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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-07-16, Page 1FIRST mowt.E HOME OFF THE ASSEMBLY LINE AT NEW HENSALL PLANT — Late Monday afternoon the first mobile home rolled off the assembly line at the new plant of Boise Cascade of Canada located at the north-west corner of Hensall, Production is expected to reach eight units per d employees now working at the new pia picture. within the next two months. Most of the are shown with the first unit in the above Photo by Doerr. Raise .rviontoy. far ‘drop•pire' Patty %pooh, Zurich, tit young est partleil# paill Saturd ay's wantatbon for the Missing Piece Coffee. flOtOtt • -Grand .Bend contributed .ail• • • $100.00 to thefund by her 0149- and the JiberAty of her sponSo, She was joined by about a Other walkers from Zurte, „Exeter and Parkhill, who by thet 0 joint efforts raised $2,000.,' toward paying off .soave of 4b capital cost of the drop4recentni which is sponsored by 'MI Ausable Spring Itafte Inc9rp orate, A group of Menonitt,i businessmen. Arnold .Gingerich„ .London walked from Exeter and raiser the most money througt generous sponsors. Kevin Bowan started at Zurich,, arid ran the whole •fitsts)0 , covering the approximate 4, miles in two and one half hours Comfort stations were spotte along the route and local •busirie men donated refreshments. ,an drinks which were served at Dashwood when the Zurich an. Exeter groups merged to rest briefly and regain their strength and enthusiasm for the balance Of the walk. Ninety-sixth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, JULY 16, 1970 Price Pir Copy 15 Cents First unit completed at new Hensall plant GRADUATE NURSE Miss Linda Fydenchuk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fydenchuk, Crediton, recently graduated from the McKellar Hospital School of Nursing, Thunder Bay, Ontario. She will be working in the Intensive Care Unit at McKellar Hospital in September. Two area barns levelled by fire Three fires in the area during the past week destroyed two barns and one commercial building causing considerable damage. Friday night a barn owned by Michael Kints in Usborne township was levelled. Monday night a concrete block building in Clinton owned by Fink's Plumbing and Heating was destroyed and shortly after midnight Monday night fire destroyed a large barn on the farm of Harold Hardy in McGilli vray township. Exeter fire chief Gary Middleton estimated Ioss in the fire on the Kints property, which is located about a mile and a quarter east of Exeter on Highway 83, at $9,000 for the building and $3,000 for contents. Middleton said the roof of the barn had caved in when his department arrived on the scene shortly after 8:30 Friday evening. Firemen concentrated on saving the nearby farmhouse. Cause of the blaze was not known at press time. The fire at Harold Hardy's farm located at Lot 26, Concession 2 in McGillivray township about three miles west of Lucan started just after midnight Monday when lightning struck the barn. The Lucan fire department was first called to the scene and some two hours later when the wind changed and sparks were endangering the house the Ailsa Craig department was called in to help. A milking machine motor and some silo loading equipment were lost in the fire. Mr. Hardy with the help of neighbours was able to get one calf and the milking — Please turn to page 3 0 Car wrapped around tree A single car accident in McGillivray township early Tuesday morning claimed the life of a 19-year-old Mount Carmel girl. Rosalie Carey, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Carey who live in the small village just south of the Middlesex-Huron County line was instantly killed when the car she was driving left the road and struck a tree. The accident which, was investigated by the Parkhill detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police occurred shortly after,three o'clock Tuesday moring on McGillivray concession 17 road about four and a half miles .south of Mount 'Cannel. Rosalie was driving her father's car and was heading for Ailsa Craig in an attempt to catch her brother before he left for Sudbury and a new job. Paul, 29 was on his way to. Ailsa Craig with Mr. Carey to catch a ride to the northern Ontario town . when Rosalie noticed he had forgotten a lunch that had been packed to be eaten on the way. She was on the way to deliver the lunch when the accident occurred. After hitting the tree, the car ended up on the lawn of Bill .Armstrong. Mr. Carey was driving back from Ailsa Craig when he saw the flashing lights of the OPP cruisers and ambulance which had been called by Mr. Armstrong. Paul was notified of his sister's death later in the day in Sudbury and left immediately for his home in Mount Cannel. The dead girl had just graduated from North Middlesex High School in Parkhill in June and was planning on attending Teacher's College in London in September. Besides her parents and brother Paul, she is survived by sisters Geraldine, at home; Theresa in California; Mrs. Leo (Margaret) Gerard and Mrs. Charles (Irene) Mclleff in Windsor; brothers Donald, of Glencoe and Patrick, at home; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Maw, Windsor, The body is resting at the T.H. Hoffman Funeral Home in Dashwood where prayers will be sung Thursday night at 8:30. Mass will be conducted at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Friday morning at 10 a.m. with burial in the adjoining cemetery. Rev. Father R.G. Groome will be officiating at the services. The first unit produced by the application for a building permit new Mobile homes plant of Boise was made to the village council. Cascade in Hensall rolled off the With about 35 persons assembly line Monday afternoon working in the new 306 foot by only nine months after an 220 foot steel building one mobile home per day will be produced. Plant managerHoward Breaks hand. Kirby said "I expect we will be rolling out three units Per day by the first of September.' Kirby bike crash maxim.m output of an ultimate added that the staff of 150 would be eight units per day, The first Mobile home to be completed is 60 feet long and 12 feet in width and contains three bedrooms, Various models and sizes will be manufactured at the Hensall plapt which is located at the south-west edge of the village. Boise Cascade's first plant in Hensall located at the north end adjacent to Highway 4 will continue to manufacture recreational vehicles. Included in immediate manufacturing plans are double-wide or relocatable mobile homes. Kirby said his firm was 'recently the successful bidder for an 9ntaria Hydra contract to supply 18 units of a sleeping complex for the Douglas Point nuclear power Motion. Twenty persons can be accommodated in each unit, The Hensall firm's plant manager also said, "With two plants in Hensell it gives us the flexibility to build almost anything in this field. We can intermingle. For the future here I can see the possibility of manufacturing mobile homes, campers, school classrooms, sleeping complexes and kitchen and dining complexes." With five plants in Canada and more than twenty in the United States, Boise Cascade is now the largest manufacturer of housing in North America. More than a half million mobile homes are expected to be manufactured in North America this year accounting for more than one-third of the new housing starts, In charge of the new plant in addition to plant manager Howard Kirby are plant superintendent Gene Ducharme, foremen Bev Lindenfield and Andy Imense and industrial engineer Leonard Noakes. Gary Cramer is the sales representative. Charles Tunks who was plant manager at Hensall is now located in London as general manager of the entire Boise Cascade operation in Canada. An Exeter man was injured and a pony killed in two of the four accidents investigated.by the Exeter OPP detaehment officers this week. Injured was Arthur Hunking, Huron St., who sustained a broken right hand when the motorcycle he was driving was involved in a collision with a vehicle driven by Basil Hendrick, RR 1 Arkona. The accident occurred on Friday at 12:33 p.m. on Highway 4, just south of the Exeter limits, Damage in the mishap was listed at $1,100 by Constable R. T. Whiteford. The pony, owned by Miss Dorothy Greb,R R2 Dashwood, was killed in another accident on Friday at 5:40 a,m. when it was involved in a collision with a vehicle driven by Kenneth George Granger, 307 Admiral Drive, London. The mishap occurred on Highway 83 west of Dashwood and damage to the car was listed at $110 by Constable W, G. Glassford. In another accident on Friday, damage was set at $500 by Constable E. C. Wilcox when a vehicle driven by Kenneth Wayne Dodds, RR 2 Ailsa Craig, was involved in a crash on concession 4-5 of Stephen Township, just north of the Huron County Road 5 junction. Dodds received a bump on the head in the crash. The final crash of the week happened on Saturday at 4:50 p.m. when cars driven by David Joseph Denomme, RR 1 Zurich, and Lynne Barry Doerr, RR 1 Listowel, collided on Highway 84 in Zurich, Constable Wilcox listed damage at $300. During the week the officers charged 31 persons under the Highway Traffic Act and issued warnings to another 22 drivers. Post reward for vandals BARN LEVELLED — A large barn on the farm of Mike Kints on Highway 83 one and a half miles east of Exeter was destroyed by fire shortly after supper, Friday. The barn was completely engulfed when Exeter firemen arrived and they turned their attention to pouring water on the house and nearby buildings which were endangered by the heat and sparks from the barn blaze. T-A photo Drinking drivers fined Man guilty on drug count Area residents are being asked by two organizations to keep an eye out for persons causing damage to public property. The Ausable River Conservation Authority and Exeter's RAP committee are asking the co-operation of everyone to curtail and eliminate the large amount of vandalism that has taken place lately at all parks within the Authority's jurisdiction and at the Exeter swimming pool and Riverview Park. The Ausable Authority early this week announced that they were offering a reward of $100 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons found guilty of wilful or malicious damage to any Authority property. During three consecutive weekends signs have been taken out of Authority parks, beach parties were held at Parkhill and two picnic tables are missing at Morrison Dam. In addition one table was tossed over the dam. At its regular meeting Monday night, the RAP committee that goVerns all recreation, arena and park activities in Exeter learned of various acts of vandalism and mischief at Riverview Park and the swimming pool and decided to ask the cooperation of nearby residents in reporting any incidents that they may see. During the last couple of weeks full garbage cans have been tossed over the fence into the swimming pool, lifeguard towels have been stuffed into the skimmers and two persons decided to climb the fence and go swimming at three o'clock in the morning. They have been apprehended and will appear shortly in Exeter court. In other instances, fires have been lit in garbage cans in the park and picnic tables have been tossed into the river. A similar reward in the amount of $25 was posted several years ago by Exeter town council and is still in effect for any persons convicted on charges arising from damage to public property within the town limits. During the RAP meeting Reeve Derry Boyle and — Please turn to page 3 ROSALIE CAREY . . , dies in crash Issues warning over airport use GRADUATE TEACHER Mrs. Michael (Dara) Hartman, RR 3 Dashwood, recently graduated from London Teachers' College, She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Goodale of Durham and has accepted a teaching' position at St. Boniface Separate School in Zurich. OPP Cpl. C. J. Mitchell warned this week officers of the local detachment would start laying charges against persons unlawfully using the runways at Huron Industrial Park. He said several complaints have been received about people walking and driving cars, bicycles and motorcycles on the runways. The Aeronautics Act states that no person shall walk, stand, drive or park any vehicle, or cause any obstruction on any part of an airport used for the movement of aircraft; except in accordance with permission given by the appropriate air traffic Control unit or, in the absence of any such unit, by the operator of the airport, Dead, injured stock found on area farm Ronald E. Ferguson, Exeter, was fined $100 on a charge of having liquor while under the age of 21. He pleaded not guilty to the charge, telling the court that beer found in the car in which he was riding on May 30 was not his, but belonged to Bill Phillips. Earlier, the court heard testimony from OPP Constable E.C. Wilcox that the car was stopped for speeding and that Ferguson claimed at that time the beer was his. John Joseph Hartleib, Stratford, paid $60 for having liquor while under the age of 21. He was charged in Stephen on May 23, being in charge of a car in which beer and liquor were found, Robert George Schneider, Dashwood, was fined $75 for having liquor while under age. He was charged in Hensall and the court learned he had a previous conviction. Ronald .1. Day, Hensall, was fined $40 for consuming liquor — Please turn to page 3 $106 and his driver's license was automatically suspended for three months. He was charged after police noticed his car being driven in an erratic manner on April 25 in Hensall. Gordon Haist, Crediton, was also given the same sentence when he pleaded guilty to the charge of driving while over 80 trigs, Several infractions under the Liquor Control Act were also dealt with at court. The first conviction on a narcotic charge was registered in Exeter court, Tuesday, when John C. Snell pleaded guilty to the possession of marijuana. The Exeter man pleaded not guilty to a second charge of possessing hashish. Snell was charged by Constable Jim Dingwell on July 2. Sentence on the marijuana case and trial on the second charge were postponed until the court session of July 28 by Judge Glen Hays. The first convictions were also registered for drivers found with over 80 mgs. of alcohol in their blood content. Several charges have been laid by area police, but had been adjourned until the Canada Supreme Court made a ruling on the breathalizer tests following a ruling by the court in B.C. that the tests were not legal. However, the Supreme Court over-ruled that decision. Ross Jorgen Christensen, Hensall, pleaded guilty to the charge Tuesday and was fined Postal workers off for two days Workers at the Exeter Post Office were off the job twice this week — Monday and Wednesday, It made the fourth time to date that the local employees have been on a 24-hour strike. Wednesday's walkout resulted in The Times-Advocate missing out on several news budgets from area correspondents for this week's issue. Sentence for a district man who pleaded guilty to not providing proper care for animals was postponed until September by Judge Glen Hays in Exeter court, Tuesday. Roger Marchand, RR 1 Exeter, pleaded guilty to the charge which was laid by an inspector of the Ontario Humane Society on April 25. He told the court he visited the farm of Mr, Marchand on that FILLED WITH LAUGHS * There was a laugh a minute when the Exeter kinsmen and the Legion ball team hooked up in a game of donkey baseball at the local park, Wednesday, The players found considerable difficulty in getting the animals to move in the direction they wanted — or in any direction at times. One exception was "Silver," being ridden hi the photo oh the left by Gaily Spencer, The animal managed to get date and observed several dead and diseased animals. There were three dead calves, 10 dead pigs, one sow with a broken back, one pig disembowelled and several cattle almost submerged in manure. Dr. Dick Roelofson, Exeter veterinarian, ordered some of the animals destroyed. There was no food or water available for the animals outside the barn. It was reported that Mr. Marchand lacked comprehension as to the suffering of the animals and his acts were described as being at the "low end of the wilful scale", Elmer D. Bell, Q.C., said Mr, Marchand is in need of supervision in his care of the animals, and suggested that unless some way is instituted to help, there could be a repetition of a similar nature. The Exeter lawyer recommended the accused be —Please turn to page 3 Money missing in home, garage Provincial Police at Exeter are investigating two thefts in the Grand Bend area, On Wednesday night, the department of highways garage at the corner of Highways 21 and 83 was broken into and between $16 and $20 in Cash wasstolen, Tuesday, thieves made Off with between $8 and $10 when they entered the home of Paul Turnbull, located near the DI-10 garage. Police believe hitchhikera May have been responsible tot the incidents. Pays fine over assault charge A Huron Park man was fined $60 by Judge Glen Hays on a charge Of common assault in Exeter court, Tuesday. Samuel John Kingma pleaded guilty to the charge, arising out of an incident at the Dashwood Hotel on April 25, A dispute arose at the hotel, resulting in the throwing of bottles arid other i terns . The hotel proprietor, Stan Holubowicz, was hit with one of the items, l{ingrria Was defended by Goderich lawyer Dan Murphy, who told the court the iterns were being tossed at a trouble-maker in the hotel and that kingrna had hit the proprietor by aceideht. rid of most of its riders, including Spencer, much to the enjoyment of the fans and even Spencer's Kinsmen team-mates watching the action from the bench. At the right, Finn Russell fails to get hismount going fast enough to evade a tag from Legion crewman Earl Wagner, Dean McKnight drags his donkey in to assist in the pat-out, while pitcher Don Mousscau shouts instructions, photos tIPHSA44 PLAPfT 1/0.2 First Home .7ely 13 1970 • v • 9, •