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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-06-10, Page 1• Pepsi head escapes flaming wreckage Proceed with plans for sanitary sewers pital and then transferred to Victoria Hospital for an opera- tion on his fractured hip. It is expected he will be con- fined for some time with his injury. Hospital officials feared at first the president of the Exeter Industrial Corporation may have suffered a fractured arm as well, but it appeared that this had not been the case. Scheck was uninjured in the mishap. On Saturday at 10:35 p.m. two cars were involved in a second accident on Highway 83, about half a mile east of Dash- wood. The cars were driven by Ronald Douglas Redden, Lon- don, and William Lewis Cod- dington, RR 5 St. Marys. Coddington had engine trouble and had pulled to the shoulder of the road, but had left the door of his car open and Hedden ran into it as he passed. Hedden was meeting an east- bound car at the time. OPP Con- stable John Wright investigated and estimated damage to each Mayor's new chain still poses problem car et $75. The other accident of the week was investigated by OPP Con- stable Harry Reid. It involved two cars which were proceeding south on the second concession of Stephen township, about half a. mile south of Crediton. The cars were driven by Wellington Heist, 410 Carling Street, Exeter, and Joseph Berube, London. The latter pulled out to pass Heist and lost control as the wheels of his car dropped into the ditch and in pulling it back he hit the Exeter vehicle. Both cars ended up in the west ditch with damage to the Heist car reported at $150. The other car sustained no damage, and neither driver was injured. LIGHT BROKEN Constable Sutter told The T- A that an accident had apparent- ly taken place at the construc- tion site earlier in the evening when a car knocked down the barricade and broke one of the warning lights. The car drove away without reporting the incident and a construction worker found the damage and put the barricade up again. However, it then had only one warning light, accord- ing to the investigating officer. Set inquest over fatality Plans were presented to council for the pryde Boule- vard and Edward Street sani- tary sewers, Monday, and will now be forwarded to the OWRC for approval. It is hoped both sewers will be installed this summer, Works Superintendent Pais- ley prepared the plans for the sewers and estimated he had done $1,600 worth of engineer- ing at practically no cost to the town. Councillor Joe Wooden com- mended Paisley for the job he had done, emphasizing to coun- cil that it was work that they would normally have to hire an engineer to undertake. Wooden also explained that Paisley had done much of the work on his own time during the evenings. A suggestion was made by Paisley that the open ditch run- ping along Edward Street have a pipe installed and be closed over. He estimated the cost of this at $1,200, noting the earth from the sanitary sewer could be used for fill, The town would pay only 50% of the cost. This suggestion met with vo- ciferous approval from all members and a motion was quickly passed that this job be undertaken. In regard to the Pryde Boule- vard sewer, discussion was held on whether or not to allow for the extension of Gidley east to Pryde. The Planning Board has recommended that it not be extended, but rather provision made for a street coming off Sanders to meet Gidley at some future date. Council agreed this would be best and decided to contact Gilbert Dow, who owns the sub- division affected, to see if he would be in agreement. The proposal would actually give him an extra building lot if the street did not extend through to Pryde. Paisley reported a 100% sign- ing for the Pryde sewer. A motion was also passed that engineer B. M. Ross be asked to prepare design plans for the storm sewer construc- tion planned this year. However, there was a sug- gestion that time may not permit this work to be started. Can dance -not pray Exeter businessman R. Ross Tucl:ey miraculously escaped with only a fractured hip and cuts and bruises when his car was completely wrecked when it crashed through a culvert under construction on Highway 4 early Wednesday morning. He was travelling north at about 4:30 a.m. when he missed the detour about five miles south of Exeter and shot through the barricade and across the culvert. His late model Oldsmobile came to rest on Its roof north of the culvert. Lucan OPP Constable Fred Sutter reported Wednesday afternoon he had not as yet been able to talk to the injured man to ascertain further details of the crash. The car caught fire and was completely gutted and it is be- lieved the local bottling firm owner managed to pull himself out of the wreck. The first motorist on the scene, a God- erich man, pulled him further away from the danger of the burning car. Constable Sutter said Tuckey was taken to South Huron Hos- INVESTIGATE THREE The Exeter OPP had only three accidents to investigate during the week, one of those also involving a mishap at a construction site on Highway 83. A Hamilton man, Peter Scheck, was proceeding west on Highway 83 during the heavy fog on Tuesday morning at 6:00 a.m. when he failed to spot the bridge construction on the road. He pulled into the one lane avenue too late and his car hit the guard rails, resulting in damage to his car estimated at $450 by OPP Constable Bill Glassford. Display top posture Sandra England is shown here holding the G. A. Webb trophy after being Posture Queen at SHDHS, Thursday. Standing behind are Judy Coward, Sandra Dickey and Sheila Palmer, the other finalists chosen after a competition among all the girls at the school. --T-A photo The inquest into the traffic death of Dennis E. Tanner, killed near Crediton May 8 has been set for Monday, June 21 in Creditor:. Tanner was believed to have been the driver of a sports car which went out of control on the Crediton Road and resulted in his death and injuries to three other occupants, one of them an area girl, Judith Lamport, RR 2 Crediton. The dead man was a resident of Mt. Brydges. Investigating `officer was OPP Constable Harry Reid. ROSS TUCKEY Injured in crash Ninety-second Year EXETER, ONTARIO, JUNE 10, 1965 Price Per Copy 10 Cents District merchants again bypassed in high school supplies purchases pointed out the local store had paid the cartage and had handled all the work involved with ordering the books. Iry Armstrong and Garnet Hicks presented a motion to purchase the books locally, but Principal-designate Douglas Palmer said "that decision will cost you $600". The amount of the order could go as high as $15,000. Vice-principal Joe Wooden asked the board where they wanted the books purchased, explaining that last year they were purchased from MacMil- lan's Book Store. He advised that the cost was about 10% more than buying directly, but The mayor's chain of office came up for a lengthy discussion again this week and prompted Mayor Delbridge to say he wish- ed the idea had never been suggested in the first place. He gained verb al support from Councillor Taylor, who said he thought the whole idea was "crazy". However, council decided to go ahead with their purchase— which will come out of their own pockets—and will buy the chain in Exeter. They had earlier received a price of $'75.59 for the chain and had agreed to purchase it, but a local jeweller was critical of the fact the business was going out of town. He was then asked to submit a price and it came to about $23 higher, with the profit to be shared by the two local jewellers. Noting the lack of enthusiasm over paying the higher price, Reeve Boyle said he would pay the difference himself as long as council bought in Exeter. He presented a motion with support from Cudmore, but it failed to pass as others felt the difference in price was too great. Cudmore then made a strong plea for buying at home, noting council expected the business- men to pay their taxes and at the same time were sending their money out of town. Wooden said he didn't like the idea of merchants sharing profits, as this could get out of hand. "It sounds peculiar," he suggested. Cudmore reminded council that money spent at home kept the labor force going, and pro- moted local schools and bus- inesses. He also noted that local merchants were asked "10 times a year" to support var- ious campaigns. After another brief exchange of ideas, council approved a new motion calling for the purchase to be made locally. Usborne debates addition at school BUY EQUIPMENT A request for additional air packs for the local Fire Brigade was partially approved when council decided to buy two more auxiliary air tanks and one safety alarm for the air packs. Wins prize Gordon Whiting, a former Park- hill student, race iv e d his Bachelor of Science degree at convocation at the University of Western Ontario, Friday. He also received the Board of Gov- ernors gold medal for Honours Physics and Mathematics. The Parkhill area student has been on the Dean's Honour Roll in each of his four years and took an active part in the choir, Math Club, United Church Club and was a member of the Westmins- ter College Council. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellison Whiting, RR 3 Parkhill, he has received a scholarship from the National Research Council enabling him to continue his studies at the University of Toronto. He is a grandson of W. H. Love, Grand Bend. On a split vote, council Mon- day night approved rental of the town hall for a dance group, but turned down a request from a religious organization. The latter request came from a Forest "World Faith" group asking for the upstairs for a one night session. "I don't think we should rent to religious groups," comment- ed Councillor Ted Wright.,,It's a public building and shouldn't be used for religion." Reeve Boyle replied that this was "bigotry" and possibly against the Ontario Civil Rights Code. "Why don't we rent to reli- gious groups?" Councillor Joe Wooden questioned. "I don't see any valid rea- son," Rev. Phil Gandon inter- jected. Wooden explained the policy in the past had been to rent to anyone, as long as it did not conflict with other activities in the hall. Mayor Delbridge stated the issue wasn't worth arguing about and called for a vote on the motion that the request be denied. Deputy-Reeve Ralph Bailey and Councillors Taylor, Wright and Barrett supported the mo- tion, but Reeve Boyle and Coun- cillors Wooden, Cudmore and Gandon opposed denying the re- quest. Mayor Delbridge split the tie by voting against renting the hall to the religious organ- ization. Later in the meeting council approved renting the hall to Errington Dance Studios of Lon- don for their weekly instruction of ballet and tap dancing. A suggestion was made that the rental for the hall be in- creased from $5 per night to $8, but failed to gain approval. Councillor Ross Taylor opin- ed that an increase in rates may force an increase in the rates for the childrentaking the lessons. The matter was discussed further and Rev. John Boyne noted the same argument had been held last year. Only John Morrissey sup- ported the Armstrong-Hick s motion and it was lost by a 6-3 margin and another motion was approved calling for the books to be ordered directly from the publishers. Palmer explained that the loss of the text book business didn't stop the local store from supplying the grade 13 texts, which students must buy them- selves. Chairman Ken Johns noted the decision would result in a considerable saving. Storm halts sidewalks ? Chastises cottagers for going over head In a rather disjointed meet- ing, Tuesday, the SHDHS board took no action on a suggestion that prices be increased for meals in the cafeteria, but did approve considerable repair work for the building and de- cided to make several pur- chases from firms outside the area over the objections of some members who wanted to deal with area merchants. Biggest item in the latter category was for supplying the students' text books and on a 6-3 vote decided to buy directly from the publishers rather than an Exeter supplier who has handled the sale of books for many years. Main consideration of the board was the fact that text books for all students in grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 will be supplied free to the students, whereas last year only students in the two junior grades received free texts. Graduates A Dashwood area youth, Arthur Rader, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Rader, received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Con- cordia Senior C oll ege, Ft. Wayne, Indiana on Saturday. He previously attended SHDHS and Concordia College in Edmonton and will continue his studies toward the Lutheran ministry at Concordia Theological Se- minary, St. Louis, Missouri. These sound an alarm when the air supply is getting low and permit the fireman time to get out of a building before the supply is completely used. The firemen had requested an additional air mask Valued at $351.10. They presently have two of these. Councillor Wright, a member of the brigade, said he didn't think a third air pack was needed, pointing out the present ones had been used at only three fires in the past three years. '4 In my opinion you don't want too many men in a fire with them," he stated, although he added it was a touchy subject and the need could arise for additional air packs. Cost of the equipment order- ed amounted to about $213.00. In other business, council: Received a letter of thanks from Mrs. Jack Delbridge for flowers sent while she was a patient in hospital. Learned that the de-silting at Riverview Park reservoir would not take place until this fall or possibly next spring. The repair to the dam wall will start this month however. Approved a r e q u e s t from Reeve Boyle to have the men's washroom at the town hall paint- ed. He estimated the cost at $25, and said it was presently an "atrocious mess". Approved sending Works Sup- erintendent Jim Paisley to a conference covering the new regulations to be followed by trench inspectors. The session will be held in Stratford on June 24 and the cost will be met by the department of labor. Learned the tenders for the supply of gravel and calcium chloride approved at last meet- ing had been okayed by the department of highways. Turned over to the police committee a suggestion by Reeve Boyle that Constable Harry VanBergen by promoted to rank of corporal. "He should have more authority," Boyle suggested," and also recom- mended a pay increase of $100 or $150 go with the promotion. Planned to have a delegation at an OWRC conference in Big- win Inn this month. Councillor Wooden noted one of the ses- sions would deal with the prob- lem of canning factory waste removal and said they may learn something that may assist with the local situation. Mayor Delbridge and Councillors Cud- more and Taylor suggested they may be able to attend the one- day session on this phase. Hensall considers purchase approved a motion to offer Eth- erington $35 each for the five sheep destroyed by dogs. An- other motion also passed that payment of Provincial Valuer T. R. Clarkson award for clog damage to sheep be deferred. Jack Taylor made applica- tion to council for considera- tion for damages to a heifer during spraying operations, but no action was taken. In other business, council: Accepted a petition from a group of ratepayers on the upper end of Branch A of the Elim- ville drain to continue the work upstream beyond the limits of the present drain..1. A. Howes, engineer, was appointed to make a survey and bring in a report. The tender of Lee Jennison, Grand Bend, was accepted to supply and apply approximately 70 tons of liquid calcium chlor- ide to township roads. Total cost will be about $3,325,00 based on his bid of $47,50 per ton. Usborne Township counc 11 took no action on a request at their June meeting to raise $50,000 for a proposed two- room addition to the township's recently erected central school. Representation was made to the council by Board chairman Elson Lynn, accompanied by two trustees, J. Stewart and B. Parsons. Area inspector J. G. Burrows was also present. The school is faced with an overcrowding situation for the next term and one extra teacher has already been hired. It has been suggested that the vacant school (SS No. 5) south of Mor- rison Dam may be used to house a class next year. Council were advised at the meeting that the livestock valuer appointed by the Live- stock Commissioner had re- duced the sheep damage claim of R. D. Etherington to $45 a head and that council's de- posit cheque had been returned. Later he the session council He said people appeared a- fraid to back up to the dump because they may become stuck, but he noted that the bulldozer had packed the earth down and this was no problem. In other business, council: Discussed the many problem areas where water lays on the — Please turn to back page end of Lake Road. Four Main Street merchants, with spokesman Ross Desjar- dine, requested council to open Kitchener street through to Oak Street and stated that this would help both traffic and parking. Kitchener Street, for which al- lowance 40 feet wide was left in original plans of the area, would stretch north from Main Street between Mel and Olive's Variety and the European Art Gallery. Main Street businessmen, for whom spokesman was Griffin Thomas also asked for word on plans to re-build the m al n street. Reeve Webb noted that plans for the water system must be incorporated into plans for — Please turn to back page LONG DEBATE An even lengthier debate was carried out following the re- quest of Palmer for the pur- chase of $1,197.50 worth of fil- ing cabinets and filing cases. There had been no provision on the budget for this expendi- ture and members were con- cerned over the fact it would possibly put them in the red to make the purchase this year. The new principal explained the cabinets were needed and would become part of the new equipment when the office is altered in connection with the new addition. He suggested the present fil- ing accommodation was not ade- quate and warned that unless the board bought more they wouldn't have many people working around the school in the future. Armstrong urged that con- sideration be given to local office equipment dealers, rath- er than purchasing the cabinets through Hay Stationery as re- commended by Palmer, but the latter said the ones he was considering could not be equal- led in quality. After business administrator E, D. Howey said the purchases "wouldn't put us too far in the red", the board okayed the or- dering of the equipment. The severe windstorm which swept through Exeter last month may have forced cancellation of any proposed sidewalk repair or construction this year. Council received a bill Mon- day for about $1,100 from the Davey Tree Experts for clean- ing up damaged or fallen trees after the May storm. "We just don't put in side- walks this year", commented Reeve Boyle, noting the swift depletion of the budget for tree trimming and sidewalks. Council had previously paid $2,200 to the London firm for their annual job of removing dead trees and trimming others. Works superintendent Pais- ley pointed out the storm had been even more costly as the town crew had had to spend considerable time in removing the brush from the streets. NEEDS REPAIR A report on the physical con- dition of the building was made by Doug O'Brien, after the pro- perty committee had inspected the school along with Palmer, Their report recommended the purchase of drapes for three rooms where the present drapes were described as being rotted, water stained and in bad Shape. It was suggested the boys' — Please turn to back page Get radar demonstration An louncernents . 12 Church Notices ........ 12 Coming Events . .... 12 Editorials . . 2 FarmNews Feminine Facts 'N Fancies 8,9 liensell 4 I~u can 0 6 • • • 6 0 • if Sports . OP di .6,7 Want Ads. ... . 10,11 a brief from the Ontario Water Resources Commission re- garding pollution from Hensall drains. The brief urged coun- cil to secure a consulting en- gineer's report on municipal sewage. Councillor Harold Knight said he felt this was coming and suggested council comply with this recommendation in the near future, Harry Horton met with Cain- ell and asked if there was any- thing they could do to stop a major Oil COMpany froni in- stalling storage tanks beside his prOperty. He was informed that while council did not want to stop the company from coming into Hensall, they would consult with their solicitor as to the legality of putting the tanks in the po- sition intended. Councillor Knight doubted if anything could be done since Ilensall is not zoned and said he hoped the company would install the tanks in the tome munity. It is expected information will be available at the spe- cial meeting in this . regard, Ernie DaVis reported that several streets had been patch- ed, drains fixed and the dump bulldozed. He informed council that the dump is getting smaller all the time due to the amount of garbage dumped there, and questioned what would happen In a few years when It Is 'COM. pletely filled. His queStion wasn't answer- ed, but Councillor Knight aired a complaint about people who dumped at various pieces in the dump with no regard to 'plating their trash near the existing pile. Becomes nurse Catherine Ann Rader, who gra- duated from the Kitchener Wa- terloo Hospital school of nurs- ing on Saturday, has received word that she was successful in passing her Registered Nurs- es' examinations. Miss Rader is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rader, Zurich, --Doerr photo GRAND BEND A delegation of a dozen rate- payers at Grand Bend received a reprimand from Reeve Stew- art Webb, Monday, as they made a second appearance to protest construction of a public rest- room on the south beach. "You folks did the wrong thing," said Reeve Webb, " when you went over our heads with this thing. You went to the minister of lands and forests and to Dr. Dymond (Minister of Health) and even to Premier John Roberts, before you came to us." The delegation, which was headed by William Putherbough, London, pointed out that Pre- mier Roberts served London people in a dual role, not only as premier, but also as local member. Mr. Putherbough and Terry Ferris, both of whom attended earlier protest meetings, pre- sented a petition signed by 40 cottage owners in the "South- colt Pines area", expressing their concern about the pro- posed pair of washrooms. In May, when news stories carried word that $2,500 had been approved by council for the structure, the Londoners who own cottages in Grand Bend, petitioned the department of lands and forests. As a result the Hon, Kelso Roberts flew to Grand Bend airport and met with council, also viewing the site of the proposed building. Since then two special meet- ings and two regular council meetings have dealt with the Subject, Reeve Webb stated Monday night that council had the right to build on the beach and had jurisdiction over all of the beach beyond the "high water mark". "However," he said, "it is doubtful that the building will go up this year, It is difficult to find tradesmen right now that have time to spare." Ile also indicated that the site might be shifted slightly north of the There were very few scraps left Over 600 people were fed at the annual SHDHS barbecue, Thursday, and some of the most worried people were the grade 10 boys who acted es cooks. It was the largest crowd ever served and for a time it appeared as though there wouldn't be enough left for the lads who had worked so hard preparing for others. However, as the photo shows, they got fed, -'-T-A photo In a move apparently trigger- ed by the recent traffic fatality of a five-year-old kindergarten student, Hensall council Mon- day night had a demonstration of a radar unit provided by Exeter Constable Harry Van- Bergen. Members viewed the machine in operation and Councillor John Baker checked the machine with his vehicle for the benefit of council. At their meeting following the demonstration, council de- cided to obtain information about the cost of such a machine and plan to make a decision on whether or not to buy one at a special meeting on June 15. During discussion of the ra- dar, Councillor Minnie Noakes pointed out that the very fact that the police cruiser was parked on the main street slow- ed many of the passing motor- ists. Council f o u n d themselves faced with many financial ob- ligations in addition to con- sideration of the radar, with schools being the biggest fact- or. Hay Township school board chairman Ian McAllister brief- ed council on their share of the debenture for the planned con- struction of additions to both the Zurich and Henan schools. Total cost of the projects Is $867,149.40. McAllister asked for ap- proval of the debenture issue at the meeting. Another debenture approved was that for the vocational ad- dition for SHOJIS. Total deben- ture issue on this project is $400,000.00, while the total cost Is over $1,600,000.00 Clerk Earl Campbell read Nursing grad Betty Anne Stephen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stephen, Elimville, graduated from St. Thomas Elgin Hospital School of Nursing, Wedriesday.She was tendered a reception at the heine of her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Laurie Stephen, London. The nursing graduate plans to pur- sue her career in Toronto.