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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1967-06-01, Page 1Three injured when car Of James Gardiner, RR 1 Kirk- ton, to extinguish a blaze that threatened two barns, A pile of tree stamps and brush had been set afire near the barn and sparks were carried by the wind onto the roof of a nearby shed. Mr. Gardiner, who has had several severe fires in recent years, managed to douse the blaze on the small shed before firemen arrived and no damage was done. Firemen doused the bonfire to prevent it from creating further danger. To teach Latin Will teach Miss Carol Anne Brown, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross L. Brown, RR 3 Parkhill, will re- ceive her BA degree today (June 1) at UWO convocation exercises. The former SHIDSIS graduate has accepted a position with the Dur- ham County District High School Board of Education to teach at Port Hope. Miss Sharon G. McBride, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mc- Bride, received her degree in Honours French and Latin on Tuesday, May 30 from the Uni- versity of Western Ontario. She has accepted a position at Sault Ste, Marie Collegiate teaching Grade 12 and 13 Latin as well as Grade 10 French. Veterinarian A graduate of SHDHS, Douglas George Thiel, attained his degree from the Ontario Veterinary Col- lege in Guelph recently, He will be associated with the South Huron Veterinary Clinic in Zurich. The Zurich youth is the son of Mrs. Alice Thiel and the late Earl Thiel. He is also a graduate of Western Ont. Agricultural School. Fire shortly before noon Wed, nesdarcompletely levelled a large barn on the farm of Andrew Diepstraten, just south of Dash- Wood. Da.shwood firemen answered the call, but the blaze was out of control before they arrived on the scene, One fireman said the barn was 'ta ball of fire" when they pulled up. Sparlcs from the blaze and the intense heat also started a fire on a large driving shed on the property, but the firemen were able to bring it under control with only damage to the roof. Mr. Diepstraten estimated his loss in the neighborhood of $20,- 000. He said the loss was partially covered by insurance. The building was an L-shape and one section measured 70' by 40' and the other was 40' by 40'. Included in the loss was a recently built milking parlour section and a bulk milk tank, along with about 110 pigs, a quantity of straw and feed. Mr. Diepstraten was working on another farm in the lake area when the fire broke out. It was discovered by his wife, who had just returned from downtown. The owner was notified by a neighbor, but when he arrived the barn was completely engulf- ed. Onlookers stated the building was levelled in less than an hour. Wins fellowship Douglas Hodgson, Exeter, has accepted a four-year fellowship to study international politics at Columbia University in New York city. He graduated from the honors political science course at the University of Toronto, completing his fourth year with first class honors, The son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hodgson, he won four scholarships in his third year and this year was given an honorable mention for a Woodrow Wilson scholarship. UWO graduate mrs. Robert Becker, the former Bonnie Turvey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Turvey, Exeter and a SHDHS graduate, received her Bachelor of Arts degree at Convocation exercises at UWO on Tuesday, May 30. Mrs. Becker has accepted a position on the teaching staff of Ingersoll Dist- rict High School. Attains degree Miss Sharon Elizabeth Mills, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Mills, London, an d granddaughter of Mrs. Lawrence Mills, graduated from UWO this year. She attended Winchelsea Public School, Ushorriet and Oak- ridge Secondary School, London. She plans to attend Althouse Col- lege of Education in September. Ninety-third Year Price Per Copy 15 Cents EXETER, ONTARIO, JUNE 1, 1967 Blaze destroys Dashwood barn SAVE BARN On Friday afternoon, Exeter firemen were called to the farm No settlement on Centralia Reeve blames 'careless' school spending Final settlement between the provincial and federal govern- ments on the disposition of CFB Centralia has still not bee n reached it was learned this week. However, it is expected in the near future. Rumors circulating in the area this week that Airforce person- nel at the base had been granted an extension on the use of their homes was reported as unfound- ed by S/L Jack Malone, former detachment commander at Cen- tralia. He said the military personnel were still expected to terminate their residency in the PMQ area by July 31. However, it was in- dicated that if the provincial government does take over the base, the Ontario Development Corporation may rent houses to the personnel staying in the area to work at CFB London and CFB Clinton. S/1., Malone leaves Centralia this week to take up duties in the personnel branch at CFB Ottawa. WOl E. H. Knoblauch, will become site co-ordinator on behalf of CFB Clinton, who have now taken over control of the operations at Centralia. Fifteen service personnel and 19 civilians are still working at Centralia. Plans to teach GB tax rate takes big jump BUS After some last minute ad- justment, Grand Bend council Monday night approved the 1967 budget as prepared by clerk Mur- ray A. DesJardins and set the mill rate on which the 1967 tax collections will be made. Due entirely to the increase in elementary and se condary school requisitions, the tax rate on the south side of the Bend will be up 8.5 mills for residential assessment and '7.3 mills for commercial property, to respec- tive figures of 87.5 and 93.8 mills. Property owners on the north side of main street will be pay- ing 89.9 on residential and 96.5 for commercial. These figures are up by 12.4 and 13.5 mills, respectively. The difference in rates from one side of the road to the other is the 4.6 increase In the levy Miss Sharon Faulder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Faulder, RR 2 Ailsa Craig has graduated from London Teachers' College and will be teaching with the London Public School Board. for north side owners contribut- ing to South Huron District High School in Exeter while the North Lambton school rate affecting south side owners came down 1.3 mills. The largest increase is in the requisition as presented by the Stephen township school area board. The public school mill rate in Grand Bend for 1967 will be 17.6 as opposed to 9 mills a year ago. This may be a bit misleading as the school rate last year should have been 13.5 but was reduced by using a bal- ance of a surplus that the pre- vious Grand Bend school board had built up over the years, In 1965 Grand Bend ratepayers were not charged any public school rate because of this surplus. In commenting on the tax rate, Reeve Orval Wassmann said, I want it clearly understood that the increase is due entirely to " care- less" school spending and that the municipal rate which gives coun- cil the money to work with re- mains the same. Our capital ex- penditures this year which cover our new fire hall, lights on the beach and police station renova- tions are being taken care of by current monies at no extra cost to the ratepayers." However, while the school costs have pushed the budget up this year, they're not much higher than they were in 1962. That year the school tax on residential property was 15.6 mills and 16.6 for commercial. They rose again in 1963 to 16.2 and 18.0 respectively, mak- ing this year's figures only 1.5 mills over those. After the lengthy budget and tax rate debate, council instruct- ed clerk DesJardins to write the three neighboring municipalities that have fire retainer agre e- ments with Grand Bend making it clear that if their 1967 fees are not paid by June 15, the services of the Grand Bend vol- unteer fire brigade will be dis- continued. Some time ago, GB council had notified the townships of Bosanquet, Hay and Stephen of an increase in fire retainer rates. The request had asked Bosanquet and Stephen for annual payments — Please turn to Page 2 Pool supporter cuts down debt Grants provide little aid on HS The recent change in grant structure announced by the de- partment of education will have little effect on costs pertaining to the new addition at SHDHS. Business Administrator W. D. Burton received clarification on the new grant structure last week and reported it would amount to a saving of less than $1,000 per year for area taxpayers. One of the reasons the grant structure has little effect on the addition is the fact it has already received substantial grants from both the federal and provincial grants. The tax saving over the next 20 years on the $574,000 deb- enture issue will be about $15,- 000, Burton explained this week. Heavy penalties given at resort Magistrate W. S. Pearson of Sarnia has served notice that carousers at Grand Bend will pay heavily for their revelry. At court in the resort, Thurs- day, he levied fines of $100 and costs for liquor offenses and a minimum of $200 for charges such as creating a disturbance. To further stiffen the penalty for law-breaking, Magistrate Pearson said there would be no time to pay the fine — guilty pers- ons either have the money when they appear in court or they land up in jail for, 15 days on liquor charges and 30 days on disturb- ance charges. "People who come to this part of the province must obey the law just like everyone else," the magistrate commented. Twenty-four young men found out about the liquor charges and another five were hit with tines for creating a disturbance. One area youth was charged with creating a disturbance, but pleaded guilty and was given time to secure a lawyer. Charged is Gary Overholt, Centralia. Charged with liquor infractions were Ronald Raymond Broderick, Exeter and Robert Atkinson, RR 1 Centralia. They each paid $100 and costs. Despite the heavy fines in last week's court, the OPP still had a busy weekend. They charged an- other 20 persons over the week- end, although the holiday season has not bit high gear as yet. Stay curtailed, but he's not complaining New principal John Ziler, who graduated with honors this year from London Teachers' College has accepted the position as principal of the Precious Blood Separate School, Exeter. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ziler, RR 1 Dash- Car rams area school bus Six of the area students on the Exeter Coach Lines bus hit by a car on Highway 4, Friday, survey the damage to the vehicle. From the left are; Fred Brock, Russell Pfaff, Paul McKnight, George Blyde, Kevin Pfaff and Bob Parsons. One student received a gash on the forehead, while the two occupants of the car were more seriously injured and were taken to London hospitals. The vehicle driven by Mrs. Patricia Argyle is shown below. T-A photos wood. While some young men jointhe armed forces to see the world, Cpl. Don Jermyn of the Royal Canadian Engineers didn't appear disappointed that his first trip abroad lasted only one week. The place he saw was the Mid- dle East and as he said, "the week there was no fun". One of the contingent of some 870 Canadian troops on the United Nations Emergency Force, Jermyn was sent to Egypt last Monday for a one-year stay. However, Egypt President Nas- ser was successful in getting the UN force out of his country and demanded that the Canadians get out within 48 hours. Cpl. Jermyn, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Jermyn, Exeter, left Monday and after a stop in Italy The Exeter and District swim- ming pool committee have just 658 $2 bills to go. The number was reduced from last week's total of 663 when John Goman, a former public school inspector in the area and one of the principal organizers behind the local pool, sent com- mittee chairman Ted Pooley a cheque for $10. He now lives in Welland and explained to Mr. Pooley that he agreed there must be enough two- dollar bills around to permit the balancing of the books on the project. "This cheque for $10.00 is ad- ditional evidence of my strong belief in the project itself and of the happy memories my fam- ily and I have of our years spent in Huron County," Mr. Geman stated. "I feel confident that the good people of the community will answer your appeal and that the pool will soon be debt-free," he concluded. The appeal to clear the debt on the pool was made in a letter to the editor by Mr. Pooley last week. A __mow To continue Loot includes a telephone Hay teachers given sizeable pay boosts Glenda Lynne Campbell. daugh- ter of Exeter jeweller Earl and Mrs. Campbell, was among those receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree at UWO, She plans to continue her education to become a teacher of library science. One break and entry and two cases of vandalism were re- ported to Exeter police this week. All three incidents took place over the weekend. The break and entry took place at Kongskilde Ltd. early Satur- day morning when entry was gained by forcing a door on the building to the west of the main office. Several desks were ransacked and among the items reported missing was a telephone, paper punch, two pens, a jack- knife and some cigars and cig- arettes, Total loot was listed at under $100 by Chief C. IL MacKenzie, who was assisted in his inves- tigation by OPP Constable John Wright, Vandals hit the Exeter District Co-Op mill and threw rocks through several windows. At Exeter Produce they took a fork-lift from the basement 'and apparently ran it around the property as it was discovered at the rear of the building with 0. dead battery. crashes area school bus and Ireland, arrived in Trenton at 7:30 a.m., Tuesday. His parents greeted him at a London railway station Tuesday night and he will spend the next three weeks at home before leav- ing for a new posting in Calgary. Although he was only in Egypt for one week, and confined to Camp Rafah for most of his stay, Cpl. Jermyn saw enough to in- dicate that the Middle East crisis is as explosive as news reports indicate. "There are tanks and troops all over," he said, in reference to the buildup of forces along the Egypt and Israel border. Right behind the Canadian base the Egyptians had their front lines, lie said most of the equip- ment was of a Russian make and "a lot of it is pretty old". The most direct suggestion that things were not peaceful Came when Cpl. Jermyn was a part of an armed escort to Gaza, He said Children along the way threw stones at their truck. He said the Egyptian troops were friendly enough and most waved to them on their departure. However, he said things were very tense, Many of the troops returning this week had been along the border for a year, and Canadian officials Weren't taking any chances to find out what Presid- ent Nasser would do if they weren't out in 48 hours. Some men received as little as 10 minutes notice to get pack- ed. Cpl. Jerinyn said one soldier packed in such a hurry he put his false teeth in a box and it wasn't being shipped out until later. He said he would naturally be watching the situation with ex- treme interest in view of his recent stay there, and noted it would be a shame to see Israel in a war as the people have work- ed hard to develop their country and it is very much more advanc- ed than some of the neighboring countries which appear anxious to start war. "There appears to be a pretty good chance they'll go at it," Cpl. Jermyn stated frdin his home in Exeter Wednesday morning. Two persons were badly in- jured and a SHDHS student re- eeived a cut over the eye when a car smashed into the rear of a school bus about half a mile South Of Exeter, Friday, Driver of the car was Mrs. It. D. Argyle, 128 Anne St., Exeter, who suffered head and chest injuries in the creel:. She was taken to hospital in London and didn't regain consciousness until Saturday morning. A passenger in her car, Alex- ander J. poChineo, Clinton, suffered a broken right arm and broken ribs and was taken to Westminster hospital, John Blyde, R.R. 2 Crediton, a passenger on the Exeter Coach Lines bus, sustained a cut over one eye. The 15eyear-old was one of see students on the bus driven by Sidney Baker, Dash- wood, when it was struck. The bus had been stopped in the southbound lane discharging Paul IVielenight, a student at Us- borne Central School. The ear hit just as he alighted from the bus, arid he "headed for the ditch'', Mrs. Argyle was eouthbotted on Highway 4 at the time of the crash and in her attempt to stop, skidded Into the ditch and then spun around and the vehicle was facing in a north-easterly direction when it caught the rear corner of the bus, The side of the car was com- pletely pushed in, OPP Constable Dale Lamont investigated and listed damage in the crash at $1,100, mostly to the auto. The accident took place about 41:aCi pm. Two other drivers were in- jured in a crash Saturday after- noon at about 4100 pm. involved were Gerald K. Fulmer, London, and Roy Rate, RR a, Dashwood, ee Please turn to Page schedule, the principal allowance has been raised from $110 to $150 per classroom. The board will allow their teachers a course allowance of $100 up to a limit of $200 each year for department of education approved courses. On hiring new teachers. full experience will be recognized to the maximum in each category. An accumulative sick leave plan up to a maximum of 20 days in any one year to a total of 120 days was adopted. The board agreed to allow up to 75 days sick leave on a basis of five days for each teaching year for former Hay TSA teachers. The former Hensall board had pre- viously allowed their teachers to the maximum of 120 days. A remedial teacher alloWance was instituted as follows: elem- entary certificate $300. inter- mediate $400 and specialist or supervisor $500. These allow. ances are pro-rated Recording to time a c tu a II y spent teaching remedial or auxiliary. Pay for occasional or supply teachers will be on a per diem rate of one-two hundredth of the minimum of category one. If sup- Please turn to rage 2 Several hours of negotiation at a special meeting Thursday night at the Hensall Town Hall settled the dispute over a 1967-68 salary schedule between the Hay Town- ship School Board and teachers at the Hensel]. and Zurich public schools which come under the board's jurisdiction. Previous meetings between the board arid teachers had failed to settle the question of salaries and representatives of the On- tario Teacher Federatione and the Ontario Patine School Trust- ees Association were called in to Mediate. AS a result of the latest dis- cussions, the Hay area teachers will receive a considerable in- crease in wages along with num- erous fringe benefits. In category one the minimum was upped a total of $500 and the maximum $/00 from the fig- ures that were used in 1966-67. The increases in category two are $700 in the starting scale and $600 at the top, This is the first year that category three will be in effect in Hay Township and the Sche- dule is from $5,000 to $7.00, in addition to the basic salary Attains degree Gordon Strang, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Strang, RR 3 peesee, was among those receiving, de- green at the University &Guelph. The SIIDHS graduate received his Bachelor of Science (Ag.) degree.