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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1967-02-16, Page 1..... .. .. ............ ...... . .. ... . . . ... Ninety-third Year EXETER, ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 16, 1967 Price Per Copy 15 Cents • • • O • r • • .14 " • • U 11, 0 • •• t * • * 4. • MPP outlines optimism over future of Centralia .// Etchen, Director of the Ontario Development Corporation, inthat a goodly number of interested parties have enquired about pros- pects for establishing on the base, and indicating a further interest in the details of the feasibility study report presently under course of preparation," he con- tinued. Crown Hensall Snow Queen He had met representatives of the firm while he was t ou ring Centralia with the Hon. William A, Stewart, minister of agricul- ture and food, whose department was examining the suitability of several buildings for their use, "Since then, there has been a continuing contact with the execu- tives of Found Brothers, the Min- ister of Economics and Develop- ment, the Hon.StanleyJ. Randall, and the Ontario Development Cor- poration", Mr. MacNaughton in- dicated. lie said several efforts were made by the ODC, as well as the Minister to persuade the federal authorities to allow the company —Please turn to page 2 Marie Campbell, a grade 12 student atSHDHS, was picked from among 17 contestants for the title of Snow Queen at the winter carnival in Hensall, Friday, She receives a bouquet of roses from Mrs. Jim Hyde, president of the Hensall Kinettes. Standing at the rear are: Murray Baker, Kinsmen president; Linda Lowery, runner-up to the Queen; Harold Knight, Hensall centennial committee chairman; and Gail Sangster, third place winner in the contest. The girls were sponsored by Hensall businesses. Marie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Campbell, RR 1 Exeter. — T-A photo REGRETTABLE Mr. MacNaughton advised the two area municipalities he was fully aware of the interest of Found Brothers Aviation Ltd. establishing at Centralia for quite some time. (The firm announced two weeks ago they were abandon- ing their plans,) Osborne to move area war memorial Welcomes new members Two new municipal representatives were welcomed at the annual meeting of the Ausable River Conservation Authority, Friday. Hay Councillor John Tinney, left and Grand Bend Councillor John Teevins are welcomed by Wellington Brock, who was re-elected chairman at T-A photo the meeting. Request free calls for area villages Following approval from their public school board, members of Osborne council voted at their February meeting to move the war memorial from its present site at the former Hurondale school section to the new central school. Council will attempt to have the project classified as a centennial project, with the two senior gov- ernments paying two-thirds of the cost. I: is expected the cost of chang- ing the site of the memorial will cost about $400. Stephen township council de- cided at their latest meeting to make a request to the Hay Muni- cipal telephone system that toll free calls be allowed between Creditor) and Dashwood. At the moment Crediton sub- scribers can only place free calls to Exeter and Centralia while Dashwood residents can only get through to Exeter, Grand Bend and Zurich without paying an extra charge. Thieves hit service club Damage high in collisions No time to Thieves have again been busy in the district, and in the last week they made off with close to $500 in cash and merchandise in three separate incidents. On Tuesday morning, the For- est OPP detachment were called to investigate a breakin at the Grand Bend Legion Hall. The service group's safe had been smashed open and $295 in cash and $37 in cheques removed, Several doors in the building had been forced open. The Exeter OPP had two thefts reported, one involving the loss of four overcoats from the Dash- wood Community Hall Saturday night. The coats were owned by four dance patrons and had been left in a cloak room. Value of the coats was listed at $85. They were owned by JohnCar- roll, RR 1 Kirkton; Edward Lind- enfield, Exeter; Donald Glavin, RR 2 Crediton; Gordon Maloney, S eaforth. The date of the third theft is not known exactly, but police be- lieve it may have taken place Sunday. An inoperative car owned by George Deelstra, Osborne Town- ship, had been left at the end of his laneway for several days and the owner noticed that the two front wheels, tires and radio had been removed. Value of the property was given as $50. keep your head up This is the only centennialpro- ject Osborne has to date, having cancelled plans to build two parks in the township. The plan to move the memorial has been supported by the Exeter Legion who annually hold Novem- ber 11 services at Hurondale. There has been a suggestion that now the memorial has been moved to the central school it should list the names of all town- ship men who lost their lives in the two wars. At present it lists the names of only those from the former Hurondale school section. At the meeting, council learned that prices for spreading gravel on the township roads will be in- creased considerably over last year's figures. Sandy Contracting Co. Ltd., Goderich, was the lower of two bids received. The price quoted is 88 cents per yard delivered on the roads and 58 cents for stockpiled gravel. The township supplies the gravel. The price is 13 cents a yard more than last year for delivery on the roads and 18 cents more for gravel to be stockpiled. In other business, council: Approved an increase in the rate charged to township resid- ents for the power maintainer and the bulldozer. It will now be $10 per hour with a minimum charge of $5. The previous rate was $8 per hour, Re-engaged Fred Harburn to spray cattle in the township for warble fly at the rate of 10 cents per head per spray and to supply the necessary amount of powder. Accepted the petition for a municipal drain from Elgin and William Rowcliffe and appointed J. A. Howes as engineers. The petition from E. Miller and oth- ers for a municipal drain was also approved and Howes named engineer. Received a complaint from J. W, Gardiner about the Stewart drain but took no action until such time as council can inspect the drain. Approved a motion to call tend- ers for the construction of the Elirnville bridge as soon as the plans have been approved by the department of highways. The bridge is located between the Elimville church and the main intersection in the hamlet. With their eyes fixed on their cumbersome footwear, candidates in the mayors and reeves snowshoe contest head for the finish line in the Hensall winter carnival, Saturday. In the pole position is Exeter Mayor Jack Delbridge, flanked by Hay Reeve Jack Corbett and Hensall Reeve Minnie Noakes. Mrs. Noakes put on a burst of speed seconds after this photo was taken to beat Delbridge to the wire. He found that the pole position was a bit of a hindrance, as he almost ran into it while concentrating on his feet. Damage amounted to almost $2,000 in three crashes inves- tigated by the Exeter Police De- partment this week. Almost $850 of that total re- sulted from a truck-car crash on Main St. Tuesday at 1:45 p.m. involving a car driven by Mrs. John Payne, Grand Bend, and a truck operated by Douglas E. Dunkley, Preston. The truck was owned by John- son Bros. Trucking Ltd., Milton. Both vehicles had been pro- ceeding south on Highway 4 and Mrs. Payne was in the process of making a left turn into the road leading to the Exeter curl- ing rink when the truck hit her from behind. Damage to the Payne car was listed at $700 and $150 to the truck. On Thursday, two cars collid- ed on Main Street. Involved were Brian Sanders, 437 Main St., and Kevin Delbridge, 292 Huron East. Both had been northbound on -- Please turn to page 2 The Hon. C, S. MacNaughton had re-assuring words for area residents when he announced this week that he knows "of no area of investigation and no interest that is being overlooked" by the provincial government in their deliberations over the possible uses of the facilities at CFB C entralia. The local MPP made the com- ment in a reply to queries from both the council of Exeter and Stephen Township regarding the base. "Certainly there is no 'thumb twiddling' here," he stated in his letters, which reviewed the ac- tion being taken by the govern- ment. Copies of both letters were forwarded to the T-A editor by Mr. MacNaughton "in the hope that he will publish it as a measure of re-assurance to all concerned". He reported he had contact- ed the Director of the Ontario Development Corporation on Fri- day morning and "I was much heartened to learn that the study which was authorized by Treas- ury Board is proceeding very well". The Treasury Board had ap- proved the sum of $25,000 for a feasibility study of the facilities at the base by a qualified firm of consultants and the federal authorities have granted the Pro- vince of Ontario an option, good until March 31, for study pur- poses. At the outset it was anticipat- ed the study would take at least until March 31 to complete and it would have required a further short period of time for evalua- tion purposes by the minister of economics and development as well as the Ontario Development Corporation. However, Mr. MacNaughton said he has now been assured that the study will be completed earlier than was anticipated for evaluation purposes, probably as much as two weeks ahead of schedule, which simply means that the evaluation process can also be completed and recom- mendations made to the Treasury Board and the government in ad- vance of the original anticipated date. "Further gratifying assuranc- es were given to me by Mr. There are instances of resid- ents just two miles west of Crediton that are forced to pay long distance charges to call their neighbours about a mile away and in several cases a lesser distance, Council instructed Clerk Wil- mer D. Wein to prepare a bylaw permitting the erection of four way stops at the Greenway corn- er. This move will be made in conjunction with McGill ivr ay township and was necessitated by a change in direction of high- way 81. Stephen township will be taken over the portion of the old high- way from the curve of the new road in a southerly direction to the Greenway store while the two municipalities will share respon- sibility of maintenance of the road in an easterly direction from the store corner to the new provincial highway. The townships will assume these two portions of road on April 1. A good portion of the meeting was spent in dealing with muni- cipal drain petitions. A request to have a small portion of the Schwartz drain cleaned out was approved. A re- quest from Bill and Lawrence McCann for laying of some new tile as an extension to the O'- Brien drain was also approved. A similar petition from Ed- ward Lamport for the construc- tion of a new municipal drain to run between the Heist and Kuhn drains was passed on to Gamsby and Mannerow, engin- eers of Guelph, for a plan and profile. Orval Mellin and Paul Schenk were appointed as inspectors to -- Please turn to page 5 ARCA levy unchanged A surplus in some accounts of the Ausable River Conserva- tion Authority will enable the group to maintain the same mun- icipal levy in 1967 as they did last year. The figure is $27,000. However, Mrs. C. Hume, sec- retary-treasurer, told members they could expect an increase in 1968. Grants are up to date on the Parkhill darn, Mrs. Hume noted, but the area municipal- ities were not levied in 1966 because of the uncertainty of the scheme. However, since the project is now underway, she said the ARCA would plan to bring municipal accounts up to date very shortly. Okay Expo, Quebec trip for high scho6I students Veteran official relinquishes post Veteran secretary-treasurer of the Kirkton Agricultural So- ciety, Alex F. Crago, has relin- quished his post. However, Mr. Crag() will continue in the capac- ity as assistant to the new sec- retary-treasurer, Ross Robin- son. The appointments were made at an election of officers held at the group's annual meeting in Aber- deen Hall, Thursday. Dr. Norm Amos was elected president of the Society for the coming year, while the two vice- presidents are Gerald Paul and Jack Thomson. Mrs. Ross Francis is chair- man of the ladies' division and Alex Irvine was named examiner of accounts. New members on the board of directors are GordonJohns, Alex Crago and William Arthur, They replace Fred Switzer, Milne Pul- len and Ross Robinson. At the meeting, it was learn- ed the Society finished the year with a cash balance of $547.83 based on receipts Of $3,886.83 and expenses of $3,339.00. Members decided to again sponsor two field crop competi- tiOns in 1967 for oats and grain corn. A draw on a purebred calf will also be held in Con- nection with the fair. Dates for next year's event were set for September 28 and 29. The board discussed at some length the arrangement for teach- ers to accompany the students and decided to discuss the mat- ter further with the staff in re- gard to expenses. The Principal reported that the bus firm would supply the accommodation and transporta- tion for the teachers. He said the department of education re- commended one teacher for each 10 students, and he said he would not approve of such a trip with less than one teacher to every 20 students. It is expected members of the student body will be asked within the next few days if they would Students at SHDHS will he per- mitted time off school to take an organized trip to Expo 67 and another to Quebec, but they'll have to pay all their own ex- penses. Members of the school board Tuesday night endorsed whole- heartedly the suggestion by Principal Douglas Palmer that a trip be arranged to see the World's Fair in Montreal, but decided they could not help de- fray any of the expenses as only a portion of the students would benefit. Mr. Palmer reported that quo- tations had been received from a London bus firm that would en- able up to 160 area students to make the trip for a cost of $40 each. This would include their trans- portation, passes for two days at Expo, a stop at Upper Canada Village and two night's lodging in Montreal. Meals for the students would be additional. Mr. Palmer indicated that he and his staff had discussed the possibility of arranging a trip to Expo for the first week in May and then another in Sep- tember. Both would be depend- ent upon the response from the students and they would be limit- ed to senior pupils in grades 11, 12 and 13. want to take the jaunt. The board, of course, would pay the teachers' salaries while they are away supervising the trip and visit. The journey to Quebec for five days after Easter is being sug- gested by the modern languages department at the school. They hope some exchange pro- gram could be conducted with stu- dents in Quebec, and again the board approved the trip in prin- ciple, but decided the students would have to pay their own ex- penses, Such a trip is promoted by the CNR and Mr. Palmer explained -- Please turn to page 5 Consider sand hills for recreation site Youth jailed over breakin Mr. Thompson stated that it was not uncommon to see 40 to 50 people—of all ages—using the hills during the winter months. Field officer Terry McCauley reported he had investigated the site and said the hills were ,,ex- cellent prospects" for winter recreation. lie said the two hills rise between 50 and 60 feet above the other terrain and would be ex- cellent for ski and toboggan runs. The hills face the north and therefore retain snow quite well. McCauley said unheated shel- ter areas could be provided at the site. The matter was referred to committee for further investi- gation. The major problem In the ARcA developing the site is the fact they would have to buy the property if any money was spent on erecting facilities. This is a requisite and was the reason the Town of Exeter had to deed the dam and reservoir at River- view Park to the ARCA, before latte0 . groin, ubuld tilichlftkt to make repairs and ir.nrove. The only thing that may stand in the way of South Huron getting a new winter recreation area is government red tape. Members of the Ausable River Conservation Authority were told Friday that the popular sand hills, located two and a half miles south-east of Hensall would be made available by the property owner for development by the ARC A. The sand hills are presently used extensively by area resi- dents as a toboggan run. Elgin Thompson, Reeve of Tuckersmith Township, reported that the property owner was will- ing to have the ARCA take the hills over for further develop- ment at a token lease price of $1.00 per year. He urged the members to con- sider the offer, noting that Such a facility would give residents in the northern part of the water- shed more interest in the work of the Authority. "We've had nothing to stir up interest at he remarked, referring to the fact that no ARCA prOjeotS had taken place in his area. Top speakers at Exeter Public School Public and Verse speaking contests were held for the 'senior grades Andria Barrett, first, The topverst speakers inthe front row: Vickie at Bps, Friday, and the winners display their winning smiles. Top Edwards, third in grade five; Steve Harrison, second; Debbie Wooden, public speaking contestants in the back row, from the left: Richard first; Cris Parsons, third in grade six; Ann Pinder, second; Sharon Ottewell, third in grade seVen; Dutch JelinSton, second, Roberta McCaffrey, first. T-A phnto Ilarrett, first; Susan Wooden, third in grade eight; fob Dobbs, second; Iri Goderich court last week, Wayne Leroy Riley, 21, LOndes- boro was sentenced to terms to- talling 18 months for a series of breakins in Huron. one of them was at the Centi4alla Farmers' Supply, where Riley used abase- ball bat to silence a watchdog. The dog survived. Of his total jail term, five months was given for the Cen- tralia, breakin. Two other Clinton area men were also charged over thatof- fenee. Y