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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1966-05-05, Page 1Price Per Copy 10 Cents Storm lashes grog; Area roads blocked, services out. with traffic almost at a stand- still. It became like a maze on area roads and it took one OPP constable a great portion of the evening to come from Heasall to Exeter. Highway 4 was blocked in at least four places and Exeter and Hensall Police stood in the driv- ing rain warning motorists of the danger. Two trees completely blocked the road while two other sections had five hydro poles down in a row across the road making it impossible for traffic to by-pass this. It was a night for miserable cold hard work for hydro crew- men who worked as long as 40 and 48 hours without sleep and a minimum of food as they first worked to clear the roads for traffic and then started the tre- mendous job of attempting to re- store power to residents. For many people it was a disaster as they were dependent on hydro power. Many families left their homes and went to towns and cities to stay with relatives and friends until hydro could be re- stored. Animals suffered as well. An official of the Ontario Hydro in- dicated that many farmers ap- peared more worried about their livestock and poultry than they were about their families. They sent their families into areas where there was power and stay- ed behind to look after the farms by themselves. Water appeared to be the main problem as few farms had an auxiliary pump to draw this to the barn. Most, however, were able to carry out their milking with an attachment run from their tractors. Exeter was completely blacked out from 7:10 until 10:50 while several groups were at meetings. Candles and coal oil lamps were pressed into service and most meetings adjourned a little earlier than usual. This was caused by the area power failure. There was only one other power failure in Exeter that evening which was of a minor nature and repaired within a half an hour. The crew were on standby and there was damage but this has been elassed as minor. A few services were ripped from hous- es and limbs had to be removed from lines. The Hay Municipal Telephone Company did not fare as well as Exeter. The manager estimated this week that about SO percent of the poles in some areas were down and it will take at least two weeks before some of the sys- tems will be in operation. "It will be until the end of the year before we have all the repairs made", he estimated, The worst sections were the Mt. Carmel area and the Bronson Line where nearly all the poles were flatten- ed, Nearly all the rural lines were affected and about a half a dozen extra men are working with the regular crew in an attempt to restore service as soon as pos- sible, A crew from the Morning- ton system is assisting working days, nights and weekends. An- other bad section was at the North end of the system along the blue water line where a great nu mber of poles were flattened. The Ontario Hydro had about 150 poles down in the area and class Exeter with Stratford and Beachville as the hardest hit areas in the province, There are many more poles leaning which will have to be straight- ened at a later date. It was Saturday before weary hydro crews could relax with the majority of the service re- stored to customers. Wednes- day night 60 percent of the cust- omers in the area were without power. By Thursday night this situation had reversed with 60 percent of the customers having service and only 40 percent off, By Friday evening from 2-10 percent were without power. Sat- urday all service had been re- stored with the exception of hous- es and barns which had had the Please turn to page 3 No power? Here's why! Roads were blocked, tree branches came down across hydro and telephone wires and residents shivered in, as what has been classed as the worst storm in memory, lashed the area last Wednesday evening and Thursday. By Saturday hydro had been restored to almost normal but in some areas it will take up to two weeks to restore telephone service. (T-A photo) Old mother nature reached out and swatted Exeter and area re- sidents with a heavy hand last Wednesday evening and proved that winter was not over, despite what the calendar indicates, It will take to the end of the year before some of the damage is re- paired and residents have mark- ed the ice and wind storm down as the worst in their memory. It was '7;10 p.m. when trouble developed on the 110,000 volt feeder line between Stratford and St, Marys and for the next two or three days many residents of the area suffered from lack of hydro, heat, water and telephones and it will be up to two more weeks before some telephone systems are completely opera- tive. Wind and rain and ice lashed the area starting Wednesday af- ternoon and gradually increased In force throughout the evening. Service poles, trees and branch- es snapped off like match sticks leaving the area dark and desolate Ninety-third Year EXETER, ONTARIO, MAY 5, 1966 Report examines actions of Bean Marketing Board Predict cracking in Main St. New constable Letter from old friends the Ontario Bean Marketing Board following the government takeover of the Growers Board. The report, coupled with an auditors report on the financial position of the board and com- pany, a financial statement, and a joint letter from the chairman of the Ontario Bean Marketing Board and president of Ontario Bean Growers Ltd., was mailed to all bean growers last week. The Poole report outlines recom- mended changes and actions for tile Bean Marketing Board which would completely separate the company from the Board, return is appointed The Ontario Bean Growers' Marketing Board has no legal authority to own and operate the company, Ontario Bean Growers Limited. Approximately $1,000,000 was collected illegally and was being held illegally by the local Bean Growers Board. The apparent intention of the local Bean Growers Board to ignore any suggestions and to disregard the law has apparently led to a number of other illegal- ities. These and other charges are included in a study of the legal aspects of the Ontario Bean Growers Limited conducted by the firm of Poole, Bell and Por- ter of London. The report was addressed to A. Roy Coulter, who was appointed chairman of The first of three draws for cash prizes for new subscribers will be held this Saturday, May 7 at the Times Advocate office and there are lots of tickets in the box. The first draw will be for $50 with draws on the follow- ing two Saturdays for $35 each week. Something new has been added for subscribers who renew their subscription. All subscribers who have re- newed their subscription to the T-A since we announced the increase in rates will be eligible for a draw for $50 in cash. The draw will be made Saturday May 21, the last day of our compaign. We have already deposited these names of subscribers who have renewed to date. And with the renewals we have had a lot of en- couraging letters from friends outside the area who still take the T-A to keep in touch with friends in Exeter and area. An example is this letter received from the Steiners in Welland. Councillors Wooden and Cud- more, reeve Derry Boyle and deputy reeve Gandon said no. Councillors Taylor, MacGregor, Wright and Barrett said yes. And Mayor Jack Delbridge cast the deciding vote which gave Ex- eter a new probationary police constable Monday evening. The new man, James Warren, 24, has worked as a probationary constable in Orangeville. Mayor of Orangeville, Sam Lackey stat- ed this week that his council had decided against keeping Warren in favor of advertising for a more experienced man. He stated he had given other reference ma- terial on the applicant to repre- sentatives from Exeter who had visited Orangeville recently. The new constable will start at a salary of $3,800 and will be classed as probationary for the first year. Welland, Ontario April 26, 1966 Dear Sirs: We want to take advantage of your offer and renew our subscription to the T-A for one year at four dollars ($4.00), which you will find enclosed. We look forward to our paper each week and wouldn't like to be without it. I have been intending to write to tell you that since you removed the 'Brantford District' stamp, our copy arrives on Friday as it used to. Thanks a lot. Remember us to all the Southcotts and to our good friends in the office. Hope to meet editor Kerr and photographer Val some day when we are in the old home town. Your friends "Doc" and "Gram" Steiner Effective May 21 the subscription price will be $5.00 per year and 15 cents at the newstands. As an added con- venience for our customers the T-A office will be open Saturday afternoon May 7, 14 and 21 until 6:00 p.m. There will be cracks in the pavement when Main Street is reconstructed but council realiz- es this and has agreed to the report of the Department of High- ways and their recommendations. Burns Ross, consulting engineer for the town, explained the prob- able appearance of the finished product to council Monday even- ing. After hearing council's de- cision the engineer commented, "as long as you realize what you are buying is not an A-i job, then that's what I wanted you to know". The wording of the report read to council stated that cracking, "would be tolerable". In other words there will be no feeling of vibration from this council was told. The cracks should be filled with a sealer but the report in- dicates there is little frost move- ment in the sections described. The cracks will appear in the sections which are not excavated according to the report. Members of council did not press for the 31 register for kindergarten There is still no final decision as to whether there will be a kind- ergarten operating at the Usborne Township Central School next fall. Friday morning 31 children were registered for kindergart- en. Of these 15 were definitely enrolled, another 10 would attend if transportation can be arranged and the parents of five children have indicated they do not wish their children to attend. The area school board, in a statement issued through the principal Arnold Mathers, stated "the results of the registrations did not conform with the require- ments as established by t h e school board for a kindergarten class." A further study is being carried out by the Board and by an interested parent committee towards a reasonable solution. The Board will meet this Fri- day evening to consider the mat- ter further. Following a meeting between parents and the Board held ear- lier this year the Board decided a kindergarten would be estab- lished, only if three requirements were fulfilled. These were: (1) The class be held at the present central school; (2) Parents must supply noon transportation; (3) 75 percent of the eligible child- ren must attend. vasae aeaaaaaa Board of Trade Two new members have join- ed the Exeter Board of Trade. Dr. R. W. Read and Exeter Coach Lines are now members of the association. Letters have been forwarded to all members asking for ideas for projects and it is expected a meeting will be called within the next two weeks to set up the 1966 program. Council views sketches Town hall renovations extra excavation to be carried out because of the added cost of the project. Mr. Ross indicated the Department of Highwa ys would "probably approve" the extra work and their share of the cost but left it to council to de- cide whether they wished to spend the extra money. The majority of the cost would come from the PUC if the extra sections were excavated. All wat- er mains would have to be re- placed and manager Hugh Davis told council that this cost would have to be debentured and the rates raised to pay for the de- bentures. A portion of the work will be carried out this year which in- cludes new lighting in the main street section. The sections which will not be excavated are the area from Chainway to Gidley and Hill Street to the Bridge. Some members were concerned over present de- pressions in this area but were assured that there would be no 'stepping' (heaving of pavement) when the job was completed. "This is not the best answer, but, can you afford the best answer?" Mr. Ross asked coun- cil, Deputy Reeve Phil Gandon asked whether council could af- ford to spent the amount of money and not have the best answer. Mr. Ross explained that the maintenance cost of the road for seating these cracks would not be an expensive item, "you would have to fill the cracks with tar every year" he said. Following an hour of discussion on the problem councillor Taylor appeared to have lost the trend of the meeting. He asked the mayor what was the concern of council in discussing this. Mayor Jack Delbridge explained that council was concerned with the soil tests taken in order to make up the report and whether extra Sections of the road should be excavated In order to get the best possible road which would last. Councillor Joe Wooden indicat- ed he would like to see a few more borings taken if possible. The depressions in some of the areas which will not be excavat- - Please turn to page 3 Police recover stolen car Exeter OPP report there were no accidents during the storm last week which blacked out most of this area for up to three days. A stolen car was recovered Saturday evening on County Road Number 4 at about 8:40 p.m, A 1955 model car owned by Harold E. Cox, RR 8 London was found abandoned in a ditch about a mile and a half west of Crediton. The car broke off a fence post of a fence on the farm owned by Ross Pickering, RR 3 Dashwood. Po- lice failed to find the driver. An accident in Winchelsea Sun- day afternoon caused damage to a garage and car, Police report a car driven by Donald Gordon McCallum, 437 Carling St., Ex- eter apparently went out of con- trol when travelling east through Winchelsea and struck the corner of a garage owned by Mrs. Newton Clark. Damage to the car was estimated at $350. the company to the Growers and return the $1,000,000 plus in- terest to the growers. Speaking of the illegal owner- ship of the company Mr. Poole states: The function of the Bean Grow- ers Board is contained in the Ontario Bean Growers Marketing Plan, section 3 which reads as follows: 'iThis plan applies to the con- trol and regulation in any or all respects of the marketing within Ontario of beans." Nothing gives the Bean Grow- ers Board any authority to own or operate a business. The power of the Bean Growers Board is therefore "to control and regu- late" and nothing gives the Bean Growers Board any authority either to own or to operate a business. The Bean Growers Board, having no agency power delegated to it and its use of a wholly-owned subsidiary as a marketing agent, has created a situation in defiance of the Act. In other words, the Bean Growers Board are using their wholly- owned subsidiary as a marketing agency without having any agency powers and therefore the owner- ship and operation of this Com- pany, under these circumstances, is contrary to the Act and is therefore illegal. My opinion is confirmed by the case of Canadian Bank of Commerce vs. The Cud- worth Rural Telephone Company 1923 S.C.R. 618. This was a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, the facts of which were that the Bank sued the Telephone Company for monies secured by a promissory note. The Phone — Please turn to page 2 Award contract C. A. McDowell, Ltd., of Cen- tralia, has been awarded a $209,- 823.94 contract for the construc- tion of 12,600 lineal feet of water- main, a 125,000-gallon concrete storage tank, and a small pump- ing and filtration plant to serve the Police Village of Warkworth, in the Township of Percy, Watch for forged cheques A forged cheque ring which has been operating across Ontario cashed one of their pieces of paper in Zurich recently and all banks have been warned to be on the lookout for these. Exeter Detachment of the Ontario Pro- vincial Police issued a warning this week giving a description of the cheques being used and ask- ing for the co-operation of area residents if one of the cheques is presented. The cheque is a duplication of cheques issued by the Ontario Hospital Services Commission and is made out to William E. Powell, London, Ontario. The amount of the cheque is $98.50 and it is believed it was manu- factured by photographing an or- iginal cheque. The man passing the cheques has a false drivers licence made out in the same name. Police have asked anyone who is asked to cash one of these cheques to get as much informa- tion as possible and call them immediately. these plans and pass on their comments and suggestions to the committee for further study. There are no funds in the budget for this work during 1966 but councillors have often mentioned this project and it could be done during the next year or two. Members of council will give "some serious thought" to two proposals for the renovation of the town hall. Members of the committee who have been inves- tigating this problem, councillor Mery Cudmore and reeve Derry Boyle presented members with Two Queen Scouts John Godbolt and Charles Snider were congratulated and presented with Queen Scout certificates at the annual father 'and son banquet of the Boy Scout Association last Wednesday evening, District Commis- stoner, Jack Goland of Clinton was on hand to make the presentation. Both boys have seven proficiency badges. (T-A photo) sketch plans of two different methods of altering the present building so it would give added space for office. One of the plans calls for the fire trucks to be housed in the building and an addition built to the rear while the other calls for a new cement block building to be constructed at the rear of the present hall. The sketch which seemed to get the most favorable immediate reaction was that which called for moving the fire trucks to the rear of the present building. In this plan the council chambers would be moved upstairs with the bal- ance of the upstairs available as a hall. Court would be held in this area. The downstairs area would house the Clerk's office approe- imately where the fire trucks are located now, the works super- intendents office, a secretary's office and committee rooms. The police office would be where the present council chamber is locat- ed and the cells would be in the basement. In the second plan the fire trucks would be left where they are, the upstairs renovated and a one Storey addition built on the rear of tile building. The addition would extend approxi- mately 16 feet behind the present hall. If a new fire hall was con- structed it would likely be of cement block, similar to the building recently built by the Public Utilities Commission. It would be designed to house the grader, town trucks and a work area as well as the fire truas. A building Of this type coats approxitnately $8 per square foot members Were told. CoUneillor8 will study both Friends honor local minister Rev. William A. Getz, who has ministered to Zion Lutheran Church, Dashwood, since June 1961 and started the Peace Luth- eran congregation, Exeter in 1964 and directed the building of the new church in Exeter, has accept- ed a call to Ashland, Wisconsin, leaving officially May 15. Mr. Gatz returnes to his native state, Wisconsin. In addition to serving the two congregations Mr. Gatz has been pastoral advisor of the Ontario Walther League and also of the Stratford Zone Walther league; he has served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Bible Society of Western Ontario and has been circuit counsellor of the Stratford circuit. Mr. and Mrs. Gatz and sons Timmy and Billy were honored guests at a congregational supper in Peace Lutheran Church Sun- day evening when Mr. Gerald Vinnen, on behalf of the con- gregation, preSented gifts to Mr. and Mrs. Getz; Sheila Keller, president of the Walther League, honored Mr. and Mrs. Getz With a gift and Brian Adkins, on be- half of the Sunday School, also made a presentation. Bill Gala was presented with a gift by h eather Doherty and Brenda Wainer gifted Timmy, Kindergarten registration Usborne Township Central School was busy Friday morning as parents brought their Children in to register them for kindergarten and grade one. Mrs. NV, ilunkin takes the information needed from iVirs. VanDuyn while daughter Marjorie and principal Arnold Mothers look en, (T-A photo)