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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1967-04-20, Page 3Plan big clean,-up Fur ther vandalism at the wash- rooms at Exeter's town hall led to a suggestion that the facilities be closed, Monday, However, Councillor Joe Wooden didn't receive much sup- port for his recommendation, although all members agreed the situation was almost impossible. The washrooms had been clos- ed for some time due to the costs of damage created. They were reopened on a "trial basis" after complaints had been received over the closing. "We opened them on a trial basis and I think we should close them up and forget about them," Wooden commented, after Dep- uty-Reeve Mery Cudmore re- ported two toilets in the men's washroom had been broken and the door kicked in. Reeve Boyle said he thought the town was obligated to provide public toilets, but Mayor Del- bridge said they weren't obligat- ed to put up with this type of nonsense. "It would be nice to catch someone and stick their head in it," the Mayor replied, and after noting members looking to see if that comment was be- ing written down, Mayor Del- bridge turned to T-A editor Bill Batten and said: "you can print that, because I'd like to do it." Members decided to have the property committee repair the recent damage. Predict 15 mill hike for Grand Bend tax the old contract and will be providing stenographic, t el e- phone and other services as in previous years. Mason said he was well satis- fied with the alterations made to the present poliee station to ac- commodate the extra force com- ing in, The village's fire fight- ing equipment is being moved within the next week to the new fire hall constructed near the present PUC building. In regard to further police matters, Clerk DesJardins was instructed to contact opp of- ficials requesting clarification of several questions. Discuss committee report Members of the Ausable River Conservation Authority, and area councillors, met in Lucan Friday to discuss the recent select committee report on Conservation Authorities. From the left are: Charles Corbett, Lucan, chairman for the program; Hal Hooke, former ARCA field officer who was technical advisor to the select committee; Fred Dobbs, Exeter, ARCA member; Lloyd Hendrick, Hay Township councillor. — T-A photo Lay charges against youth Council decides to leave Canners grant at $4,000 Joseph Robert Regier Jr., RR 3 Dashwood, has been charged with dangerous driving and care- less driving as the result of an accident on April 8 that claimed the life of his neighbor, Dennis McCann. Regier was the driver of a car which left County Road 2 about one mile south of Dashwood and clipped off two poles. McCann was a passenger in the car and was pronounced dead at the scene. Inspector Mason of the district provincial police office in Cnat- ham was in attendance at the Meeting to clear up a few matters concerning the take-over of the village policing by the OPP, Mason reported that G rand Bend would be relieved of pay- ments on the contract now in force with the Provincial Police Commission at the end of April. Present OPP Constable Brian Leigh would continue at his post until the 24 man force comes, and then after the summer seas- on the resort will he on a 24 hour service from the Forest detach- ment. When questioned as to the mat- ter of policing the beach and en- forcing the closing bylaw that restricts beach occupation at 3 a.m., Mason replied "that we don't enforce bylaws, but you can rest assured we will police the beach and if it comes to a tech- nicality, the Criminal Code will take care of loitering. We will have enough men to police the beach and we will do it right." Grand Bend is one of five Ontario summer resorts that have been offered free policing by the OPP. The others are Port Stanley, Wasaga Beach, Crystal Beach and Bala. The village won't see much change in their police costs for 196'7 as they have already paid for four months service under Grand Bend has pasSed a by- law reducing the speed limit to 25 m.p.h. on all village streets, but apparently OPP officers won't enforce the new regulation. Wassmann commented, "our new limit was approved by the depart- ment of Transport, so should be enforced by provincial person- nel," In other business, council: Learned from Councillor Doug- las Martin that the village dump located south of Grand Bend is now open every morning, Monday to Saturday, between the hours of 9 and 12 o'clock. Appointed Reeve Wassmann and one councillor to visit Ottawa on April 2'7 or 28 to contact fed- eral authorities on what steps are to be taken in dredging the river. Village fishermen are having considerable trouble getting their boats into the lake. Wassmann said, "we'll have to either sell them on a stand-by dredge unit or on some method of permanent protection." Agreed that the village would adopt daylight saving time on Sunday, April 30 at 2 a.m. and would revert to standard time in the fall at the same time as Exeter and Forest so as to avoid confliction for students attending high school at the two towns. Accepted the applicationof Mrs. Vera Rue to supervise the operation of the bath house for the summer months. Hear marriage experts CLEAN-UP At the urging of several mem- bers, council decided to conduct a mammoth garbage pickup in the next two weeks similiar to the type of "centennial cleanup" pro- ject recently held in London. Residents on the west side of town may leave any type of refuge -- Please turn to page 8 Although the mill rate will not be set until some time in May, taxpayers of Grand Bend will be facing a sharp increase on their 1967 municipal taxes, possibly 15 mills. At Monday's mid month meet- ing, clerk Murray A. DesJardins presented the requisitions re- ceived from the elementary and secondary school boards that educate children of the summer resort. The largest rise is in the levy to he paid to the Stephen Town- ship school area, of which Grand Bend is now a part, A year ago, GB ratepayers paid a fairly low mill rate of 9 mills for public school purposes and this will be up to 18.3 mainly because of debentures incurred in the con- struction of the new Stephen Cent- ral school, west of Crediton. While Grand Bend's share of debentures will be $17,554.65, their maintenance payment will be $16,726.01, which is a de- crease of more than $3,500 from 1966. Grand Bend residents living on the north side of main street and directing their high school taxes to South Huron in Exeter will pay five mills more than they did in 1966. South of the dividing line, ratepayers sending their children to Forest district high school will find a decrease of about a half mill. In discussing tax probabilities, Reeve Orval Wassmann said he was quite sure the mill rate supplying the funds for village business would remain the same. While the Lambton county rate has not been finalized, Wassmann said he expected a rise of only one mill. About 200 at seminar Okay floral park crest Despite protests from Cana- dian Canners Limited, Exeter council this week decided to up- hold their previous intention of reducing their grant to the local canning firm for the operation of their effluent disposal system. A month ago council voted to reduce the grant to $4,000 from the previous figure of $6,500. Company officials had requested the grant of $6,500 this year also. After being advised of coun- cil's first decision to reduce the grant, T. V. McGinn, secretary- treasurer of the firm, said the $4,000 contribution was "unac- ceptable to our company". He pointed out the move was a contravention of the 1959 agree- ment between Canners and coun- cil. At that time, Exeter's coun- cil had agreed to assume the en- tire cost and responsibility for operating the effluent disposal system. It will be erected as soon as possible by the works crew. In other business, council; Learned that $135 had been received from Hay township for the fire brigade's attendance at the recent fire at the Fred Bis- choff property. Were advised the Hon. C. S. MacNaughton has "e very in- tention" of being on hand for the community centennial program on July 1. R. E. McKinley said he did not know whether he could attend because the Queen will be visiting the House of Commons that day and he felt it his duty to represent Huron at that event. Approved membership fees of $10 for Jim paisley to join the Huron Road Superintendent's As- sociation. Learned the department of highways planned to put the fig- ure of 3,200 as Exeter's popu- lation on the entrance signs to the community. Actual popula- tion is only 3,109 but council decided to allow the higher fig- ure to be posted. Were told by Councillor Wright there was still more to do re- garding the appointment of a dog catcher. UP RETAINERS Duplicating a move made by other municipalities, Grand Bend council passed a new bylaw, set- ting up revised fire retainer fees paid by neighboring townships. Under the new regulations, the townships of Stephen and Bosan- quet will be expected to pay an annual fee of $800 while Hay township will be asked to con- tribute $500. The previous agreements sign- ed in 1962 authorized a levy of $300 to be paid by Stephen and Bosanquet and $200 by Hay. The hourly rates charged on each fire call will remain the same as before. The townships will continue to pay $60 for the first hour of each call and $35 for any additional hour fighting a fire. About 200 area residents at- tended Thursday's marriage seminar staged by the South Huron Ministerial Association and most of them had nothing but favorable comments about the program. The Rev. John Boyne said he talked to several of those in at- tendance, and found most of them to be impressed with the infor- mation presented by the various speakers. He said some people assoc- iated with the event were of the opinion it should be continued— possibly on an annual basis. Rev. Boyne said the area min- isters were pleased with the turnout and would be discussing the event at their meeting this week to determine if similar meetings should be staged. a has dated for four years, Dr. Rahn said it was likely that a shorter engagement period would be satisfactory. However, he explained that "something happens upon a definite announcement to get married and this puts a stiffer test on the relationship than when the couple were just dating". He was also asked if better marriages had resulted when they were arranged by parents. His reply was an emphatic "no" and he said such arranged marriages were too often based only on political, economical or class considerations. "Romantic marriages from self selection can be much more satisfying," he replied. Dr. Rahn explained that the divorce rate was increasing and opined that this was due in many cases to the urbanization of the country. It was also stated that divorce rates go up in war time. He said this was due to the fact couples did not know each other well enough, and in the case of urbanization, they did not know each other's parents. He said the ability to enjoy the company of a partner's par- ents was a test for marriage. "If you can't enjoy your date's mother and father, you should consider the fact that your future partner may well expect some of his or her parent's attributes from you," he stated. However, he said some people select partners opposite to their parents to avoid some of the dif- ficulties and heartaches they have seen in their own home life. On a question pertaining to mixed marriages from a relig- ious standpoint, he said this puts more differences in the back- ground of the partners and in their expectations and created more things that had to be talk- ed out fully before marriage -- Please turn to page 8 The program commenced with a talk by Dr. Sheldon Rahn, dean of the graduate school of social work at Waterloo Lutheran Uni- versity. He explained some of the soc- iological factors of marriage to the audience, which ranged from teenagers to grandparents. Dr. Rahn said one of the most important points of marriage was for young people to discuss frankly with their intended life partner what they expected from each other. He said failure to discuss these expectations could lead to prob- lems in the first days of married life. He said people have different expectations and these often re- flected the lives of their parents. To illustrate his point he said a young man could be upset if his mother had been a meticulous housekeeper and his bride was not. The sociologist reported that in some families it was the mother who looked after financial matters, while in others it was the father. In this case, a couple could have conflicts if they did not have a complete under- standing prior to marriage. "The best preventative for marriage breakup is to make every effort to settle little con- flicts as well as big ones and to be open and frank in discussing them", he noted. Dr. Rahn said an engagement period of from 12 to 18 months was recommended so people could get to know each other better and seriously plan the many aspects of married life. "If wedding bells ring too soon, sometimes there will be too many things on which to agree in the first few weeks and the marriage could break up," he noted. When asked from the audience if the 12 to 18 months would be necessary for a couple which A T-A editorial A week to remember This was done until last year, when the company agreed to undertake the operation of the system with the town contribut- ing $6,500. Mr. McGinn noted that the $6,500 did not meet the comp- any's entire costs at that time, and in view of an anticipated cost increase this year, asked council to reconsider and grant the $6,- 500. Councillor George Vriese re- commended council meet the $6,- 500 figure and tell Canadian Can- ners this would be the last money the town would provide for the system. Reeve Boyle agreed with this suggestion, but Councillor Joe Wooden urged that council ask Canadian Canners to send some "authoritative committee" to discuss the matter with a com- mittee of council. However, other members felt this would be a waste of time and an amendment was presented that council "stay with our original offer of $4,000 with no chance of changing it". This amendment was presented by Reeve Boyle and Councillor Taylor and carried by a four to two majority. Councillor Ted Wright, an employee of Canadian Canners, was excused from the vote. The two opposition votes were from the proposers of the motion that a meeting be held withCana- dian Canners officials. "I think there'll be a meeting anyway," Wooden replied after the vote. Back proposal to lower costs Although Reeve Boyle noted it was too late for Exeter, council Monday night endorsed a resolu- tion from the Town of Orange- ville urging the Ontario govern- ment to have basic designs for schools in an effort to reduce costs. The resolution explained such a move could result in savings of up to 50% by having basic plans and also plans that would allow stand- ard additions to be made. However, they did not concur with a further resolution that the province set up a basic wage scale for teachers dependent upon their qualifications and experience. Members didn't think this would be useful due to the fact that teachers' salaries are ris- ing due to a shortage of instruct- ors. "It's a case of supply and demand," Reeve Boyle said. "That's right," commented Councillor Wooden. "Salaries go up because the market dete r- mines them." Mayor Delbridge said the sug- gested move would only take con- trol out of the hands of school boards and put it in the hands of the government, and he suggested this may be worse than the pres- ent situation. CHECK DUMP Council asked Works Superin- tendent Jim Paisley to instruct members of the town crew to keep an eye on trash being dumped in the town's dump in Hay Township to see if letters or other identify- ing material can be found to in- dicate the premises are being used by unauthorized persons. The move came after Hay coun- cil advised they would be pre- pared to take some action against unlawful dumping if Exeter could supply names of offenders. Councillor Joe Wooden sug- gested the police should investi- gate the dump. "This is detective work," he jokingly reported. At the meeting, council also authorized an expenditure of about $180 for fencing to replace the line fence at the dump prop- erty. Exeter's Riverview Park will contain a floral representation of the town crest after all. At their meeting, Monday, council approved an expenditure of $100 to purchase 2,040 plants to create the multi-hued crest. It will be about 40' by 28'. The idea of designing the crest had been dropped after estimates indicated the cost would be be- tween $700 and $800. However, centennial commit- tee secretary Terry McCauley told council Monday the work could be done for the $100 figure by using annuals rather than perennials as previously planned. McCauley indicated he had dis- cussed the matter with an official from the NiagaraParks commis- sion and had been given several good ideas. Such flowers as petunias, marigolds, begonias and other annuals of various colors will be used. McCauley stated it would probably take a man between three and four days to plant them in the shape of the crest. The plants will be planted in the middle of May and the varieties used should retain their flowers until mid-September. Reder's Florists have agreed to provide the plants at whole- sale prices. Depending on the success of the project, McCauley said coun- cil may want to consider in the future having an extension built on the cemetery greenhouse to grow their own plants. At the meeting, council also decided that John Roelofs, a mem- ber of the town work crew, would be employed in the park com- mencing April 24. He will remain on the town's payroll until the centennial committee turn the park over to RAP on July 1 and he will then be placed on the RAP payroll to maintain the park. Two bikes collide, Could drop service of area ambulance three suffer scrapes Recent legislation regarding the operation of ambulances has placed South Huron in danger of losing one of its few present operators, Harry Hoffman, Dash- wood. He said his ambulance service now operates at a loss, and the new legislation requires many more thousands of dollars in equipment and attendants to be expended in order for him to receive a license. He told Exeter council, Mon- day, that the regulations require him to have two-way radio equip- ment, two men on every call and others on stand-by duty. In ad- dition, he reported two of his ambulances have to be replaced and there are stringent regula- tions on the type he must use in the future, making replacement very costly. The Dashwood man appeared before council and detailed his expenses and revenue from last year. His costs worked out to $4,400, while his revenue was $4,500 on 237 calls. However, he said that between $700 and $800 of that revenue was still on the books and there was little hope of getting most of it. Hoffman indicated his only chance to remain in business Was to receive a Subsidy from area municipalities to which he mated at $250. Sunday's first accident took place on County Road 21 between CFB Centralia and the Crediton Road. Larry D. Preszcator, RR 1 Crediton, had been southbound on the county road when his car went into the west ditch, knocked off a hydro pole and slammed into a culvert. Damage to the car was listed at $350 by Constable Lamont. The accident happened at 2:50 a.m. They were friends, neighbors and relatives who arrived on the scene with tractors and chain -saws to start clearing away the mass of -tangled trees and de- bris; men with hammers and nails to start putting shingles and sheeting on roofs which had been left scattered around the countryside; people prepared to do whatever they could to assist the storm victims. The victims worked among them. There was no standing around to com- plain about misfortunes. The words that were spoken were only in thanks that injuries and deaths had not resulted. It was an example of neighborliness at its -best, and which unfortunately is too often displayed only at such times. However, more needs to be done, and the announcement by the govern- ment that they will match dollar for dol- lar every contribution to the victims should be the spur needed to proceed in this regard. Prompted by civic officials, a com- mittee should be established at once to handle donations from those who can give -of their substance to help the vic- tims re-establish their properties. We're certain area banks will act as collection centres, as will any busi- nessmen. But there's more that can be done than just collecting donations from those prepared to make the effort on their own volition. There'll be hundreds of motorists touring the storm area this weekend if the weather is favorable. Perhaps some of the Institutes in the area would con- sider setting up stations along the roads to collect funds from those who are see- ing first hand the devastation. Some area ministers may even con- sider it worthwhile to pass the collection plate an extra time on Sunday to help out. Surely there are those with enough time to walk the streets in area com- munities to collect donations on Satur- day afternoon. There's no doubt that help will come quickly and generously as long as organizations in the areas affected are willing to assume some leadership. We must remember that every dol- lar collected actually represents two dol- lars in view of the government's plan to help. You can't double your money any easier than that. Yes, this week is one that will long be remembered. It can only have pleas- -ant memories for each and every one if we all pitch in to help wherever need- ed — on both -projects, BIKES COLLIDE Three persons received scrapes and minor cuts when two motorcycles collided at 4:00p.m. Sunday on the third and fourth concession of Hay, about one mile north of Highway 84. The bikes were driven by Gord- on Albert Deitz, London, and Sharon L. Whittaker, RR 2 Hen- sall. Edward Funk, RR 2 Hensall, was a passenger on the Deitz ma- chine. Both had been southbound on the concession and collided while one was making a left turn Into a gateway. Damage Was listed at $85 by Constable Lamont. During the week, the OPP in- vestigated nine occurrences and issued 39 warnings under the Highway Traffic Act. Another seven persons were charged under the act and one was charg- ed under the Liquor Control Act. The officers covered 2462 Miles during 74 hours on patrol of area roads. It's very doubtful if there's been a week in our history that has brought tragedy and happiness to so many area residents as this third week of April, 1967. It could well be a week that will never be forgotten, certainly not by those in this generation. Monday was one of the blackest days we have experienced for some time. The awesome power of a tornado left a wake of smashed barns, homes and hopes as it thrashed its way across the district. Now we find that Thursday has brought some of the best news we have experienced for some time as the On- tario government has announced plans to make the former CFB Centralia into an industrial and educational complex. No -two events could be more con- flicting in their reception. There's many a slip twixt the cup and lip, but it is impossible to be other than overwhelmingly optimistic about the boom that can result from the con- sultants' estimates that the dual-purpose project at Centralia could create jobs for 2,250 -persons and provide an annual payroll -of some $11 million for Huron County. This far exceeds the void created by the loss of Centralia and is something that communities can only dream about. Time alone will tell how successful the program will be, but it should be noted that -these estimates were considered on a "low-level development". Equally encouraging is the fact this will be considered a pilot project by the Ontario Development Corporation. This suggests every effort will be made to make it a success so they can move on to duplicate this effort in other rural areas which have not shared in Ontario's outstanding industrial growth. While the announcement will, for some, overshadow the plight of some area residents as a result of Monday's devastation, there is every indication that this will be the exception rather than the rule. In fact, we envision it prompting all residents of the area to quickly come to the aid of those who lost so much; something similar to an expression of thanks for the good fortune that has be- fallen. This has already been. in evidence as a trip through the storm's wake vivid- ly depicted. The area was inundated With traffic on Tuesday, but this time it wasn't the curious or the worried who were darting in and out of farms as it was Monday. 'tem' atasigsmegemeasevawasekum The first taste of summer weather brought droves of driv- ers onto area highways Sunday, but OPP at Exeter report only two accidents. However, drivers were involv- ed in three others during the week and total damage was listed at almost $1,500. On Wednesday, two cars col- lided at the main intersection in Crediton and resulted in damage estimated at $300 by Constable Dale Lamont. Involved were Donald G. Averill and Lloyd Hey, both of Crediton. Averill was westbound on the Crediton Road and Hey was pro- ceeding north through the inter- section. The front of the Averill car caught the rear of the other vehicle. Mrs. Lloyd Hey, a passenger in her husband's car, was shaken up in the mishap, which took place at 8:15 p.m. On Friday at 11:40 a.m., Con- stable Harvey Beyer was called to the scene of a crash on High- way 84, about two and a half miles west of Tomo. It involved a truck driven by Lloyd Edward Mousseau, RR 2 Hensall, and a tractor driven by Samuel Oesch, Hensall. Mousseau was eastbOund on Highway 84 and Oesch Was pro- ceeding across the intersection at the 14th and 15th concession of Hay. Mousseau attempted to pull around the tractor, but it caught the rear of his truck. Damage, mostly to the truck, was esti- However, one of the figures he mentioned was four times more than that alone. He said he would need about eight men to comply with the regulations, and at a salary of $60 per week this would work out to $24,960. Members of council were naturally flabbergasted! "We are concerned," Coun- cillor Joe Wooden stated. "We have to retain ambulance ser- vice." "We certainly can't afford to let the service go," replied Reeve Boyle. After further discussion, which resulted in no concrete figures being presented, council advised Hoffman they were certainly pre- pared to help in some manner and suggested after he has met with other area councils he should call a joint meeting or make some specific proposals. Other communities to which he has written are: Grand Bend, Usborne, Hay, Stephen, Bosan- quet and McGillivray, Ile told Council he didn't know what the answer Was to the prob- lem, but said it was a clear matter of dollars and cents. "If area dorninutlities don't CO,- Operate he could be forced to drop the service and there would be no ambulance in the area," Reeve Boyle Stated, provides a service. Under the legislation, he can receive such subsidies and the municipality receives 50% of their subsidy back from the gov- ernment. "It sounds like we have to help you out, or you quit," stated Reeve Boyle. Hoffman said this about sum- med up the situation. Members of council were criti- cal of the new legislation and Councillor Wright said the gov- ernment was unfair in putting small, rural operators in the same position as large city am- bulance services. Hoffman agreed, noting that the people who would suffer were the public, because the new legis- lation could force several oper- ators out of business. He said some have already stated they will be forced to drop their service, and he said that residents involved in accidents in those areas wouldn't have ambulance service. When asked if he had any pro- posal as to how much the area communities would have to con- tribute, he said he did note The figure Of 80 cents per capita was mentioned, and be- cause he serves an estimated population of about 10A0 peo-, pre, this would give him $8,- 000,