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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1967-04-06, Page 1The first day at school Takes some deep concentration Canners claim reduced grant unjust and against agreement Canadian Canners L i m it ed have balked at Exeter council's attempt to reduce their share of the cost of operating the effluent disposal system at the local can- ning plant for the 1967 season. At their last meeting, council approved emotion reducing their grant to Canadian Canners to $4,000. They had paid $6,500 in 1966 and company officials had asked for the same amount. T. V, McGinn, secretary-trea- surer of the firm, said the $4,- 000 contribution is "unaccept- able to our company". He then referred to the agree- ment signed by council in 1959 when Exeter agreed to pay the ent.re cost of handling the effluent at the plant. He pointed out four articles from the 1959 agreement which were as follows: 1959, the town has contributed about $40,000 to the cost of handling the plant's effluent, "It can't go on indefinitely," commented Councillor RosS Tay- lor, who last week spoke against giving the firm even the $4,000. Some members appeared to be of the opinion that the 1959 con. tract would have to be taken be- fore the courts to see if it could be broken. The matter was tabled after more discussion and council de- cided to get legal advice from their solicitor in regards to the action they should take. Artic10 2; "The Town hereby agrees at its own expense to con- struct a lagoon or spray irriga- tion system on the said lands, to be approved by the OWRC, with sufficient capacity to take care of the requirements of the company", Article 4: "The Town agrees at its own expense to assume full responsibility for the disposal of the waste water and/or efflu- ent through the lagoon or spray irrigation system or other meth- ods approved by the OWRC and to spray the stack and seepage with chemicals to be supplied by the company, and the Town agrees to assume all responsibility in regard to odour eminating from the pea and corn stack and waste water disposal system, and to indemnify and save the company harmless therefrom''. Article 5: "The Town agrees A group of 32 Usborne township youngsters this week became part of studies in preparation for Grade 1 next September has been formed. an "experiment" being tried at the township's central scb401. A In the above picture, a portion of the new class are having a good beginner's class in which the boys and girls attend full day classes look at a couple of permanent residents of the school, "Rob" and from Easter to the end of June instead of half-day kindergarten "Plus Petite", a pair of pet rabbits. T-A photo Ninety-third Year EXETER, ONTARIO, APRIL 6, 1967 Price Per Copy IS Cents Hay wants names of dump offenders Hensall asks big increase Would by new truck Exeter council's threat to lock their dump becau s e township residents were dumping trash indiscriminately around the premises was discussed at Hay Township council's meeting, Monday. The Exeter dump is located in Hay, and they had been advised at all times to operate the lagoon or spray irrigation system to the satisfaction of the OWRC if, as and when required by the com- pany, and for the exclusive use of the company." Article 8; This agreement shall enure to and be binding upon the parties hereto as well as their respective successors and as- signs". In his letter to Mayor Del- bridge, Mr. McGinn noted the company has relieved the town to a great extent by providing capital dollars to handle the plant's ef- fluent disposal and therefore "we must consider it most unjust and in violation of our mutual agree- ment" for the town to expect to provide less than full payment of the operating costs of the system. He said the company's out-of- pocket operating expenses in 1966 amounted to $6,813 with the town repaying $6,500 of this expense. In view of anticipated increases in costs, he said the company had to ask council's reconsidera- tion of their plan to reduce the grant and to authorize a like payment of $6,500 for the operat- ing season 1967. He concluded by saying the company was "unprepared" for the letter advising that council had decided to reduce the grant in violation of the 1959 agree- ment. Cattle again on highway •Nim Price increases of eight-fold! That's what two area townships have been asked to meet in their fire retainers fees with the Vil- lage of Hensall. GOT NAILED In reference to the 1959 con- tract, Councillor Joe Wooden said the town "got nailed", and it was time the contract was brought to an end. He said it was grossly unfair that taxpayers had to subsidize the company's operation. "The ratepayer has to pay to remove his sewage," Wooden said, adding that the company had an obligation to dispose of their waste at their own ex- pense. It was estimated that since Townships buck fire retainer the Hensall request was just an "opener" for bargaining. "I don't think they expect us to pay that much," Reeve Elgin. Thompson stated. Another meeting between the parties is planned for May 11. Reeve Noakes stated it may take four or five meetings before the matter is settled. The present agreement does not terminate until October, al- though the new hourly rates come into effect as of April 1. ades are asked to stand on call when trucks in other communities are out fighting district fires. Township officials were re- ported to have pointed out that the suggested retainers would pay for a new truck within 10 years, but that Hensall would still own the truck. They said It may be a better idea for them to con- sider purchasing their own truck. At the Tuckersmith council meeting, Tuesday, members of council expressed the opinion that Stephen considers Crediton fire hall Students win scholarship's Veterans boost Centennial Members of Exeter Legion branch 167 along with the Legion's Women's Auxiliary are underwriting the cost of the pavilion now being constructed in Riverview Park as a part of the town's Cen- tennial project. The total cost of the pavilion which will be dedicated to the memory of all who gave their lives for Canada is expected to be about $5,000 and most of this amount has already been donated. In the above picture, Ladies Auxiliary president Mrs. Peg Hunter- Duvar presents a cheque of $600 toCentennial chairman R. E. "Ted" P ooley. T-A photo Three area students have been awarded scholarships granted for university studies by the National Research Council. Dennis Cann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carman Cann, RR 3 Exeter, has been awarded a $3,000 stu- dentship to continue his studies at the University of Alberta. He is working towardd his doc- torate in science and this is the third year he has been awarded a grant from the Research coun- cil. Terry Daynard, Staffa, has been given a $3,000 studentship to continue his studies for his doctorate in crop science at the University of Guelph. He received a similar award last year. Terry is the son of Rev, and Mrs. Bert Daynard, Staffa. The third student to be award- ed funds from the council is Janis Gulens, Dashwood. He will receive $2,500 to commence his studies in chemistry at the Uni- versity of Toronto. He will graduate from the U of T this spring and will start work on his doctorate. A graduate of SHDHS, Janis is the son of Dr. V. and Dr. M. Gulens, Dashwood. Acting on a request from the trustees of the police village of Crediton, Stephen township coun- cil Tuesday authorized clerk Wil- mar D. Wein to explore the means of financing a proposed new fire hall for the village. Wein will be contacting the Ontario Municipal Board on the possibility of obtaining an amount of up to $8,000 on debentures to construct new facilities fc,ir Crediton's fire brigade. The present small fire hall on main street is unable to house the one fire truck owned by the village and an additional 1,650 gallon tank truck that was ac- quired several months ago. Purchase of the tanker was necessitated by the removal of several fire wells during the county road construction through The requests were made known at a special meeting, Wednesday, attended by officials from Hen- sall and the Townships of Us- borne, Stanley, Tucker sm it h, Hibbert and Hay. The five townships agreed to meet new hourly rates for the services of Hensall's volunteer brigade, but they appear to be a long way from settling over the retainer fees. The hourly rates were sub- stantially increased from $50 for the first hour to $80 and th e charge is now $50 for each sub- sequent hour. Previously it was $25. Retainer fees suggested by Hensall were $1,000 per year for Hay and Tuckersmith and $500 for Stanley, Usborne and Hibbert. At the present time Hay and Tuckersmith pay $125 and the other three pay $75. Following the meeting, Hensall Reeve Minnie Noakes wouldn't release the retainer charges ask- ed. However, she would say they constituted a "substantial rise" and that some of the township delegates thought they were quite out of line. However, she said "they don't seem out of line to we who pro- vide the service". She explained that firemen's salaries have been boosted con- siderably since the previous re- tainers were set quite a few years ago. They were doubled just this year. Mrs. Noakes also reported depreciation and repair costs were increasing. Hensall okay permits for home alterations The cattle are out again! That should be taken into con- sideration by area drivers, who have enjoyed several months of not having to worry about cattle straying onto the roads. This year's first accident in- volving cattle took place Friday, when Gerald Wayne Shantz, RR 3 Zurich, struck a cow on Highway 84, about one mile east of Zurich, at 8:05 p.m. He had been travelling west on the highway and due to the lights of oncoming traffic, fail- ed to notice some cows which had wandered onto the highway. He attempted to get stopped, but skidded into one of the animals and damaged his car in an amount estimated at $300 by OPP Constable Ed Wilcox. The cow, owned by Carl Deck- er, RR 3 Zurich, sustained an injured neck. The only other accident of the week was investigated by Con- stable Harvey Beyer on Sunday at 11:40 a.m. Involved were Roy Sherman Irving, CFBSummerside, P.E.I., and Donald Carl Coughlin, Blyth. Coughlin had been southbound when his vehicle drifted into the northbound lane and hit the rear of the Irving car. Total damage was listed at ,$125. TAKE FIRST DIP! Two Grand Bend area youths have claimed the title to the first swimmers to enter Lake Huron in this centennial year. Geordie Laughton and Martha Kneale dove into the chilling waters of Beach 0' Pines, Fri- day. Crediton in 1965. Two petitions for municipal drain construction were accepted and will be forwarded to Gamsby and Mannerow of Guelph, township drainage engineers. One was from Harry Gielen and Stephen Dietrich for work to be done on parts of lots 11 and 12, Con- cession 9 and the other was from a large number of resi- dents of King Street north in Crediton. Considerable flooding has been occurring in most of the homes on the west side of the street named. Council concurred with a reso- lution from the townships of Morris and East Wawanosh pro- testing the system of taxation and method of distribution of grants according to the Ontario Libraries Act. The resolution pointed out that rural municipalities are contri- buting much more money than their urban neighbours and asked that collection and distribution of moneys for grant purposes be done entirely on a per capita basis or entirely on an assess- ment basis. In other business, council: Decided to call tenders for the supply of about 100 tons of liquid calcium and the necessary amount of weed spray for the year's operations. Instructed the clerk to inquire from neighbouring municipalities as to the penalty and interest rates charged on tax arrears. Stephen now charges 2% for ini- tial penalty and 1/2% per month interest. Boiling point is questioned In a move that suggests spring is really here to stay, a number of Hensall residents are making improvements and renovations to their properties. At Monday's regular meeting, council approved five applica- tions for building permits. Mel- ville Traquair, Wilmer Fergu- son, John Link and Mrs. Mary McAllister were given per- mission to go ahead with interior alterations to their houses. that if the dump was locked it could result in people throwing trash on the township roads and this would then be Hay's re- sponsibility. Exeter councillors indicated they had witnessed residents of Hay dumping trash at the gate, rather than carting it back into the dump as requested. Hay Township instructed Clerk W. H. Brokenshire to advise Exeter that they are to give the names of all Hay Township per- sons using the Exeter dump and Hay will contact these persons to try and rectify the matter. They also pointed out Hay residents had their own dump located only a few miles north and west of the Exeter dump at "Dixie", and requested they use it. At the meeting, Hay concurred with a resolution from the town- ship of Morris asking that library costs be collected and distributed on a per capita basis or entirely on an assessment basis so urban and rural municipalities pay the same amounts. At present, distribution of grants is made on a per capita basis and costs are levied ac- cording to assessment. It was explained that an urban municipality with a population of 3,000 pays $1,400 for library services and a rural municipality of only 1,500 population pays $1,500. Council also expressed their formal opposition to any further erection of buildings for habita- tion on the portion of Hay Town- ship that lies between Lake Hur- on and the bank. This means that no cottages will in future be allowed below the bank. At present there are some cottages below the high cliffs and these create certain prob- lems the township hopes to avoid. They authorized the Hensall District Co-Op to instal a 500- gallon gas tank and electric pump at the township shed. The Co-op supplies gas for the grader. On Friday, Hay council had a special drains meeting when first and second readings were given to the Eacret, Jacobs and North — Please turn to Page 3 project The fifth request was from the Hensall District Co-Opera- tive to erect and install a set of scales and steel tanks. Reeve Mrs. Minnie Noakes will represent Hensall at the Mayors and Reeves convention to be held in Niagara Falls May 14 to 17. Clerk Earl Campbell was in- structed to send all tax arrears to the County of Huron clerk's office for collection. Council agreed to hire John Jarrott to replace Ernie Davis as caretaker for a short period while Davis is recuperating from an operation. Davis who handles the duties of road foreman, village police officer and caretaker of the town hall was granted a car allowance of $300 annually in addition to his regular salary. Several months ago he had asked for an increase After learning Mayor Del- bridge had been invited to the annual Maple Syrup Festival in Elmira this weekend, Reeve Boyle wanted to know if he was going to enter a boiling contest with other mayors. "You boil pretty easy," the Reeve chided. "Not a bit easier than you do," Mayor Delbridge replied quickly, "I'd bet on you, Jack," Coun- cillor Ross Taylor stated in end- ing the good-natured ribbing. MAIN REASON One of the main reasons for the suggested boost is to enable Hensall to purchase a new fire truck. Officials of the townships were told that this would be done if they agreed to the new terms. It was pointed out that Hensall had to consider their own rate- payers first, and when the present truck was out of the village it had no protection. Under the new set- up they would 'have a truck on standby. Hensall does not belong to the Huron County Mutual Aid System, whereby neighboring fire brig- Move to GB in May Produce per month Aviation firm will employ 50 While the area has lost the men who fly the airplanes, they're gaining some who make them. Found Brothers Aviation Ltd., announced this week they have completed arrangements with E a g l e son Construction, Grand Bend, to move their aircraft manufacturing plant to the former RCAF base in Stephen Township near the resort. The firm became interested in the area several months ago and had decided to move to one of the abandoned hangars at CFB Cen- tralia, but were unable to reach satisfactory arrangements with the federal government. After news reports revealed the firm's decision to look else- where, they were contacted by Gerry Eagleson and invited to explore the possibilities of mov- ing into the premises at Grand Bend. H. N. Shoji, CoMpany presid- ent, advised that the firm would be taking over the large hangar previously used by the RCAF', as well as a smaller hanga.r which is presently being added to by the Eaglesons. The firm plans to start its move from its present location in Rexdale around the end of May and it is expected theY *111 be in production from one to two Months after that. About 50 employees are to be on staff this year, but as yet the firm has not been able to deter- mine how many of those will be present employees coming from the Toronto area. However, Mr. Shoji indicated about two-thirds of the Toronto staff had indicated they would move with the firm to Grand Bend. Members of the Grand Bend and Area Chamber of Commerce visited company officials yester- day to assist them in arranging Recover loot from breakin mann said the company is just the kind of industry the village has been looking for, one that will not be too large, but which will provide a base for modest population increases in the per- manent population of the resort area. The population has dropped considerably in the resort in recent years due to the removal of the army camp from Ipper- wash, and to an extent, the loss of CFB Centralia. In 1962 the permanent popula- tion was 906 and Clerk Murray A. DesJardins reveals last year's figure was only 662. Much of the loot from a No- vember 23 breakin at the Cen- tralia Post Office was recover- ed this week. A mail bag containing money order s, hunting permits and stamps was found near the CNR crossing on the Mt. Carmel Road by two teenagers, Jim and Bill Dickey, RR 1 Centralia. Police believe the mail bag had been tossed there shortly after the theft and had become buried in the snow. Value of the goods and cash taken from the post office was $10,000. Most of It was'recov- ered. New manager for local office Canadian Canners Limited an- nounced this week that Wilf H. Beattie has been appointed office supervisor at the Exeter plant. He comes to Exeter from Boese Foods Ltd. in St. Catharines, a subsidiary of Canadian Canners. He worked in the Exeter plant In 1963 and then moved to Pentic- ton, B.C., prier to gOing to Boese Foods. Mr. Beattie succeeds Bob Hafekost, who has accepted a position with the Unemployment Insurance Commission in tend- on. housing accommodation in the district. "We can hardly wait to get there," Mr. Shoji said this week in reference to the planned move to the area. He said he was extremely pleased the firm had been able to find a new home for their operations. Anticipated production at the Grand Bend plant will be four aircraft per month. Mr. Shoji described his firm's aircraft as a six-place utility craft and due to the fact it has only been put into production re- cently, it is appropriately called the "Centennial Model 100". It is a "working" plane, used primarily for freight, personnel, charter and possible lands and forests use. It is a single engine, high wing design. Mr. Shoji indicated the firm,'s requirement for personnel from this area may be definite in the next week and will probably be advertised in The Time s-Ad- vocate, He said there would probably be some openings for unskilled, semi-skilled and office workerS. Anyone hired from the area Would possibly be taken to Rex- dale for an orientation period prior to the move to Grand Bend. Grand Bend Reeve Or.' Wass- Crokinole was one of the modes of entertainment at last week's cen- tennial family night staged by the 14urondale 4-H Homemaking clubs at the Exeter Legion, The girls and their families also enjoyed square dancing. Dale Passmore, seated left, is shown bending to the task of removing a couple of opposition buttons, while he gets plenty of moral support from the OnleckerS. T-A phOto 1 •