HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1967-03-23, Page 1Vote to reduce Canners grant
Canadian Canners Limited will
be asked to assume a greater
portion of the costs of waste
disposal at the local plant this
season.
Exeter council decided Monday
to offer the canning firm $4,000
as a grant towards this year's
Waste disposal operation, Last
year council paid $6,500 and
leased the town's disposal equip-
ment for a fee of $1,00.
In the past, council have had
to pay the entire bill for waste
disposal, but the deal was changed
for their libraries.
Tenders for the supply of this
year's gravel were opened at the
meeting and the contract was let
to N, C, Jones, Exeter. His
tender prices were as follows:
grade A gravel, $1.54 per cubic
yard; grade B, $1.06; granular
backfill, 96 cents. Corresponding
figures last year were $1.40,
93 cents and 88 cents.
The Jones tender was the low-
est of two bids received.
last year when Canadian Can-
ners undertook to conduct their
Own disposal operations.
Engineers from the head office
in Hamilton had met with a coin-
tnittee of council last week, re-
questing the same deal as last
year, but council decided to cut
back on the expenses.
Ross Taylor opposed the move,
He said. Canadian Canners should
pay the entire cost,
"It's time they took it over
themselves," he stated.
Councillor Ted Wright, an em-
ployee of the firm, did not vote
on the motion to cot the grant
back to $4,000. Taylor was the
only member opposed.
WHAT RENT?
Councillor George Vrieee re-
ported that members of the local
library board were still at a bit
of a loss in understanding all
the facets of the new county
library system,
However, he said the county
board has asked Exeter to name
a rental price for the local
library.
"I have no idea what we should
ask," commented Mayor Jack
Delbridge, who later suggested a
figure of $500.
It was decided to have Reeve
Boyle and Deputy-Reeve Cud-
more ask other county councill-
ors what rental they were asking
Bylaw prohibits
horses, cruisers
Horses along with other ani-
mals — are not permitted to walk
on Exeter's sidewalks, boule-
vards, public parks or private
property.
That information was dug up
from an existing bylaw by Clerk
Eric Carscadden after Deputy-
Reeve Mery Cudmore had point-
ed out at the last meeting that
horses had punched holes through
the snow on sidewalks and creat-
ed hazards for pedestrians.
He came to council this week
with another problem, He recent-
ly had to step off a sidewalk to
allow a snowmobile to pass.
Councillors were informed this
too was acainst the local bylaws.
Fire destroys
Suspect poison
in dog's death
Another Dashwood dog has
died, presumably of poison.
The local Opp detachment,
were advised that a dog owned by
Robert Hayter died sometime on
Sunday in the village.
The dog's death came two
weeks after investigation reveal-
ed that a dog which died in Janu-
ary had eaten cooked chicken
saturated in DDT.
The local OPP are also in-
vestigating the theft of hub caps
from cars parked at Hensall
Motor Sales over the weekend.
Value of the property stolen
was estimated at $65. Estimated loss on a barn destroyed north of Exeter Thursday morn-
ing has been set at about $12,000. The barn was on a farm previously
owned by Fred Bischoff and recently sold to Jim Rowcliffe, London
realtor. Most of the barn was consumed by the blaze, along with a
quantity of straw, hay, grain and 16 pigs. A department of highways
district barn
crew noticed the blaze at about 5:00 a.m. and it was out of control
at that time. Exeter firemen managed to save one wing of the struc-
ture which had only been built about three years ago to replace a
barn burned at that time. Cause of the blaze remains a mystery.
Mr. and Mrs. Bischoff were in Germany at the time of the fire.
Three requests for building
permits were presented to
counc il.
Mrs. Andrew Johnston, 82John
St. East, was granted a permit
for a 34' by la' swimming pool,
subject to all provincial and local
regulations and approval of the
PUC.
Whitney Coates was granted
a permit for renovations to the
interior of a house and Q. E.
Marley Ltd. were given per-
mission to rebuild a sign at the
northern entrance to Exeter, sub-
ject to the department of highways
Specifications.
In other business, council:
Received letters of thanks for
a donation made to the War
Memorial Children's Hospital,
London, and from the Howard
Spicknell family for memorial
flowers. Mr. Spicknell was Reeve
Boyle's father-in-law.
Authorized attendance of Clerk
Eric Carscadden at two upcoming
conferences for municipal offic-
ials. He indicated he may wish to
attend one of the two.
Learned that a Lucan area man
was planning to be present to
offer his services as a dog
catcher, However, he failed to
show up.
Decided to call tenders for the
planned excavation in regard to
the road work on Victoria and
William Streets.
Approved a business tax re-
bate to M. Desjardine who has
gone out of the coffee delivery
business.
Safety award to Hydra
Members of the Exeter area Hydro staff were feted at a
banquet, Friday, marking a full year without an accident.
It was their second consecutive award, Area trades super-
visor Jim Glaab, left, is shown accepting the award on be-
half of the staff from Warren Clifton, director of accident
prevention for Ontario Hydro. — Photo by Doerr
Ninety-third Year Price Per Copy 15 Cents EXETER, ONTARIO, MARCH 23, 1967
Nixon to attend Liberal rally;
Bayfield man after nomination
Robert Nixon, leader of the
Ontario Liberal Party, will be
guest speaker at the nomination
convention planned by the Huron
Liberal (provincial) Association
in Hensall, Wednesday.
It will be Nixon's first visit
to this area since becoming
leader upon the resignation of
Andrew Thompson.
One Huron resident has in-
dicated he will allow his name
to stand as a candidate to con-
test the next provincial election.
He is Brigadier Morgan Smith,
Bayfield.
A. M. Harper, Goderich, who
is chairman of the candidates'
committee, indicated Brigadier
Smith was the only definite can-
didate to date.
Clinton lawyer Beecher Men-
zies, president of the assoc-
iation, also indicated he knew
of no other candidates at this
time. Menzies stated there would
be two voting delegates for each
of the approximately 100 polls
in Huron eligible to vote on the
choice of a liberal candidate.
In addition, members of the ex-
ecutive receive votes.
The Clinton man predicted the
provincial election would be held
this spring—possible early June.
Brigadier Smith was born in
Toronto and attended the Uni-
versity Schools in that city. He
received his BA at Trinity Col-
lege, and the M.A. and M.D.
degrees at the Universityof Tor-
onto. After interning at the Tor-
onto General Hospital, he was
appointed to the Medical Ser-
vices of the Army in 1936, from
which he retired three years ago.
During the war he was six
years overseas, was mentioned
in dispatches for the Dieppe
Operation, and was awarded the
OBE for the operations in North
West Europe. Later he was the
Senior Medical Officer of the
Commonwealth Division in Korea,
where he received the CBE and
the American Legion of Merit.
He has long been interested in
education, and was chairman of
a school board in Borden. He
has been a member of the 1st
Huron County Public School
Board for the past two years.
He was elected a Director of
the School Trustees' and Mun-
icipal Councillors' Association.
Brig. Smith retired from the
services in 1964, and moved to
his permanent home in Hayfield.
London man hits cruiser
—five hurt in one crash
A London man didn't have far
to go to find a policeman after
he'd been involved in an acci-
dent on Highway 4 on Thursday
at 4:20 p.m.
The car he ran into was a
police cruiser driven by OPP
Constable John Wright, of the
Exeter detachment.
Wright had been prpceeding
south on Highway 4 and 'stopped
as a northbound school bus was
discharging passengers just
south of the Usborne-Tucker-
smith townline.
The London car, driven by
Helmut Steinfath, failed to stop
and slammed into the rear of the
cruiser, with total damage
amounting to $1,300.
Constable Wright was taken
to South Huron Hospital with
neck injuries. The accident was
investigated by OPP Cpl. C. J.
Mitchell, who reported it was
snowing heavily at the time of
the crash.
St. Patrick's day didn't bring
the luck of the Irish to some
drivers, as two crashes were
Damage was listed at $40.
On Saturday at 12:05 a.m.,
Constable Ed Wilcox was called
to a one-car crash on Highway
84, just west of Zurich. Involved
was Paul Earl Weido, Mill St.,
Zurich.
He had been westbound on High-
way 84 when his car skidded into
the south ditch and struck a hydro
pole. Damage was listed at $700.
reported on Friday, March V?.
At 11:45 a.m., vehicles driven
by Elaine Yearley and James F.
Finkbeiner, both of RR 2 Credi-
ton, collided on the 8th and 9th
concession of Stephen, about one
mile north of the Crediton Road.
The Yearley vehicle was north-
bound on the concession road and
Finkbeiner was operating a snow-
blower on a tractor in front of
the laneway of William Swartz,
RR 2 Crediton.
OPP Constable Bill Glassford
listed damage to the car at $150
and none to the tractor.
Constable Harvey Beyer inves-
tigated the other Friday accident
at 4:40 p.m. it involved cars
driven by Jack Dietrich, Holmes-
ville, and Joseph C. Ferguson,
Hensall.
Both cars had been northbound
on Highway 4 when Dietrich at-
tempted to pass Ferguson, about
half a mile south of Exeter, How-
ever, an oncoming car forced
Dietrich to apply his brakes and
he skidded into the rear of the
Ferguson car.
He was frightening
Medicine man John Musser was a frightening character in his full regalia at the EPS centennial concert
and he drew appropriate response from two Indian maidens, Debbie Potter and Shirley DeVries. On the
right is Lorne Brock. — T-A photo
FIVE HURT
The final crash of the week
resulted in minor injuries to
five men when the convertible in
which they went off the Credi-
ton Road at Khiva and knocked
off three fence posts and ended
up facing north-west.
The car was driven by Rob-
ert Joseph Edward Chapdelaine,
Grand Bend.
Passengers included Fred
Ashby, Oshawa, and three Grand
Bend area men, Patrick Wise,
William Baird and Peter Ravelle.
All five men were taken to South
Huron Hospital for treatment of
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County vote against bid
for Zurich home grant
May postpone
tractor buying
Members of Exeter council de-
cided Monday to defer their plan
to purchase a new tractor this
year. Instead, they will attempt
to hire some tractor owner to cut
the grass around the community.
Tenders will be called im-
mediately to see if anyone in the
area would wish to undertake the
job.
Main reason for postponing
the purchase of a tractor was due
to finances.
Several members were of the
opinion the town could not afford
a $3,000 to $4,000 expenditure
this year.
Councillor Don MacG regor
pointed out if council hadn'tplan-
ned to spend so much money on
centennial events they could have
made the purchase.
The finance committee plans a
meeting this week to start on the
budget.
At the last meeting of council
the prediction was that the local
mill rate could jump from eight
to 12 mills, with most of that
increase expected on education
costs.
For the third time, Huron
County council has rejected a
request for a grant from the
Bluewater Rest Home in Zurich.
At Tuesday's session, council
Vetoed a recommendation of its
finance and executive committee
to provide the private rest home
with a $26,000 grant.
The committee recommended
the grant, which works out to
$400 per bed, be made from
Health received preliminary dis-
cussion at Monday's session and
was laid over for one day for
further information. Dr. G. P. A.
Evans, Huron MOH and chief
proponent of the schemes, was
asked to appear again before
council to answer any questions.
After turning down his request,
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the county's hospital reserve fund
during the next two years.
Vigorous discussion on th e
issue resulted in its being sent
back to the committee until the
November session of council.
Reeve Calvin Kruter, Brus-
sels, warned that any subsidy
to the private home could trigger
similar requests from private
nursing homes across the county.
Exeter youngsters make stage debut
As you can tell by the smiles, members of the Exeter Public School sons who witnessed the two shows were also enthusiastic about the
kindergarten Claes were enthusiastic about their appearance in the perfortnancee.
centennial program presented at the Scheel last week. The 650 per. T-A photo
CHALLENGES MacNAUGHTON
Brigadier Smith has wasted
little time in attacking the Hon.
C. S. MacNaughton, who will
presumably be his opposition if
the retired army man wins the
nomination.
In a prepared letter he had the
following to say regarding the
burden of local taxation:
"In the Ontario Legislature
the Liberal Leader Robert Ntxon
charged the Government with
failure to relieve the municipal-
ities of part of the burden of
increased educational costs. He
advocated that the Province as-
sume 80 percent of the school
taxes, leaving 20 percent to be
borne by the local taxpayer.
"The Provincial Treasurer,
Mr. Charles MacNaughton, has
countered this in a spate of
election euphoria in London that
this could mean a rise of 16
percent in the persOnal income
tax. This is enough to Make one
shudder. If we assume that Mr.
MacNaughton is correct in this
figure, hewever, he undoubtedly
means only the Ontario portion
of the income tax.
"A look at the tables we are
studying for the April 30 dead-
line for tax returns shows that
this would mean an increase of
under $4 in a $100 tax payment,
arid under $16 in a $600 tax.
"Moreover, should our pro-
vincial Scrooge impose this ad-
dition, why should he not realize
that this will allow the munic-
ipalities to gain additional re-
venue from our land tax, holding
the gain froth the reduction in
the school portion for the spiral-
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MORGAN SMITH
seeks nomination
Alcohol leads
to jail stays
Huron County Jail at Goderich
is to have an additional turnkey.
On recommendation of the Prop-
erty Committee, county council
Monday decided to advertise for
one.
Carl Dalton, seaforth, reported
that the Committee had made a
tour of the jail and had discussed
matters with the Governor, R.
W. Bell.
Governor Bell reported to
County Council Monday that 260
prisoners had been admitted dur-
ing 1066, of whom 126 or nearly
half were there on charges con-
nected with liquor, theft and
breaking and entering accounted
for 30 other cases.
He stated that the cost of daify
rations for each prisoner was
58,98 cents.
CHOP BUDGET
Council also rejected by a 22
to 15 vote, a recommendation of
the county Board of Health that
$41,000 be added to the budget
to finance the expansion of the
geriatric (medicine concerned
with old age and its diseases)
service and the inauguration of
a mental health service under
the auspices of Huron County
Health Unit.
Representatives from Exeter,
Hensall, and the townships of
Stephen, Usborne and Stanley
supported the proposal from this
area, while Hay and Tuckersmith
Township men voted against it.
The budget of Huron County
Health Unit, as proposed orig-
inally, amounted to $180,250, ap-
proximately $41,000 more than a
year ago, which would have gone
principally to finance the pro-
posed new features of the health
service,
The report of the Board of