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SIGNS OF HAPPINESS — Happiness can be portrayed in many ways
and this was the case with Mrs. Maurice Tiedeman of Grand Bend
who was one of the big winners at last week's Legion Bingo in aid of
the Exeter and district Disaster Fund. Above, Mrs, Tiedeman, who
split the $1,000 prize with Mrs. George Rether Sr. of Exeter was
caught by the T-A cameraman only seconds after she became a
winner. T-A photos. GETTING A DELICIOUS PLATEFUL - The customers at Saturday's Bean Festival came from far and
wide to enjoy the bountiful meal. Above, Cameron Steele of Glenbanner Avenue, London is getting his
serving from Mrs. Doug O'Brien, Mrs, Don O'Brien, Mrs, Hubert Schilbe and Mrs. Gordon Hess.T-A photo
Ninety-fourth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, AUGUST 28, 1969
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District schools preparing
for opening day Tuesday
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Damage amounted to
approximately $8,000 in
accidents investigated by the
Exeter OPP detachment this
• week and seven persons
sustained injuries.
The rash of accidents started
off Wednesday when cars driven
by Kenneth Treitz, Goderich,
and Joanne Rutten, Parkhill,
collided at the intersection of
Highway 4 and the Mount
Carmel Road.
• The Rutten vehicle was in the
process of making a left turn off
Highway 4 and Treitz was in the
process of passing when the
accident occurred.
Total damage was listed at
$300 by Constable D. A.
Lamont.
At 2:50 a.m. Thursday,
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Damages run high
in district accidents
Tuesday morning schools in
the district will open their doors
again for another ten months of
reading, `riting and g rithmetic —
plus a few more subjects which
just weren't on the curriculum
when mom and dad went to
school,
Although. T-A staff made
every attempt to reach all the
principals of all the schools in
the area before presstime
Wednesday, there were some
who were just not available for
comment,
James Coulter,
superintendent of schools for
the county, advised Monday that
school buses in the county will
run on schedule unless students
are otherwise informed.
An advertisement appears in
this week's issue announcing the
bus schedule for SHDHS
students Tuesday morning.
Usborne Township
elementary school students will
arrive at school one hour later
Fisherman -
is drowned
A dock worker at
G u enther-Tuckey Transports
Ltd., Exeter, drowned Saturday
when he fell out of a boat in the
Maitland River at Goderich.
George Church, 68, Exeter,
had been fishing with two
companions when the accident
occured. Police who investigated
said the man drowned in about
six feet of water.
The body was recovered
shortly afterward.
Mr. Church came to Exeter to
work in April 1962.
Survivors include his wife;
three sons, Don, Leamington;
Ross and Gary, Grimsby; one
daughter, Mrs. Glen (Dorothy)
D al gl eish, Comber; three
stepsons, Forrest Baker,
California; Jerald Baker, St.
Thomas; Condon Baker,
London; two stepdaughters,
Beatrice Travers, London and
Mrs. Danny (Carol) Palmer,
London; three brothers, Uni
Church, West Lorne; Roy
Church, Windsor; Harold
Church, Chatham; two sisters,
Mrs. William (Ella) Maclntyre,
and Mrs. Edith Wilson. both of
Leamington; 30 grandchildren
and four great-grandchildren.
The body rested at the
Hopper-Hockey Funeral Home
until Monday when it was
transferred to the Ferguson
Funeral Home at Leamington
for burial Tuesday. Interment
was in Lakeview Cemetery,
Leamington.
Dashwood trees
chopped down
Exeter OPP are investigating
the destruction of three trees in
the Dashwood area this week.
Melvin Schlundt reported
that one five-inch walnut tree
was cut down on his property
and two butternut trees were
almost cut through and
destroyed.
Not a bean in sight in the
midst of white bean country was
the situation in Zurich early
Saturday evening.
A record crowd of 7,500
Tuesday morning only to
coincide with the SHDHS bus
schedule and remain there until
3:30 p.m.
Since SHDHS students will go
home at noon, an extra bus trip
will be required to accommodate
the Usborne Central students
who normally ride on SHDHS
buses,
All other schools in the
district report classes will begin
at the regular hour with Tuesday
being a full-day session
according to Department of
Education ruling.
SHDHS
Principal J, L. Wooden
expects about 950 students
Tuesday morning at the school.
He reported that much
greater freedom will be afforded
Grade 11, 12 and 13 students
this year insofar as the timetable
is concerned. The students,
Wooden explained, would have a
MASTER OF ARTS
Leona R. Alderson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Alderson,
Exeter, received her Master of
Arts Degree in Education
`summa cum laude' August 14
from Andrews University in
Berrien Springs, Michigan. She is
a graduate of London Teachers'
College and earned her Bachelor
of Arts from Atlantic Union
College in South Lancaster,
Massachusetts. She will continue
to teach Home Economics at
Kingsway College in Oshawa.
attended Saturday's Bean
Festival in the village of Zurich
and downed the 1,000 pounds
of white beans that had been
prepared in large iron kettles.
The large crowd started
pouring into Zurich well before
noon and continued until about
8:30 when the supply of beans
was exhausted.
The beans cooked,
represented 8,000 individual
servings. Many of those in
attendance assured themselves of
a tasty feed of beans the next
day by taking home cartons of
cooked beans that were on sale
at 25 cents each.
Large iron kettles suspended
on tripods in various locations in
the closed-off central area the
village kept the beans warm until
they were dished up.
The beans were first boiled in
insulated 500-gallon capacity
steel drums and then they are
placed in pans for baking in
converted refrigerators that rest
on their backs.
The cooling systems of the
refrigerators have been replaced
with heating elements and
thermostats.
The large crowd was
entertained throughout the
afternoon by various musical
groups including the Zurich and
district Centennial band led by
Charlie Kalbfleisch of Goderich
and the Little German Band of
London.
Others featured were the
Laporte family, the Gelinas
family, the Village Folk, Dennis
Overholt and the Zurich
Majorettes.
During opening activities at
the Zurich Community Centre
Friday night, Miss Donna
Schilbe of Zurich, representing
the Zurich Citizens News was
chosen queen of the Bean
E'estival.
The festival sponsored by the
Zurich and District Chamber of
Commerce included a midway
for the children and numerous
booths that sold everything from
cotton candy to home-made pies,
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much wider choice of subject
combinations than in former
years because of a more intricate
timetable.
Grade 9 and 10 timetables
will remain about the same,
however.
A new consumer education
course is being offered this year
to Grade 11 and 12 students and
the Man in Society course has
been enlarged to three classes.
For the first time this year, a
Grade 12 program in auto
mechanics, building construction
and certain technical subjects
will be offered at SHDHS,
Staff members at the school
are R. D, Aldham, English; R.
Boettger, French; Ron Bogart,
Head, physical education; Mrs.
F. E. Brown, English, art; Mrs.
M. A. Bruinsma, home
economics; Mrs. M. Carson,
home economics; P.F.H.
Connon, mathematics; E. A.
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Area residents won't have to
worry about what to do over the
final holiday weekend of the
summer season. Their biggest
problem will be in taking in all
the activities planned in the
commu nity.
The annual Board of Trade
Fun Day is scheduled for Friday,
there will be three big, exciting
performances of the biggest
rodeo in Eastern Canada on
Saturday and Sunday and the
Flyers come
this Sunday
With the co-operation of the
weatherman everyone attending
the eighth annual fly-in at
Sexsmith Airport, located on the
farm of Leonard Greb in Hay
township, a mile and a quarter
north of Exeter and the same
distance west, should be in for
an exciting day.
Mr. Greb expects from 50 to
100 planes to attend the one-day
fly-in. While some pilots and
passengers get an early start by
flying in Saturday evening the
bulk of the planes will be
arriving anytime after nine
Sunday morning and stay well
into the evening hours.
All who fly in will be treated
to the usual free helpings of
delicious corn and wieners.
Those who arrive by car can
enjoy the same food at a .very
nominal charge.
A number of free draws will
be held to entitle spectators to
free airplane rides. A trip over
the district countryside will also
be available to those who wish
to pay for the privilege.
A display of parachute
jumping by Gordon Fortey and
his group from Sarnia will be
held providing the wind velocity
is low.
Airfields all over the province
of Ontario have been notified of
this popular event and it is
hoped many pilots and their
families will accept the
invitation to attend. .
Prizes will again be awarded
to the oldest and youngest
pilots, the pilot coming the
greatest distance, the first pilot
to land and the first lady pilot to
arrive.
The local fly-in is sponsored
by a group of local pilots who
use the Greb field as home base.
They are Elmer Rowe, Emerson
Penhale, Bob Jeffrey, Don
Lewis, Don Bell, Ross Kercher,
Ken Elder, John Webster, Harry
Dougall and Leonard Greb.
Bingo draws
good crowd
Tile Exeter and district
disaster fund resulting from the
July 24 flood is more than
$1,000 richer thanks to the
efforts of the Exeter Legion and
Ladies Auxiliary.
Close to 700 persons
attended the giant bingo at the
Exeter arena last Wednesday
sponsored by the Legion groups.
Auxiliary treasurer Terry
Heywood said although a few
bills still have to be paid the
amount to be turned over to the
fund would be in excess of
$1,000.
The legion and Auxiliary each
donated $250 toward the priz,
money given at the bingo.
Mrs. George Rether Sr. of
Exeter and Mrs, Maurice
Tiedeman of Grand Bend split
the big prize of $1.,000.
Arm Romaniuk of the Legion
Auxiliary was the chairman in
charge of the bingo.
Dog hits foot,
car hits wall
Several persons have been
involved in accidents after losing
control of their vehicles while
attempting to avoid dogs on the
road, but a Zurich area lady had
a different experience this week.
On Friday afternoon, Mary
Reed, RR 2 Zurich, was pulling
into the L.C.B.O. parking lot at
Zurich when her pet poodle
stepped on her foot which was
still on the accelerator.
The car jumped ahead over
cement slabs and hit the east
side of the store.
Damage was set at $300 to
the car by Constable E. C.
Wilcox.
Constable W. G. Glassford
investigated a single car mishap
on the second concession of
Hay, just north of 15 Sideroad.
Edward MacDonald, RR 2
Hensall, lost control of his car
after turning off the sideroad
and it went into the west ditch.
Damage was $400,
There were three accidents,
Saturday, the first at 3:26 a.m.
on the 12th concession of Hay,
half a mile south of Highway 84.
Lynda Fuss, Hensall, was
southbound on the concession
and after coming over the brow
of a hill was forced off the east
side of the road by an unknown
vehicle.
Damage to the front of her
vehicle was estimated at $600 by
Constable Glassford.
At 9:10 a.m. Constable F. L.
Giffin investigated a two-car
crash on County Road 11 in
Usborne Township, involving
cars driven by Earl Stephen, RR
1 Woodham, and Roy
Brennewies, Seaforth. Damage
was estimated at $1,000.
The other crash on Saturday
occurred at 10:45 a.m. on
concession 14 and 15 Hay. The
car involved was driven by
Dianne Ducharme, RR 1
Dashwood, who sustained minor
injuries.
Damage was listed at $400 by
Constable Lamont.
FIVE HURT
Five persons were injured in a
crash on Sunday at 9:30 p.m. on
Highway 84, one and a quarter
miles west of County Road 31.
Gerald Masse,' London, was
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WHAT A DIFFERENCE ONE ROUND MAKES — Chariot races are one of the features of the
twice-monthly pony races staged at Exeter Community Park. In the top picture Jack Parsons and his
team at the left seem to be getting off to a slow start but in the bottom picture on the turn for home
Parsons has his duo well out in front. T-A photos
Visitors eat half ton
of beans at Zurich
annual Fly-in at Sexsmith
Airport takes place Sunday.
Any one of those events has
drawn large crowds in the past
and being lumped together
should provide one of the most
entertaining and busiest
weekends in the area's history.
The rodeo activities, which
should attract well over 10,000
people, get underway Saturday
morning with a cowpoke
breakfast at the rodeo grounds
and then a parade through
Exeter at noon the same day.
From then on, the cowboys
take over the entertaining, and
several new attractions have
been added to this year's event
to make it even more
entertaining and interesting.
The Brahma bulls, which
provided unbelievable
excitement in the initial
appearance last year will be
back, as will the bucking broncs,
the calf roping and bull dogging
competitions.
Added features this year will
include pony chariot races. This
event is attracting more and
more people to the regular pony
races held in Exeter and it's an
exhibition that displays more
speed and dust-churning than
most races.
Dalton Finkbeiner, rodeo
secretary, reports that local
youngsters are flocking in with
entries for the little britches calf
riding contest. This event was
Long walkout
ends at Lucan
The 20-week old Central
Hotel strike at Lucan has been
settled the Union representative
for Local 448 retail-wholesale
and department store union,
AFL, CIL, CLC reported
Tuesday.
Eight employees immediately
returned to work with wages
comparable to those paid in
London Hotels and beverage
rooms.
Salaries range from $1.40 for
a waitress to $2.18 for a cook.
l'he wages are retroactive to
December 11 when negotiations
started. It is the first Union
contract for the employees.
The strike started April 9.
Store decorations and rodeo
posters already give Exeter the
appearance of a town from the
pages of the wild west, and
Friday's Fun Day will add ,to
that atmosphere.
Several of the contests will be
based on Hollywood's version of
the early cowboy.
There will be a flap-jack
flipping contest for the girls and
a lasso contest for the boys. In
addition, the boys are being
advised to bring their guns to
town for the pistol drawing
competition.
This will he broken into
various age levels with a grand
champion to be declared to see
which area lad can execute
the fastest draw in true
Billy-the-Kid fashion.
There will also be a
chuckwagon race. Teams will
consist of three boys, two
pulling the wagon and one
riding. Boys will have to supply
their own wagons and the race
will be around an obstacle
course to be set up on Main St.
All area youngsters are being
asked to show up in western or
Indian attire for the day and a
giant parade will be featured at
1:30 with $15 in prize money
for the best costumes.
There will be additional
prizes for the girls, who will be
first held at the Hensall Saddle
Club show this spring and
indicates there are plenty of
budding young rodeo performers
in the area.
Pound-for-pound, the calves
and boys put on a show as
exciting as their older cohorts
who ride those dangerous
Brahma bulls.
Another local flavor will be
added in the amateur bare back
bronc riding event which is open
to members of area saddle clubs.
The beasts won't have all the
spotlight at the rodeo, as the
beauties will be competing as
well. The beauty show planned
for this year will bring beauty
queens from several neighboring
Western atmosphere
for Fun Day as well
communities to vie for the first
title in association with the local
rodeo.
SATURDAY DANCE
Another new feature is the
open air dance planned for
Saturday night on a special floor
to be set up in Frontier Village
near the old saloon.
A campfire and corn roast
will be included in the activities
under the stars and live band
music will be provided.
In case of rain, this event will
be held in the arena, but all
other activities will be
conducted rain or shine.
Additional seats have been
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judged with their dolls in either
western or Indian attire.
The boys will have a chance
to display their fishing ability in
a fish pole casting test.
In addition to these events,
there will be a dog show,
watermelon eating contest,
street skiing and other games to
keep the kids busy on their final
fling before school opens.
SIDEWALK SALES
Exeter merchants will again
be setting up exciting bargain
tables on the sidewalk outside
their stores. Shoppers should
look through this week's issue to
see the many items being
advertised.
Several stores have already
decorated their windows for the
big western weekend in Exeter.
Cann's Mill have a blacksmith
display along with other
interesting western equipment.
Jim Scott has his leather goods
display set up in the former
Fairbairn building and there are
also interesting displays at Gould
Jory and Hopper-Hockey.
Joining the merchants in the
sidewalk bazaar will be area
church ladies who will set up
booths to sell their baking wares
and other goodies.
These have always been much
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BUSINESS AS USUAL ON SATUittbAY — Donna Schilbe, who was crowned beauty queen at the
Zurich Bean Festival's opening activities spent part of Saturday evening doing a regular chore, that of
baby sitting for the Tony Bedard family. Above, Donna is shown with Michael and Laurie Bedard on the
toy ears that were part of the children's midway. T-A photo
Whoopee! What a weekend!