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THE FINISH LINE—Some of these kids were among 15 participants in a walk from Bayfield to
Dashwood Saturday to raise money for the Dashwood Midgets baseball team. All were eagerly awaiting
the arrival home of the last four walkers. The banner read "Congratulations boys!" (T-A photo)
CONDUCT SERVICE — The young people at Caven Presbyterian Church conducted the Mother's Day
service, Sunday, including talks on youth problems and ideals as well as folk singing accompanied by
guitars. Standing left to right: Philip Moore, Judy Burke, Peggy Pryde, Barb Stanlake, Mike Foreman,
Cathy Simmons, Dan Laing, Jo Anne Burke, Dave Foreman and John Pryde. Seated are Joanne
Whilsmith and Cathy Cook. T-A photo
Conduct Caven service
Youths present their case
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SELL PEPSI TO AID KIN PROJECTS — Members of the Exeter
Kinsmen club visited most homes in Exeter last week selling cases
and cartons of 'Pepsi. The profits will be used to finance the many
charitable Kinsmen projects throughout the year. Shown above are
Kin members Walter Peitsch and Peter Cluff making a sale to Mrs.
Clarence Regier and John and Barbara on Huron Street. T-A photo
New Dashwood park
approved by Stephen
HEAR SPEAKER, ELECT OFFICERS * The Exeter Home and
School Association members were given an insight into the work of
the Huron Children's Aid Society, Monday, when they were given an
address by Miss Clare McGowan, local director. The group also
elected new officers and they are shown above with Miss McGowan,
from the left: Mrs. Robert Chaffe, second vice-president; Mrs. Peter
Raymond, secretary; Mrs. Bruce Perry, president; Miss McGowan;
Mrs. Ron Bogart, treasurer; Mrs. Robert Fletcher, first vice-president.
Exeter council Friday night
decided to debenture $40,000 of
the reconstruction cost of Main
St. in a move to keep this year's
tax increase at a reasonable level.
With the debenture,
residential property owners will
• still face an eight mill increase
and the commercial rate will
jump by 9.1 mills.
Had council decided to pay
the reconstruction costs out of
current funds, the tax increases
would have amounted to an
additional 10 or 11 mills in both
• categories.
This year's mill rate will be
118.3 for residential properties
and 128.9 for commercial.
That means an increase of $8
per every $1,000 of assessment.
The increase on an assPssment of
$2,000 would be $16 and it
• would jump to $24 for an
assessment of $3,000.
However, a small portion of
the increased tax bite will be
offset by the fact that the
shelter grant provided by the
Province will increase.
Last year, Exeter residents
received a grant of $59.56 on
their taxes and this year's grant
will be $4,32 higher than that,
This year's tax increase is
consistent with those of the past
four years. In 1965 the
residential rate was 85,3 mills
and the commercial stood at
93.0. That makes the average
increase slightly over eight mills
per year since that time.
By agreeing to issue a
debenture for $40,000 council
actually cancelled out the
increase that loomed on the
general levy.
The eight mill increase is
made up of two mills for county
purposes, 2.2 for high school
purposes and 5.1 for public and
separate school purposes.
At Friday's special session,
council members reviewed the
budget as proposed by Clerk
Eric Carscadden and failed to
find any figures they could slash.
Councillor Don MacGregor
pointed out that complaints
from citizens indicated the
community was already running
behind in its sewer and road
work and it was not advisable
to cut plans in these
departments.
Noting that recreation costs
are "getting out of hand,"
Councillor Ross Taylor
suggested a reduction in the
program.
However, Reeve Derry Boyle
explained that recent repairs to
the arena and grandstand had
pushed recreation and parks
costs up and he said that further
repairs were still needed on both
facilities.
Boyle also reminded council
that he had predicted a sizeable
cost in maintaining Riverview
Park after it was beautified as a
centennial project and he said
this was now the case.
He said some gabion work
had to be done on the stream
below the darn and the parks
crew needed a new tractor.
The need for two new
mowers, a roof on the garage
and work around the mausoleum
required an additional $2,500
grant from council to the
cemetery board this year.
Oddly enough, while the
board required an additional
amount of money this year,
council hopes to sell the
$40,000 debenture issue to the
cemetery board.
The $40,000 is in the
perpetual care fund and only the
interest can be used each year.
It was noted that the interest
the town would have to pay on
the debenture issue would
possibly reduce the amount they
had to grant to the board in
corning years.
The debenture issue will be
for a five-year period and Clerk
Eric Carscadden explained that
the repayment of the loan would
result in an expenditure of some
three mills in those five years.
Councillor Ross Taylor
opposed the debenture issue, He
said it was poor government to
be putting heavy debenture
debts on the future generation,
However, others commented
that the future generation would
enjoy the benefits of the work
undertaken now and therefore
should help pay for them.
LOCAL GRADUATES—Five young men from the Exeter district were among the graduates at Centralia
College of Agricultural Technology last Wednesday. Seen here on the campus following the ceremony
are (left to right) Bruce Drummond, Kippen; Don Geiger, Zurich; Robert Drummond, Kippen; Larry
Ballantyne, Exeter; and Philip Conlin, Clandeboye. (1'-A photo)
Debenture issue keeps it 'reasonable' Schools up 7.3
Exeter tax rate jumps .8 mills
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Ninety-fourth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, MAY 15, 1969 Price Per Copy 15 Cents
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Driving exhibition expensive
for youthful Lucan driver
• Worshippers at Caven
Presbyterian Church were told
of youths' needs and desires,
Sunday, as well as why youths
aren't attending church.
The words weren't from a
minister trying to explain his
opinions, but rather from the
young people in the church who
conducted the service and
presented their views to their
parents and elders in the
congregation.
Mixed in with the words were
folk songs performed by a girls'
choir, accompanied by a couple
• of guitar players.
Peggy Pryde pointed out that
"idealism, optimism, search for
what's the best — all of these are
synonymous with youth." She
said this has prevailed in every
generation as youths have tried
new things in an attempt to
come up with the answer of
what they are meant for and
what purpose they serve.
She said that in a perfect
society, happiness is the
prevailing emotion, and people
disregard superficial traits such
as nationality and color and look
deeper into a person to find
Pull automobile
from Lake Huron
OPP Constable W, G.
Glassford is investigating the
discovery of a car found in Lake
Huron Sunday morning.
The 1963 light green
Volkswagen was found
abandoned in about a foot and a
half of water in the lake at
Drysdale, north of St. Joseph.
The license plates and serial
numbers on the car had been
obliterated,
Anyone with information
regarding this car is asked to
contact the Exeter Opp
detachmenL
what that human being is really
like.
The teenager noted that
youth has seen what can happen
when people or groups of people
hate each other and pointed to
the two World Wars and the
Korean and Viet Nam Wars as
examples.
"We probably wouldn't be
worshipping here this morning if
our fathers and grandfathers
hadn't fought for this country,"
she said, adding later that youth
today is trying to prevent
another outbreak that would
jeopardize their inherited
freedom.
"I'm sure the majority of
youth today would fight for
RYERSON GRAD — Martin de
Montmorency, son of Vernon de
Montmorency, RR 3 Exeter, has
accepted a position with the
Ontario Hydro Research Centre
in Toronto. He is an honor
graduate from the Mechanical
Technology course at Ryerson
their freedom in the event of
war, but an ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure," she
stated.
"You — our parents — I
think, have a certain right to be
more cynical. But in the same
light, the youth of this time has
a right to be optimistic. We
haven't had to fight wars and
hunger during the Depression.
But we do know about them!"
She concluded by saying that
what possibly appears to be
beligerence or defiance on the
part of youth is actually youth's
way of trying to achieve this
harmony in the world.
RESPONSIBILITY
David Foreman, talking on
responsibility, noted that
parents entrust small children to
do things on their own, but as
the children grow older and then
demand more responsibility, the
parents cringe.
"Parents seem to have an
innate fear that we'll make the
same mistakes in life as they
did," he said, and then quickly
added, "of course we will — and
probably some new ones they
haven't even heard of yet."
This attitude was possible to
understand to a degree, he said,
but by depriving youth of some
of the valuable experiences of
youth may be grave mistake.
"As responsible teenagers we
realize that responsibility does
not come easy — we must earn
it. We must prove ourselves
worthy to our elders in minor
matters with which we have
been entrusted. The rest will
follow gradually."
He said the granting of
responsibility must be a totally
indiVidual matter, and it was
necessary for parents to realise
that each person has certain
individual needs which should be
catered to.
David explained that a child
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An exhibition of his driving
skills cost Reinhard Juergens,
Lucan, $102.80 at provincial
court, criminal division, held in
Exeter Friday and presided over
by Judge Glenn Hays.
Evidence showed Juergens
had provided what looked like a
driving exhibition on Gidley
Street in front of SHDHS about
the time school was dismissed. It
was noted that students from
the public school were also
walking in the area at the time.
For the second consecutive
week, fires caused considerable
damage in the district.
Late Wednesday night a blaze
at Gingerich's Sales and Service
in Zurich caused a large amount
of damage and Friday afternoon,
a Stephen Township home
owned by Lyle Steeper, RR 8
Parkhill was completely gutted.
The blaze at, the Steeper
home at Lot 35, S.B. Concession
of Stephen occurred sometime
between 3 and 4 p.m. when the
owners were at Dashwood
remodelling another home they
had just purchased.
The four Steeper children
were at school at the time. The
fire was fought by the Parkhill
volunteer fire department.
The Steeper's who lost all
possessions in the blaze wasted
little time in planning to rebuild.
By late Saturday all remains of
the house were cleared away.
Stephen Township clerk
Wilmar D. Wein said Mr. Steeper
obtained a building permit from
the Crediton office Wednesday
morning and basement
excavation was beginning.
No cause for the fire has been
established and loss was
estimated at close to $20,000.
The house was partially covered
by insurance.
MERCHANDISE DAMAGED
All merchandise of
Gingerich's Sales and Service
was damaged extensively by
smoke in the Wednesday Zurich
blaze.
Investigate
nine crashes
The Exeter detachment OPP
investigated nine accidents
during the past week. One
involved a police cruiser and
three involved parked cars.
On Wednesday at 4:05 p.m. a
truck operated by William E.
Stebbins, RR 3 Dashwood,
collided with a car operated by
Harold T. Chappel, Exeter, on
the ODC property at Centralia.
Damage was listed at $75 by
Constable D. A. Mason.
The police cruiser was
involved in an accident on
Friday at 10:45 when a car
operated by James L.
Coughtrey, RR 1 Exeter,
collided with the Exeter Police
Department t cruiser driven by
Cpl. Harry VanBergen.
The accident took place on
Highway 4 north of Exeter and
damage was listed at $125 by
Constable W. G. Glassford,
There were four crashes on
Saturday, the first at 1:45 a.m.
when a car Operated by John
Douglas Dobbie, RR 2 London,
went off the south • side of
Highway 83 and through a farm
fence. Constable D. A. Mason
estimated damage at $550.
At 11:50 a.m. Constable
Mason investigated a hit and run
accident at 230 Algonquin
Drive, Huron Park, in which a
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Skid marks on the road
measured 34 feet. Juergens had
entered a guilty plea on the
charge of careless driving. The
alternative to the fine was 14
days in jail.
Douglas R. Taylor, Exeter,
was also charged with careless
driving after his car went into a
ditch April 19 in Stephen
Township. The car was a total
wreck, the court learned.
Taylor had been drinking
although he was not impaired.
A smoke sale is being held
next week when appliances,
lighting and plumbing fixtures,
electrical and paint supplies and
',furniture will go under the
auctioneer's hammer.
Gerald Gingerich, owner of
the business said the building
and contents were covered by
insurance.
It is believed a faulty air
conditioner may have been the
cause of the blaze.
Local barber
dies in crash
A head-on two vehicle crash,
west of Parkhill early Saturday
morning claimed the lives of two
Parkhill district youths.
Killed instantly were James
Wilfred Sadler, RR 2 Parkhill,
and David Wayne Weber of
Parkhill.
Constable John Flach of the
Strathroy OPP detachment said
both drivers were alone in their
vehicles when the accident
occurred shortly after 2 a.m.
The accident happened on a
straight stretch of highway
about three miles west of
Parkhill on Highway 7.
Police said there were no
witnesses to the crash and a
decision on whether an inquest
will be held has not been made.
The 20-year-old Sadler, a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Sadler
was employed for the past three
months at Doug and Bill Parker's
Barber Shop on Main Street in
Exeter.
The H. Box and Son Funeral
Home of Parkhill was in charge
of both funerals on Monday.
The fine was $40 and costs.
A guilty plea from Lome
Kent Keller, Exeter, on a charge
of making unnecessary noise
cost him $35 and costs. Keller
was found to be causing
unnecessary noise on Sanders
Street about midnight April 13
when he had accelerated across
Main Street.
James Donald Lee, Goderich,
was fined $40 and costs for a
similar offence at the
intersection of Senior and
Gidley Streets. He pleaded guilty
to the April 16 charge.
A charge of unnecessary noise
levied against Bradley E.
Mousseau, Hensall, brought a
guilty plea. Mousseau had been
blowing the horn of his car
continuously during the time it
took to travel 200 feet with the
vehicle, in Hensall. He stated he
had been trying to attract the
attention of a friend, but since
the hour had been late on the
evening of April 26, the court
ordered Mousseau to pay a fine
of $30 and costs.
Speeding fines were paid by
Ervin W. Heimpel, Stratford,
$11.50 and Larry D. Laye,
Dashwood, $16.50.
LIQUOR OFFENCES
Peter E. Rumball, Grand
Bend, paid a fine of $60 and
costs for having liquor in his
possession while under the legal
drinking age of 21 years. A part
bottle of beer was found April
18 in the car of which Rumball
was the driver.
James D. Hawes, Hensall,
pleaded guilty to a May 3 charge
of having liquor in his possession
in Stephen Township. Hawes,
who is not 21 years old, was in a
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on schedule
Although Monday will mark
the first holiday of the summer
season, The Times-Advocate will
be published on Thursday as
usual.
The deadline for display
advertising will be extended
until Tuesday noon, but the
classified deadline will remain as
Tuesday at 6:00 p.m.
Correspondents and news
contributors are asked to have
their material forwarded at their
usual time where possible to
ensure publication.
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Fires again cause
consi▪ derable damage
The Dashwood baseball park
will now be officially known as
an athletic field under
regulations of the Ontario
Community Centres Act.
At a meeting last week,
Stephen township council gave
approval to the change after
hearing a delegation from
Dashwood making the request.
A board of seven men was set
up with representation from Hay
and Stephen township councils.
Lionel Wilder is the Hay delegate
to the newly-formed board while
deputy-reeve Joseph Dietrich is
the Stephen representative.
Completing the board are
Dashwood area residents Glenn
Webb, Jack Ford, Bob Hoffman,
Bill Vandeworp and Irvin
Rader.
The new group to be known
as the Dashwood Community
Centres Board met last night,
Wednesday for the first time.
One of the projects at hand is
installation of floodlights at the
Dashwood field.
Under the new set-up, the
park land must be purchased and
deeded over jointly to the two
municipalities involved.
Clerk Wilmar D. Wein was
instructed to write to
Department of Health officials
asking for a permit to continue
open burning at township
dumps.
Council officially accepted
the plan of the Ontario Water
Resources Commission whereby
the township will be able to
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Arrange meeting
to discuss drugs
An information meeting on
drugs and their implication with
young people will be held at the
South Huron District High
School Auditorium on
Wednesday, May 21 at 8 p.m.
Exeter Police Chief Ted Day
has made arrangements to have
Arthur McCart, Police Chief at
Ingersoll as the guest speaker.
Chief McCart has more than two
years experience as a lecturer on
drugs and their symptoms.
All churches in the immediate
Exeter area are being notified of
the meeting with a special
invitation to parents,