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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-07-18, Page 1•-•5!•1,, ' • • Grand Bend's water on the way Construction on the long awaited Grand Bend waterworks system has finally started. General contractor C. A. McDowell of Centralia has started laying pipe at both ends of the village. Work in the main parts of the summer resort will be held back until after Labour Day. Above, Reeve Orval Wassmann is having a look as workmen prepare to lay pipe. — T-A photo Lose again in attempt to erect signal lights .Exeter council has again been unsuccessful in attempts to get traffic control lights erected at the intersection of Highways 4 and 83. Council first requested traffic lights at the intersection last year after a rash of accidents and re- newed the request after the recent fatal accident at the busy corner. However,a letter from the minister f highways, Monday, said he was aware of council's concern, but the department was abiding by their decision of last year not to make any changes. Mr. Gomme did suggest a pos- sible solution was in the offing in the form of "rumble strips" on Highway 83 near the inter- section. The "rumble strips" are sec- tions of uneven pavement that warn drivers through the noise made by their car tires, that changing conditions are ahead of them. Excellent results are being ob- tained with these strips in some places, but the department of highways have not used them at Safety check removes 23 Statistics from the department of transport safety check that concluded Friday afternoon are quite similar to thoSe of a year ago; again showing that very few of the older cars on the road are in top notch condition: Of the 245 cars tested during the five day,check, only 25 re- ceived safety stickers and plates were removed froth: 23 others that were in poor mechanical Condition. In 1967; during a similar check, 21 of 300 cars checked passed the test and licence plates were removed from 38 vehicles. Of the total nuinber of vehicles Checked, 31 drove to the checke point voluntarily while the other 214 were directed to the depart, anent of transport post by mem- bers Of the Exeter Pollee force. In most cases, only cars more than three or four years old were asked to pass through the Check= hig station, Members of the local police force are busy this week; issuing stickers to motorists who have had the necessary repairS Made to their CAI'S. Stickers are issued' ' uperi receipt of proof froM fL garage that the defects have been corrected. It tasted real good One of the highlights of rriders summer 'playground wade was 'the serving of watermelon el faze finish. Above; Laurie Skinner; Grade It)ryekast,tra, Debbie Potter and Julie Skinner are enjoying their special TeA photo .esee.4:e•-• '13 On t'miss the bargains R1 DA Dorilf Mitt the action • I • • 1.• I. Ninety-fourth Year H ope it will be short one • • • • • U • • Firms brace for. mail strike .strike Back to school again Boys and girls of the Crecliton area are enjoying their school holiday by going back to school for two weeks. Above, a group of kindergarten students are getting set for one of their first lessons at Daily Vacation. Bible School from teachers Irene Haugh and Phyllis Bender. T-A photo. With a postal strike in the felting for this morning at 5 am, busieeestnea in the area made arrangements early in the week for alternate avenues to handle s their mailings. Last mails at the Exeter Post Office with a guarantee of de- livery to out of town points were dropped no later than Opm Tues- day evening. Midnight was the last hour at which local delivery could be assured. Employees at the local post office said they would be on strike after Wednesday's busi- ness hours. There is a possibility that pickets will make an appearance at the Exeter post office dur- ing the strike, but indications. are that the greatest concentra- Ulm of pickets will be stationed at Wingham where a television studio would afford more pub- Deity for the cause. BUS SERVICE In Exeter, Betty's Market re- ports an unusual number of calls'. T A still publishin The Exeter Times-Advo- cate plans, to publish as usual next week, even if the mail strike continues. As most readers know, the newspa.per was delivered to all area post offices this week for distribution and the Exeter subscribers were able to pick up their copies at the T-A office. This same procedure will be carried out next week, to ensure that residents in. the area bounded by Granton, Parkhill, Grand 'Bend, Kip- pen, C romarty and Woodham receive their papers. The only change will be the fact that subscribers on the two rural routes served out of Exeter =by Mrs. bon Hooper and Mrs. Murray, Scott will also have to pick up their newspapers at the T-A office. . These were delivered by the two ladies this week. Correspondents are asked to have their weekly news budgets delivered to the T-A by noon on Tuesday, but if this is impossible, they are asked to call byMonday noon so we can make arrange- ments to have the news pick- ed up. natalvm m Council okay aid to canners Exeter council Monday night decided to again grant Canadian Canners Limited an amount of $4,000 towards the firm's cost of effluent treatment at the local plant. Council made a grant of $6,- 500 in 1965 and 1966, but dropped it to $4,000 last year and had in- dicated at that time they may stop the assistance entirely this year. However, members noted the canning firm would be paying considerably higher taxes for the remainder of this year through the addition of the large ware- house and decided to leave the grant at $4,000. concerning Cliar.terwaYS rates for moving mail. Several busi- nesses have made arrangements for delivery between. London and Exeter via buses. Schedule for Exeter to London runs is .8;45 am Monday through Thursday and 8:45 am and 4;15 pm. Friday and Saturday. AVCO Finance is one Exeter business that will he using the husline for mailings between the office here and head office in London. Manager Line Ferguson ex- F. plained he would, advise custom- .' ers by telephone of payments due. He added since his comp- any was not responsible for the mail strike or the method of payment, AVCO customers would be expected to remit payments on time. He anticipated problems throughout a large area which reaches from Kettle Point in the south west to Mitchell in the, north east. PEOPLE HONEST Conklin Lumber Ltd. manager Allan Preece could foresee little trouble from the postal strike unless it was unduly prolonged. Although his company would be unable to make its monthly billings in the usual way, Mr. Preece noted that Conklin cust- omers are so good they often come to the office asking for their accounts. "We don't get that much re- sponse from the billings," said Preece. "It isn't like a city. People here are very honest." He added that company trucks would carry written messages between Exeter and the head of- fice in Kingsville. TELEPHONES BUSY Officials at Dashwood Indust- ries Ltd. are not anticipating a long postal strike but have made interim arrangements any way. Howard "Boots" Klumpp, vice-president, said that while his company would not be seri- ously affected by the strike, there 'would be a good deal of incon- venience because of it. Klumpp said customers had been advised to send orders by telephone or by company trucks which service most outlets week- ly. Incoming payments 'to Dash- wood Industries Ltd. may be made through a telephone trans- fer system involving the custom- er, his bank and the Bank of Montreal here. Most nuisance to the comp- any will be the incoming goods from the USA. Customs clear- ance slips are normally mailed ahead of the goods so that a minimum of time is lost in de- livery. During the strike, how- ever, clearance slips will be shipped with the goods necessit- ating a delay at Customs in London. NOT PENALIZED Pat Freeburn, manager at On- tario Hydro, is hoping the mail strike does not last too long. Mid-month mailings are gone, said Freeburn, but next billing is scheduled for Tuesday. He de- clined to say how theCommission would deal with the situation in the event the mails were still closed down. He did state that people would not be penalized because of the mail strike in so far as discount dates are concerned. -- Please turn to page 2 At its latest meeting, RAP, the town committee that administers the business of recreation, arena and parks, voted to make repairs to the arena roof. After receiving recommenda- tions from the Industrial Safety branch of the Ontario Depart- ment of Labour, the committee agreed to replace the present roof from the hip to the peak at an Pack pool to beat heat Probably due to the extremely hot weather, the Exeter swim- ming pool is enjoying one of the best years since it opened three years ago. Rec director Alvin Willert re- ported that more than 700 persons took advantage of the pool facili- ties on Monday, the second larg- est number on record. Willert said 340 Exeter and area youngsters have register- ed for swimming lessons each weekday morning while adults can take advantage of swimming instruction Tuesday and Thurs- day nights from 9 to 10. The rec director also said that registrations for s wim in i n g classes will still be accepted and lessons will be intensified to get late corners on even terms With the others. The first Red Cross tests will be given at the Exeter pool on August 3 by an accredited exam- iner. More than 30 children from Oakwood 'subdivision at Grand Bend are using the IOCal pool each Monday and Wednesday evenings under the direction of swim supervisor Kelly Mancari. About 85 Hetisall and area boys and girls make the trip daily to the local pool for instruction given by supervisor Cori Plonip and her staff consisting of Doug leaver and Carol Lytle Shapton. Willert added; (4 with the hot weather and the goodly number of registrations We should again operate with 'a nice Margin of profit." approximate cost of $4,000. F. Jaslowski, an inspector of the provincial department ad- vised that the weight on the roof could not be increased, thus rul- ing out the idea of using plywood as an underlay. Local construction contractor August Gregus will be doing the repair work, using 28 gauge full run steel in 40 foot lengths. The work is expected to be completed by early September. Mr. Jaslowski, in his inspec- tion report, said that, except for the leaky roof, the arena was in excellent condition, one of the best of its kind in the province. He listed good ventilation prac- tices at the arena for the sound dondition of the timbers in the building. Some repair work will also be done to the grandstand at Exeter Community park. Four or five new cement pillars will be in- stalled and some bracing of the upper structure will be carried out. People down in the dumps due to hot weather, beer strikes,,mail strikes and other factors will have an opportunity to forget their woes and have some fun, Friday. That's the day of Exeter's sec- ond annual Funday and it promis- es to be even better than last year's major success that brought flocks of people to the community. The downtOwn Section will be blocked off to form a huge mall and most of the merchants will be setting their wares out on the streets. Judging from a list of bargains advertised in this issue, shoppers are in her some real treats. The day gets underway at 7:00 a.m. when the rodeo committee Will hold 'a pancake breakfast 'on adirk St. This was one of the high- lights of the centennial version and got everyone In a gay mood At Monday night's c o u n c meeting, several members were critical of the fact RAP had not called tenders for the' arena roof repairs. Reeve Derry Boyle, a member of RAP, was also put on the spot when he couldn't answer many of the questions fired at him by Councillor Ross Dobson regard- ing the material and methods to be used in the work. Dobson, who operates a roofing firm but pointed out he wasn't interested in the job, explained that new strapping would have to be installed or the nails on the new section would quickly rip out. He also noted that considerable damage could be done if workmen walked on the portion of the roof which isn't being repaired. "I can't see spending $4,000 when you don't know what yoe're getting," he told Boyle, after the Reeve had explained the work was to be done on a time and material basis. — Please turn to page 2 for the events to follow. Kids will have opportunities to show their dogs, dolls, decorated bikes, unusual pets, turtles and frogs as well as costumes. There will be footsie, Mole hoop and frisbee contests as well as a watermelon contest that promise es to lure plenty of contestants. Ladies' church groups through- out the area will have booths featuring home baking and other goodies. A giant parade for the kids will be held shortly after dinner and again after supper and all per- adeS will start front the Legion hall parking lot, The evening prOgrani will also have square dancers and a main- Moth bingo. A full list of the program ap- pears elsewhere in this issue. The CFPL radio Lively Guys Will be broadcasting from Main St, from 10;00 a.m. to 2:00 Teni. ••, • such intersections pending furth- er studies. Several members of council Hay bathers robbed again Swimmers parking their ve- hicles near the Hay Township pavilion south of St. Joseph are again finding it a costly propos- ition if they leave valuables in their cars. Last year the OPP investigat- ed several thefts of wallets and other valuables from the area and there were two such incidents over the past weekend. Thieves took four wallets from one car and made off with a grand haul of just under $125. They made off with two wallets from a truck containing $22. Cpl. C. J. Mitchell again is- sued his advice that bathers not leave valuables in their vehicles, even if the latter are locked. He points out that a locked car is just an "advertisement" that something of value is inside and the thieves appear to have no difficulty in gaining entry. He said valuables should be left at home if possible or at least taken to the beach by the bathers. commented that in recent trips through the intersection, t h e overhead stop light had been al- most impossible to see in the day time. Don MacGregor suggested a large board should be erected behind the light in the centre of the intersection, while Reeve Derry Boyle suggested that "only an overpass would cure it". "Someone would drive off it," Councillor Ross Dobson quickly added in reply to the Reeve's suggestion and the discussion ended. However, Councillor George Vriese kept discussion of traf- fic lights going when he suggested that a traffic light at the corner of Sanders and Main St. "was a necessary evil". "We need something," he said, and Reeve Boyle quickly added his support. Council had previously asked for a light at this corner to en- able pedestrians—especially older and younger citizens — to get across the street du r i ng periods of heavy traffic. However, a test conducted by the department of transport in- dicated a traffic light was not needed. At the time, councillors criticised the report, noting it had been conducted on a day on which traffic was normally light. -- Please turn to page '7 Getting final instructions During the next couple of weeks, 4-H members from seven counties in Western Ontario will be visiting Centralia's school of Agricultural Technology to view the program that is available to young farm people. On Thursday, visitors from Grey County toured Centralia and several area industries. Above, Rae Bird, director of information services at Kongskilde Limited is giving final instructions to a group of Exeter and district youngsters who acted as guides taking visitors through the agricultural implement plant on Highway 83. From left, Patsy DarbYsliire, Nieela Derbyshire, Judy Burke', Gwen Mills, Lois Porter, Susan Tuckey, Joanne Burke and Danny Laing. T-A photo Criticised for not tendering Plan arena roof repairs aidisain -27 FUNDAY action will clear the woes