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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-04-02, Page 1WORDS OF ADVICE FROM THE COACH — Before Saturday's semi-final game in the Young Canada hockey tournament at Goderich coach Clifford (Kip) Green gave his Grand Bend players a pep talk. Shown above are, from left, Steve Jennison, Mike Jackson, Paul Panet and Dan Stanlake. T—A photo Refuse Chief pay boost Back to closed sessions Charles Smith John Irvin Name new manager at Bank of Montreal WIND WRECKS STEPHEN TOWNSHIP BARN — High winds of a week ago completely demolished a barn on the property of Len Veri, located on Concession 12 of Stephen township. Debris was scattered over a wide area. EXETER SCHOOL WINS FLOOR HOCKEY TITLE — A team representing Exeter public school won the district elementary school floor hockey championship recently. The champions are shown above. Back, left, Brian Hem, Wayne Brintnell, Brad Daters, Gary MacLean, Geary Penhale, John Wuerth, Steven Pfaff and Van Tuckey. Centre, John Vriese, Noel Skinner, Steven Willert, Jim Brintnell, Brian Taylor, Bill Baker, Doug Ferguson and Brent Clarke. Front, Jeff Lindenfield, Mark Hearn, lan Doidge and Dan Brintnell. T-A photo. Parkhill peace festival very much 'up in air' T-A photo. VOLLEYBALL CHAMPS FROM STEPHEN — The girls' volleyball championship of the district public school conference was won by Stephen Central, The winning team is shown above. Back, left, Coach Mrs. Gaston Latulippe, Susan Sehenk, Sharon Rader, Than Rath, Carolyn Quesnel, Beverley Stire, Ellen Greb, Front, Helen Mitton, Judy Mason, Susan Grigg, Shelley Weber and Susan Pickering, Ninety-sixth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, APRIL 2, 1970 Price Per Copy 15 Cents ounty rate could be down, Boyle critical of 'frivolities' Less than a month after indicating they would open special meetings to the press, Exeter council altered that intention and went behind closed doors for a special session, Monday. The press was not notified of the meeting, although Clerk Eric Carsc ad den advised The Times-Advocate Tuesday that a meeting had been held and the minutes were available. The minutes of the meeting were as follows: The meeting was called to discuss various drainage Former resident to perform here A special program by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind will be presented to the students of South Huron District High School at an assembly in the auditorium Thursday, April 2. Peter Coreless, Assistant Field Secretary from CNIB, London, will speak of the growth of CNIB over the past 50 years and will point out the various methods of assisting Canadian blind people since the CNIB was formed in 1918. Geraldine Burke, a blind musician from London, will add to the enjoyment of the program through her piano and organ selections. Miss Burke was born in Exeter and lived here for the first eighteen years of her life. She had normal vision until her early adult years when she found she was slowly losing her sight. She has been totally blind for about 20 years. Contain fire in basement Exeter firemen quickly extinguished a fire which broke out in the furnace room of the Devon Building around 8:00 p.m., Tuesday. Some plastic garbage cans, paper towels and cleaning supplies were burned in the blaze, but little damage was caused to the building. Located at the corner of Huron and Main St., the bottom floor of the building had been redecorated after being badly damaged in the July 24 flood. Owner Murray Moore was working in his office at the time when he smelled smoke and stepped out into the hall to investigate, as aid Dr. M. Gans. Moore raced to the basement and spotted the flames in the furnace room. Dr. Gans attempted to call the fire department, but the flames had melted the telephone wires and Moore had to drive to the fire hall to turn in the alarm. Much of the building was filled with smoke, particularly the Exeter OPP detachment office, located across the hall from the furnace room, It was believed at first the fire may have been caused by a cigarette being dumped into the garbage cans from one of the offices in the building. However, it was later determined the garbage in the offices had not been dumped, so cause of the blaze is still unknown, problems and the installation of new drains. Apparently in the Waterloo-Market Street section of town a builder had cut off the floiNr of water. Moved by Vriese and Jermyn that Councillor MacGregor and Supt. Kells interview the property owner and request the installation of a culvert. The proposed installation of a storm sewer on Sherwood was delayed for the time being due to construction difficulties and also because it was felt that the road could be graded to carry the flow of water. This motion was made by Boyle and MacGregor. The drain in the north end of Town was postponed until a later date on the motion of MacGregor and Taylor. Other drainage problems were discussed and Kells reported repairs could be made later. It was. reported that flaking was evident on Huron Street; the portion reconstructed in 1969. The Superintendent was asked to bring this to the attention of the Department of Highways. Moved by Boyle and Dobson that Gregus Construction be awarded the contract for the construction of new washroom facilities at the Community Park. A request had been received from C.A. McDowell for Charles L. Smith, manager of the Bank of Montreal's Exeter branch for the past 12 years, is retiring after a 45-year banking career. His successor is John E. Irvin who was previously manager at Timmins. Mr. Smith joined the B of M at Waterford in 1925 and served extensively at branches throughout Ontario. He was appointed accountant at Tweed in 1942 and, five years later, became manager of the Athens branch. He became manager at Lucknow in 1949 and at Blenheim three years afterward. He had been manager of the local branch since 1958. The well-known banker has served as treasurer of the hospital board throughout his 12 years here, and has alSo been on the executives of the Curling Club and Lions Club. He is a member of the Exeter Golf Club, permission to remove trees adjacent to his property on William Street North. Permission was granted, provided trees and stumps are removed at his expense. Moved by MacGregor and Vriese that Glenn Kells to appointed building inspector for the Town of Exeter. Moved by Boyle and Dobson that Kells receive building permit fees as remuneration and that building — Please turn to page 3 Seek information on lost cheques The Exeter Police Department report no further developments in their investigation of last week's robbery at Gould & Jory's. Thieves made off with a considerable sum of cash and cheques during a daring daylight robbery of the store on Saturday, March 28. Doug Gould has requested assistance from store customers in an attempt to determine exactly what cheques were stolen. Anyone who cashed a personal cheque or a family allowance cheque at the store on Thursday or Friday before the robbery is asked to contact the store immediately. Mr. and Mrs. Smith plan to remain in Exeter but hope to celebrate Mr. Smith's retirement with an extensive trip to Britain and Europe. The new bank manager, Mr. Irvin joined the Bank of Montreal at Mount Forest in 1928 and served at a number of branches throughout Southwestern Ontario. He became accountant at a Hamilton branch in 1943, He was appointed manager at Hensall in 1948, at Waterford in 1951 and at a Hamilton office in 1954. He had been manager at Timmins since 1963. Mr. Irvin was president of the South Cochrane Tuberculosis Association; chairman of the Chamber of Commerce finance committee; and'a member of the advisory board, Northern College of Applied Arts and Technology and of the Timmins Golf Club. Jack P. Alexander, reeve of Wingham and chairman of the executive committee said Wednesday at the March session of Huron county council that it looks like the general county mill rate will be down about one and one-half mills. Last year's mill rate was 12.25 mills. According to Alexander the mill rate this year could be 10.75 mills or even lower judging from the severe cuts in the board .of health budget. Reason for the pleasant reduction to taxpayers seems to lie in the fact that the county need not budget for the assessment department which last year accounted for $200,000. As well last year, $100,000 was budgeted to finish payments on the assessment building and $70,000 was included in the budget to make the final debenture payment on Huron County's home of the aged, Huronview. It was Stephen Township Reeve James Hayter who cautioned council not to expect a similar reduction in the future, especially in view of increased costs in every department. Approval was given for the executive committee to set aside $100,000 in a working capital reserve fund to "reduce the cost of borrowing". Stanley Deputy-Reeve Anson McKinley suggested this should be reworded in the report to read "shift the cost of borrowing". He said no matter how you looked at it, the taxpayers still have to pay the shot. Decision was reached to foot the entire cost of the warden's banquet in the fall. In the past, the warden has been responsible for a certain portion of these costs. Total budget for the general government items is $44,286. The general administration budget amounts to $78,700 representing roughly a $10,000 increase over 1969. The committee has approved a $10,000 capital grant over a two year period to the Salvation Army House of Concord to be constructed near London. As well, patriotic grants were made as follows: Salvation Army, operating grant, $1,500; CNIB $2,500; The area accident total jumped to seven this week, but again damage was light in most of the collisions investigated by the Exeter OPP detachment officers. The only injury resulted from a one-car crash Saturday at 8:00 p.m. when a car driven by Shane P. McKinnon, Zurich, went off No. 2 County Road north of Zurich and struck a hydropole. Damage was listed at $950 and McKinnon suffered a cut over his left eye. Constable J.A. Wright investigated. There was one other crash, Saturday, it taking place at 8:05 p.m. when a car driven by John McKenzie, London, struck a sign post at the intersection of Highways 83 and 21 while he was proceeding north of Highway 21. Damage was listed at $210 by Constable D.A. Mason. Constable Mason investigated both accidents which occurred on Good Friday. Both were hit and run incidents. At 1:00 a.m, an unknown vehicle hit two parked cars and damaged them to an estimated $375. The cars were owned by Murray Keys, RR 3 Exeter, and Robert W. Wedge, Exeter. They had been parked on Oxford Street in Hensall. At 1:37 a.m., a parked car owned by Ray W. Cockwill, Clinton, was struck by an unknown vehicle on Victoria St. in Centralia. Damage was $75. HIT POSTS A Windsor man, Gary M. Williams, lost control of his vehicle on Thursday at 10:40 p.m. while proceeding south of Exeter. It struck three guide posts Congregation to sell church, land The Exeter Pentecostal Tabernacle and the land on which it is situated has been put up for sale by tender, The congregation, which recently purchased the Main Street United Church building expect to trove from their present church to their new quarters later this month. Huron Cancer Society, $400; WI in county, $45; St. John Ambulance, $75; World War I Veterans Reunion, $150. Educational grants totallying $5,825 were also approved. In his annual plea to county council to cut back on the expenditures for social affairs, Exeter Reeve Derry Boyle said it was costing the taxpayer about $4,000 for council's recreation. "The taxpayer shouldn't have — Please turn to page 3 High winds down barn Winds of gale proportion blew down a large barn on the farm of Len Veri located at Lot 16, Concession 12 of Stephen Township, early Thursday morning. The house on the property is occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Ross Parsons and family. Mrs. Parsons said she was awakened shortly after 4 a.m. by a cat that usually stays upstairs with the children. When she put the cat outside "things started to fly and go bing-bang.' Shortly after, the strong winds blew an east basement window in. Before she was able to get the window back in with the help of a son, she said, "The other children said the house was breathing in and out." "I got the children all dressed and we were ready to head for the barn when we thought the house was going to go, all of a sudden the barn was gone," added Mrs. Parsons. Several dogs owned by the Parsons family housed in the stable portion of the barn were unharmed and chickens and ducks in a small shed west of the barn were also safe. A tent trailer stored in the upstairs of the barn suffered very little damage. Asked if she was afraid during the storm, Mrs. Parsons told the T-A, "No, I wasn't but I didn't go back to bed. The storm only lasted about twenty minutes. It started quickly and ended the same way." Some of the twisted debris came to rest more than 1,000 feet from the barn. and damage was listed at $265. The only accident Wednesday occurred at 8:45 p.m. when a car operated by Frederick D. Webber, Varna, was in collision with one operated by Paul J. Charrette, RR 1 Dashwood. The incident took place on Highway 84 at a driveway and damage was listed at $850 by Constable Mason. The only other crash of the week occurred last Tuesday when a car operated by Ronald R. Hannah, Exeter, collided with a car operated by Claude G. Barr, Lucan. Hannah was backing from a driveway. in Huron Park and Barr was proceeding east on Algonquin Drive. Damage was listed at $50 by Constable Glassford. During the week, the detachment officers charged 11 persons under the Highway Traffic Act and issued warnings to another 21 drivers. There were two charges under the Liquor Control Act and one under the Criminal Code. Crash total is seven but damages are low It seems to be a case of on-again-off-again as far as the proposed Rock Festival in the Parkhill area is concerned. Early Tuesday evening, Parkhill's Mayor Adrian Ansems told the news media that the festival tentatively scheduled for the July 3-5 holiday weekend was definitely called off, Contacted by the T-A Wednesday morning after further news reports that the festival was again on, Ansems said, "I haven't got a clue as to what's going on right now." When asked if direction for Tuesday's temporary concellation came from Karma Productions, sponsors of the Festival, Ansems said, "Indirectly." Rumors have also been flying around that meetings will be held to bring the municipalities together to hear Karma's story. Ansems said, "I know there are going to be meetings this week, but I don't know when or where." Mrs. George Dixon, wife of the McGillivray township Reeve said Wednesday morning she had received numerous calls from Karma officials during Tuesday and Wednesday while her husband was out-of-town on business. One of the latest calls came from John Brower, president of Karma productions. He was apparently grounded in New York and was asking to have a closed meeting with area municipalities scheduled for The Exeter Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society starts its annual drive for funds on April 6. Students from SHDHS, as well as women's and service groups in the area will be conducting the Canvass in Exeter, Dashwood, Crediton, Centralia, Huron Park, Hensall, Zurich, Grand Bend and the townships of Stephen, Usborne and Hay. "If a cure for cancer is to be found it will be because the volunteer giver wants it to be," said Norm Whiting, campaign chairman for the Exeter unit. The local objective is $4,200 and will contribute towards a provincial objective $3,200,000 and a total national objective of $6,392,500. "About 85 percent of the total funds to be spent on research during the coming year has to come from this campaign," said Mr. Whiting. "More than ever before the Area cancer drive starts Monday night Wednesday night called off. Another call from Mel Lawrence, also of Karma to Mr. Dixon in Toronto said "in no way is the festival being called off." Shortly before press time, confirmation was received of a closed meeting at the Sylvan Hall between Karma production officials and councils of Parkhill, McGillivray and East and West Williams for last night, Wednesday. Society is being relied on to supply funds for cancer research in this country. We must not fail in this, it is the most important of all our activities in the great fight against cancer." He pointed out that the Society also carries on a vigorous program of public education about cancer, and makes help available to cancer patients. The educational activities, he said, are centred on the hopeful aspects of cancer. "Cancer is no longer an automatic death sentence," Mr. Whiting said. "Far from it. When diagnosed and treated in its early stages cancer is one of the most curable of the major diseases." He went on to say that the Cancer Society stresses the value of prevention by means of the seven safeguards. The safeguards are as follows: for everybody — have a regular medical checkup; don't smoke cigarettes; have your dentist — Please turn to page 3 4 rw fr 4 * Tj a