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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1964-09-17, Page 1Ninety-second Year YOUTH BEHIND THIS WHEEL CRITICALLY INJURED Acquitted FIVE OCCUPANTS OF THIS CAR STILL IN HOSPITAL cars. directly involved in the mishap and another indirectly ,Raimpei and Ma passengers were ,apparently. the .fehrth car in a long line some headt42 to the Western Fair' AS were the Exeter youths. The Second, car in the lineup was attempting to pass another vehicle whee he apparently spotted the :BIM vehicle and violently attempted to pull ''back into the line of traffic, The driver pulled the eer so t*PleaPed frPf4 the h9SPital the beginning of the week, but he reported double-vision on Monday and so will be deta4ned for a few days, Luckiest pf all ievolved was 15-Tereeld Richard Frayne, PPP of Mr, and Mrs. Ray Fray- ne, he was not injured, although he suffered some• shock, Driver of the other car was Melvin Riehl, 18, Blyth, who Sustained severe facial cuts and a gashed right, knee. Police report there were four the damage around his left eye. Rumpel was trapped in his car for some time after the MAO and apparePtly took a severe blow to the face from the steering wheel. REPAIR THIGH Barry Greenacre, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Greene acre, also underwent surgery on Monday and his mother re- ported he was recuperating nicely, He broke a bone in his thigh and doctors had to place a long rod from the thigh right down to the knee. Mrs. Greenacre said they termed the eperation "very successful", adding that if it hadn't, her son may have been laid up for as long as six months. Greenacre is still reported suffering from shock and his mother said he is in a very depressed condition. Another youth to under go surgery was John Harriese, 18, son of Mrs. Irene Harness. He suffered a badly cut ear and a severely bruised left shoulder. Doctors grafted skin onto his ear. Mrs. Harness indicated the youth's sheulder was so badly bruised, doctors wondered why no bones had been broken. .aharply that At spun right around 14 the road and the4 aph4 put We the service station at the scene, which was OPP41Qpiles north of the Pity., The thirct ear, ;seeing ' the danger in front, hit the hraltes in an effort to atop, Rumpel then:apparently ed put into the northbound lane in a1 effort to avoid hitting the stopping car. It is believed he then saw the approaching Blyth .car which was reportod to Please turn to back page An expressiee of reliepe-iand thankfP1noPP!—,nlarkS the 4.CoP and voices of the perents of five Exeter youths as they, e, pPrt all r4414112 a good roe covert' in St! Joseph's Posi4t4 from injuries sustained in a violent crash near London, Sat-. nt'daY night. sixth youth was uninjured, Two of the lads were serioup- ly injured when the car in which they were riding rammed al- most head-on into one driyee by a Blyth yeuth at about 8:00 Wend Rumpel, 18, was the driver of the ill-fated Exeter car and he was the most ser- iously injured as he suffered a serious concussion, Preken jaw, broken ankle, severe la- cerations and a loss of four teeth. He was on the critical list at St. Joseph's Hospital for the remainder of the weekend, but successfully came through a 4 1/2 hour operation Monday afternoon. His father, Larry Rumpel, reported on Wednesday that the five surgeons who worked on the youth were amazed at the progress he was making. They listed his condition as good. One of the five medical men working on the youth was a plastic surgeon, who repaired EXETER, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 17, 1964 Price Per Copy 10 Cents Local accident victims on road to recovery NAIMMIMMENEMMIT.1,'EMTUMQ: 'T,MR L'OffeSraMaigiS Stringer Aquitted SAVE EYE Another member of the car- load who was reported in serious condition over the weekend was Ron Cornish, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Cornish. He was riding in the front seat of the vehicle and was badly cut over the eye and nose. For some time there was fear that he may lose one eye. However, Mrs. Cornish re- ported it appears to be okay and Ron is now up and around the hospital. Also making good progress is Morris Wedlake, 16-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Doug Wedlake. He was riding in the back seat and suffered only bruises and shock. It was expected he would be VOCATIONAL WING GIVEN APPROVAL Only half the members of the HSDHS board were on hand Tuesday to learn that approval for their vocational addition has been approved by the federal government and that tenders may be called some time in November. Estimate of the new facilities has been set at $660,415.00, slightly higher than previously anticipated. However, supporting munici- palities will have to pay only 25% of this total, or $165,103.00. This cost is only slightly higher than the amount they would have had to pay on the small $225,000 previously planned and approv- ed. This led Rev. John Boyne to point out the area was actually getting three times the size of building and facilities for "only a little more money". Included in the new structure will be seven classrooms, one laboratory, a carpentry shop, an auto shop, drafting room and an addition to the cafeteria. As well, the present building will be altered in several ways. The present shop will be con- verted to an electrical shop; a downstairs classroom, storage and part special room will be made into the library; one classroom will become the sec- retary's and staff room; the vice-principal will move into the present principal's office and the principal will move into the board room. Other minor alterations will be made as well. Sun blinds driver, bangs two tractors Harvey Stringer, 27, RR 2 Hensall, was acquitted on a charge of criminal negligence by a Supreme Court jury in Goderich Wednesday afternoon. In handing down their decision, the jury also threw out the included charge of dangerous driving against the area mu- sician, who had been charged following the accidental death of his passenger, Donald MacDonald, in a violent two-car crash in Exeter on April 12. Stringer was defended in court by Char- les L. MacKenzie of MacKenzie. & Ray- mond, Exeter. The court was presided over by Supreme Court Justice P. E. W. Smily. MacKenzie said after that he felt the charge to the jury by the judge had been very favorable for a verdict of acquittal. The jury, which had one female mem- ber, was made up of Huron residents from the northern section of the county. They deliberated for about 55 minutes before returning with the acquittal. The Crown's case was presented by William Cochrane, Huron's Crown Attorney, and several area residents were called as witnesses, although there were no actual eye-wit- nesses to the crash between Stringer's car and one driven by Gerald Broderick. Both Broderick and his wife testified they had no recol- lection of anything after approaching the intersection. Some of the area witnesses at the case were: Town Con- stable Harry VanBergen, OPP Constable Harry Reid, Doug- las Gould, Ed Brady, Mrs. Jack Smith, Graham Arthur, Nor- man Tripp and William Rammaloo. tion for some 950 students ac- cording to D. W. Scott, area inspector. Present enrolment at the school was reported as 794 by Principal H. L. Sturgis, while another 153 area students are attending the vocational school at Clinton. Therefore, total number of high school students in the dis- trict this year is only three lesS than the anticipated capacity of the school with its new wing. However, some area students will still be attending classes in Clinton to receive instuction in more specialized courses for which there will be no facilities at HSDHS. Board secretary-treasurer, E. D. limey, reported he had already instructed Page & Steele, architects, that approval from the two governments has been received, and he told the board that the architects have already commenced work on the drawings. traraltiZEMMMI:.,M.M;741311MILTP:X.ENECNIEUSSISZMENSIS ENOUGH ROOM However, despite the large structure planned, it will appar- ently be practically filled when completed. The extensive addition will provide a normal accommoda- One teacher quits, board to hire two GET LOAN? Some area municipalities have turned their share of the Municipal W or k s Assistance program over to the school board, but members were ad- vised by Garnet Hicks not to count on the money. He noted the trouble Usborne Township had had in that their plans to turn their share over to the township school area board had been turned down. While the reason given was that the project on the new central school had been started before approval was granted, Hicks explained to the board they had only moved a bit of dirt. He said he doubted if the high school board would get the as- sistance, which calls for 25% of the loan to be "forgiven" if —Continued from front page HSDHS Principal H. L. Stur- gis asked that he be allowed to make his report early in the Tuesday night meeting of the high school board, rather than at the end as he usually does. Reason? He had to go home and prepare lessons for the English classes he had to teach the next day. The principal has been forced into teaching service due to the resignation of one of the new teachers, who lasted for only two days at the school. Ron Cummins, who handed in his resignation, explained that he was unable to perform the duties of a teacher satisfac- torily, and under those circum- stances, felt retiring was the best thing to do. Cummins was an honours graduate of UWO last year. With the loss of Cummins, and the large enrolment at the school this year, Principal Sturgis requested permission to hire one replacement and also one additional teacher. This request was granted by the board. The principal explained that with the 29 1/2 teachers on the staff, the ratio to the 794 stu- dents was 27 for each teacher. He noted that the ratio shouldn't be above one to 24— or 25 at the outside and said the pre- sent setup at the school would be open to censure by depart- ment of education officials. He noted that even with the hiring of one additional teach- er, the ratio would only be dropped to 26 to one. After giving statistics show- ing several classes with as many as 40 students, Mr. Stur- gis told the board the organiza- tion of the school had actually worked out "reasonably well". He said that some changes had been made, one being the forming of another math class for grade 11, This had been brought about when his attempt at splitting the class evenly between a math option and a geography option had failed to work out. Rev. Boyne asked the prin- cipal if the designating of class- es under the alphabetical sys- tem was based on the student's L Q. Mr. Sturgis explained that the using of A,B,C, etc., car- ried no distinction as to the intelligence of the students in that class, but was based en- tirely on the options given. Rev. Boyne was told that the students in an "A" class did not necessarily have any high- -Please turn to back page Huron gets new judge Blistering RAP debate fails to produce winner For the second consecutive time, a "native son" has been appointed Huron County court judge. Justice Minister Guy Favreau announced in the House of Com- mons this week that Robert S. Hetherington, Q.C., Wingham, has been named to succeed Frank Fingland, Clinton, who was forced to resign his duties due to ill health. The new judge has been Mayor of Wingham for the past three years and entered municipal politics back in 1936, when he was elected to Wingham town council. He remained a coun- cillor for two terms and was elected reeve in 1938 and 1940. He was not associated with municipal politics from 1940 until three years ago, when he was elected mayor. He served during the Second World War with the 99th Bat- tery, RCA, and when the war ended held the rank of lieuten- ant-colonel. Mr. Hetherington is a native of Colborne Township and mov- ed to Wingham in 1931 to prac- tice law. After the war, he returned -- Please turn to page 12 Open new facilities in 'peaceful' resort "That was an interesting hour," RAP chairman Tom MacMillan stated after the air had cooled somewhat following a bitter and heated debate be- tween Gord Baynham, president of the Exeter Minor Hockey Association and RAP secretary Claude Farrow at Monday's meeting. Few other members of either group managed to get a word in edgeways as Baynham scolded Farrow for his comments of last month's meeting when the secretary noted he was unhappy with the type of leadership and example being given by the EMHA executive. Baynham was not present at that meeting when Farrow made his comments in regardto Exe- ter's bantams failing to show up at a playoff game in Hespeler, and for which they were sub- sequently suspended from the OMHA until such time as they reimbursed Hespeler for tra- velling expenses to Exeter. This is mandatory under OMHA rules if a team fails to showup to play a return game with another squad. Baynham started the heated debate when he noted Farrow had «cut my throat" by his com- ments and had generally dis- couraged people from assisting with minor hockey. "This is none of your busi- ness," Baynham told Farrow, other 121' and smashed into the Finkbeiner tractor. Varley sustained a foot in- jury from being pushed against one of the pedals and had to be taken to London hospital later for an operation to remove blood clots from the wound area, McConnell escaped with mi- nor facial lacerations and Fink- beiner was unhurt. The car driven by McConnell was completely wrecked at a loss estimated at close to $1,- 000, while the Varley tractor had damages of about $500, The other tractor was not dam- aged. Constable Reid reported the accident happened at about 7:15 a.m. and reported that McCon- nell stated he was blinded while driving into the rising sun and failed to see either tractor as he approached them. The bright, early morning sun was one of the causes of a bi- zarre accident on the Crediton Road, Saturday, when a car and two tractors were involved. Two of the persons involved suffered injuries in the mishap. OPP Constable Harry Reid reported that Raymond Varley, 21, and Allan Finkbeiner, 47, both of RR 2 Crediton, were proceeding east on tractors when struck from behind by a car driven by 32-year-old Wil- liam A. McConnell, RCAF Cen- tralia. McConnell's vehicle rammed into the rear of the tractor being driven by Varley and drove it into the ditch. The impact smashed the mechanism at the rear of the farm imple- ment and knocked off the two rear wheels. The car then travelled an- as they had found out Exeter were to play in Georgetown on the day in question before they tentatively planned the game. pointing out RAP had no auth- ority over the EMHA. For Farrow's benefit, he went on to explain the EMHA had for- feited the game with Hespeler due to the fact they had been pre- viously committed to play in the Georgetown tournament. He said the decision had been made by the group and had been backed by the Exeter Legion, who acted as sponsors, and par- ents of the players. Chub Edwards, sports direct- or for the Legion, backed up this statement by saying the Legion had advised the bantam manag- ers not to play in Hespeler as it would have meant three games in one day for the kids. Baynham also suggested Hes- peler officials had pulled "a fast one" on the Exeter team, Fair agenda to please all ADMIT ERROR Red Loader joined the dis- cussion and reported he would do the same thing again, as he considered it the sportsman- like thing to do. He also said an OHA official had later advised him they had made a mistake in handing down their decision on the matter. "I'm proud that we stuck to our word and played inGeorge- town," Baynham added. After being told for the third or fourth time that the issue was none of his business, Far- row replied'he would say what — Please turn to page 12 Fifteen government and civic officials used high words of praise to describe the benefits of the $552,000 bridge and high- way improvement project which was officially opened at Grand Bend, Monday, and spectators could plainly see the words were not exaggerated. The new bridge, highway and traffic lights served as a back- Huron's delegates divided on choices ANOTHER WRECK Willi am McStephen, who operates an auto wrecking busi- ness at RR 1 Crediton, has an- other vehicle to add to his large collection — his own tow truck. The truck sustained damages estimated at $350 on Thursday when it flipped over and came to rest on its wheels again after the driver lost control due to a blow-out in one of the rear tires. McStephen had been towing a wrecked car along the 11th con- cession of Stephen at the time of the mishap. In another single car crash, Saturday, damage was estimat- ed at $500 a vehicle driven —Please turn to page 12 Arrangements are completed for Exeter Fair next Wednesday and Thursday and early indica- tions are bright, according to Secretary A. G. Hicks. He reported entries were coming in quite steadily and all that is needed is a break from the weatherman to assure a very successful event with keen competition in all classes. The popular baby contest will again feature the Wednesday night show, which includes a variety program and a monster bingo. Hicks said that all parents wishing to enter babies in the show should be advised that entry deadline is Wednesday noon on September 23. However, he added he would appreciate receiving them as soon before that time as possible. Thursday's features are a parade, grandstand show, calf race, 4-H contests, livestock parade, horse show, domestic section, fruits, flowers and veg- etables. Officially opening the fair will be Roy Jewell, CFPL farm director. The exhibition closes Thurs- day with a dance in the arena. Again this year, there will be a prize of a $15 grocery vouch- er for the largest family on the grounds. Entries must be listed with the secretary. Sod turning is postponed The official sod turning for the Parkhill Darn, which had been planned for today (Thurs- day), has been postponed in- definitely ARCA field Officer Terry McCauley reported this Week. He said the Authority still hoped to have it this fall as they anticipate having the con- tractor on site before winter. McCauley explained that a recommendation in regard to the seven tendets has been made by their engineering firm, M. M. Dillon & Co., but ap- proval on this recommendation hitt not been received from the two governments. It is not IchoWit hoW lOng it will take for this approval to be granted on the project. ground to the speakers' plat- form and a steady flow of traf- fic traversed the new struc- tures throughout the one-hour program. Spectators could see that even the biggest trucks had no dif- ficulty meeting on the bridge, where previously it was only possible for one to get across at a time, and even some of the higher ones had to bypass the low, narrow structure. The cars moved freely and there was no congestion at the main intersection where it has been known to have traffic tied up for close to an hour. And with the aid of the traf- fic lights, motorists made turns to the left or right without the usual danger from the oncoming traffic. After Rev, C. A. Brittain gave the opening prayer, Clerk Murray A. DesJardins intro- duced each of the platform guests, who made brief re- marks. During the comments, there were some good-natured comments about the Superiority of Huron over Lambton County and vice versa, and several wise-cracks made in reference to Grand Bend'e recent riot. Reeve Stewart Webb, who act- ed as chairman, set the stage when he welcomed the visitors to the "peaceful, law-abiding community". MadNaughton followed the re- mark by noting he was pleased to see so Many out and that they had come for lipeacettp purposes": The comments over the su- periority of the two counties started from a former "board- er" of the chairman's home, his son dlenn, reeve of 8te- phen. The Younger Webb noted the resort had thiased the guiding hand of Stephen When they went into LernbtOri some time ago, please turn to back page He said he had thought it may develop into a fight between Greene and Charles Templeton, but he said he would be "aw- fully surprised" if Templeton materialized as acandidate fol- lowing his defeat in last week's by-election in one of the Tor- onto ridings. Menzies noted that Andrew Thom ps on probably had the most committed votes of any of the candidates and said he could possibly carry this through to a win on the first ballot, adding that if he didn't win on it, then the race would be wide-open. Some of the candidates in the north of Huron are reportedly committed to Owen Sound Mayor Eddie Sergeant on the first ballot, while Gederich delegates are reported to be backing Greene. Farquhar Oliver is reported to be a strong Thompson man and Menzies indicated he had already drawn support for his favorite from some other Huron delegates. CLOSE RACE Peter RaYrnond, Exeter law- yer, Who will attend the conven- tion with his Wife, indicated he he Was looking for a. close race between ThompSon and Robert —Please turn to back page Veterinarians attend course Dr. R. P. Reelofeori, Eketer and Dr. W. D. Schaefer, Kirk- ton, have returned trent Guelph, Ohtario, where they completed an intensive course on dieeases Of the digestive system of Minants at the Ontario Veterin- are,College; The course, at- tended by veterinarians froth across Canada, dealt with the Most recent ettidies on the phy- siology, nutrition, pathology. and treatment of ruminand diges- tive diseases. In addition new droPping systeret and liveatoek housing concepts were diactia.i. sed. Open modern, new bridge at resort Although the gleam in their eyes may suggest these four chaps are about to engage In some sort Hallowe'en prank; the duties they Were' about to perform were actually done at the blessing of all the onlOokerei as it signalled the offidal opening of the spacious. bridge and highway iinproveinent job drand Bend. Highways Minister C. MacNatighten hold§ the ribbdii, while his assistants in the de-x.0100 step up with gram adiaahrs to eta the ribben. On the left It Grand Bend Reeve to Webb and tO the right of the Ritren MPP Lorne liervderaoli, La.thbtoii East MPP 0 and Rey. C. A. Brittain, Grand Bend. photo Announcements 12 Church Notices • • 4 12 donning Events , ,12 tditotiaiS , • • • • • • 2 Feminine Fads 414 ,Pktiote6- Hensall , 6 , 4 Henson SohOol Fair LtiCah • • il • if 4' • 4 11 Sports ' '• • 6 want Ada 4' • i • l• • 10,11 Area Liberal delegates to this weekend's leadership con- vention in Toronto predict a wide-open battle for the pro- vincial party's top spot. And this will probablybe true if the other 1,500 or so dele- gates are as split as the 16 from Huron would appear to be. E. Beecher Menzies, Clinton lawyer and president of the Huron Liberal Association; said the Huron delegates appear to be "pretty well split" on which candidate they will back. He confirmed that each of the 16 voters from the county will cast their ballotS independently as the group will not back one partieular member as iS the case in some areas. One of the reasons for this is that some counties will be Sup- porting "native sons", while there are none of the candidates closely associated with the Her.; on group. And indications are some of the Huron delegates are still not certain which man they will sepport, and probably Won't de- cide until after hearing the six—orpossibly more—candi dates Make their speeches in Toronto, Friday. Menzie s indicated he was leaning toward Greener the member of the federal government from ttenfreW.