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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-08-22, Page 1Grandstand is being reinforced F E S PghtnIng Is believed to have teticheti off 4 fire Monday.evening which glitted the farm home of Lewis Tasko, Clandeboye. Centralia 4nti. Lucan flee de, partments weep called out about 5;33 p.m. to quell the blaze first noticed by 171c Hartman, RR 1 Hay. ProPrieter Tasko WaP working. 14 a nearby shed during the storm He reported that several bolts of lightning had seemed clese to the buildings, and he was watch- ing the barn for signs of fire. In the meantime, smoke was curling out from under the eaves of the holiSe. Mr. Tasko's at- tention was drawn to the house when he heerd kern! leleWing, Hartman, stopped a passing motorist who turned in the fire alarm„ Were firemen arrived, Mr, T44iCe was aeetetAct lel!H4rte Man and some others to remove the fiirnitAre from the 'MO floor of the bouse. IteWeYer, the ,ApetatrIurriish, inge and the teretlys _clothing Were lost in the flee, pmeke and water 4emege Was heAVy,' htit by 'veep time Wednesday, Mr, Teske was unable to give an estimate of the damage cansed by the fIre, The loss was pArtially covered by insurance. Mr. and Mrs. Tasko and. their „ . three children, two daughterg eged seven and nine, and : son aged three and a half, are StAlre ing with neighbors, A Nese trail, er is being sought by the family to provide temporary living ,quarters while the house is being repaired, A vital aid to firemen in fight, in the blaze was a term pend on' the premises. Mr, Tasko thet flrereee used the bandy water supply when the water in their tankers was pee, SCHOOL GUTTED A fire of miltnown origin gntted the former SS #3 (PleOewe) school in ilsborne Township early E Wednesday morning. The, school had beenpurchased by Herb Atielersop, Kirkton, after the new Ilshoree Ceetral school had been built, purchase of the building at #i at time 4.14 been $4,059. The fire was spotted around PM a.m. by Edwin chtlte? who was returning to his home may Ausseldale. Mr. Chute owns .a barn In the Vicinity .of the school, located about seven and a. half taileP east of Exeter, and went to investigate when ke. feared it was his building on fire. He aroused Mr. and Mrs. Pier, ton Smith from their sleep and the latter turned in the alarm to the Exeter Fire Brigade. The building was engulfed in flames when the firemen arrived and they concentrated their ef- forts on making sure none of the nearby buildings owned by Mr. Smith and other neighbors were started on fire by flying sparks. Exeter fire chief Gary Middle- ton said he had no idea what caused the blaze, which destroyed everything but the brick walls. The school was built in 1935 and no estimate of loss was given by the owner, AND VAC ,REA HO T SOHO Firemen from Centralia. and Lucan and many volunteers spent several hours Monday evening in containing a house fire on the farm of Lewis Tasko in McGillivray township, just south of Centralia Getting cit fire from above village. As shown above fireinen cut several holes in the roof to get at the blaze, The upstairs was, gutted and clothes of Mr. and Mrs. Task° and their three children were lost. T-A photo. Ninety-fourth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, AUGUST 22, 1968 Price Per Copy 15 Cents. Home extensively damaged The upstairs of the modern farm home of Lewis Tasko of McGillivray township was extensively damaged by fire early Monday evening when lightning struck during a severe thunderstorm. Firemen from Lucan and Centralia were able to contain the blaze to the upper portion of the building. T-A photo. .14 NO W110101 AMP. GO" 00 AV Ws.,,ssoFei Mra 1.10.4 10700 s ir Former mayor plans second apartment unit Ask owner co-operation Resort water progresses All Grand Bend property own- ers that will be receiving water from the village's new water sys- tem that is presently under con- struction , are being asked to co-operate in deciding the lo- cation of connections at their property line. Reeve Orval Wassmann said at Monday's regular meeting of council that forms are being sent out to everyone and he empha- sized, "It is each individual owner's responsibility to let the engineer know which side of the house they want their con- nections." Wassmann and councillor How- ard Green have joined Ontario Water Resources Engineers L. Bosotti and C.J.K. Wilson on a local advisory committee that meets every two weeks to dis- cuss mutual problems and main- tain liaison with municipal of- ficials. Council heard a lengthy report of the first meeting of the ad- visory committee. Line pressure at the punming station will be approximately 85 pounds per square inch and it is considered advisable that piping between the curb stop and pres- sure reducing valve, if any, with- in the building would be 100 pound class. Location of fire hydrants will be decided between village re- presentatives and the inspector on the site. The contractor will be urged to carry out' as much as possible of the, Anal asphalt restoration as soon as possible, but adequate time will be allowed for any possible trench settlement. There are one or two areas in the village which will not be serviced by the present system being constructed and it is felt there may be requests from these areas. Will protest digging delay Work on the reconstruction of Main St. slowed somewhat this week and the delay is being pro- tested by Exeter council. Works superintendent Jim Paisley, an inspector on the job, advised council that the contrac- tor had decided to delay digging up the west side of Main St. until more work on the east side has been completed. It had originally been planned to start the digging again at the south end as soon as Gidley St. had been rached. However, the contractor re- ceived permission from the en- gineer to suspend digging opera- tions for three or four days. It was explained that the work- men finishing up on the east side were needed to go ahead of the shovel operator on the other side — Please turn to page 3 The village will arrange to obtain petitions from any such owners and the consulting' engin- eer will be asked to advise on the feasibility of providing additional services. OMB and OWRC ap- proval will be necessary for all extensions and adequate time should be allowed for this pro- cess. Stephen township has already made a request to obtain water for the Patio Motel located just east of the village limits. There is a possibility of a subdivision being built east of Highway 21, opposite Oak Street. Possibility of installing a tee at this location for further extension of the watermain will be investigated. According to a progress report dated August 5, some 6,000 feet of watermains and 40 service lines had been installed in addition to 1,500 feet of 14 inch main on the supply line from Port Blake. In the near future Reeve Wass- mann would like to have an of- ficial ceremony attended by press, TV, representatives of OWRC, consulting engineers, contractors and members of council. Purpose of such a cere- mony would be to emphasize the magnitude of the distribution system. At the same time council learn- ed that total cost of earlier test drilling on the beach in an attempt to get a ground water project — Please turn to page 3 Women apply for area job Jack Malone, manager of the Centralia Industrial Park, re- ported this week that applications from women are coming in at a brisk pace for the advertisement placed last week on behalf of an industry interested in locating at Centralia. The firm requires 200 women and Mr. Malone indicated 153 applications had been received by Tuesday. With a number of wo- men already registered with C an- ada Manpower, he said the numb- er would be over the required 200. However, he explained they were still accepting application' forms. He indicated some women hav- en't submitted applications be- cause they wanted 'more details as to the nature of the work. Such information can not be revealed specifically, but Mr. Malone pointed out it was not heavy work and the women would be sitting while performing the production-type work. He again emphasized there was no obligation on the part of women who send in application forms. “We just want an indication of how many women would be in- terested in working if the type of work is to their liking," he explained. Deadline for applications is Saturday and another advertise- ment is included in this issue. The Exeter OPP investigated only four accidents this week, but total damage amounted to over $5,000 and three persons received injuries. The first of the crashes oc- curred Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. when a truck operated by Anna J. Troyer, RR 2 Hensall, went out of control on concession 3-4 of Hay and rolled over. Constable E. C. Wilcox listed damage at $1,520. A farm fence owned by Robert Taylor, RR 2 Hensall, was also damaged in the mishap. Constable J. A. Wright inves- tigated a crash on Saturday at 12:30 a.m. when a car operated by Larry Dobson, Exeter, went out of control on Highway 84 when passing another car dur- ing a rain storm and struck four guide posts. Damage was listed at $520. Damage 'was estimated at, $2,000 by Constable F. L. Gif- fin in a two-car crash on the Crediton Road Sunday at 9:30 p.m. The mishap occurred about one and a half miles west of Highway 4 when a car driven by Keith. David Rader, RR 2 Cred- iton, ran into the rear of a wagon. Both vehicles were proceeding west and the wagon was one of two being pulled by a tractor driven by Thomas W. White, RR 1 Crediton, There were no injuries in the crash. At midnight Sunday, a car driV- en by Angela Ryan, RR, 3 Ailsa Craig, rolled over on concession 22 In Stephen TOwnship east of brand Bend. Robert Moore, Exeter, a pas- eenger in the ear received severe ctits to his right hand, while Miss Ryan and another female paeeen- JIM DINGWELL New policeman commences duty The newest member of the Exeter police force is Jim Ding- well, a native of the Lakehead area. Jim, with previous police ex- perience in the Canadian Army and the Canadian National Rail- way started his duties on the local force August 1. He' and his wife, Ann and two small children reside at 149 Wat- erloo street, Exeter. ger in the car received cuts and bruises. The crash was investigated by Constable Wilcox and the car sustained extensive damage. During the week the local OPP officers travelled 2,261 miles on patrol and laid 49 charges under the Highway Traffic Act. Another 34 drivers were given warnings and two persons were charged under the Liquor Control Act. Exeter council learned Mon- day that building development will continue at the southern section of the municipality, but sewer problems are bringing construction in a northern por- tion to a halt. Former Mayor W. E. Simmons presented a request for a building permit to erect a six-unit apart- ment building on Market St., south of Victoria park. The Permit was approved and council approved repairs to the portion of Market St. which pass the apartment complex. Simmons is presently putting the finishing touches on one six- unit apartment building in the same location and he indicated earlier that plans call for a total of three buildings there. All three buildings will be identical and will each contain five, two - bedroom apartments and one of one-bedroom size. In his appearance before coun- cil in February to get the permit for the first building, he explained there was a need for modern apartments in the community. The news of this development was tempered by the announce- ment contained in a letter from Huron MOH Dr. G. P. A. Evans that the County Health Unit would not approve a septic tank per- mit for a new hoirE. planned by Exeter jeweller Earl Campbell on Riverside Drive, west of the curling rink. Dr. Evans explained that there was a problem with septic tanks in the area already and said the Unit felt it unadvisable to allow any more septic tanks to be in- stalled. Council had earlier in the year approved the building permit for the campbell home, and had even sold him some land so he would qualify for assistance under the Veteran's Land Act. The matter of the sanitary problem in the area has been broached at several council meetings this year, and some members had recommended that sewers be installed next year. "Every house up there has a problem," Councillor J o e Wooden reported • and several members agreed that green pat- ches of grass extending to the river indicated that septic tanks were not working properly. "It's a bad situation," Coun- cillor Ross Dobson added. Wooden suggested that if coun- cil was contemplating the instal- lation of sewers next year, they may as well put them in now. He noted that with the excep- tion of the Dow subdivision, there Council to vote on reduced slate Mayor Jack Delbridge advised fellow council members this week he wanted them to decide at the next meeting whether or not they were in favor of his earlier sug- gestion to reduce the nine-mem- ber council to seven members. He explained that a decision was required at that time so if it was approved the necessary action could be taken before this year's nomination and election. He suggested the reduction of two members would save the municipality between $600 and $700 per year. However, he again explained he was not interested in having any present members forced off council. It was suggested that two or three members had indicated they would retire anyway and he said if this was the case the re- duced number would not affect any sitting member. "I don't see much advantage," Reeve Boyle commented, add- ing that whether or not mem- bers were going to retire shouldn't be the basis on which the decision was made, but rather whether members thought the smaller council was best for the municipality. Councillor Wooden agreed that the decision should not be made on the basis of whether present members intended to retire. were few serviced areas in Exe- ter in which to build. Cost of the project was "rough- ly" estimated at $15,000 and works superintendent Jim Pais- ley pointed out, that with the work on Main St., the sewer along Riverside Drive would not be too feasible this year unless the entire job was contracted out. In many cases, council have act- ed as their own contractor for sewer installations. Councillor Ross Taylor sug- gested there was no sense in talking about the project until an estimate was prepared and a canvass conducted to see how many ratepayers would prepay frontage or hook up to the sewer. Wooden replied that under the bylaw, most of them would have to hook up because they were cre- ating a pollution problem. A town bylaw requires that residents creating pollution may be forced to hook into a sanitary sewer where it is provided. It was finally decided to have the drains committee inspect the area and present a report at the next regular meeting. In other business, council: Learned that a population pro- jection presented for county road needs showed little increase for Exeter. The firm listed the pop- ulation at only 3,300 for 1979. It is over 3,200 at the present. Faces sentence in store robbery William Hastings, 17, Hensall, has pleaded guilty to a charge of armed robbery in Hensall July 27 and will be sentenced Thursday. Hastings entered Irwin's Lad- ies Wear and held Mrs. Pearl passmore at knifepoint until she handed over $131 in cash from the drawer. . The youth then fled but was later apprehended by Exeter and Goderich OPP officers. 'rho grandstand at ,.x. to Commtnity park hag undergone considerable renovation in the past tool( preparation for the Mi&Weatern ItbdeO to be held On LabOtit bay weekend. AboVe, is 'WOW a the back of the stand where seven now cement have been installed. T-A photo, Damage runs high in district crashes Getting ready for the rodeo The tifth annual Midwestern Rodee to be held at EXeter community Ecker ,,Smith, Dalton Pinkbeiner and chairtrian Dick ttoolotson Park is only two weeks away and committee members are using are getting some help and advice :from grntip youngsters in every spare moment to complete preparatiens, Above, Drw 1)On building portable seating accommodation. T-A photo.