HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-04-24, Page 1TRIES DIFFERENT MOUNT—Fred Darling, one of the area's most
enthusiastic horsemen, tried a different type of ride Saturday. While
returning from a week's holiday in Spain he enjoyed a ride on a
camel in Tangiers, North Africa. The camel's long legs don't provide
any problem for mounting and dismounting, as the animal gets down
on its knees to facilitate this chore. Fred, who won the trip in an
IGA contest for store owners, didn't bring one of the beasts back to
• add to his stable.
Burning of garbage
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STUDENTS ON THE JOB—Commercial students at South Huron District High School spent last week at
different area business establishments getting actual on-the-job training. Above are Katharine Eberhart
and Wendy Clark with Glenn Hunter and Don Appleby of the office staff at Hall Lamp, Huron Park.
Grand Bend water bylaw
will be strictly enforced
Grand Bend council Monday
night took definite steps to
enforce provisions of the
recently passed water
installation bylaw No.
199-1969.
A commercial establishment
that has been hooked illegally to
the system without obtaining a
licence, was given 24 hours to
have the water turned off and
follow the proper procedure to
obtain a hook-up licence and
make the necessary connections.
If the water is not shut off
voluntarily, the village will take
necessary steps to shut the water
off at the street line and also
take legal action to prosecute
under provisions of the bylaw.
At the same meeting, council
received a proposal of water
rates to be used under the new
water system as provided by
E.A. Ladbrooke of the Ontario
Water Resources Commission.
A flat rate of $35 per year
will be charged to all domestic
all-year users and a rate of $26
to cover an eight month period
for summer residents.
Commercial establishments
where no water is used in trade
will pay a flat rate of $39.78 per
annum while metered
commercial rates will be a
minimum charge of $21 for the
first 30,000 gallons per month
with a billing of 60 cents per
1,000 gallons thereafter.
The proposed rates were
accepted by council and will be
subject to review in 1970.
Clerk Murray A. Des Jardins
was instructed to prepare a
bylaw banning the sale of
fireworks in the village of Grand
Bend at all times. A bylaw
Vocational panel named
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READY FOR FASHION SHOW—A variety of costumes will be on
display during a fashion show presented as part of Usborne Central
School's program on tap tonight and tomorrow night. Shown here is
Lisa Ritchie in a mystery costume and Cindy Blake in a pant suit.
HATS OF ALL SHAPES AND COLORS — Ladies attending Saturday's rummage sale sponsored by the
South Huron Hospital Auxiliary found a wide range of hats to suit every taste. Above, Mrs. Eric
Heywood is trying a spring creation on her daughter, Julia. T.A photo
Ask gov't cut exorbitant ed :totes
from the department of
municipal affairs said all
municipal projects — except
education — should be seriously
considered before being
undertaken,
In fact, it was stated that any
projects for which debenture
had to be sold, would not be
studied for approval until the
debentures were sold.
Deputy-Reeve Mery Cudmore
questioned why there were no
creation of eight more jobs: a
secretary- re c eptionist; two
accounting clerks, a payroll
supervisor and four clerk-typists.
The board also named a
nine-member vocational advisory
committee and replaced two of
the five members of the newly
named arbitration committee.
Board Chairman John Lavis
will head the vocational panel
which will include Gordon W.
Muir of Goderich, W.N. Counter
of Clinton, Lorne Kleinstiver of
Dashwood (representing the
Exeter district) and Richard
Wehmeyer of Wingham. Also on
the committee will be four
board members: Mrs. Marilyn
Kunder, Seaforth; John
Broadfoot, RR 1 Brucefield;
Gordon Moir of Gorrie and
Garnet Hicks, RR 3 Exeter.
The vocational advisory
committee's duties are to
commence Sept. 1, the board
decided.
Both Barry Wenger of
Wingham and Ronald Menzies of
Goderich resigned from the
arbitration panel — Mr. Menzies
for personal reasons and Mr.
Wenger because of his
appointment as chairman of
Wingham's hospital board.
James Kincaid of Goderich
was selected as one replacement
on the committee and the name
of the other, a Wingham man,
was withheld until he is
contacted and his availability
assured,
The arbitrators' basic role will
be to apportion the school
budget among the towns and
townships in the county
taking into account the assets
and liabilities of each unit when
it joined the county school
system.
A township which came into
the county school system with a
heavy debenture debt may, have
to pay a higher mill rate than a
township with no debt, for
example, and those questions
will be settled by the arbitrators.
restrictions being put on
education spending. "Education
departments appear to be able to
run high, wide and handsome,"
he commented.
MIDDLESEX UP
Although budgets have not
been prepared by the Huron
board of education as yet, some
Middlesex communities may
face tax increases of 100 percent
or more this year,
This development was
indicated by Peter Turk,
Middlesex business
administrator, when he answered
questions at a meeting of school
ratepayers in Glencoe.
"I'M afraid I have bad news
for those municipalities which
used surplus funds to reduce
their tax rate last year," Mr.
Turk told the audience.
"Bill 44 provides that 1969
tax levies be set on the basis of
Fail to reach
any agreement
Talks between the United
Auto Workers and officials of
Hall Lamp Company of Huron
Park have broken down with
very little progress made toward
settlement of a dispute over
negotiation of a contract.
Union international
representative Bob Nickerson of
London said the two sides
reached an "impasse" and a
conciliator of the Ontario
Department of Labor will be
called in to help.
The union is attempting to
obtain a first contract for the
Centralia workers. Meetings are
expected to resume in about two
weeks.
About 140 workers staged a
two-day wildcat strike last week
because of what they called
stalling tactics by the company.
They went back to work on
Thursday morning.
prohibiting the setting off of
fireworks has been in effect for
many years.
The Grand Bend volunteer
fire brigade is planning to stage a
mammoth fireworks display on
the beach on Saturday night,
May 17.
Vendors and retailers are
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Recommends 17-member staff
Exeter council were advised
this week they were violating the
Air Pollution Control Act by
burning garbage and rubbish in
their dump in Hay Swamp.
While they were urged to find
• alternative methods of disposing
of refuse, the letter from the
department of health indicated
time would be allowed for
municipalities to find alternative
methods.
The letter also stated that
each case would be judged on its
• own merits and members of
council hoped that they would
be permitted to burn garbage in
the swamp because there are no
residences near by.
A letter will be sent to the
department seeking permission
to burn brush, trees, crates, etc.
• Mayor Jack Delbridge pointed
out that such items take up
considerable room at the dump
and the opinion was expressed it
would soon fill up if such
material could not be burned.
Former MP
dies at 77
Lewis Elston Cardiff, for 25
years the member of federal
• parliament for Huron County,
passed away last Wednesday in
St. Joseph's Hospital, London.
He was 77 years old.
A Conservative, Mr. Cardiff
was first elected to the House of
Commons in 1940. When he
retired from public office in
1965, he had won a host of
friends both in the riding and in
Ottawa.
Cardiff was a good friend of
John Diefenbaker, a former
Prime Minister of Canada. Mr.
Diefenbaker expressed regret last
week that he was unable to
• attend the Cardiff funeral
Saturday because of a previous
commitment.
Mr. Diefenbaker had high
praise for Cardiff who was his
chief government whip in 1957
and 1958, in the Diefenbaker
administration.
Said Diefenbaker," "I always •
called him Lew Cardiff. He
entered the House in the same
year I did and we became fast
friends. He was a good member,
recognized as such in all parts of
the chamber.
"His views in caucus were
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Councillor Ross Taylor said
he had difficulty in
understanding the directive. He
said burning trash keeps the
rodent population down to small
numbers and predicted this
would become a problem if the
fires had to be put out
permanently.
"I don't know what the
answer is," commented Reeve
Boyle, noting it would be
impractical to have to bury all
refuse taken to the dump
grounds.
Taylor doubted that the
department would refuse
permission to have the fires at
the dump in view of its location.
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L. E. CARDIFF
Six already hired
John Cochrane, Huron
County's director of education,
envisions a 17-member
administrative staff for the
school system and the board of
education on Monday night
approved an organizational chart
based on that number of head
office staffers.
Six of the 17 have been hired
already, and applications are
being Bought for three more
openings. The remaining
positions will be filled when the
Exeter council Monday night
quickly endorsed a resolution
asking the Ontario government
to take immediate steps to
relieve property owners of "an
imminent enormous tax
increase" brought about by
education costs.
The resolution came from the
Township of Saltfleet and noted
that the community is facing a
19 mill tax increase this year
which works out to some $83.60
on an average assessed home of
$4,400.
This was described as
"exorbitant and intolerable,
especially for many of our senior
citizens and others on fixed
incomes".
Saltfleet's resolution calls on
the government to revise the
education grant structure and
warns there may be a general
rejection of education budgets
by municipal councils, which
could result in a paralysis of
local fiscal procedures.
Some municipal governments
have already stated they will not
collect the taxes for county
school boards because of the
large increases.
Members of the local council
are predicting an education tax
increase of anywhere up to 20
mills for Exeter ratepayers.
Council members were
particularly critical of the
situation when another letter
May require
another room
A portable classroom may be
added to the Exeter Separate
School this fall to accommodate
an expected increase in
enrollment.
The Huron-Perth separate
school board meeting in
Seaforth Monday night asked
the building committee to look
into the possibility and report to
the next meeting.
Acting superintendent of
education, W. H. Bulger said the
school which now has two
classrooms for 68 pupils expects
an enrollment of 72 next fall.
Simmons plans
third apartment
approved by Exeter council,
Monday, one being for a new
Eight building permits were
house, and another for an
apartment.
The home will be erected on
the east side of Carling St.
between Ann and Huron Streets,
by Ed Mittelholtz.
Other permits approved,
subject to final approval by the
building inspector were as
follows:
Julian Verlinde, to erect a
fence around his property on
Huron; Keith Brintnell, to build
an addition at 236 William;
Harold Patterson, to demolish
the building and concrete at the
former roller rink on Carling;
Mrs. Isabelle Wein, to paint
house at 388 Edward; Alex
Meikle, to renovate house and
add second storey to his Anne
St. house; Len Harvey, to
rebrick part of his John St.
property.
The apartment building
permit was issued to former
mayor, W. E. Simmons, who
plans to erect his third unit on
Waterloo St. behind Victoria
Park.
The six-unit building will be
similar to the two already
constructed in the south-west
section of the town.
need develops, Mr. Cochrane
said.
Already appointed or on the
payroll besides Mr. Cochrane are
a business administrator, school
superintendent, two assistant
superintendents and a secretary.
The board has advertised for
applicants for the positions of
plant superintendent, chief
accountant and office manager
(one job) and manager of
purchasing and services.
The chart calls for eventual
What a municipality spent on
education rather than its 1968
mill rate. This means that if a
municipality used 850,000 of its
surplus funds to reduce its mill
rate to say nine mills, instead of
levying at a normal 16 or 17
mills, then their mill rate for.
1969 will not be nine mills, but
rather nine mills, plus the
number of mills required to raise
the $50,000 surplUs which they
spent.
The accident total remained
comparatively low for the area
this week, but again there were a
number of injuries as five
persons were reported injured in
four collisions.
On Wednesday at 8:00 p.m.,
a truck operated by Stuart M.
Sweitzer, RR 2 Grand Bend,
went out of control on the
Crediton Road west of Shipka
when a tire blew out and the
truck rolled over in the north
ditch.
Passengers Bonnie Sweitzer,
13, and Loreen Moore, 11, both
of RR 2 Grand Bend, suffered
injuries in the mishap.
Damage was estimated at
$500 by Constable E.C. Wilcox.
There was only one accident
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It is that time again . . .
daylight saving time we mean.
When area residents go to bed
Saturday evening they are
reminded to turn their clocks
ahead one hour. Church services
Sunday morning will be on
daylight saving time.
Those persons disturbed by
the fact they will lose one hour
of sack time will be bolstered
when they know they will regain
it in the fall when the area
reverts back to standard time.
"In some municipalities this
will mean a tax rate this year
which will be twice last year's
rate, based on our preliminary
budget computations, which, of
course, have still to be ratified
by the Middlesex board,"
Mr. Turk also indicated that
municipalities in which boards
"played the game" and set a
normal tax rate last year are
unlikely to face any abnormal
education tax increase this year,
Thursday, that occurring at
12:01 a.m. when a car operated
by Ann H. MacKellar, Huron
Park, collided with a parked car
owned by Wayne Hockey,
Lucan, at the parking lot at
Huron Park.
Constable Wilcox listed
damage at $75.
Early Saturday morning, a car
operated by Douglas Taylor,
Exeter, was almost completely
wrecked when it went off the
Crediton Road into the south
ditch and rolled over.
Taylor and a passenger,
Wayne Brunslow, Crediton,
suffered injuries in the 3:15 a.m.
accident.
Constable D.A. Lamont set
damage at $2,000.
The final accident occurred
on Sunday at 10:00 a.m. when a
car operated by Nancy Strang,
RR 3 Exeter, went into the
ditch on Sideroad 25 in
Usborne.
She had been proceeding east
and when she pulled to one side
to meet an oncoming car at the
brow of a hill, the car went into
the ditch and rolled over.
Miss Strang sustained a back
injury and Constable Wilcox
listed damage at $1,000. '
During the week, the local
OPP detachment officers
charged 15 persons under the
Highway Traffic Act and issued
warnings to another 31 persons.
EXPLORERS HELPING RETARDED CHILDREN — The Explorers
group of James Street United Church is pitching in this year to assist
the South Huron Association for Mental Retarded in their Flowers
of Hope campaign. The girls are shown above with their leaders Mrs.
Howie Wright, Mrs. Ray Frayne and Mrs. Howard Kerslake in
packaging seeds that will be mailed to district residents. TWA photo
Five persons hurt
in district crashes
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