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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-06-27, Page 1Clear the way Don McGloen, Buffalo, strikes a menacing pose as he leads his caravan down the Main Street inGrand Bend during the second annual Alhambra day parade at the resort, Saturday. The 6'8" sword- swinger was one of the many features in an interesting parade that attracted large crowds. The fraternal organization of Catholic men assists retarded children and about 250 members were on hand for the event. — T-A photo Driving record falters —report eight crashes Bob McKinley boosts marg in withstanding Liberal tide BOB :Alcicf.N.LFW Girls' bikes pass safety check Ari Important part of the bicycle rodeo held at the Exeter arena, Saturday, was the safety check con- ducted by policemen and Exeter Kinsmen members, OPP Constable John Wright, Cpl. Harry VailBergori and Kinsinan DOn Taylor are shown here putting safety reflection tape Oh the bikes of Elizabeth VrieSe and Margaret Anil HatiSen after they passed the safety test. T- photo Skips to championship While records are not available for the number of times a youngster has skipped without stopping, the performances of a couple of Usborne Central School girls last week would seem almost unbeatable. Karen Kerslake, shown above, hopped over her skipping rope 1,135 times before quitting, beating her closest competition Irene Deelstra by eight skips. T-A photo Name top students at Zurich opening Ninety-third Year ' EXETER, ONTARIO, JUNE 27, 1968 Price Per Copy 15 Cents. 11ftJiR'ki Iii r 1', The excellent record estab- lished by area drivers during the past weeks was shattered this week as the Exeter OPP detach- ment officers were called to in- vestigate eight crashes. Property damage amounted to over $5,500 and three persons suffered minor injuries. Graduates David M. Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. G, Wood,St.Catharines, recently graduated from MC- Master University with an hon- oers In geography. Mr. Wood, who has been working with the Ausable River Conservation Authority for the past three sum- mers, was harried to the Dean's honor list and awarded the Ca- nadian Association of Geograph- er's Book prize. — Photo by Doerr Rabies clinic well attended Area residents responded well to the free rabies Clinics held during the past week and kept the veterinarians busy giving dogs and cats free shots to safegeard them against rabies, Dri M. X. Clugston, Seaforth, of the Health of AniMals Branch, reports that in all of the 23 cliniet held throughout Huron County, the amount Of animals vaccinated had risen sharply from last year. At the close of, the clinic in Crediton,Moriday, 2,287 dogs and 972 cats had received the rabies shots. The figures for 196'7 show- ed 1,639 dogs and '751 Cats were treated :in 25 communities. In Exeter, Thursday, Dr. Clug- ston vaccinated 182 dogs and 81 ca s, an increase of altnost 100% over a year ago, the final clinic In this im - Mediate area Will be held at the aberil !township garage in today, Thursday fret/1 9 aim.' to 12 Twee. Practically alt voters In Huron riding had something to cheer in. Tuesday's election. The Progressive.Conservative supporters watched Robert Mc- Kinley build up an early lead to post a sizeable majority in his re-election bid, while the Lib- eral Supporters were able to cheer the wave of support which swept the country for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, The national trend failed to show in Huron at all, as McKin- ley increased the majority he potted over Malt Edgar when the two first met in the 1965 election battle. McKinley scored a 1,133 vote majority at that time and he widened that to 3,787 on Tues- day, as he polled 14,534 of the votes cast. Mrs. Shirley Weary, a last- minute candidate for the ND?, managed to pick up 1,175 votes. Many observers felt her entry into the race would hurt Edgar's chances of defeating McKinley, but as the results turned out, it didn't really matter. McKinley scored' a plurality. The first poll heard from at the office of Returning Officer Garnet Hicks was. No. 'I inSteph- en and it set the trend for the night with 5'7 votes for McKinley, 16 for the SHDHS teacher and none for Mrs. Weary. The next two polls gave Mc- Kinley sizeable majorities as well, although Huron Park and, Tuckersmith No. 4 then gaye local Liberals some hope as Edgar scored small victories in each of them to whittle the lead a bit. However, after 10 minutes, with some 18 polls listed, Mc- Kinley had extended his lead to 273 and his victory appeared certain. The majority built throughout the rest of the night. The final results show that McKinley scored a majority in every municipality within the rid- ing with the exception of three. Seaforth gave Edgar a 46 mar- gin, and he picked up 15 more votes in Huron Park and 13 more in Tuckersmith Township than did McKinley. The advance poll totals also gave the Liberal a margin of '70. Exeter residents gave the PC member one of his largest ma- jorities as he polled 1,014 com- pared to the 585 for Edgar. Some of McKinley's other big margins were scored in Ashfield, Hay, Stanley, Stephen, Hayfield and Zurich. A rousingehree cheers greeted McKinley as he entered Conserv- ative headquarters at Zurich about nine o'clock. By then the Huron trend was quite evident and jubilation was buAlding to a fever pitch with early Maritime Businessmen watch films Ken Inch had reason to be pleased by the enthusiasm for the films shown at the Rothmans Van which was in Exeter on Wed- nesday and Thursday. About 150 businessmen and their employees took time out to view one of the eight show- ings at the big truck brought to town through the efforts of Mr. Inch. Films on shoplifting and bank robberies showed actual happen- ings of the crimes and were ac- companied by information about dealing with such problems lo- cally. Dant el Hamburg, promotion department of Rothmans, per- sonally invited his Exeter audi- ences. Mr. Inch reported "quite a number of good comments" from businessmen who were "very impressed" by the quality of the films. renortt of a sweep for the TPrieS there, As the tiny room filled to cap, acity Sonieene thPiited, "They'll never catch him (McKinley) now," One of the telephone crew tehing voting results began to• issue invitations to a celebration which was to begin in GederiCh. Elation swelled as Edgar's home township of Morris began to swing to McKinley. The first three polls heard from in Morris gave Majorities to the TorieS; At Edger't headquarters in At the official opening of the St. Boniface Separate School new addition on Thursday, Mon- seignor Laverty, Chancellor of the London Diocese blessed the recently completed gymterium, classroom and kitchen. Clinton, resells were very Slow in arriving and the first in- dication of defeat came by way of television when a QBC an- eouncer reported a McKinley vic- tory in Huron, at shortly after nine o'clock. Following a second TV report about thirty ,minutes later, Ed- gar's campaign manager Bill Elston phoned Returning Officer headquarters in Exeter and was told the McKinley majority was 2,500. The Liberal candidate irn- In his talk later,Monseignor Laverty commendd the Zurich and district folks who had sacri- ficed to make the new quarters possible. Awards were presented to pup- ils who excelled in proficiency, progrest and religion in each class. They were: Grade 1, Trudy Vanden Boomen, Michael Neil- ands and Louise Regier; Grade 2, Joey Farwell, Stephen Hart- man, Ronnie Meidinger; Grade 3, Brenda Ducharme, Carol Bedard, Linda Vanneste; Grade 4, Maur- een Hartman, Wayne Meidinger, John Charrette; Grade 5, Theresa Lansbergen, Patsy Denornme, Kim McKinnon; Grade 6, Rita Farwell, Dennis Charrette, David Denomme; Grade 7, Rita Pen- flings, Janet Masse, Mike Miller; Grade 8, Alma Oud i Diane Denys, Mary Lou Denomme. Please turn to page 3 Accident victims make progress The four local residents that Were injured in the car crash at the intersection of highways 4 and 83 last week that claimed the life of Albert Dobbs, of Spence Lodge, Stratford are making sat, isfaotory progress. Fred Dobbs, driver'of one of the vehicles Involved and Asa Penhale confined to south Huron Hospital are both itconling along nicely", according to their doct. 'era. Miss Grace Penile* now in St. Joseph's Hospital, tendon with a broken pelvis Is able to sit up daily and making good progress. The Other accident Vie, tiin, Charlet Fisher is redever- ing at his RR 3 EXeter Mine. xnedietelY conceded, calling Mc- Icinley headquarters in Zurich to offer Congratulations. The loser, a teacher at south Huron District High School commented as he conceded, "we gave it our best. The figures tell the story. It's back to school tomorrew." RECORD TURNOUT Although figures aren't avail- able, it is possible that the turn- out at the polls may be the high- est on record for this riding. Returning officer Garnet Hicks Canada's centennial celebra- tions may be difficult to dupli- cate, but an energetic group of people in Exeter are doing their best to see that it is. Those are the service clubs, council and other interested peo- ple planning the "Centennial Plus One" celebration for the com- munity on Monday. Feature of the program will be a giant fireworks display around 10:00 p.m. on July 1, although the entire day offers attractions for all ages. The program gets underway at 2:00 p.m. in Riverview Park with "fun" activities for all ages. The Kinettes and Beta Sigma Phi, assisted by Carf Cann, have a full program lined up includ- ing a peanut scramble for the toddlers, races for youngsters from four to eight and then three- legged races, wheel barrow rac- es and a sack race for the boys. The girls will be able to test their skills on the area's newest sport — a footsie contest. Incase you don't know what a footsie is. take a look around your neigh- borhood and you'll probably see some youngsters twirling one around on one leg and jumping Sports editor loses his car Exeter town police had a very quiet week as they investigated two minor accidents and one stolen car. The car, a 1961 Meteor, owned by T-A sports editor Ross Haugh was taken Friday afternoon from its parking spot on Main Street in front of Fink's Meat Market. Haugh had left the car for a few minutes with the keys in the ignition and before he returned, a young man was seen taking the vehicle north on Main Street. Police Chief C. H. MacKenzie was notified and description of the car was on the district police radio airwaves within minutes of its disappearance. It was still missing at press time, Wednes- day. In the first accident of the week, Mervyn William Riehl, 430 King Street, London caused $200 damage when his car ran into the horse barn at Exeter Com- munity Park at 9 p.m, on June 22., The following morning W. Preszcator, Prairie Siding, On- tario proceeding west on highway 83 struck a parked car owned by Joseph Keith Ayotte, RR 3 Dash- wood, causing $300 damage. Both accidents were investig- ated by Constable George Robert- son. Izandy Fither domes elote to the chalk line aS he tries a test in SaturdaPs bike rodeo at the Arena, report4 that 83,1 percent of the eligible Vetere cast their tralv lets„, despite, the fact the area. was ,deluged with a 'heavy rain throughout most of the day, The turnout was an indication of the effert put into the .elec- tion by the party workers An all municipalities and there were dozens of people at .most major centres ready to drive voters to the ppllt, Mr. Hicks .eaid he 'Was "WTI pleased with the co-operation received from everyone". over it on the other. Some of them are most proficient. The girls will also have a hoola hoop contest and then there will be a frog jumping contest for the boys. Entrants must sup- ROBERT THOMSON When a person reaches the age of three score and ten, he usually takes life quite easy. However this is not the form- ula prescribed by Robert Thom- son of Kippen who celebrated his 91st birthday, Monday. Mr. Thomson who lives in the tiny hamlet north of Hensel' finished hoeing a seven acre field of beans on his property only last week. He was out in the field again Monday morning dis- playing his "weeding wares" for the benefit of photographers from three district newspapers. Mr. Thomson, who is in ex- cellent health, as his farthing activities Would indicate, is able to read newspapers daily Without the aid of glasses and is a keen follower of television. When asked what television programs he liked best, the reply was, "There are too many com- ply their own "equipment" for the footsie and frog contest, The adults will have sonic fun with a nail driving contest for the ladies, a clothes pin con- test for the men and a pie eating contest for both sexes which promises to be nothing short of hilarious. The Legion Auxiliary will be sponsoring a bingo in the pavil- ion during the entire afternoon and there may be a euchre con- test. The kids will also compete in diving and swimming contests and then one of the features of the afternoon will take place around 4:00 p.m. It will be the canoe jousting being organized by the Exeter Kinsmen. This contest was one of the highlights of last year's centennial celebrations and it is being repeated by popular de- mand. Prior to supper, the Kinsmen will also dedicate one of their footbridges. It was named for former deputy governor Les Parker who missed last year's event as he was holidaying out west. All area residents are invited to come and enjoy the fun and festivities and to bring their own picnic lunch to enjoy in the park around 5:30 p.m. There is no admission charge for the afternoon program. HORSES AND BALL The evening program gets underway at 7:00 p.m. with a horse show and pony races being sponsored by the Exeter Saddle Club and Rodeo Committee. There will be barrel races — Please turn to page 3 mercials on TV. Just when you get interested in a program, you are forced to watch another advertisement." In replying to the question as to the biggest changes in farm- ing in the last 50 years, he said, "It has to be In farin machinery. When I was a boy, we plowed with a team of horses and a plow that cost seven dol- lars, now modern day farmers pay up to $10,000 for a tractor and another $800 for a plow." The active, elderly Kippen resident also misses the trains that made many daily trips through the farm in his younger days. "When I was on the farm, trains would pass through six times a day and you could set your watch by them. Now, they — Please turn to page 3 The first of Ake accidents,,oge curred on Wednesday at 5:50 p.m. when a car operated by Thomas E. Quick, Comber, went out of control on Highway 4 and struck a farm fence owned by George Wright, Exeter. Constable E. C. Wilcox listed damage at $65. Damage was estimated at $1,200 in an accident investigated by Constable J. A. Wright on Thursday at 3;00 p.m. when cars operated by David P, Dale, Ex- eter and John K. Riddell, RR 1 Hay, collided on Highway 83. Both drivers suffered minor injuries in the crash. There were two accidents on Friday, the first at 8:45 p.m. on Highway 81 near Greenway. Roman R. Sadowski, Missis- sauga, lost control of his car and it hit four guide posts on the high- way. Damage was estimated at $370 by Constable W. G. Glass- ford. Constable Glassford was then called to the scene of a three- car crash on Highway 4, south of Exeter, at 10:45 p.m. Drivers involved were Dianne Broeze, Varna; Henry B. Miller, London; and Irvin Martin, RR 2 Zurich. A passenger in the Martin car, Grace Martin, suffered minor in- juries and damage was listed at $2,500, There were three accidents re- ported on Saturday, with two of —Please turn to page 3 Fireworks to highlight day Plan fun for all ages Kippen man celebrates by hoeing on birthday Stanley Robbirie squeezes his ; Joanne 'Taylor leans the right Wide handlebars through a nar- Vay as she navigates a cure, row opening.