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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-11-28, Page 1Ever one votes tl is Monda MAY WE TAKE IT .HOME?—This seems to be the question being asked by Brenda, Richard and Doug Fletcher as they look at a toy frog at Saturday's Christmas, Bazaar and tea, sponsored by the Main Street United Church Women. T-A photo. Price Per Copy 15 Cents Retired lady teacher bids for Exeter council position Although there appears to be Considerable confusion regarding Monday's elections in the area, one thing is. definite,. Voters in ALL area municipalities will go to the polls. For some, there will be elections for municipal offices, while ethers will be voting, strictly for School board members, both public and seRarate B. W. Tuckey, president of Guenther Tuckey Transports, Ltd., Exeter, was elected president of the Automotive Transport Association of Ontario at its annual convention, Tuesday. The ATA is a trade association embracing in its membership truck owners engaged in inter-city transportation, as well as suppliers of equipment and services required by the industry. . The Association was formed in 1926 and its members now operate approximately 60,000 vehicles. Mr. Tuckeyjoined the Association in 1932 and was elected a director in 1963. He served the last two years as vice-president. His career in trucking began in the mid-twenties as a driver for National Grocers Co, In 1929 he founded his owe besiness, Tuckey Transport, with one truck. He was, an early PCV operator with his first visit, to Toronto being to apply for his licence, ,+ this authority he began a daily service hauling package freight betwe'en Exeter and It is the election for school board members which causing the most confusion as Ontario elects county school boards. Some of the confusion also arises because Separate School supperters.. are also electing representatives, to the county boards and at the same time are electing officials to Separate School boards. There are reports. that some ,At the opening of the ratepayers meeting, Strang mentioned several significant changes that are taking place in the township. He mentioned the switch to two-year terms and the change in polling subdivision stations. For the election, Monday for school officials, polls will be held in the same places as the last Federal election. Two polls will be located in the township hall at Elimville, one at the Usborne Central school and a fourth at the Kirkton Library building. Strang stressed that each voter could vote for two of the six candidates for the Huron Board of Education. B. W. TUCKEY London. Another truck was added two years later and the business continued to grow. In 1952 he purchased Guenther Transport Limited of Dashwood and formed the present company, of which he is president. His company operates 100 vehicles, employs over 80 people and embraces the Lake Huron area. A dedicated community builder, Mr. Tuckey's public life began in ,1938 with a hard-fought election to the Exeter village eouncil. Two years later he became reeve and served in that capacity for nine years, and was also elected Warden of Huron during that term. In 1951 Mr. Tuckey came out of retirement to become the first elected Mayor of the newly-incorporated Town of Exeter. He also contested a provincial election in 1943 and a by,election in 1948 as a Liberal Candidate. Other areas of community service include 40 years on the fair board and 10 years on the Exeter PUC. He is past chairman and still a Member of the South Huron Hospital and he Is also a Member and past president of the Exeter Lions. PeePle in the area don't even realize there will be a county board to take over educational administration on January 1. In an effort to clear the muddle, residents should realize that.communities have been joined to name representatives to the county board. For instance, Exeter, Stephen and Usborne will elect two representatives, while Hay, Hensall and Zurich will pick one representative. The voters in Stephen, Exeter and Usborne will receive identical ballots containing the names of the six candidates for the board and will choose two. The men running are Ross. Brown, Garnet Hicks, Clarence McDonald, Lloyd Lamport, Eldrid Simmons and Jack Stewart. Voters in the three municipalities may vote for any two of the candidates, regardless of where they live or vote. The ballots from the three municipalities will be totalled and the two men receiving the most number of votes from those entire three municipalities will be the representatives to the county board. In the same manner, residents of Hensall, Hay and Zurich will vote for either Robert Rowcliffe or James Taylor. The one receiving the most votes from the total ballots in those three communities will be elected. Separate school supporters will elect one man to the Huron board, the candidates being Jack Morrissey and Dan Murphy. Separate school supporters in every Huron municipality will receive one ballot with the names of these two men and the one receiving the most number of votes in Huron will be elected. The voting for the Huron-Perth Combined Separate school board is again broken into municipalities with Stephen, Usborne, Exeter, McGillivray and Biddulph getting one representative. The candidates are James Glaab and John McCann and again voters in those five communities will receive identical ballots and may vote for either man. Only those Separate school supporters in Biddulph and McGillivray who support the Mt. Carmel school will cast ballots for McCann or Glaab. Others vote for Middlesex representatives. Crash total takes drop The area's accident record took a sharp drop this week after hitting a peak in the previous seven days. The Exeter OPP investigated three accidents. There were no injuries reported. On Tuesday at 4:15 p.m., a truck operated by Murray P. Silver, RR 1 Arkona, backed into a parked car owned by John Dietrich, RR 2 Dashwood, on the property of John Hotson, Grand Bend. Constable J. A. Wright estimated damage at $100. Damage was listed at $85 by Constable D. A. Mason on Wednesday at 11:15 a.m. when a truck operated by Thomas Roschkow, London, went out of control on Highway 4 north of Hensall and rolled over in the east ditch. The final accident took place on Thursday at 12:05 p.m. when a truck operated by Harold E. Knight, Hensall, was in collision with a car operated by Lambert Branderhorst, RR 1, Hensall, on Highway 4 in Hensall. Damage was listed at $295 by Constable F. L. Giffin. • During the past week the officers laid 32 charges under the Highway Traffic Act, one under the Criminal Code and two under the Liquor Control Act. A total of 26 drivers were given warnings. Constable Wright, accident prevention officer, spoke to the students at Zurich public school regarding accident prevention. Damages light in town crashes Only minor accidents were investigated by the Exeter Police Force during the past week. Four mishaps occurred with total damage listed at $500, two of which were under $100 each. The two with little damage happened on the same day, Noveniber 19. A Huron Street accident between vehicles driven by Lidia M. Regier, RR 2 Zurich and Nora E. Meander, RR 1 Centralia resulted in $90 damage. The other, on Main Street involved vehicles driven by John. W. Rundle, Blanshard Township and Bill Thorpe, Chatham. Damage was estimated at $70. The other accidents were of the single vehicle variety. On Thursday a truck driven by Alec L. Johns, RR 6 St. Marys left the road on Huron Street West and struck a tree causing $150 damage, The following day, Richard A. Brintnell, 61 Anne Street, travelling east On Highway 83 lost control of his Vehicle end hit a railway sir Damage was estimated at '200 by Constable G. W. Robertson. All McGillivray and Biddulph Separate school Supportom vote only for the Middlesex county board representatives also. The light Separate ,school voting population in. some. communities will 'bOMPer -4 "egeret" butiot, TA 'polling laibtliViSiQl14. -there are only one or two. such electors.' and tiefertehately it will ,be easy to determine .for which candidates they voted, Persons who may still be confused over the school voting proeedure should contact one of the .Candidges in their area or the returning officers. MANY BATTLES There will he .several other election battles on Monday .as well. Exeter ratepayers will vote for council meMbers, with, seven candidates running for six positions. They are: incumbents George Vriese, Ross Dobson, Ninety-fourth Year The need for "a voice from Huron Park" was the reason given by Joseph Robichaud for his entrance into a race for a seat on Stephen Township council. Speaking to the small assembly of ratepayers from the township, Robichaud said there was a need for better communications between Huron Park and Stephen Township. "Huron Park is going to grow," remarked Robichaud, "and grow quite big. We should be represented." Presently occupying the three seats on council, Gerald Dearing, Cecil Desjardine and Steve RPSS., Taylor .anci. Don. Maegreger, and -neWegrOPP/. Robert' Richardson, Toni MacMillan and the town's first woman candidate, Mrs. R. P. jerroy.n, Exeter voters. will also be asked to decide whether they want the number of .councillors reduced from .s.bx to four, If approved, this change would .not come about until the 19.71. term, Stephen electors also will be voting for council members with incumbents Steve Dundas, Cecil Desjardine and Gerald Dearing being joined by Huron park resident, Joseph Robichaud, fire chief at the Centralia Industrial Park. In. McGillivray, there will be a three-way fight for the reeve's. chair again this year with Reeve Grant Amos facing the opposition of George Dixon and Ben Thompson. Grand - Bend Reeve -Orv. — Please turn to page 3 Dundas will seek re-election. In his address to the ratepayers, Dearing said that 18,352 cattle were sprayed for warble fly in 1967 when the service was free as opposed to 13,593 in 1968 when farmers with cattle paid for spraying their own herds. "It seems to prove that people take advantage of a service they don't have to pay for directly," remarked Dearing, noting the sharp decrease in the number of cattle sprayed. Speaking about drains, Desjardine said tile drain loans — Please turn to page 3 Exeter ratepayers will go to the polls Monday to choose from seven candidates for the six council spots; from six candidates for the two representatives to the Huron County Board and whether they want the number of councillors reduced from six to four persons. Separate school supporters in Exeter will have two ballots regarding school representation: one being to choose between Jack Morrissey and Dan Murphy as the representative to the County Board and the other to choose between Jim Glaab and Jack McCann as the representative for the Huron-Perth Separate School board. There will be no election for mayor, reeve or deptuy-reeve, as the incumbents in those positions, Jack Delbridge, Derry Boyle and Mery Cudmore were returned by acclamation. Fighting for the six council positions are four incumbents, Ross Taylor, Don MacGregor, George Vriese and Ross Dobson. Three newcomers seeking Centralia lady wins first draw The Exeter Board of Trade conducted their first draw this week for the $750 cash prizes they are awarding to shoppers and Mrs. W. R. Lamb, Huron Park, won the $100 prize. Five Exeter residents won $10 each. They were Mrs. Ken Jackson, Mrs. Chub Edwards, Mrs. Earl Moore, Eric Campbell and Archie Dodd. The winners may receive their cash from treasurer Harold Patterson at the Exeter Community Credit Union. Draws will be conducted each Monday through to Christmas in the promotion. An 18-year old St. Marys youth and his father paid fines in Exeter magistrate's court Friday for liquor offences and careless driving. Douglas Grant Ratcliffe and positions are Tom MacMillan, Robert Richardson and the first woman to ever run for a council spot in Exeter, Mrs. Richard Jermyn. Others nominated for council, but who declined to stand were Joe Wooden, Jim Newby and Ted Wright. While Mrs. Jermyn said she didn't know whether. Exeter was ready yet for a woman on council, others present at the meeting indicated they were all in favor and she was urged to stand by many of the speakers, even some who will be running against her. George Vriese assured her of his vote and Reeve Boyle asked her to seriously consider becoming a member of council. Mayor Delbridge said in his remarks he was also pleased to see a woman's name on the board and suggested some members of council would have to watch their language at meetings with a member of the distaff side in attendance. MRS. R. D. JERMYN . .. seeks council spot his father, Arthur Grant Ratcliffe, pleaded guilty on all counts. The pair were returning home from picking corn when their truck, driven by the younger He also told her she may have to consider taking up smoking, or else other members would have to consider quitting. "I would want to serve for better reasons than just cleaning up the language or curtailing smoking," Mrs. Jermyn remarked in her brief address to the 30 people in attendance. "I feel there is a place on council for a woman," she said, adding she was disappointed other women had not attended the meeting. Again, there will be no issues at stake in the election for council. Tom MacMillan, another new candidate, commended the past council, termed them efficient and suggested this may be the reason why so few attended the nomination. The local merchant is a former chairman of the RAP committee. Robert Richardson, an employee at Kongskilde Ltd., said he was an outsider, and while he had no specific examples, suggested council deliberations could stand a few changes. — Please turn to page 3 Youth sentenced for having drugs William J. Pugh, 16, of Grand Bend, was sentenced to six months in reformatory Monday for possessing marijuana. He pleaded guilty Sept. 2. Officers of the Grand Bend OPP detachment, making a routine vehicle check, found him in a dazed condition behind the wheel of his car. Further investigation revealed an insulin syringe in Pugh's breast pocket and two packages of green leaf substance in plastic bags which he told police was marijuana. Ratcliffe was involved in an accident in. Hensall in which the elder Ratcliffe and the driver of the other car, Ross Broadfoot, RR Kippen, were injured. Beer was found in the Ratcliffe vehicle and evidence showed both occupants had been drinking. The son was fined $75 and costs for careless driving and $50 and costs for drinking while still underage. His father paid $30 and costs for having liquor in a place other than his residence. John Wayne Decker, 21, Zurich, pleaded guilty to a charge of having liquor in a place other than his residence. Decker had been apprehended in Hensall November 10 for making unnecessary noise with his motor vehicle when liquor Was discovered in the car. His fines were $30 and costs on the liquor charge and $35 and costs for noisemaking. Leo VanDongan, Grand Bend, was, stopped in Hay Township October 22 for a defect in his ear headlights when beer was found in the vehicle, His fine for having liquor in a place other than his residence was $30 and Costs. COSTLY FLING Three area,youths who went on a iniSchievious fling Nei/either 19 agreed in Exeter 'court Friday to make restitution — please turn to page Fear of the loss of local autonomy and the fast approach of regional government was stressed by several speakers at Monday's nomination meeting in Usborne Township. Reeve Roy Westcott who was returned to the top post in the township by acclamation told a • questioning ratepayer on what can be done to stop regional government from becoming a reality said, "we should make our wishes known if we are satisfied with what we have." In his remarks at the close of the meeting returning officer and clerk Harry Strang said, "We are taking too many of these changes for granted, let's do something about it." Three of the present members of council, Walter McBride, Lloyd Ferguson and Lloyd Smith were returned to their positions by acclamation. The fourth member of the council that will serve for a two-year term is William Morley. He replaces Kenneth Duncan, who had served for six years on council, Duncan was also • nominated, but failed to qualify. In his last speech, Duncan 'said, "One has to go a long way to find a township with better bridges than Usborne." During his report on County business, Reeve Westcott said, "The property committee was the best one I was on. You really find out what belongs to the County. The province is gradually taking over the County building. BATTLE FOR TOP SPOT— Two area reeves are facing opposition in Monday's area elections. Mrs. Minnie Noakes faces Oliver Jacques in • a contest at Hensall, while below are pictured the two Grand Bend candidates, incumbent Ory Wassmann, left, and his opponent, John J. Payne. Usborne officers show some concern B.W. Tuckey heads transport association RESTING FOR THE TRIP HOME—Close to 20 members of the Hi—C's from Grand Bend United Church undertook a return walking trip from Grand Bend to Exeter, Sunday. Each walker had at least one sponsor and proceeds will be used to support an orphan child in India. Above, Richard Jennison, Peter Gill and Doug Parker are shown soaking their feet at an Exeter home at the halfway mark of their trip. T-A photo. Huron Park resident is Stephen candidate Noise, liquor, speed EXETER, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 28, 1968 ONTARIO SCHOLARS GET PROVINCIAL Above provincial treasurer the Hon, C.S. IVIaOtslaug,liton it CONGRATULATIONS—PresentatiOnS were Many at Friday's annual congratulating valedictorian Gar y Maxbard while Janet. Miller, Joan doinmencement exercises at South Huron District High School, but Pepper, Jiro' Knox and Bill Yeffrey look OIL T-A photo, the highlight 'was the awards trade to the five Ontario scholars, Stiffer penalties at court