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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-07-25, Page 1Good to the last drop The most satisfying event at Friday's Funday was the watermelon eating contest with every contestant getting the same reward. Above, Sharon Jones is taking a good bite with a few drips getting away. GB village residents will receive rebate This tells the tale One of the first duties of judge Fred Walters during Friday's dog show was to determine which dog had the longest tail. Above; the judge is measuring a peach owned by Dianne Van Bergen. T-A photo. These pets are different The odd pet shOW received plenty Of entries' during Priday morning's Funday program, TIM witiefs are eitOWil abeVe. Prein left, David Wolfe with his iguana, Lee Monett and baby robin and David Green and a small toad: phOte, Price Per Copy 15 Cents EXETER, ONTARIO, JULY 25, 1968 Ninety-fourth Year Large addition slated for Dashwood Industries Ltd. portion on the right and as canbe seen, dwarfs the other section of the building already in existence on Highway 4. This is an artist's concept of what the Centralia plant of Dashwood Industries Ltd. will be when a giant addition announced this week is completed. The new addition forms the Walters for the first contest of judge was able to ascertain that the day. Susan Brintnell's dog qualified With the help of a ruler, the — Please turn to page 3 it's green and slippery one of the most frustrating games at Fliiiday was the apple bobbing dentest, some of the tentettaet$ iliatW tatty attempts into the water before toiiiitig"do with an eltsiVe Apple. Above, Jesse Natal dOthea close to doing the triek, but loses his apple near the edge of the tub. PhiptnelltP. Sale, manager noted that this railway;PAPPAtIeti would enable the Pm to Make, their weed windows Yallahle acrOSS Canada and to expand port markets. The company presently serves Ontario mainly and is presently Grand Bend council were told at their regular meeting by Clerk Murray A. DesJardins of the ex- act amount of relief residential taxpayers in the village will be receiving under the provincial government's newly announced tax relief program. GB residents on the north side will receive a cheque in the amount of $40.80, providing, of course, their taxes are that amount or greater. South side residents may expect a rebate of $39.22. Under the recent regulation, Ontario residential taxpayers are allowed a tax relief on the first $2,000 of assessment. The Grand Bend equalized assessment fact- or as determined by the proviq- cial body is 24%. Council agreed to rebate the Radar nabs speedsters As sever al area residents know, the Exeter OPP detach- ment had their radar unit out over the past week and also had some assistance from the air patrol in their crackdown on speeders. A total of 45 persons were charged under the Highway Traf- fic Act, mostly with speeding. Another 37 drivers were issued warnings. The officers investigated five accidents with one person being slightly injured. The first of the crashes took place on Wednesday at 10:55 a.m. when a car operated by Mrs. Gloria D. Wells, Huron Park, collided with a station wagon operated by Emerson J. Gloor, Centralia, on Algonquin Drive in Huron Park. Damage was listed at $350 by Constable J. A. Wright. A Toronto man suffered a bruised right leg in an unusual accident in Hensall at 9:00 a.m. Thursday. Anthony Fulop was proceeding west on Mill Street when the rear wheel of his truck dropped into a sewer opening on the north side and then rolled over onto its side. Damage in the mishap was es- timated at 5275. — Please turn to page 3 One more issue before holidays The Exeter Times-Advocate will be closed during the period of August 2 to 10 inclusive and there will be no issue on August 8. Persons wishing to advertise special events during this period should plan insertion of those ads on August 1. The next issue after that date will be August 15. The office will also be closed during the holiday week and per- sons wishing stationery or other supplies are asked to fill their requirements next week. Main St. work soon underway The contractors are expected to start the reconstruction of Main St., Monday, at the latest. Work will commence at Huron St. and the east side of Main St. will be dug up from there to Gid- ley St. for the installation of a storm sewer and the new water main. After the east Side has been done to this point, the west side Will be then torn up and the laterals to businesses installed and then the entire street will be back-filled. The contractor hopes to have this portion of the street com- pleted and paved by the fall. ThiS Week, the department of highways erected signs along An- drew and William Streets noting the detour route for traffic. It IS not known at thiS time whether Ideal traffic•will be al- 10Wed In the down town section or not. money to their ratepayers, about October 15, the due date for pay- ment of 1968 taxes. In future years if this practice is con- tinued by the government, the re- bate will probably be deducted from the original tax notice. Grand Bend's tax notices were completed this year before the new legislation was completed. Council passed a resolution asking the Ausable River Con- servation Authority to undertake stabilizing of approximately 400 feet of the Ausable River bank within the confines of the village. The total cost of the project is expected to be $27,315 with Grand Bend's portion, which is 90% of the Authority's share not to exceed $12,290.75. A complaint was heard that a London realtor was operating a real estate business from his residential property in Southcott Pines. Reeve Orval Wassmann said Mr. Brooks would be charg- ed a commercial rate under bylaw 43. In other business, council: Authorized purchase of 12 tons of calcium chloride from Allied Chemical for $42.56 per ton. This is to be stockpiled for future use. Instructed clerk DesJardins to amend the village election bylaw, naming the portion of the village hall, now being used by the sum- mer provincial police force as the polling station for 1968 elections. The Grand Bend Legion Hall was formerly used for village voting. Learned that the L a m bt on County Health Unit had assumed its responsibility in the village on July 1. For the third time in the past two yearS, Dashwood Industries Limited PreOdent M. L. Klumpp has annotinneci an exPanPlon Pro, gram for the firm's. Centralia. location, which in itself was only erected in 1965, The Centralia plant, which is now one of the largest in the area, will actually be dwarfed .by the addition which will be in complete operation by January 1, 1970. The addition will cover 174,500 . square feet and will bring the Centralia plant to a grand total of about 250,000 square feet. It will be erected north of the present plant and will have a frontage on Highway 4 of 570 feet, will be 300 feet in depth and will be connected to the exist- ing building. The rapidly expanding firm, which also has plants in Dash- wood, Mt. Brydges and Ottawa, will have over 1,000 feet front- age on Highway 4 and approxim- ately six acres will be, under cover when the complex is com- pleted. The building project, one of the largest ever undertaken in this area, will be built primarily with local labor with Milton Webb, Dashwood, being the general con- tractor and project supervisor. L. W. Kleinstiver, Dashwood, is the major sub-contractor and will be in charge of all plumbing, electrical and heating installa- tion. The addition will feature a two- storey office section of some 15,000 square feet and the re- mainder of the plant will be con- structed of pre-painted insulated sandwich steel panelling with a ceiling height of 22 feet. It will have a complete water sprinkler system supplied ,from a 250,000 gallon reservoir to be built under it. The system will be operated by large electric and standby diesel pumps. The mechanical drawings are being prepared by T. Ernest Smith, Engineer, London, while the architectural drawings are being prepared by company per- sonnel. Work is already underway with the clearing of top soil and work- men are expected to be on the site by August 15 to start actual con- struction. It is expected there will be an average of 30 district men on the job with peak numbers expected to reach 50 workmen. SALES BOOM Mr. Klumpp explained that sales forecasts for the next five years show an increase of three times over the present sales. Sales in the past three years have also tripled. The firm's sales forecasts have been comparatively accur- ate in the past, although it has already been found that the 1968 figures have been exceeded by 15 percent to date. The new plant will be a com- ponent manufacturing area, pri- marily of a woodworking pa.tu,re, and along with the plant expen.. Sten there will he a Perisiderahle expansion of equiPMent and Ma- chinery which will increase the company's quality and product, ivity, One area in the mammoth ad - dition will be reserved for re- With negotiations still going on between the postal workers and the postal department, Ex- eter and district citizens, similar to those all over Canada, are bearing up under the mail strike. Though inconvenience is the main complaint of business peo- ple, feelings are somewhat hos- tile to not only the postal work- ers' walkout, but strikes in gen- eral. J. F. Farm Machinery spokes- man, for instance, said the mail strike coming on the heels of the seaway strike had 'severely hampered their business. While parts and materials from Europe were tied up in the sea- way during the strike, they still had not been unloaded this week because dock workers are swamped with work. Salesmen for J. F. Farm Ma- chinery have become temporary AqarciliMq new. :Pr,944ct develop- Merit that the..cPhiPaPY ,intends explore to boost ealee. M the preeent time, PaeliYMod Iathmtriea Limited P r i Mar i l Y Supplies WOO WiticlOwe, for rest, dential construction but plans are underway for new preduct. yelopment„to take advantage .of postmen, delivering invoices and picking up payments. Mail which must get off to Europe and points in the United States will be taken once weekly to Port Huron. Like all other businesses, J. F. Farm Machinery is depend- ing heavily on the telephone. At Kongskilde Ltd., things are a little rosier thanks to telex equipment which allows the firm to communicate with customers and associates also equipped with telex. Spokesman there said the mail .,Strike has hit during a slack period for Kongskilde wh e r e — Please turn to page 3 He's even a tax collector The Hon. C. S. MacNaughton was given a new title as the first session of Ontario's 28th legis- lature was prorogued Tuesday by Lt.-Gov. W. Ross Macdonald. The Huron MPP was sworn in as Treasurer and Minister of Economics and also Minister of Revenue to follow changes made in his department. While he was sworn in as Min- ister of Revenue, speculation is that this job will be handed to someone else in the future. It is a new department just created by prime Minister John Robarts. In his position as Treasurer and Minister of Economics, Mr. MacNaughton will be in charge of tax policies, while the depart- ment of revenue will deal more with administration of revenue and the setting up of fair and equitable application of tax struc- tures. Over the weekend, Mr. Mac- Naughton also assumed another role — that of tax collector. On his weekend visit to his home in Exeter, he was paid a visit by Exeter businessman Murray Greene, who asked the MPP to take his Ontario sales tax receipts to Toronto with him. Mr. Greene explained that the mail strike prevented him from submitting his returns in the nor- mal manner, but felt that busi- nessmen should take whatever steps they could to see that the government received its needed funds. Businessmen happy at GB According to businessmen in Grand Bend, there are more peo- ple in the resort this year than last year -.- and more of them are part of familieS who have Collie for a quiet vacation. Reeve Otv Wassmann termed the village "peaceful". As oper- ator of the Village ifin, Wass- Mann said the hotel business was not as brisk as it was three or fent years ago though neqUal to laat year or better": He felt that Grand Bend as a whole was benefiting by the fant- ly atmosphere which 'prevent, Management at the Green For- est Motor Hotel reported nest for them was itgreat''. Spokesman for the lodge re , marked on then umber of families holidaying there, many of them return visitors: 'The story *IS the same at Bonnie bonne Manor where Mrs, "lease turn to page 3 the increasing field rPlatPci to eeinleercial. and high-rise heI14- lagp as well as ,pre4abrieatee heeeih&,units. A ,one-half mile railway st4Ing will be built by the company 10 bring in lumber from the Main CNR line west of .Centralia and the line will also be used for Friday was Funday in Exeter and everyone that visited town joined in on making it just that, a real Funday. They came from far and wide to take part in the many events, aimed at putting everybody in a good frame of mind and take advantage of the many bargains offered by local merchants. The day long event was spon- sored by the Exeter Board of Trade with help from the Liens, Legion and. Kinsmeh. Carf Cann was in charge of running off the various games and contests with the help of Rec Director Alvin Willert and his summer playground 'staff of Eleanor Stanlake, Elizabeth Mickle, Michelle Harrison and Barbara Gilfillan. The day got off to a flying start shortly after seven o'clock with the earlybirds getting break- fast, western style, served by members of the Exeter rodeo committee. The first Meal of the day consisted of pancakes, syrup and coffee, but drizzling rain kept the crowd below expec- tations. just when the weather was threatening and it looked like the day "may go to the dogi'', that's exactly what happened. Shortly after nine e'Olock, the Weather- lnan decided to relent and the dog parade was able to go as sched- uled. After marching froth C =Oa Mill down Mein Street to Hilroti, dogs Of all kinds, colors and Shea lined up before judge Fred eniMing Its, ,distributorships in other parts Callanal It 1p expected that. When ,the. plant getp into full production, one carload of lumber per day will be used in the manufacturing of Dashwood wood windows. Dashwood Industries Limited, PleaSe turn to page SAI DIL lans huge Centralia dition r Week old postal strike causes inconveniences All first prize winners Contestants in Friday's Funday footsie contest were so professional, the judges had to settle for four first place finishers in the under 10 years of age class. Above are shown the winners, Helen Brand, Kim Turner, Karen Parsons and Sandra McLeod. — T-A photo Merchants are happy, too Funday creates fun galore