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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1964-06-04, Page 1Huron boards sanction HSDHS vocational addition Joins Unit Mrs. Helen E. West, Grand Bend, has completed success- fully a year at the University of Western Ontario and has re- ceived her diploma in Public Health Nursing. Mrs. West will be working with the H u r County Health Unit.--Beta photo Receives BA Miss Laura Delbridge Sweeton, granddaughter of Mrs. Frank J. Delbridge, town graduated Thursday with a BA degree from Middlesex College, UWO. She will be spending the sum- mer on a tour of Europe and in September will commence work for a Toronto Life Insura,nce Co. Nurse graduates Miss Corrie Verkerk former HSDHS graduate, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Ver- kerk, Crediton, graduated as a nurse from Stratford General liospital, She has accepted a position at St. Marys Hospital, Kitchener to commence in Sep- tember. local addition, ready then) and, the conclusion .of the present. 4gr-4941P4t among all boards in 1972. John 14avis, -Clinton Oair. man, who also chaired theMeet., asked if there were any provisions for the maximum number of students HSDHS could send, or were they just leaving their foot :in the cloOt• to :eencies. many as they wanted. Johns pointed ,out the maxi- mum affected the XXSOlip.. board no differently OAP anyof the other boards, (The agreement has no maximum clause) Murphy noted the IiSDHS board would be sending only those students for whom they can not offer special courses, Ed Dearing, Seaforth chair, man .and chairman of the adyi, pory vocational committee, said he felt it would be reasonable to leave in some guarantee for HSDHS. allowing them to send students for whom they do not provide facilities, After Goderich had agreed to this as well, the Clinton Please turn to hack page In tact he ,stated their right to send some students to Clinton could be one of the only ways in which they could hope to have P.P13,r9Y.4 ter thOr limited voce,- tional ,classes at Exeter, He said they would, prefer some guarantee that stiidents would be accepted at Clinton. WP J. ,Laing, assistant super!, intendent for secondary school education in Western Ontario, also agreed some guarantee should be given as the govern,. ments would request this 06e. to the fact they had spent con, siderable money in the building At Clinton and would want to be assured that the HSDHS students could receive the courses they wanted. R. B. Howey, HSDHS pecre- tary,treasurer, then presented a motion from his board re., questing the agreement between HSDHS and the other beards be :altered. The motion stipulated that HSDHS would guarantee to pay for 5% of their total enrol Ment if the enrolment drops below 1200 students at Clinton between September 1965 (if the came back With a proposal that Exeter be allowed to terminate their agreement and Pend only as many students to, Clinton for which there would be room after the Goderich, Seaforth and Clin- ton area students had heel" ae- cemmedated, "We will take students from Exeter to fill any spaces we may have," commented Walter New- combe, Clinton vice-chairman, noting there would be no guar- antees for other board. Murphy centended this was not the right appreach and was certainly not in the beat inter- ests of the students at HSDHS. He noted the HSDHS board could not build for all their own students, but the Clinton board was in fact telling their students they either had to take academic courses or not go to school at all. "We have to look at what is best for the education of the whole county," Murphy stated. Ken Johns, HSDHS chairman, noted his board had never hoped to be without some guarantee that students could go to Clinton. The 1,1PD.11;5.. board plan a meeting with area inspector D. W. .Poett at earliest con- venience to discuss piens for their proposed vocational ad- ditign. The board received approval freM the boards at Clinton, Goderich and Seaforth. Thursday to amend their agreement to send only 5% of their total en, rolment to the Clinton schoel. The former agreement called for a minimum of 15%. Scott, who has been attending a conference at. Hanff, is ex- Pected home Shortly and the board hope to have the meeting by June 15. At their meeting, Tuesday, they viewed preposed plans of the vocational addition as sub- mitted by the architects. His estimate on the building was $537,742. Although this is considerably higher than the cost of the proposed academic addition, it is expected it will cost area ratepayers no more money due to the higher grants on voca- tional additions. Net cost to area taxpayers is expected to be $134,436 — 25% of the total cost. This is approximately the same as what the academic wing would have cost them as well. However, they are now getting almost twice as much for their money. Plans call for the erection of four new classrooms; car- pentry, motor mechanics and drafting shops; new commer- cial rooms; renovation of the present shop to an electrical facility; a science room; re- novations and additions to the cafeteria boiler room. EXETER, ONTARIO, JUNE 4, 1964 Ninety-second Year Owls interest Brownies Due to the fact owls are associated with the work of Brownies, these two little fellows provided plenty of interest when they were taken to a meeting of the Hensall Brownies last week. They are held by Kathy Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Doug Cook. The "stars of the evening" were rescued by the Cook family from a hungry cat, after they had apparently fallen from a nest. The gloves are to protect Kathy from the sharp talons and beaks. --T-A photo OKAY FREE CALLING EXTENSION Two area villages settle on projects Main Street residents told to hook to sewer Area graduate Miss Rosanna Worden, daughter of Alvin Worden, Staffa, and the late Mrs. Worden, graduated from Stratford General Hospital Saturday. She received the lov- ing cup award for school spirit and student leadership. Meeting Tuesday, Stephen township council accepted ap- lications for centennial projects from two of the three police villages in the township. Centralia trustees asked ap- proval for an addition to the back of the present village hall to accommodate a kitchen and washroom. Estimated cost is between $2,000 and $2,500, of which about $500 will have to be raised through Centralia projects and donations. In Dashwood, the centennial project is to beautify about three acres of park land around the new community hall at an estimated cost of $3,500. The project includes provid- ing picnic tables, shrubs, trees and flower beds, as well as a cairn to commemorate pioneers of the area. Long distance charges will be removed from telephone calls placed between Exeter and Kirkton late this year. The announcement was made jointly this week by the Blan- shard Municipal Telephone System and the Bell Telephone Com- pany. Officials of the two companies said the proposal is a result of the community of interest that exists between the two centres. Because telephone rates are based on the number of tele- phones that can be reached without long distance charges, the plan will mean a slight increase in monthly rates in both Exeter and Kirkton. However, many telephone users in the two centres will pay less under the new arrangements than they do at present when toll charges on calls placed between the communities are added to their regular service account. meeting that some stores in the downtown area may have to make alterations to their build- GIVEN SUPPORT Although the Clinton meeting lasted close to four and a half hours, the local board had little difficulty in gaining support for their request to have the agree- ment altered. A majority of the questioning came from Goderich lawyer, A T. Murphy, and after he had been given answers to most of his queries, became one of the strong supporters for the move. It was at his urging that the Clinton board altered their de- mands in regard to HSDHS with- drawing some of their students. Following a recess, when all the boards met and made their decisions, the Clinton board About $2,000 of this will be covered by grants from the three government levels, with the remainder coming from special projects and a donation from the village trustees. The third police village — Crediton —has been unable to come up with a centennial pro- ject. They have two suggested (see story) and have not made a decision as yet. Will reach 6,000 phones ings in regard to roof water. The new storm sewer will connect with the one already provided from the south en- trance to Anne Street and when it is completed in its entirety will be the main artery for all the storm sewers in town. In future years, storm sewers from the side streets will be joined into it. SEEK PARK Clerk Ross Haugh was in- structed by council to write a letter to the Ontario Water Resources Commission in re- gard to the announcement by Premier Roberts that the government will build a Lake Huron water pipeline, If the London project is taken over by the government, council — Please turn to back page A blood donor clinic will be held in the Exeter Legion Hall on Tuesday from 5;00 to 9:00 p.m. A spokesman for the Red Cross explained that more do- nors are required as the "need is always greater than in the past". The annual dinner meeting of the Exeter Industrial De- velopment Corporation will be held in the Legion Hall tonight (Thursday) at 6;00 p.m. W. W. Haysom, manager of the Bell Telephone in this area, reported letters would be going out to all subscribers in Exeter this week to list the rate in- crease. While the rate increase is comparatively s m al 1, Exeter subscribers will have well over 2,000 more phones which they can reach without long distance charges. When the change is made this year, they will be able to phone not only Kirkton without any charge, but also phones in Hen- sall and Lucan. Mr. Haysom said this would mean local subscribers would School children herald sewer system. opening Some residents on Main Street will be advised by letter to make provisions to connect to the sanitary sewer some time before July 31. At that time, service in the present storm sewer will be discontinued as it will be re- placed by the new storm sewer to be built from Anne Street to the river. However, the new facilities will be built above the present line and will not be low enough for cellar draing,,Also, wash water and sewerage will not be permitted to be put into it. The new line will affect only those from Anne Street to Well- ington, as this is as far as it will be built at the present time. Works foreman Jim Paisley reported to council that many persons in the section to be affected had already connected to the sanitary sewers, and Councillor Joe Wooden, whose drainage committee made the recommendation, reported most of the people had indicated they would connect to it, al- though some have not done so yet. Work is expected to start on the new storm sewer some time this month. The cost will be covered by a 90% grant with the town picking up the 10% of the cost. It was also predicted at the STILL PROBLEMS The troubles of Mrs. Jennie Parsons and her drainage were again presented to council when her son, Jack, appeared and asked if there was any way she could get an outlet. He told council the basement had water in it all the time. Works foreman Paisley stat- ed he had not had time as yet to contact other owners in the Mill Street vicinity to see if they would be willing to pay frontage on a sewer line from Mill to Huron Street. "Well, let's get cracking on something," commented Coun- cillor Boyle, who indicated he was peeved over the lack of ac- tion. "Things have to come in their turn," replied Councillor Delbridge. However, Boyle retorted that promises had been made in re- gard to the problem and it was — Please turn to back page Issue permits for four homes Building permits were issued for four new homes at Exeter council meeting, Monday. Total value of the homes was given as $47,000. John Burke received a per- mit for a $10,000 home on Wellington Street; Douglas Har- rison for a $14,000 residence on Thomas Street; Harry Dougherty for a $13,000 home on Sherwood Ave. in the Dow subdivision; Alvin Pym for a $10,000 structure .on Huron Street. A permit was also issued for a $2,000 renovation to the home of C. Mdrley Hall. Jim Paisley, works foreman, reported he had been asked by C. A. McDowell if the latter required a building permit for his portion of the work on the new $70,000 building planned by the Exeter District Co-op. Members expressed the opin- ion the Co-op should have a permit for the entire job and the clerk was asked to inform the manager of same. RMC grad Officer Cadet Brian W, Ailey, RCAF Station Centralia, gra- duated this week from the Royal Military College of Canada at Kingston. He has completed a four-year course in mechanical engineering and receives his Bachelor of Engineering and a regular commission as Flying Officer in the RCAF. He is the son of WO 1 and Mrs. H. J. Ailey, Huron Park, and is a graduate of HSDHS.--DND photo honor, due to the fact he had not been told it would fall to him. Standing behind him were a platform full of town, county and area municipal officials, OWRC officials and Hon. C. S. Mac- Naughton, MPP, and E 1st on Cardiff, MP. First speaker of the afternoon ceremonies was Mayor Eldrid Simmons, who noted it was more than the usual pleasure to be participating in the great achievement. In speaking of the $300,000 system, he told the audience the town had come a long way since 150 Usborne residents asked the Blanshard system to extend free calling service to Exeter. Robert Mayer and William Lamport were the prime back- ers behind the move, and it resulted in discussions being held between the two systems. The move was also backed by Exeter council and the Exeter —Please turn to back page At 3:25 p.m. Wednesday, a loud roar burst forth from about 160 Exeter Public School stu- dents grouped at the Exeter grandstand. They were part of the crowd on hand to witness the official opening of the first phase of the Exeter sewerage system, and their clapping and stomping of feet came as former Mayor, R. E. Pooley, cut through a bright ribbon with a pair of large scissors. Mr. Pooley, who was acting chairman of the day, was sur- prised at his selection for the be able to reach over 6,000 phones without paying long dis- tance charges. At the same time this goes into effect, Hensel). and Kirkton subscribers will also be on the dial system and will then enjoy direct distance dialing—some- thing Exeter has had since the conversion to dial was made here. Zurich, Seaforth and subscri- bers on the Tuckersmith Muni- cipal System will also be changed to dial at this time. Rates for Exeter subscribers will be increased from $3.90 to $4.15 per month for those on residential individual lines, while business phones will jump from $7.05 to $8.00. The two-party subscribers will pay $3.25 and $6.30 res- pectively, The rates are now $3.05 and $5.65. There will be no increase for extension phones, the cost re- maining at $1.00 for residential and $1.35 for business. These are the same rates as Hensall subscribers will pay, due to the fact both areas are now in the class of being able to reach over 5,000 phones. Another increase will not come about until such time as they can reach over 10,000 phones, meaning other areas could be added in the future without affecting the rates com- ing into effect with the new move. The discussion between Bell and Blanshard officials started when a petition signed by over Fractures ankle in highway crash Mrs. William MacLean, 129 Gidley Street, sustained a frac- tured ankle when she and her husband were involved in a car- truck crash near Goderich, Wednesday night. The two vehicles had been proceeding in opposite direc- tions when the driver of the half-ton truck made a turn across the highway into the path of the MacLean vehicle. Mrs. MacLean was taken to hospital in Goderich where the fracture was set. She was re- leased to her home on Thursday. Her husband's car suffered damages estimated at over $500. He was uninjured. Ladies fear hotel at night? Too many projects listed at Crediton? the day of the two-holer, the Eatons catalogue and when boys compared notes after Hal- lowe'en to see who had tipped over the most out-houses. He paid tribute to several of his predecessors who had im- plemented a sewerage system, R. E. Pooley, B. W. Tuckey, W. G. Cochrane and A. J. Sweit.. zer. Mayor Simmons told the youngsters many similar decis- ions in the town's welfare would be made by them. "Make those decisions," he stated, "inde- cision never accomplished any- thing". Residents of the community were also thanked for their co- operation during the time of construction when Exeter "be- came the dirtiest and most dug up of its history". Seek action over odors While some communities are having trouble designating a centennial project, the village of Crediton is having problems of an opposite nature. It haS two suggestedprojects. A report carried in 1 a st week's edition may have been misleading in the fact it stated the proposed library building had been accepted as a project. Actually, while it has been apparently approved in prin- ciple by several Crediton groups, it has not received official sanction from the Ste.. phen Township council. The main reason is due to the fact the Crediton trustees have not officially designated it a.s a project, and it probably won't be until such time as the dorn- mate° in charge of the project can guarantee that they will be able to raise enough money to pay the differende between the grants available and the actual cost. As last week's report stated, the library board are canvass.. !fig the area Seeking donations to the project. Meanwhile ., another group is backing the erection Of flood lights at the ball Park as a den- teimial project. this money by paving the road to the W. G. Thompson mill and the Hensall District Co-Op. T. G. Hammond was contacted and said he would do the work for the price previously quoted. Councillors Knight and Baker and Reeve Jones were against the proposal, but Councillor Minnie Noakes reminded them that the 1961 council had passed a motion recommending this Work be done by the incoming council, She said council was partially obligated by this motion on the becks and councillor Knight agreed later that although this was not a good agreethent, they were possibly honor bound and should go through with this paving. Hammond will be hired to pave '700' on the west portion of York Street froth Nelson to the CNR trackS: IMPORTANT Hon. C. S. MacNaughton, a former member of the OWRC, pointed out the fact the residents of this part of the province were facing one of the most extreme emergencies of their time in regard to water shortage, and said any such project of pre- serving water or restoring it to useable conditions was essen- tial. "I'm proud our town is join. ing others in recognizing this responsibility," he added. He also paid tribute to all connected with the project. "It's one of the best pro- jects which can be undertaken by any 0°4:triunity," he coin- mented. — Please turn to back page The Crediton C othmunity Parks Committee is in the pro- cess of canvassing the village and surrounding territory for funds towards the possible erection of lights as a centennial project. Alf Smith, chairman of the Parks committee, reports the installation of the lights will cost abOut $3,200, although they Nine to raise abtad $4,000 so a small booth and storage facilir ties could be built' as well, The group have been daii- vassing the community asking residents to indicate their choice between the two pro.. poses and to indicate how much money they would give in sup- port of either. Be reported on MOndaXt that to date 57 peOple have indicated they would prefer to see the lights erected rather than the library, and have indicated they would give a total of $200. Only three Or four have ShoWn a preferenee for the library project. TRUSTEES' bECISION The decision of which pre, jest .-if .. 11 either.will be A-O, dePted is up 10 the, Crediton Please turn to back page WANT BOX Councillor John Baker told council he had received a re, eueat from Several Women, ask- ing that ask- a' titan box be Situated in the yillage to enable wenneti to Mail letterS after dark :--Please turn to back page Council had been of the im- pression the Mill rate would be higher once the new legislature came into being, but the inspec- tor reported there would be a re-assessment and an attempt made to seek a common level for the mill rate. The Hay Township school area board have already ap- proved an addition to the school at Zurich, and tentative plans call for a'similar addition at the Hensall school, These two schoOls would then facilitate all students in the township and one board would look alter the entire education system of the township. Council decided to meet with the school board in regard to future developments. MORE PAVING Satisfaction was expressed over the paving work done by Hain mend Construction, St. Marys, and council learned the bill came to only $5511.55, Due to the fact they have approval tO spend $7,000 for which the departnient of high- ways will pay a SubSidy, they discussed the possibility of making Use of the remainder Of Schools and smells were the main topics at Hensel). council Monday and they both received a good raking over. They decided to seek the ad- vice of the village solicitor in regard to drawing up a new bylaw to regulate the raising of animals and birds within the municipality. Several complaints have been received by council over the offensive odors of excreta from chickens and cattle. They decided they should have some form of control over the piling of this material and also felt it advisable to see what controlS they could implement to prohibit the raising of ani- mals in the future: Several other municipalities in Huron have also tackled this job in the past and some now make it prohibitive for any resident to commence any Such program of raising animals. These regulations do not pro- hibit those already in business. Hay Reeve Jelin Corbett and area Public School inspector, Gil Burrows, met with council in regard to the school Situation and set their Militia at ease over the debenture queStion. Declared Posture" Queen" HSDHS. Sharon Fletcher, seated t nit 1 WOOdhaM, was judged this year's HSDHS tiPotture (queen'' in a contest held in COrihinetiOn with the science fair and berbeetiethitrsdayw She won the O. A. Webb trophy in 'Oeitipetitiett with two Others, Nancy NieTaViShi left, Rxete4 and Darlene ParaonS, EXOterw The chap in the centre was not a Candidate but was brie of the three jUdgeSw HO's DM draVett, iteteriS recreational direeter. „ A photo Announcements . . 12 Church Notices . 12 Coming Events . . 12 EditorialS .. 6 • • 2 Feminine Fads 'N Fancies 8,9 ens H a1 ti 6 6 6 • • 4 Lucan ww:www:wwwwwww 13 Sports w w . w 67 Want Ads: II • • 10,11