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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1966-06-09, Page 1Ninety-third Year EXETER, ONTARIO, JUNE 9, 1966 Price Per Copy 15 Cents AREA COUNCILS OK HS ADDITION 'New look' is planned on town's main street The first stage in a lengthy program to give Exeter's Main Street "The New Look" is sche- duled to get under way in about two weeks' time. This was dis- closed before a meeting of Town Council on Monday evening. Councillor Joe Wooden intro- duced the subject while P.U.C. Superintendent Hugh Davis ela- borated on the details. All mem- bers of council were present except Councillor Ted Wright who was recently bereaved. Prepare to clear silt from reservoir above dam Town works foreman Jim Paisley, at left, and Walter Davis of the town works department adjust pipes to the pump which is bypassing water from the Ausable River above the recently constructed coffer dam to a point just below the Lower Dam. This means the re-routing of many thousands of gallons of water daily. By doing this the bed of the river above the Lower Dam is completely without water in order to per- mit a bulldozer to clear the bed of silt. passed a resolution in favor of the addition provided the cost would not exceed the former estimate of $600,000. The mechanical and electrical sub trades tenders have been called for the addition with the deadline set at June 21 and about four bids are expected, said Mr. Johns. The reported opposition of some members of the SHDHS staff to a composite school, as reported in last week's Exeter T-A was merely mentioned but not discussed at any length what- ever at the special meeting Tues- day night, Mr. Johns said. In the aforementioned report of last week it was stated that Principal L. D. Palmer announc- ed the resignation of the SHDHS technical director Percy Atkin- son. The reason for his leaving was given as the possibility that the addition would not be built. It is understood that Mr. At- kinson, who has been here one year, has now accepted a po- sition on the staff of the Ontario Vocational School at London. The Ontario Department of Education has approved a revised SHDHS addition bu 11 d ing pro- gram, it was announced at a spe- cial meeting of SHDHS board Tuesday evening. Ken H. Johns, board chairman, said he had been in communica- tion with the architect in con- nection with the building program and was advised of this approval. The school area's share for debenture purposes is to be $569,519. This figure was given over the phone and is subject to verification by letter from authorities later on. Making a canvass of the repre- sentatives on the board from Hen- sail, Usborne, Hay, Stephen and Grand Bend Tuesday night, they all indicated their intentions of backing the board's decision to proceed with the addition under the plans of the revised esti- mates. A report from the Hensall council Monday evening said Don- ald Joynt, village representative on the SHDHS board asked coun- cil for its decision on the addition. Council was reported to have Commissioned Flight Sgt. M. J. (Bud) Wilds, formerly of the Crediton area, has been commissioned to the rank of flying officer. He has been employed at CFB Portage la Prairie as chief radar controller and now is posted to CFB Gimli, Manitoba, where he will be air, traffic controller. He is married to the former Evelyn Curran, of Dartsmouth, N.S„ and has four children. Bud is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wilds of Crediton. Eugene Howey resigns post as administrator The first operation will be that of installing new overhead street lighting at an estimated cost of $17,000. These lights will be the same design as those on No. 4 Highway at the south entrance of Exeter. They will be placed on Main Street between Huron and Gidley streets. Mr. Davis felt that half of the street lighting job should be left over until next year, this meaning from Gidley Street North to the Au- sable River. It was agreed by council that the light standards should be placed one foot in from the curb. The second stage of the Main Street improvement program has been set for 1968. This will entail the entire rebuilding of the road bed. A centre line has been set for the Main Street pavement and allowance made for 24 feet of roadway on either side of this line. This means a Main Street of 48 feet in width from curb to curb, thus allowing approximate- ly nine feet width of sidewalk on either side of the street. Mr. Davis pointed out that nu- merous problems would arise CE will host Tapp's show that he plans to retire. A native of Exeter, Mr. Howey graduated from Victoria College, Toronto, in 1932, after which he accepted a position on the staff of the Mount Forest District High School. He came to Exeter in 1942 and was on staff here until December, 1964. He was appoint- ed secretary-treasurer of the SHDHS board on April 1, 1947. In 1965 he stopped teaching and became business administrator of SHDHS. The special meeting of SHDHS board Tuesday night accepted with regret the resignation of Eugene Howey, the secretary- treasurer and business admin- istrator. Plans are being made to advertise for a replacement. Mr. Howey will be available to the board until the end of July and will then goon a month's holidays commencing August 1. Speaking of his resignation, Mr. Howey told the Exeter T-A Monday, June 13, will be a busy day at CFB Centralia. The recreation centre will be alive with radio and sound equipment and familiar voices of radio and television will fill the auditorium with song and laughter, Mr. Gordie Tapp will MC a radio broadcast from the Rec Centre at CFB Centralia at 8 p.m. Monday. Guesting on his one and a half hour presentation will be Miss Diane Landry (Miss Canada), Tommy Hunter from the CBC Television series, The Rhythm Pals, Al Cherny and Al Harris. Bert Niosi will head up the musical ensemble with Miss Janet Stewart of radio, television and the night club circuit as vocalist. Miss Agota Gobar of CBC's Take 30 show will demon- strate and instruct the latest dances and will be assisted by "willing" volunteers in a Go Go dance routine. Town police are on a rearmament program when the road building project got under way. These would in- clude the re-locating of water mains and the rebuilding of both the sidewalks and the road. It has been found on previous oc- casions when the Main Street has been dug up to any considerable depth that many old logs and timb- ers were struck, no doubt dating back to the days when Exeter's Main Street was a log road. A resolution was carried to arrange a meeting with officials of the Department of Highways, Mr. Burns Ross of Goderich and the Exeter P.U.C. to completely discuss details in connection with the Main Street project. Councillor Ross Taylor said he believed council was keeping within its road budget expendi- tures. In his police committee report, Councillor Taylor recommended that Police Chief C. H. MacKen- zie, now in Victoria Hospital, London, due to a heart attack, be paid his regular salary until June 30th and after that date future payments are to be reviewed. He also recommended that, in future, town employees be grant- ed one day sick leave each month but each day of such leave must be substantiated by a doctor's certificate. Council finally decided that the matter of sick leave for town employees be turned over to the Mayor's special committee so that it might investigate the en- tire problem with relation to what sickness insurance is now in existence. Some discussion took place regarding the hiring of Irwin Ford on the police force. The Exeter Saddle Club is to be permitted to hold a parade in Exeter on Friday evening, June 17. Mention was made of com- plaints received about youngsters riding bicycles on the sidewalks, Instructions were given for the preparation of a notice for pub- lication in The Exeter T-A call- ing on all citizens to cut obnox- ious weeds on their properties by no later than June 21. Councillor Joe Wooden said that bylaw 22 had been prepared by the town solicitor and had been given first and second read- ings. This bylaw states that when — Please turn to page 3 Armed Forces Day June 11 Grade new entrance to Riverview Park Land beside the new entrance to Riverview Park by way of Old Mill Road has been filled in and graded to give the area a more pleasing appearance. Note the sturdy retaining wall at the right. Here are seen some of the crew who took part in landscaping the area. But now it would appear some shiny, new, powerful weapons will be in the hands of the police in the non too distant future. Some members of council ex- pressed surprise over the pos- sibly high cost of obtaining the new firearms. Others pointed out that the cost would be compara- tively small in comparison to what could happen if a member of the Exeter Police Department were carrying a defective gun at a time when it was essential to have a gun in good working order. Riverview Park entrance getting beauty treatment More horses enter show Centralia future rests on Winnipeg meeting? The area around Riverview Park is a hive of activity these days as workmen feverishly rush to complete the various projects in the overall picture which will eventually be a most attractive one. highway at the spot where they were located. At the Old Mill Road entrance land has been graded and seeded and numerous lovely trees tem- porarily planted until they can be placed in the formation de- signated for them. June 11 has been designated Armed Forces Day for Defence Establishments across Canada. Some of the larger and more complex units will hold open house and exhibit their defence equipment. Parades, demonstra- tions and flying skills will be part of the program at these units. This year, at CF Base, Cen- tralia, the observance of Armed Forces Day will take the form of a field day presented by the Reserve Officers' School. The 12 event sports day will com- mence at 1:15 pm with W/C G. Buxton, Commanding Officer of the Reserve Officers' School, taking the salute from the over 200 Cadets. The cadets are gath- ered here from universities re- presenting all parts of Canada. The first field event will start at 1:30 pm and run simultaneous- ly with the track events. The general public is invited to attend the two and one-half hour track and field event which will take place at the new track just inside the main gate Satur- day June 11, at 1:15 pm. The bed of the Ausable River above the Lower Dam is now bone dry for a distance of several hundred yards upstream where a coffer dam is holding the water back. This backed up water is being pumped through the park via two long sections of pipe so as to bypass the Lower Dam and set the water free below it. Plans call for the dredging of the river bed in the aforemen- tioned area and the silt from it will be used on the flat bank area immediately to the north of it. This transformed flat will then be seeded down to provide a pictur- esque riverside garden. Within the park itself, the foot- ing and piers have been poured for the picnic pavilion soon to be erected. Work was scheduled to have commenced on Tuesday in pour- ing cement bases for the histori- cal cairns which will be placed on the Old Mill Road. These his- torical cairns were removed from the south entrance to Exe- ter due to the widening of the Exeter's Town Police are plan- ning on a re-armament program. Cpl. Harry Van Bergen appear- ed before Town Council Monday night requesting permission to purchase three new revolvers to replace some of the police de- partment's guns which were found to be defective. Cpl. Van Bergen said he had three of the older police guns checked at the CFB, Centralia, on June 6th and all were found to be defective. As a result, Town Council au- thorized the Corporal to write away and get three diff ere nt quotations on new revolvers after which a decision is to be made on which ones are to be purchased. Prices for them quoted to date are understood to run as high as about $100. No one seemed to know just how old the defective guns in question are. It was recognized that they were not made old by frequent use since, over the years, the Exeter Police have not been called upon to use them in active work on crime to any great extent. How much they have been used for practice purposes or off duty use is also not known. It is, therefore, presumed they were not entirely new at the time they were acquired by Exeter Police, which could have been quite some years ago. The if or when of the closing of Canadian Forces Base at Centralia still is clouded only in rumors and mystery. Group Captain G. F. Ockenden left on Tuesday for training command at Winnipeg. A meeting is to be held there on Wednesday which may or may not deal with Centralia. Group Captain Ockenden is expected to be back at Centralia on Friday. Whether any official announcement will be made in the immediate future, Flight Lieut. M. Pelt Public Information Officer at Centralia, did not know. He felt that when such an announcement was made it would probably come out of Ottawa or Winnipeg. Strike of 50 employees averted at two mills MUSA 75 complaints investigated Few residents realize the large number of complaints, many of them rather petty, which pour into the Exeter Police Depart- ment each month. For example, a total of 75 complaints made by Exeter citizens were investigat- ed by police during the month of May. This was revealed in the po- lice report for the month of May presented to Exeter Town Council Monday night. Other items included in the report were as follows: A total of six persons were injured in car accidents. Charged under the criminal code were six persons while 34 were charged under the Highway Traffic Act. Total amount of damage was $2,485.00. There were seven parking tick- ets issued. Two premises were found in- secure during police checks. There were three thefts of over $50 (shoplifting), Among arrests were four ju- veniles. About six frauds were report- ed. Children reported missing but subsequently located numbered five. All was not serene on the do- mestic front because there were two domestic problems investi- gated by pollee. Two bicycles were reported lost, Three animals were re- ported lost and the same number reported found. During May the police Cruiser travelled a distance of 1,456 miles in the carrying out of their duties. The various phases in the pre- paration for the first annual Mid- Western Quarter Horse Show here on June 18 are being rush- ed to completion. Deadline for entries is June 13. However, 36 stalls have al- ready been booked and their en- tries are expected next week. These include those from the following centres: Waterloo, Toronto, Kitchener, Hespeler, Leamington, Guelph, Stratford, Bridgeport, London, Sarnia and Chatham. The quarter horse show is to be staged on the saddle club grounds, two and one-half miles west of Exeter on Huron Street. Preceding the main event will be a parade on Friday evening, June 17. This will include a wide variety of floats, etc., among them being a lively square dance team on a wagon. Many windows of town stores will be specially decorated for the forthcoming event. Trophies will be seen in the window of Hopper-Hockey Furniture. In the window of Gould and Jory will be a special display. Mr. John Burke is president of the local saddle club and the show manager is Len \Teri. Dr. D. A. Ecker is in charge of pub- licity. the proposals of the company. The company is now reported as being hopeful that the union representative, Torn Harkness, will be contacting the company with a view to signing a collec- tive agreement. On October 22, 1965, the Broth- erhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America certified the Cen- tralia plant and did likewise at Dashwood on December 29, 1965. Many negotiation meetings have been held since the certifications were received. The negotiations have received the assistance of two conciliation officers. First furrow on Saturday Two survive plane fire The 1966 International Plowing Match comes alive this week when Ontario Minister of High- ways, Charles MacNaughton, and the Minister of Agriculture, Wil- liam Stewart, will co-operate to plow a first furrow at the match site at Seaforth. The cere- mony, to which the public is invited, takes place at 3:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon on what will become the tented city on Scott farms west of the town. Seaforth District High School Trumpet Band, a feature at plow- trig matches across Ontario for several years, will take part in the short program. Guests will include local and district muni- cipal officials as well as mem- bers of the Ontario Plowmen's Association, Editor resigns The Times-Advocate announc- es with regret the resignation of Editor Kenneth Kerr, due to health reasons, George L. Ellis, who retired as publisher and editor of The Goderich Signal-Star last Oc- tober, has consented to pinch hit as T-A editor until such a time as a permanent appointment of a T-A editor is made in the near future. In charge of the editorial page during this period will be Val Haltkains. The publishers wish to express appreciation to advertisers, town and police officia18, civic or- ganizationS and staff members for their co-operation during this transitional period. Two pilots remain in satis- factory condition at CFB Cen- tralia hospital, recuperating from burns suffered when a Chip- munk training plane caught fire during a forced landing Wednes- day afternoon. FO, Pierre Morisset of Sud- bury and student pilot Naval Ca- det Thomas Stauffer of Sarnia received first and second degree burns when they jumped clear of the flaming aircraft. The plane caught fire as it came in for a belly landing outside the airfield perimeter. The crash came about 1 1/4 miles north of the base, Games after church service Last Saturday, June 4th, the Department of Family Life (Pre-School) of Trivitt Memorial Anglican Church held their annual service in the chapel of the church. There were 20 children, 12 mothers and 4 fathers in attendance. The service was conducted by the Rector, the Rev. J. P. Gandon, with Miss lean Henderson at the organ. The mite boxes were presented, and after a short talk to the children and parents, everyone adjourned to the parish hall lawn for games. One of the highlights was a pony ride for the children, thanks to Mr. J. Wooden and family. Lunch was served in the Parish Hall by the Girls' Auxiliary assisted by Mrs. Gandon and Mrs. Sturrook. A strike of approximately 50 employees of Dashwood Planing Mills Limited at Centralia and Dashwood, scheduled for Wed- nesday morning, has been avert- ed and the men are remaining on at work. In the meantime the Company, in a movement towards final mutual settlement, has made a proposal that consists of a total of 40 cents per hour spread over a 30 month contract, Jim Finnen, general manager, told the Exeter T-A. Included in the proposed con- tract will be: a shortening of the work week from a 45 hour week to a 42 hour week; an increase in welfare benefits; an increase in the number of statutory holidays; seniority rights; provision for overtime for truck drivers. Mr. Finnen said that, accord- ing to his company's lawyer, the company proposals are in ex- cess of most settlements that have been made in this area. Part of the proposal includes the reinstatement of Don McCann, who was released some weeks ago. The reason for the strike be- ing avoided at this time, Mr. Finnen said, was because the employees asked for and were granted the right to hold a secret ballot vote at a meeting held at the Dashwood plant, A vote was also held at the Centralia plant and at both places a majority of the employees were reported to have gone In favor of accepting