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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-11-13, Page 1VETERAN TAKES SALUTE — One of the most popular and distinguished veterans in this district of the two World Wars took the salute during Sunday's Remembrance Day march-past at the Post Office. Andy Easton is shown above taking the salute with Exeter Legion branch president Gordon Sanders in the background. BAKING WAS AT A PREMIUM a The Caven Congregational Circle bake sale held Saturday was a huge success. Most items of baking disappeared in the first half hour. Above, Mrs, Earl Campbell is contemplating a purchase from Mrs. John Burke, Mrs. Prod Simmons and Mrs, W. Sillery. T-A photo. The Blanshard .Hunicipol Tdephone S'.44701ern NTON EXCkARGE',, /969 • Giant give-away starts this week Exeter businessmen this week embark on one of the richest Christmas promotions ever offered area shoppers. Thirty-one members of the Exeter Board of Trade are offering prizes with a retail value of $1,821.30 in a "Pie-A-Prize" promotion. Each of the 31 stores has an advertisement listed in this issue, so shoppers can quickly see the attractive array of gifts ... ranging from large quantities of beef, baked goods and groceries to chairs, tape recorders, watches, radios, tires, gasoline, tricycle, complete clothing ensembles for men and women, carpets, travel cases, electric shavers, shoes, luggage, electrical appliances, dry cleaning, typewriter, blankets, record player and an imported wall tapestry, Oddly enough, while it features prizes double the value of most recent promotions, this one isn't costing the local merchants any more money, so shoppers need not worry that prices will be up this year. Some of the expensive elements of former promotions have been dropped, and the Money normally spent in this regard has been put into the prize total by the merchants. The printing of thousands of draw tickets has been eliminated and customers will have an easier time entering the promotion. In fact, they don't even have to buy anything in Exeter, although naturally the merchants hope that's not the result of the switch. Coupons for area shoppers are printed in this week's T-A and flyer . one coupon for each participating store. Customers are required only to fill out the coupons, clip and deposit them in the store designated on the coupon, A coupon deposited in each of the 31 stores gives a shopper 31 chances to be one of the six winners to be picked in each of the five weeks prior to Christmas. Coupons from each store go into one central draw and the winners are eligible for any prize. However, those who may consider cutting down on the job of visiting each store by depositing all coupons in one store, are out of luck. Coupons deposited in a store other than the one designated on the coupon will be tossed out. Each Weak will be- a new draw, W shoppers. have to• fill out the " coupons which appear in every *We to. be eligible for each draw. After the six winners have been .PiOed during the first week, •011 coupons will then be, destroyed and the second week's contest begins, Winners will be notified as to the procedure set up for determining which of the 31 prizes they may pick. There's no limit on the number of prizes- a person may win. _One of the Main reasons for —Please turn to page 3 4 4 Ninety-fourth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 13, 1969 Price Per Copy 15 Cents Poultry farmers appeal assessment on buildings 11.ev, Harold 1, Snell is shown above, centre,with Andy 13ierling, E, (Ted) Pooley, Reg McDonald and president Gordon Sanders of the local branch. T-A photo A CONTRAST IN COMMUNICATION INSTRUMENTS — The Granton exchange of the Blanshard Municipal Telephone System is changing over to the dial system this week-end. Members of the office staff Helen Baillie and Mrs. Marion Urquhart are shown above demonstrating the "old and the new" with manager Wilfred Douglas looking on. • '4 T-A photo. County board slashes charges for insurance W. H. Hodgson Limited, informed the Board. "This refused to join the Perth-Huron Exeter, was awarded the extremely low cost will only be Independent Insurance Agents' contract for supplying insurance held if the Huron Board's own Association. coverage on Board property by losses are controlled. We prefer Huron County Board of to see the fire and all risk Education at its meeting in insurance spread among a Central Huron Secondary number o f coinpanies." School, Clinton, last week, at a The Board also accepted the total figure of $22,631. This recommendation of the Hartley compared with $40,099 in 1968. consulting firm that "due to the The tender was made on $250 deductible and the fact behalf of the Perth-Huron that only 53,000 of 1,152,000 Independent Insurance Agents' square feet of floor area is over Association. Dale and Company 20 years old, we feel that Dale's will act as a broker for the $3,800 premium for optional Hodgson firm and pay a extensions for glass falling commission to it. The group objects, water escape, collapse includes 29 out of 35 insurance from weight of snow, is agents in Huron County. excessive and do not recommend The Board took the advice of that the Board purchase these its consulting firm, H. E. Hartley extensions at this time." Consultants Limited, Clarence McDonald, Exeter, Scarborough. chairman of the Insurance "The tender introduced a Committee, pointed out that 29 much broader insurance program out of the 35 insurance offices and reduced the premium 44 in the County of Huron had percent from the existing joined with the Hodgson firm in premium," H. E. Hartley its tender; the other six had Crash damage high; two animals involved in five accidents investigated by at 5:45 p.m. the Exeter OPP detachment Johann Minderlein, RR 3 Damage amounted to $5,500 on Sideroad 15 in Hay Township officers this week, and again Zurich, was proceeding east on there were two accidents the sideroad and hit the animal involving straying animals. owned by Ray Rader, RR 3 Zurich. Three drivers received minor Damage to the car was $200 bruises and were shaken up in a and the animal was apparently three-car crash on Highway 4 at not injured. 5:10 p.m. Monday. Constable D. A. Mason •4 Brian Hogg, Exeter, was investigated. proceeding south and was The other crash involving an stopped waiting for traffic to animal was on Thursday at clear when he was struck from 10:15 a.m. on Highway 83 east behind by a car driven by Mary of Dashwood. Olive Voisin, RR 2 Ailsa Craig. Mary M. Smith, Zurich, The Hogg vehicle was pushed struck a horse owned by Case into the other lane of traffic and VanRaay, RR 3 Dashwood. was involved in a second Constable E. C. Wilcox listed collision with a northbound car damage to the car at $200 and driven by Bert Bax, RR the horse was not injured. Woo dham. The other crash was Constable D. A. Lamont investigated by Constable F. L. Any residents of McGillivray listed damage at $1,800. Giffin on Friday at 9:50 p.m. at township interested in obtaining the intersection of Highways 84 water from the Lake Huron pipe There were two accidents, and 4 in Hensall. line are asked to attend a Sunday, one causing damage of Drivers involved were Joseph meeting to-night, Thursday at $2,500. Drivers involved were S. Green, Grand Bend, and Brian the township hall. Kenneth John Horrell, Exeter, Chappel, RR 1 Staffa. A.E. Ladbrooke of the and Paul Wayne Gross, London. Martha Rooseboom, Hensall, Ontario Water Resources Horrell, driving a car he had and Kevin Shouldice, Listowel, Commission will be in purchased only a day prior to who were passengers in the attendance to answer questions the crash, was stopped on Green vehicle sustained injuries. as to proposed costs on Highway 4 south of Exeter to Damage was set at $700. connections and cost of water. make a left turn when struck During the week the local The pipe line to Parkhill is from the rear by Gross. detachment officers charged six now being installed. McGillivray The crash occurred at 10:10 persons under the Highway clerk William J. Amos said p.m. and was investigated by Traffic Act and issued warnings Monday his office had received Constable Lamo nt. to another 24 drivers. One "five or six" inquiries from The other crash involved a car charge was laid under the Liquor ratepayers with some interest in and cattle beast, and took place Control Act. obtaining water. 4 GUEST SPEAKER CHATS WITH VETERANS — A former minister of James Street United Church returned Tuesday to speak at the annual Remembrance Day banquet held at the Exeter Legion Hall, water pipe line was given second reading. In other business, council: Accepted three tile drain loan applications in the amount of $8,000. Interviewed five applicants for the position of Road Superintendent and reserved their decision until November 19. Approved grants of $25 to the Huron Plowmen's Association and $100 to the Exeter Agricultural Society. Three crashes for town police Three accidents were investigated by the Exeter police department over the past week with property damage totalling $650. The first occurred Tuesday, November 4 at the corner of Main and Victoria Streets when vehicles driven by Sharon Martene, Dashwood and William Henderson, RR 3 Kippen collided. A passenger in the Martene car, Martha Miller, also of Dashwood was slightly injured in the crash that caused $325 in damages. Shortly after noon the following day, damages of $200 were incurred at the corner of Gidley and Andrew Streets as — Please turn to page 3 Hydro rates still unknown What effect the higher cost of wholesale electricity from Ontario to local Public Commissions will have on the rates paid by the average domestic consumer will not be known for some time. Hugh. Davis, manager of the Exeter PUC said members of the local Commission have not yet had a chance to look at the new charges and it would probably not be until the budget is set for next year before a definite rate can be set. Ontario Hydro announced Sunday an increase of about six percent in the cost of electricity it supplies to communities in the province. The increase will go into effect on January I of next year, A Huron County assessment court of revision was told, Monday, that a 25 per cent business tax levied against five Hay township poultry farmers was unprecedented, descriminatory and should be set aside. Anson McKinley, spoke on behalf of McKinley Hatcheries, Zurich; Scott Poultry Farms, Seaforth and T.B. Allan Feed Mill of Londesboro and five Hay township farmers that have been A man to whom World War II "was fascinating — not horrible" delivered the address at the Remembrance Day service at Exeter United Church, Sunday. It was the first time the service had not been held on November 11 in the community, and the Sunday service attracted one of the largest crowds in the church for some time. It was filled to capacity. Rev. Glen Wright pointed out that his generation knew little about the hardships encountered during both World Wars. He noted that the fathers of his generation were too young to fight in the First War and too old for combat duty in the second encounter. He said the only thing he could recall enduring was the long hours his mother was away packing bales at the local Red Cross centre. The young clergyman recalled some of the "features" of World War II as he recalled them: gathering milk weed pods for life preservers ... covering German airplanes with war bond stamps at school ... eating peanuts that tasted similar to soya beans, because they were soya beans ... packing boxes to send to two cousins overseas. Rev. Wright then reviewed what wars should teach people; namely that the future of the world does not belong to nationalism, but rather to those willing to understand and live with diversity. He noted that it had been wrong for Hitler to march across Europe in his nationalistic bent; and also that it was wrong for the Russians to invade Czechoslovakia and for Canada not to recognize Mainland China. The large congregation was told that people must have more respect for evil and that it is not always right to respond to your country's call. "It was wrong for the young men of Germany to respond to Hitler's call," he explained, using assessed a 25 per cent business tax on their poultry barns. The business tax was added this year for the first time by Huron County assessors because the five allegedly purchased feed for their operations which, according to the assessors, makes them businesses. The Hay farmers making the appeal at the session in Zurich Monday were Peter and Erhard Boersma, RR 1 Exeter; William Rooseboom, RR 3 Zurich; this to point out that leaders don't always have all the right ideas. "We condemn draft-dodgers, but we must ask ourselves if it is always right to respond to a country's call," he stated, noting later that where communism has spread, the country has always been better off than before communism arrived. "If the cause isn't just, we must have an alternative." Quoting from the poem "In Flanders Field", he suggested the torch ' referred to was freedom . . . justice ... elimination of poverty and prejudice . . and the ability to live with different ideas. "That's the kind of challenge we have today," he commented, adding that it was desperately important for people in wealthy nations to sacrifice for those who were less fortunate. He said that unless people share with the less fortunate, the — Please turn to page 3 Stephen Gingerich, Zurich and Donald Hendrick, RR 1 Dashwood. McKinley said the assessment should be set aside in view of the action being taken at the present time by the Ontario Legislature to define a "working farm." A ministerial committee has been appointed and is now actively engaged in preparing a definition of a "working farm" and recommendations concerning the manner in which farm operations should be assessed and taxed under the Amended Act. The new business tax does not apply where livestock is raised on feed grown on the same farm. County assessors said the business tax involved an additional assessment of $130,000 across Huron County and $6,000 for the five farmers — Please turn to page 3 Hay township awards contract The contract for the installation of a new oil furnace in the Hay Township shed, located on the Blind Line was let to Gingerich's Limited of Zurich at the latest meeting of Hay township council. All work on the job is to be completed by December 15. The Gingerich tender was for $900 and includes a 200-gallon storage tank. Court of revision on the Cann-Mitchell Drainage works will be held on Thursday, November 20 at 2.45 p.m. A number of tile drainage loans were processed and several municipal drainage reports were read. BACK ,FROM A SUCCESSFUL TRIP — A couple of local hunters were successful in a week-long it',/,ira to the Parry Sound district. Shown above on their return with a doe are Cliff Moore and Ken Inch. 1-A photo Stephen plans check on new construction Stephen Township building inspector Arnold McCann has been instructed to keep a close check on building construction in the municipality. Township Council has discovered that numerous buildings are being erected without first obtaining a building permit. A permit at a nominal fee is necessary before construction of any kind can begin. The Stephen building bylaw was recently amended to include construction on farm properties. Previously farm lands of more than 10 acres had been exempt from the bylaw. The Ontario Fire Marshall's Office is being asked to do a fire protection survey throughout the township and make recommendations for improvement of fire facilities and equipment. The tender of Harold Litt of Thorndale in the amount of $500 for repair of a portion of the Webber Drain was accepted. The GI avi n•Schwartz Municipal Drain report was given third reading and passed while a bylaw covering a tentative agreement with the Ontario Water Resources Commission to have Stephen property owners in the west end of the township hook onto the Lake Huron DENTAL PROGRAM An interim preventative dental program in the schools was approved by Huron County Board of Education at its meeting in Central Huron Secondary School, Clinton, last week, on recommendation of Dr. G. P. A. Evans, director of Huron County Health Unit and Medical Officer of. Health. "As an interim and valuable measure, and one which can be complementary to a comprehensive preventative dental program in elementary schools, there is availabe immediately a topical (i.e. local) flouride technique which can be administered to a class of children by a registered nurse," Dr. Evans explained in a letter to the Board." In this way, the children apply a special flouride paste to the teeth with an individual tooth brush supplied as part of the scheme. At the same time, they receive valuable dental health education and are able to retain the brush for home use. Needless to say, parental consent would be obtained for each child's participation." Dr. Evans described the procedure as "safe, effective and complementary both to adequate flouride in drinking water and to a fully developed preventative dentistry program under public health auspices." D. J. Cochrane, director, said he was recommending the request on the understanding "that no pressure will be exerted on pupils to participate in the program and that pupils who do participate will do so with the expressed consent of their parents." Water meeting at McGillivray Large Sunday crowd for Remembrance Day tr