. Though
the village does not expect much
more trouble with this until near
the July 1 holiday, they will use
space in the Grand Bend News-
Bulletin, and in the Exeter
Times-Advocate to advise the
public of the existing bylaw.
Fines applicable are from $1
to $50, and council will request
the police department to levy
the maximum fines.
Seven area crashes
MONTHLY PHONE BILLS
John Hood approached council
and asked them to request the
Hay Municipal Telephone Sys-
tem to render monthly invoices
for commercial accounts. He
said it was impossible to check
on long distance charges three
months after they had been
made.
He noted that summer em-
ployees often were gone with no
forwarding address, before the
invoice with toll charges was
received.
Tuesday, approximately 35
students accompanied by the
echpol librarian, Mr, V. Dinnin,
travelled to London. These she;
dente, all librarians, have faith,
fully worked in the lib r a r
clueing noon hours and before
and after school,
Their work Includes repair-
ing booke, cataloguing bOoks,
tidying them and checking them
out.
The first stop of their bus
trip was made at the London
Public Library and they were
taken on a guided tour through
the Immense building which also
contains an art gallery.
They ate their lunch at Vito's
Cave. The specialty peeved here
is pizea. The inside of this
restaurant is, similar to the
inside of a cave complete with
a waterfall.
After lunch they visited the
library at Beck Collegiate and
this concluded the trip,
These trips are made yearly
to London and last year they
visited the London Free Prese.
Our congratulations go out to
Carolynne Simmons who cap-
tured the senior girls cham-
pionship at the Huron-Perth
track meet in St. Marys on
Thursday.
She collected three firsts in
the 100 yard dash, 220 yard
dash and standing broad jump
and so got 15 of South Huron's
31 points. We were quite a few
points behind St. Marys who
won, but at least we weren't
last.
This meet had been scheduled
for Wednesday in Mitchell but
He was travelling north on
highway 21 some three miles
north of Grand Bend at 11:40
p.m. Saturday, when he attempt-
ed to pass other northbound
cars during a heavy fog.
While he was doing so he
collided with a southbound car
driven by David B. Cuddy, 17,
RR 5 Strathroy.
Damage was estimated at
$900 in the two-car crash.
Discuss addition
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be changed over to an electrical
shop.
Besides the advantage of be-
ing able to give vocational train-
ing at their own school, the
board is interested in the move
due to the fact it is also ex-
pected to cost area ratepayers
less money than the $225,000
addition they have been con-
sidering.
Vocational facilities are
covered by a 75% grant from the
governments, with no maxi-
mum.
The academic addition would
be eligible only for 70% grant,
and then only up to a maximum
of $150,000, regardless of the
cost involved.
Johns noted that another of
the great benefits would be the
elimination of the extra bus
time for students who now have
to travel to Clinton.
WON'T SELL GARAGE
Steve Smith requested on be-
half of the Winter Sports Club,
permission to buy a garage on
River Road, for the sum of $25,
and the club would move it at
i ts own expense. Council de-
cided to keep the garage for
storage purposes.
—Continued from front page
He said he had come to the
point where he could only handle
so many evening meetings, and
didn't feel able to take on this
responsibility.
Mr, Pickard also explained
Exeter had one of the first
active committees in the County
and it had fallen through be-
cause the first co-ordinator
here had been unable to gain the
interest of others.
Forbes said he felt interest
fell off because there were too
many people who were onlyvol-
unteers, noting that under bill
91, town employees could be
forced into acting on such an
organization.
"If a person is a town em-
ployee it is necessary for him
to work," Forbes added.
"That's the law."
Councillor Boyle came back
with the opinion that if Mr.
Pickard did not feel he wanted
to handle the assignment, there
wasn't a person in Canada who
could make him.
He appeared to express the
opinion of council by telling
Forbes they had no intention of
loading the clerk with these
extra duties if he did not feel
able to handle them.
Mayor Simmons said he felt
the police office was a more
logical place for the two-way
radio as there was someone
there throughout the day, while
the clerk's office was only oc-
cupied for eight hours.
He then told Forbes council
would go into his proposed bylaw
later in the meeting or at an-
other time.
After Forbes left he asked
council for volunteers to look
for someone to act as 'co-
ordinator in Exeter.
He quickly named Deputy-
reeve Bailey and Councillors
Taylor and Delbridge to find
someone.
"Is that your pr i vile g e?"
questioned Delbridge.
"He has that power under bill
91," replied Reeve Fisher, end-
ing the discussion on a note of
laughter around the table.
In his report, Forbes also
told council he hopes to have a
mutual fire aid agreement set
up for the county, but said this
would probably not come about
until Goderich named their fire
chief on a full-time basis.
He also outlined plans for an
auxiliary police force in each
town.
In other business, council:
Decided to hire Industrial
Split on flag
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torical Red Ensign" adopted as
the official flag.
"Is it more historical than
the maple leaf?" questioned
Mayor Simmons, noting the de-
sign favored by the Prime Min-
ister.
Councillor Delbridge entered
the breezy debate by exclaiming
that the debate over a flag was
uplain stupid".
"With all this arguing it
shows people musn't have much
to think about," he added.
The Mayor then pointed out
the Red. Ensign was in fact not
a flag, but Wooden stated it could
be declared as one.
Councillor Boyle said he fav-
ored the Pearson flag, adding
it was the first time he had ever
agreed with anything the Lib-
erals had proposed.
Delbridge then contended the
maple leaves on the flag should
be green—not red—as three-
quarters of the life of a real
maple leaf was in effect green.
"Red shows up better," ar-
gued Simmons.
Boyle chided Delbridge about
his color plan and noted most
people painted maple leaves
red.
He then asked Delbridge what
color he painted maple leaves
when he went to school.
"Green," came the reply,
ending the debate on a round
of laughter.
Simmons then called a vote
as some of the members were
standing up and leaving the
chambers, and after looking at
the hands, dismissed council.
However, Wooden demanded
another vote be taken and the
hands be counted. It was found
there were four in favor of
backing the Red Ensign and
four against.
This left the Mayor to cast
the deciding ballot and he de-
clared the original motion de-
feated.
—Continued from front page
LONE FATALITY
The lone fatality occurred on
Sunday at 10:30 p.m. when Lorne
Elford Herm, 23, RR 1 Woodham,
struck the Holstein cow on high-
way 83, about three miles east
of Exeter.
The cow, which was valued at
$250, was owned by Lloyd Bal-
lantyne.
Damage to Hern's car was
estimated at $200.
The only other person injured
in the weekend crashes was
Marie Kathleen Keller, Dash-
wood, who suffered a cut chin
when the car in which she was
riding crashed into a tree in
front of the William Miller resi-
dence in Dashwood on Monday at
8:50 p.m.
Milo Henry Westlake, 22, RR
3 Exeter, was driver of the car
and was eastbound when for
some unexplained reason his
vehicle went off into the north
ditch.
The car was damaged in an
amount of $50. FIRECRACKERS
Difficulties over r o wd i e s
Spring Sale
All Items Reduced
Up To 50%
Starting Mon., May 25
to
Saturday, May 30
Pavement Co. to paint parking
lines, school zones and cross-
wallcs on the Main Streets as
usual, at a cost of $137.00.
Learned there were more
people r eceiving assistance
from the County on the payment
of hospitalization i n su r anc e
than usual.
Agreed to have the depart-
ment of highways again paint
centre markings on MainStreet
from the south limits to Huron
Street and then from Gidley
Street to the northern limits,
instructing the clerk to ask that
the hill north of the bridge also
be marked as it had been missed
last year.
Were told none of the police
were interested in attending the
Ontario Police College this
year.
Received information from a
local dealer that he could supply
a street sweeper at a much
lower cost than what had been
indicated at a previous council
meeting. No action was taken.
Decided not to pay the $15
membership fee into the Muni-
cipal Police Governing Author-
ities Association, although
Boyle noted it may be a good
counter-balance to the powerful
Police Association. Wooden
contended there were already
too many commissions, author-
ities, etc.
Approved construction of a
$600 drain south of the Brewers'
Retail store to alleviate the
flooding conditions along High-
way 4 in this area.
Suppose you do believe too
much, it is safer than believing
too little. T. C. Haliburton
IN CEMETERY
Fortunately, only one area
driver is believed to have end-
ed up in a cemetery and he was
apparently only there for a short
time and was on the ground and
not under.
Police were called to Kirkton
for their first investigagion of
the weekend when it was report-
ed a car had run into the fence
and damaged some of the pro-
perty at the Presbyterian
Church cemetery.
It was believed the damage
was caused between 1:00 and
2:00 a.m. in the morning and it
was estimated at $50.
Later in the day, as a result
of their investigation, police
charged Douglas Mark Ulch,
21, Kirkton, with failing to re-
port an accident.
CARELESS DRIVER
The other person charged
with careless driving was Jon
Mark Wilton, 19, Louise Blvd.,
London.
Choristers planning
two area programs
Area residents will have two
opportunities to hear the popu-
lar T-A Choristers this week
when they perform at Zurich
and Exeter.
The 24 high school girls, un-
der the direction of Ron Heim-
rich, will present a concert at
the Zurich arena on Friday and
will then give their "Spring
Festival of Song" in the Exeter
Legion Hall on Wednesday.
"We're doing a little of prac-
tically everything," Heimrich
reported, adding that most of
the songs will be hit tunes
from recent movies and Broad-
way musicals.
Some of the favorites which
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EXETER
Greene, Linda Wells, Ed Lin-
denfield and John Harness.
The theme speaker at this
Conference was the Rev. Dr.
A. N. Thompson from Toronto
who spoke on Anglican World
Mission.
Several of the youngsters are
now preparing to go further
afield and attend the Ontario
Provincial Conference of Angli-
can Youth to be held at Hamilton
during Thanksgiving weekend.
Your merchants' advertising
in this newspaper brings you
news of changes in styles, where
bargains are, and what new pro-
ducts are offered.
will be heard are: Love is a
Many Splendored Thing, When
I Grow Too Old to Dream,
April Showers, Be My Love,
Moon River, Climb Every
Mountain, The Loveliest Night
of the Year and Tammy.
Many of the songs to be fea-
tured have been academy award
hits,
Bonnie McRae, Dashwood,
accompanies the girls, who
come from Huron Park, Dash-
wood, Zurich and Exeter.
Besides the three-part
chorus numbers, several of the
Choristers will render solos
and some fun numbers.
this Sunday, Wednesday afternoon
and during the evening throughout
the week.
ANNIVERSARY SERVICE —
Centralia United Church, Sun-
day, May 31, 11 am. Speaker,
Dr. James A. Guest, London.
Everybody welcome. 21:28c
South End Service
Trivitt teenager
heads Deanery
Last Wednesday 15 y oung
people from Trivitt Memorial
Anglican Church, Exeter, and
St. Pau 1 s Angican Church,
Hensall, attended the annual
banquet, dance, and election of
officers of the Huron Deanery
AYPA. This covers all the An-
glican churches in the County
of Huron.
One of the Exeter boys, Greg
Harness, was elected president
of the Deanery. Other officers
elected were: vice president,
Cheryl McCarthy, Goderich;
secretary, Wendy Cronkwright,
Wingham; treasurer, Judy Pat-
terson, Goderich.
The new Deanery president
is very active at Trivitt. He is
a past-president of the parish
AYPA, and also Head Server
at the church. He was elected
last Fall as Huron Deanery's
representative on the executive
of the Diocesan Servers' Guild.
His first action as Deanery
AYPA president came during
the holiday weekend, when he,
together with five other young
people from Trivitt and the
Rector attended the Diocesan
Youth Conference at Huron Col-
lege, London.
There were 100 teenagers
representing 13 of the 14 dean-
eries in the Diocese. from Wind-
sor to Brantford, and from
Pelee Island to the Bruce Pen-
insula. Greg presented the re-
port for Huron Deanery to the
Conference.
Other Exeter teenagers at-
tending; Lynn Page, Bonita
`Man's Best Friend'
Can Make Enemies For You!
ANNIVERSARY SUPPER—
Crediton United Church Young
People announce their annual
anniversary supper on Monday
May 25 at the Crediton Com-
munity Centre. Supper will be
served from 5-7 pm. Everyone
welcome. Tickets available
from YP members. Adults $1.25
Children 12 and under .74.21c
Settlers' descendent
drove stage coach
HAM AND STRAWBERRYSUP-
PER — will be held in Cromarty
Church on Monday evening, June
22, 5-8 pm. Admission $1.50 and
514. 21c
Keep You Pedigreed Pet In — Keep Your Neighbours Mutt Out!
DECORATIVE FENCING MAY PREVENT A "BORDER WAR"
RUMMAGE SALE —St. John's-
by-the-Lake Anglican Church
are holding a Rummage Sale,
Sat. May 30 at 2 o'clock in the
Parish Hall. 21c
The death of Michael (Max)
Gratton, 86, took place Wednes-
day, May 13, in South Huron
Hospital. He had been a patient
there three weeks.
He was one of Grand Bend's
oldest residents and had spent
all his life there. His grand-
parents were among the first
settlers in the district. He was
born in Stephen Township, son
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FAIR —South Huron District
High School, Thursday May 28,
1964. Supper 5:30-6:30. Adults
$1.35 Children under 12 .750
1/2 ticket gets 1/2 serving.21c
STRAWBERRY AND HAMSUP-
PER—St. Mary's Church,
Brinsley, Wednesday June 17th.
Supper 6-8 pm. Program to
follow. 21:28c
of the late Ferdinand and Mary
(Wilson) Gratton.
As a young man Mr. Gratton
drove the mail and stage coach
from Grand Bend to Parkhill.
Brewster post office was then
the end of the line. It was situ-
ated at what is now the junction
of Highways 21 and 83. He
later operated a grocery store
continuing in that business until
he retired.
In 1903 he was married to
Anne DesJardine. She prede-
ceased him in 1953.
He Is survived by two daugh-
ters, Mrs. R. L. Brown (Stella)
Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Mrs.
J. W. Gardiner (Velma) Thames
Road; two sons, Harvey, Truro,
Nova Scotia, Lyman, Grand
Bend, one sister, Mrs. Jennie
Hotson London, three brothers,
Paul, London; Cyprus, Thed-
ford; Fred, Grand Bend. Eleven
grandchildren and 10 g r eat
grandchildren also survive.
Bearers were three nephews,
Arnold Grafton, Willis totson,
Orval Maeori, three grandsons,
Martin Brown, David Gardiner,
Hubert Grafton. Four grandsons
acted as flower bearers, Robert
Brown Jr., Charles and Alex
Gardiner and Edmund Semph.
Interment took place in Grand
Bend Cemetery.
`Grabs $75 worth of groceries in three minutes
Canned goods, frozen foods, meat and almost everything else was literally "flying" at the A & H
Superior Market last week when Mrs. Jim Elliott, 16 John Street, enjoyed a three-minute Pepsi
Cola shopping spree. When it was all through the mother of a two-month-old daughter had picked
up $74.45 worth of groceries. Howard Holtzman, left, shows the tape was longer than his arm.
Ross Tuckey of Tuckey Beverages picked up the tab and will be doing the same throughout the
coming weeks on his firm's promotion program. Mrs. Elliott indicated she just didn't drink his
product to win contests either, as she completed her spree by picking up another four cartons.
"I think I'll go home and sleep for a couple of hours," Mrs. Elliott stated after her hectic three
Minutes. --T-A photo
Dogs, garbage control Add a Patio to Your Home for Privacy and
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SPRING RUMMAGE SALE —
The Kinette Club of Hensel'
are holding their annual Spring
Rummage Sale at the Arena,
Fiensall, Saturday May 23, 2 pm.
Phone 158-M for p ic lc-Ups.
7:14:21c
— Continued from front page
they had to control dogs? What
steps they were taking to curtail
the nuisance? What steps they
were going to take to remuner-
ate owners who had property
damaged?
Council reported they had a
bylaw requiring dogs to be tied
up for the complete 12 Menthe
of the year, add that about the
only way he could deal with the
situation was to catch the enie
Male and lay t barges against
their ()timers.
He replied rabies was still
prevalent in the area and he
had no intention of trying to
catch some of the stray enienale.
One of the beasts was'reported
to haVe pews the size of ebear.
Councillor Joe WOoden said
the police bad assured council
they would do the job Of trying
By MRS. ERVIN RADER
REV. W. F. KROTZ
Rev. Walter F. Krotz, 65,
minister at Golden Lake Evan-
gelical UB church and minister
of Dashwood EUB church from
1953 to 1959, died at Pembroke
hospital, Monday, May 18, fol-
lowing a heart attack. His sis-
ter, Mrs. Emerson Wenzel,
resides in Crediton.
Service was held Wednesday
at Golden Lake with burial at
Wallace Thursday at 2:30 pm.
LEAGUE SOCIAL
The Walther League of Zion
Lutheran church held a ball
game and wiener roast at the
ball park Sunday evening with
members of Monkton League
as guests.
BABIES BAPTIZED
Rev. Wm. Gale officiated at
two baptisms Sunday morning
in Zion Lutheran church; Tanya
Margaret, infant daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Gunderson
of Exeter for whom the sponsors
Were Retie and Mrs. eft. Gate
and Robert Lawrence, infant
STRAWBERRY AND HAM SUP-
PER Thursday June 18th.
sponsored by Ladies Guild,
Trivitt Membrial Church,
Adults $1.25, Children .650.21c
TOOF -'The annual church ser-
vice of District No. 8 will be
held in the St. John's Anglican
Church, Brussels on Sunday,
May 24, 1964 at 11 erre Mere-
bers to gather at the 100E T tall
at 10:30 am. Rev. 1I. Jennings
minister, All Oddfellows and
Rebekahs please attend. Stan
Whiting, Noble Grand, Percy
A. McPa118, Rec.-Sec. 21c
that they weren't dog catchers.
Councillor T ay; or agreed,
adding council couldn't make the
police do it, although he noted
they were willing to co-operate.
He also told council the police
had picked up a good many dogs:
Wooden suggdsted a dog cate
cher should be hired, but Del-
bridge pointed out such aperson
still couldn't go on to any private
property to catch a stray dog.
Hoyle again pointed out the
dogs had to be caughtbefore the
police could lay charges.
The Matter was then turned
over to Taylor, police com-
mittee Oheirelan.
Before leaving the meeting,
Gentteee learned a property
owner could ptotect his pro-
perty, and 'appeared to be some..
What satisfied.
to control dogs, and said he
didn't know why they weren't.
"It's time council did sotne-
thing," Genttner commented,
adding they should give the
police or the property owners
permission to shoot stray dogs.
"I'll buy some strychnine or
a gun," he stated, adding em-
phatically this was the last time
he was doming to council to ask
them to handle the situation.
All councillors appeared to
Synipathize With the local man,
but none could come up with a
plausible solution.
"The problem of dogs is
worse than ever before," Coun-
oilier Wright commented.
"Why Won't the police Took
after it?" qUeetioned Wooden.
Genttner replied that the an-
swer he got from the police was
son of Mr. and Mrs. Karl Keller,
for whom the sponsors were
Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Keller of
London.
PERSONALS
Retie & .frs. John GUI),
son John of deWenettiWii We. e
Monday Vieffers at the parson=
age with ROY. & Mrs. Meefill
James and