HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-07-30, Page 1RIDE 'EM COWBOY — The steer riding competition at Friday's horse
show in Hensall completing Frontier Days provided plenty of
excitement for the spectators. An unidentified rider is shown above
trying desperately to get aboard while his team-mate attempts to get
the saddle in position. T-A photo
Eight persons hurt
in district crashes
FIRE DESTROYS SHED AND TRUCK — A fire early Friday morning on the farm of Glenn Stewart in
Usborne Township destroyed a combination implement shed and brooder house. Included in the loss was a
pick-up truck that can be seen in the above picture. T-A photo
UP THERE AND DOWN HERE —Workmen have been busily engaged this week putting in sidewalks at two
different locations in Exeter, In the above picture sidewalk cement is being poured at the north end of town
near the intersection of Highway 83 while below workmen are tearing up a portion of sidewalk on Main
Street near Sanders, the latter having cracked since being pfit in during reconstruction. Several other
sections will be replaced. T-A photos .
Ninety-sixth Year
EXETER, ONTARIO, JULY 30, 1970
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Huron lacking job openings
social and cultural facilities
A GROUP OF NINE YEAR OLD BOYS look through their study books at Vacation. Bible School which is a
united effort of Exeter churches with over thirty teachers participating. From left, David Webber, Bart
Visscher, Randy Stanlake, John Zwaan, teacher, Richard Miller, Richard. Neevel and Timmy Lawrence.
Plan to guide, encourage
and assist in development
Jail; license suspensions
levied at court sessions'
Eight persons were injured in
the seven accidents investigated
by the Exeter OPP detachment
officers this week. Oddly enough,
damage in most of the crashes was
relatively low.
On Friday at 9:25 p.m.,
Constable E. C. Wilcox
investigated a two-car crash on
Highway 21 about one mile north
of Highway 83 involving vehicles
driven by Janet Louise Marshall,
London, and Jeanette Ainslie,
Goderich.
Damage was set at $400 and a
passenger in thp Goderich car,
Karen Such, was injured.
Four area persons were injured
in a crash at 12:45 a.m. on
Saturday on concession 4-5 Hay
Township. Only one car was
involved, it being driven by John
Moir, Hensall.
Moir sustained a broken left
PROMOTED — A member of the
Exeter OPP detachment for the
past seven years, John Wright, has
been promoted to the rank of
corporal. Cpl. Wright has been
transferred to the Brampton OPP
detachment and will assume his
duties there on August 10.
Not
again!
Just before press time Wed-
nesday afternoon, members of
the Exeter fire brigade were call-
ed to South Huron Hospital
when water started flooding the
basement during a heavy rain.
It was just over a year ago
that the hospital suffered dam-
age estimated at $100,000 dur-
ing the flood of July 24.
On Wednesday afternoon,
water started spilling in through
the windows in the hospital
basement and built up to a
depth of over half an inch
throughout most of the
basement.
Firemen placed pumps in the
window wells and started
clearing the water away, while
others joined the nurses and
hospital staff in • sweeping the
water into floor drains. Many of
the nurses had removed their
shoes and many talked about the
flood of last year.
Little damage was evident,
although carpets were soaked in
some rooms and floor tiles were
covered in other sections of the
building.
Hospital administrator Miss
Alice Claypole indicated that she
had mentioned the need of
taking steps to prevent flooding
to authorities only Tuesday:
Mayor Jack Delbridge, one of
the first on the scene to lend
assistance, noted that most of
the water was cascading down
over the roof into the window
wells.
"Something has to be done
about that," he stated.
Some on the scene
Wednesday opined that this is
how mueh of the water got into
the basement in last year's flood,
although it was coming in so fast
at that time the sources were
difficult to detect.
ROOF CAVES IN
At Snell Bros. Limited garage,
a large section of roof -caved in
under the weight of water,
which couldn't get away fast
enough.
A section approximately 20'
by 15' crashed down onto the
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arm. Others injured were Wayne
Willert, RR 2 Hensall; Dianne
Scrabuik, Hensall; and Marilyn
Whitney, RR 2 Crediton.
Constable Wilcox listed
damage in the crash at $600.
In another crash on Saturday
at 2:55 a.m., damage was set at
$510. Vehicles involved were
driven by Ronald Harry Swartz,
RR 2 Lucan, and Gordon
Campbell Churchill, London.
A passenger in the London
vehicle, Joseph MacDonald,
received an injured right arm.
In the final crash on Saturday,
two persons were injured when
the motorcycle which they were
riding was involved in a collision
with a vehicle driven by Harold
George Mutter, Brussels.
The motorcycle was driven by
Anthony John Shepherd, Exeter
and his passenger was Marsha
Owens, London.
The accident occurred at 9:45
p.m. on Highway 21, half a mile
north of Grand Bend.
Constable Wilcox estimated
damage at $350.
There were two accidents on
Sunday, the first at 3:30 p.m. on
Sideroad 15 in Hay, half a mile
east of concession 8-9.
Vehicles involved were driven
by Ross Theodore Liebold, RR 3
Zurich, and Paul Cuthill, RR 1
Seaforth.
Both were eastbound and
when Liebold started to turn into
a farm laneway, his car was struck
from the rear by the Cuthill car.
The Liebold vehicle was spun
around into the north ditch.
Constable D. A. Lamontlisted
damage at $800.
At 8:15 p.m., Constable R. T.
Whiteford investigated a crash on
Highway 83, one and a half miles
west of County Road 11.
An eastbound car driven by
Angus McIver, St. Marys, went
off onto the south shoulder and
then careened across the road
into the north ditch and hit a
fence.
Damage was set at $100.
The final crash of the week
was investigated on Monday by
Constable D. A. Mason. It
involved two trucks, both of
which had been parked on the lot
at W. G. Thompson and Sons at
Hensall.
A truck owned by the Hensall
company apparently rolled down
a grade during the night and
struck a parked truck owned by
Edmund Bezaire, Clinton.
Damage was set at $500.
One jail sentence and two
drivers' licence suspensions were
handed out by. Judge Glenn Hays
Presiding in Exeter court,.
Tuesday. There were 88 charges
on the docket, many of them
speeding offences.
John C. Snell, Exeter! was
sentenced to one day in jail and
fined a total of $225 on two
charges of having narcotics in his
possession.
Snell had pleaded guilty to a
charge of possessing marijuana at
the last court session and
sentence was adjourned until
Tuesday when he faced trial on a
charge of possessing hashish.
Exeter Constable Jim
Dingwell told the court he
stopped the accused on July 2 at
8:00 a.m. Aided by RCMP
Constable Allan Stern, Goderich,
a plastic bag containing marijuana
was found and a pipe was
confiscated. An analysis of the
pipe showed that it had been used
to smoke hashish.
Defense lawyer P. L.
Raymond pointed out the small
amount of marijuana found —
valued at about $10 —indicated it
was for Snell's personal use.
Prosecuting attorney was
Beecher Menzies, Clinton.
The one day jail sentence and a
fine of $150 was levied for the
possession of marijuana and
another $75 fine was for having
hashish.
The licence suspensions were
handed out to James J. Jesney,
Crediton, and David John
Morrissey, RR 2 Ailsa Craig.
Jesney's licence was
suspended for six months and he
was given a $150 fine or 15 days
in jail after pleading guilty to
driving while over 80 mgs.
A breathalizer test taken after
Jesney was involved in a collision
on March 21 showed an alcohol
content of 1.7,
Morrissey was also fined $150
and his licence suspended for six
months after pleading guilty to a
charge of driving while
disqualified.
His driving privileges had been
disqualified because of an
accumulation of points.
In other cases under the
Highway Traffic Act, the
following sentences were handed
out:
Kevin Lamport, Centralia,
paid $35 on a charge of following
another vehicle too closely. He
was involved in a rear-end
collision on June 3 in Exeter.
Alvin Ross Gould, was fined
'$40 on a charge of failing to
Usborne barn
levelled by fire
Loss of approximately
$13,000 was suffered by Usborne
Township farmer Glenn Stewart
early Friday morning when fire
completely destroyed a
two-storey combination
implement shed and brooder
house.
Lost in the fire were ten
propane gas brooders, two ton of
feed, a pick-up truck and a brand
new post hole digger.
A shipment of 6,000 baby
chicks was expected the
following morning.
The Exeter fire department
answered the fire call to the
Usborne farm located at Lot 14,
SEB Concession at shortly after
two o'clock in the morning.
Exeter Fire Chief Gary
Middleton said, "The wind was
our biggest help as it blew sparks
away from the house
report a motor vehicle accident in
which he was involved.
Fines of up to $102 were
levied against speeders. Many of
those charged had been clocked
by the OPP airpatrol both north
and south of Exeter.
Herbert C. Stretton, Hensall,
paid $102 after pleading guilty to
attaining a speed pf 94 in a 60
zone.
There were three drivers fined
$90 each for travelling at a speed
of 90 in a 60 zone. They were
Donald Gordon Lyons, St,
Thomas; Gary Edward Rodman,
Ilderton; and Dennis Wayne
Robinson, Kincardine,
Drivers were fined $2 for every
mile over the speed limit up to 10
m.p.h. and $3 if they were more
than 10 m.p.h. over the speed
limit.
A government analysis of the
social and economic needs of the
four-county Midwestern Region
of Ontario was released in
Listowel Monday by the Hon.
Charles MacNaughton, Provincial
Treasurer and Minister of
Economics.
The 150-page report entitled:
"Design for Development: The
Midwestern Ontario Region —
Phase 1, Analysis", sets out
results of a four-year study
which will form the basis of the
government's development
policies in the future.
The report says the
Mid western Region —
comprising Waterloo,
Wellington, Perth and Huron
counties — has a well diversified
economic base, with
manufacturing growing faster
than the provincial average, and
an agricultural sector whose
return per farm operator is far
superior to the provincial
average.
"At the same time," the
report says, "problems are
evident. These are associated
with the rapid growth and
urbanization in the-east and the
loss of population and static
economies in the west.
"Most of the problems relate
to land use and space
adjustment, economic
development and environmental
control," the report says.
The greatest proportions of
population and overall
development growth have
concentrated in a corridor
focusing on the urban centres of
Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph,
Galt-Preston-Hespeler (the
Golden Triangle). To a degree
this growth also merges into
Stratford.
The 401-Highway 7 corridor,
comprising only 14 per cent of
Others, paying Mies were as
follows:
John F. Redmond, Hensall,
$57; Host E. Finke, London, $20;
Larry J. Davis, London, $18;
Robert Lewis Baynes, London,
$36; James F. Inwood, Chatham,
$42; Hendrick Westerhout,
Clinton, $45; Florence Gertrude
Jackson, RR 4 London, $36;
Grace VanLoo, Clinton, $39;
Kenneth G. Wilkins, London,
$57; Allison J. Arsenault,
London, $57; Reginald Albert
Walker, London, $51; Joseph D.
Pilon, Harrow, $36; Simon
Brand, RR 1 Exeter, $54; Arthur
Mercer, RR 2 Ailsa Craig, $20;
Frederick W. Keller, Windsor,
$36; David Foster, Woodstock,
$51; William P. Gillespie, RR 2
Goderich, $20; Robert G.
McGillivray, London, $36;
The value of farm products
sold in the Midwestern Region of
Ontario increased by more than
124 percent between 1951 and
1966, compared to a provincial
increase of only 76 percent,
according to a provincial
government analysis of the
region's social and economic
needs.
The report, "Design P.or
Development — Phase 1,
Analysis", says cash receipts per
farm operator were above the
provincial average. In 1965, the
average receipts per operator in
the region were $12,600
compared to $10,000 for the
province.
All counties in the region had
cash receipts per operator above
the provincial norm, with
Waterloo County the highest at
$16,800 followed by Perth
($12,600), Huron ($11,600) and
Wellington ($11,400).
More than half of the farms in
Waterloo County sold?roducts
valued at over S10,000,
.compared to a provincial average
of only 27 percent. For the region
as a whole, the figure was 40
percent.
The region is well-endowed
with prime, or "Class I"
agricultural land — land whose
soil s have no significant
limitations in use for crops, the
report says. Fifty percent of the
region's land is of this class and
this represents 24 percent of such
land in the entire province.
The number of farms operated
in the region in 1966 was 2,850
less than in 1951, but the average
size of farm increased during the
period from 127.5 to 145 acres.
The greatest loss in farms was in
Huron County which also
experienced the largest increase
in farm size, indicating farm
consolidation in the area, the
report says.
More than 2,600 persons left
farms in the region for other
employment between 1951 and
1961 and the exodus accelerated
between 1961 and 1966 when
Open camp area
at Parkhill dam
Bryan Howard, resources
manager of the Ausable River
Conservation Authority
announced at noon Wednesday
that a camping area at the Parkhill
Dam area would be open for the
public this coming holiday
weekend.
Entrance to the camping area
of about five acres is located
about a mile and a quarter east of
Parkhill at the intersection of
highways 7 and 81.
Facilities are provided for
trailers, campers and tents. A
sewage dumping station has been
established for trailers with
holding tanks. New washrooms
have also been erected.
growth. It suffers from heavy
out-migration, lacks variety in
employment opportunities and
has below average social and
cultural facilities. In brief, it is
rapidly being left behind in
regional and provincial
development."
The report notes that skilled
labour is in short supply in
Huron and Perth counties, where
industry has most recently
become established. Many of the
workers are unskilled and have
not yet oriented themselves to
methods of industrial
production. As a result, labour
turnover, particularly in Huron
another 4,000 people left. The
largest number of these were
from farms in Huron and Perth.
Ontario's regional
development program, or
"Design for Development" as it is
formally called, has been
undertaken by the government in
order to "guide, encourage and
assist the orderly and rational
development of each region of
the province."
The Hon. Charles
MacNaughton, Provincial
Treasurer and Minister of
Economics, outlined the basic
principles of the program when
he introduced the first phase of
the provincial program for
Midwestern Ontario in Listowel
Monday night.
"The fundamental principles
of the program," he said, "are to
enhance the quality of life for the
people of Ontario, to encourage
private enterprise to prosper
within a healthy and balaneed
community, to improve the
effectiveness of provincial
services in each region and to
conserve our natural resources for
the benefit of all of the people of
the province."
In order to develop the
program on a province-wide basis,
government economists and
planners have classified the
objectives into eight broad
categories. These are:
Economic Development — to
diversify the economy, increase
county, is higher than the region
as a whole.
The report sets out three
major economic problems:
1. Wage rates in the
Midwestern Ontario Region are
lower than in the province
generally, reflecting a different
industry mix and a different
socio-economic structure. This is
especially so in the more rural
parts of the region.
2. Employment opportunities
are inadequate in the more rural
counties. The reduction in the
agricultural labour force, the
remoteness from social and
cultural amenities offered by the
major regional centres and the
absence of a diversified economic
structure has resulted in
considerable out-migration of the
population, particularly in the
younger age groups.
3. Even though the
agricultural sector as a whole
presents a viable picture, there is a
continuing need for a decrease in
the proportion of farms grossing
less than $10,000 in the value of
agricultural products sold. In
occupational opportunities,
reduce cyclical unemployment,
stimulate new industrial .growth,
promote the expansion of
existing industries and achieve
increased per capita productivity
and income.
Transportation and
Communication — to provide
increased accessibility for urban
and rural communities in the
movement of persons and goods
rapidly, safely and economically.
Community and Regional
No paper
next week
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will be closed for holidays from
Friday, July 31 to August 10
inclusive. There will be no edition
of the newspaper printed on
August a.
The next issue will be
published on Thursday, August
13.
Correspondents and
contributors are reminded that
we find it, impossible to cover the
news of the holiday week and
their budget for August 13 should
contain news of that week only.
1966, almost 60 per cent of all
commercial farms in the region
were below this level. In Huron
and Wellington counties, the
proportions were greater than 60
per cent.
The report notes that the
region is experiencing
urbanization problems within its
developing Southeastern urban
corridor, and along its Lake
Huron recreational shoreline.
"For example,
Kitchener-Waterloo and
Stratford, which are located in an
intensively used agricultural area,
need to optimize the use of land
between agricultural and urban
demands. Also of significance is
the unique Mennonites'
community and the
encroachment on their
agricultural lands by urban
development."
The report says that because
of the characteristics of the land
and the increased rate of urban
development, many commu nities
are being confronted with
problems of water supply and
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Environment — to develop
Ontario's communities and
conserve its regional environment
in a manner which will provide
the optimum livability for
current and future generations.
Social and Economic Welfare
— to provide opportunities for
every individual to meet his basic
economic, psychological and
physical needs and develop his
fullest potential for
self-sufficiency while maintaining
individuality, dignity and
self-respect.
Public Safety — to reduce the
hazards to individual life and
property from external events
and maintain personal security.
Health — to improve the
physical and mental health of
Ontario inhabitants, reduce the
incidence and severity of illness
or disability and prevent
premature death.
Education — to provide
opportunities for each individual
to achieve his highest potential of
intellectual, personal and social
development.
Recreation and Culture — to
enhance the opportunity for
Ontario residents and touring
visitors to attain maximum
recreational enjoyment and
cultural enrichment in the use of
leisure time.
the total land area, contains
almost 61 per cent of the
region's population.
"More important," the report
notes, "between 1951 and 1966,
over 90 per cent of total regional
population growth occurred in
this area.
"The remaining 86 per cent
o f the region's land area,
accounting for 39 per cent of
the total population, had only
10 per cent of the population
growth during the 1951-66
period.
"This area, located beyond
the 401 corridor, generally falls
below provincial standards of
Farm numbers drop
but cash receipts up