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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-02-04, Page 11BEN EDWARDS AND GARY BOYLE STILL MANAGE SMILES AS THEY DIG OUT THEIR EXETER HOMES. Spirits high at stranded Usborne school Liked cold meat sandwiches the third day Ready Mix CONCRETE \.5I Pl ant 23A:0833 Residence 228-69.1 C.A. McDOWELL The Huron County Board of Education requires an audio-visual technichan FOR F.E. MADI LL SECONDARY SCHOOL WI NGHAM, ONTARIO duties to commence March 1, '1971 or as soon thereafter as possible. The ,successful applicant will have proven experience in operation and repair of a wide variety of audio-visual equipment including record players, tape recorders, video tape recorders, film projectors, etc. as well as being in charge of the closed circuit television system in the school. Salary is negotiable based on acceptable related experience and will be in the $5,500 - $7,500 range. Board reserves the right to reject any or all applications. Selected applicants will be interviewed the week of Feb. 15-19. Written apOlications will be received until 4:00 p.m. on Monday, February 15, by F.E. Madill Superintendent of Operations Huron County Board of Education 97 Shipley Street Clinton, Ontario F1.1%. Elliott Chairman J. Cochrane Director of Education 74aded I would like to thank the people of Exeter who billeted the students from SHDHS, the Exeter police and the Exeter detachment OPP for their wonderful co-operation during the storm. J. L. Wooden principal #4111110•10•11110•111, WE KNOW • how to cut your meats so they eat better • how to cure your hams and bacon to a mouth- watering turn • how to render your lard to creamy white • how to get the most out of every cut of meat for your family. IPITESEITT QUALITY Sides of Pork Fully Processed 39 lb. 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Whiting Rental, 63 Main St. S., just south of river bridge. ltfnc 20 Wanted To Rent I NEED HOUSES to rent; also others to sell. W. C. Pearce, Realtor, Exeter, 9:24tfnc HOUSE in Grand Bend area for mature couple with no chil- dren. Desire 3 bedrooms, base- ment, garage and one - year lease. Apply to Box CMI The Exeter Times-Advocate. 5-6c 22 Notices INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS or groups please note that films, pamphlets and pertinent infor- mation are available for the asking, for the purpose of can- cer , education. Anyone may avail themselves of this service by contacting the county secre- tary of the Canadian Cancer Society, Mrs. Gordon Rathwell, at the office in Clinton, open Tuesday and Friday, 2:30 5:00 p.m., phone 482-7832. 5-8c Attention: Farmers Will be - shipping cattle to DUNN & LEVICK TORONTO UNION STOCK YARDS MOndai' For further particulars, or pick-up, contact Campbell McKinley RR 1 ZURICH Phone 262-5430 i3 Legal Notices FURNACE. FUEL OIL Sealed tenders will be received by the Board of Directors for the supply of fuel oil for SOUTH HURON HOSPITAL AND NURSES' RESIDENCE Prices quoted to be constant for the 12-month period. Tenders to be in the hands of Administrator by Feb. 15, 1971. ALICE M. CLAYPOLE, Administrator 4-6c By MRS. IRVIN RADER 'Due to the storm last week all events were cancelled, people didn't go visiting, but snow bound people visited with friends they hadn't called on for years. 'Many stories came out of the storm — some a bit exaggerated. Pupils forced to stay in schools ate what was available. They cciuldn't be choosey. Da'shwood perhaps had the greatest mortality rate. Here, thousands died, that is chickens, when the truck they were being transported in got stuck and they froze. Those snowmobiles which so many people condemn were winiderful 3 transporting people, food and supplies and the drivers deserve medals for driving them in such weather. Mr. & Mrs, Siegfried Miller arid family of Port Dover visited with Mrs, Marth Miller over the Weekend, By ALLAN TAYLOR Principal Usborne Central Tuesday, January 26 began like any other day of school. There was snow falling yet buses arrived very close to their normal time so all seemed to predict this day would be no different. Little did we know that some would be spending the next 74 hours at Usborne Central School with what one would call a reasonably large family (340 pupils). We decided by mid afternoon that it would be safer not to send buses on the roads as the visibility was poor and pupils could easily get lost between their bus stops and homes. By mid afternoon, the telephone came alive and kept that way until late Tuesday evening. All calls seemed to support the decision of staying at school rather than attempting to bus the children home. By 3 o'clock it was decided we would be spending the night at the school so it was necessary to go shopping by telephone. Since the school does not have adequate cooking facilities it was decided that a cold meal consisting of meat sandwiches and milk would be the menu for our first meal. Classes normally end at 3:50 so at that time we had a hurried staff meeting to decide on our course of action. We thought it would be better to run classes until supper time and then plan recreational activities for the next program. All students were called into the auditorium at 4:00 o'clock and were told what was in store for them. The reaction of the pupils was not that of disappointment but rather that of elation. I recall only one pupil being saddened to the point of tears by the decision. Classes resumed and supper preparation commenced. Food arrived by snowmobile and staff members and senior girls began buttering loaves of bread in preparation for our first supper. Our once filled cupboards of food were soon emptied and once again our kitchen resembled that of Old Mother Hubbard's. Our kitchen staff had set aside enough food for our Wednesday morning breakfast (never thinking our Wednesday noon meal would be eaten from those same precious provisions). At 7 o'clock our evening festivities began. Primary children were entertained by our one televison (140 pupils), junior pupils played games in the double room (100 pupils) while intermediate pupils (100) played a swedish dodge ball tournament in the gymnasium. In one hour the group rotated and the same schedule was followed. By 9:00 the primary pupils were bedded down in the kindergarten room as there is a heating cable in the floor. Pupils covered with towels, clothing, Clandeboye woman dies By MRS. J. H. PATON CLANDEBOYE Mrs. Olive Lee McEwen, wife of the late John McEwen of McGillivray Township died in St. Marys Hospital, London, February 2, 1971, in her 77th' year. She is survived by sons George and Donald and, a sister Mrs. Arthur (Laura) Simpson all of McGillivray Township, four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. The funeral will be held at the C. Haskett & Son Funeral Home, Luean, Thursday at 2 p.m. with interment in Marks Hill cemetery, Brinsley. PERSONALS Mr. & Mrs. James Maynard, Elizabeth Anne and Michelle, Chatham, were storm-stayed for several days with Mrs, Almer Hendrie. Abler Hendrie visited with his Mother, Mrs, Omar Cunningham and Mr. & Mrs. Roy Cunningham and family, Ingersoll. The U,C.W, meeting was held Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Rupert Williams who presented the devotions. Mrs. Dick Worthington entertained the members with slides, snowmobile suits. It was rather different to see pupils with their mitts on their feet, or feet in the arms of their coats or coats on backwards with the zipper done up. Shortly thereafter the junior pupils settled in for the night on the carpet in the library while the intermediates were lying down by 10:30. Pupils used gymnasium mats, coats, drapes (etc) to sleep under and on. Spirits ran high still, as many pupils had problems droppink off to sleep. As one six year old pupil put it "When a teacher came we all closed our eyes and pretended we were asleep," or as a grade six pupil said, "Can I walk the halls with you on duty as I can't sleep,' or a comment from the junior sleepers, "I can't sleep because -- is snoring too loud," or as a card game was being played by the light from the hall in the small hours of the morning, the comment was By BRENDA NEIL GRADE 8, STEPHEN CENTRAL Tuesday January 26, students, staff, health nurses, Hurondale milkman and a cute, young Toast Master breadman were snowed in at Stephen Central School. With the help of snowmobiles, and voluntary ' firemen from Crediton, soup was brought to the school. While the teachers prepared the soup the students amused themselves by dancing, watching T.V. or watching films. Around 5:30 milk, soup and bread (with no butter) was served for supper. Around 9:30 we went to bed (supposedly). The kindergartens and grades 1, 2, and 3 slept on the carpet in the library, the grade 4 and 5's slept on the gym mats while the 6, 7, and 8 boys and girls slept on the BARE floor with coats, hats and gym bags (in defferent rooms). To amuse themselves the older boys threw running shoes back and forth while the girls talked. The boys that misbehaved were sent to a different classroom to do math. Mr. Finkbeiner said that this was the first time in Stephen Central's history that anyone ever did math at 2:00 in the morning. Some of the senior girls were also sent to a different classroom (than the boys) because of misbehavior. For breakfast the next morning we had soup and bread, only this time the bread was buttered. For dessert we had milk and cookies. We had the first three classes of the morning and theh had lunch which was made up of soup, bread, and for dessert we had Toast Master cookies and do-dads. The grade 8's got to watch the afternoon movie while others played cards and roamed the halls. For supper we had bologna sandwiches (did they ever taste good for once) and cookies for dessert. After supper parents started phoning with provided rides for their children on snowmobiles, in cars and trucks. Some got home, some went to their friend's place and some had to stay at school. That night hot chocolate was served, floor hockey was played "Worst luck and just when I had the right and left bowers in my hand." Pupils did not seem worried and spirits ran high. Many grade eight students had made ,m a ke-shift flashlights from betteries, bulbs, switches and masking tape from the science room. Our main concerns for the first night were the electricity and the telephone. The power had blinked on numerous occasions during the evening and without it we' were without heat, lights and water. The outgoing calls of the telephone were not working correctly so we had Mrs. Roy Westcott call each hour until about 11:00 o'clock to check on our situation. We also had the telephone number of John Batten close to the phone as he had access to a snowplow. A rotating duty schedule was drawn up for the staff to supervise in the halls and be close and then they went to sleep. Most of the teachers dozed off that night, too, I imagine. Next morning at 7:0p everyone got up (except some teachers maybe) and had a breakfast consisting of 2 hard boiled eggs and jam sandwiches. Floor hockey was played and everyone found transportation to their home, relatives' homes or friends' homes. , On behalf of Stephen Central students I would like to thank the teachers and all the other people that helped us through this emergency. SHH carries on as usual South Huron Hospital carried on pretty much as usual during the big blow of last week. "Nobody came, nobody went," said Miss Alice Claypole, administrator. The only emergency was an acute appendectomy suffered by Kevin Pfaff of Crediton who was brought in by a car following a • snow plow. The surgery was done Wednesday night and the young man came through with flying colors. Dr. C.'Wallace, Zurich, along with about 25 staff members were stranded at the hospital from Tuesday until Thursday and Friday. One or two of the help were still unable to get home Monday of this week. Miss Claypole said there were a few anxious hours when the hydro began to flicker Tuesday. The auxiliary power equipment was broke down and wasn't repaired until Wednesday. The hospital was completely filled with patients who contented themselves with the fact that although the days dragged because of no company, their relatives and friends were safe at home. The police and snowmobilists who brought several staff members into work were highly praised by Miss Claypole. to the telephone for the entire night. Those staff members not patrolling attempted sleeping, talking or card playing. Five went the entire night without any sleep. By 6:30 Wednesday, pupils were up and raring to go for the second day. After another sandwich meal classes resumed at 9:00 a.m. Groceries were again ordered but due to difficulty in delivery they did not arrive until 1:30. In the meantime lunch consisted of bread and butter, sandwiches and milk. The telephone kept someone busy full time but very few asked to speak to their pupils. Most calls were on a sincere desire to ask how things were going and if they could be of any help. The snowplow arrived Wednesday afternoon and the applause could be heard throughout the school. Still no cars could get to us as the road soon filled in again. Again classes continued until 5 o'clock, supper again and for a change pupils ate cold meat sandwiches and milk. As one pupil stated, "I didn't like cold meat sandwiches the first meal, I didn't like cold meat sandwiches the second meal, but I liked cold meat sandwiches the third meal," During Wednesday approximately twenty pupils were snowmobiled home by parents so for the night we had approximately 320 pupils. 'That night the rumble of sleep was heard sooner and continued longer until 8:00 o'clock Thursday morning. During that morning comments like "Can we go home home to-day?" What's the weather like now? suggested to us that the feeling of joy and excitement which once ran high was perhaps changing. Again classes resumed at 9:00 yet physical education classes lacked the usual bounce they once had and during novel discussion most students were happy to agree with any answer while other slept in peace in their desks. Our food supply was still adequate for lunch but more was needed for supper. Thursday afternoon was a busy day. Many parents came for their students during lulls in the storm by snowmobile and car and volunteered to take neighbor friends etc. home. To ensure pupils were going home to a house with electricity and heat we attempted calling each home before delivery or having the home call us. With some 180-200 families in the school the telephone line was very busy. Again food was ordered. At the time of ordering we had 175-200 pupils. By 6 o'clock and mealtime fifty pupils remained with us. This meal — no cold sandwiches but hot soup, beef stew, hot dogs, apples, oranges, (etc) lavishly prepared by volunteer helpers from Exeter. By bedtime Thursday night, nine pupils remained with us so we were able to relieve all staff members but two who remained the third night. Friday morning rise and shine (more like crawl out and try to stand up) time was 7:00 a.m, Pupils remaining were delivered home by 11:00 a.m. and the halls of the school were silent again. Sickness was never any major problem with the pupils. The sick couches always seemed to be occupied but miraculously cleared during a meal, or during some interesting television program. The success of the 3 day night and 4 day adventure was due to many people. By mentioning names of those who assisted in their own way perhaps they can get some gratitude that they deserve. Thanks should go to Howard Holtzmann of the A&H store who ran around gathering all our needs, Laverne Heywood's for food, and the transporting of pupils, Harry Winters for pancakes and food brought in, the snowplow which tried valiantly to reach us on Wednesday, Hugh Rundle for food brought in plus plowing out the school. , yard. The five snowmobilers mentioned in last weeks paper who brought food to us on Tuesday plus the eleven bringing food to us on Wednesday plus those escorting the rescue truck with food and those driving, plus the ladies cooking for us on Thursday night, Harry Van Gerwen, Jim Newby, Emerson .Penhale, Morgans, Bev Alexander, Bob Down, Bill Dougall, plus all other snowmobile operators of the Exeter Club and parents of students in the township who transported pupils and materials for us during the storm; the local police and provincial police who kept in constant touch; Jim Etherington of the London Free Press who called us daily concerning out activities; Mrs. R. Westcott in checking our telephone. There are many of whom we were not aware yet helped and we pass on to you our gratitude as well. Our main concern was the pupils and they responded in a tremendous way by entertaining smaller pupils, preparing lunch, doing dishes, refereeing games, bolstering spirits of younger children when they were down. Their response was superb. Our staff of 34 teachers and one custodian' are due many thanks for sharing and co-operating during the sleepless nights and days to make this an experience which will never be forgotten, February 4, 1911 Paolo 11 4014 Pipe, igint4 ,can anon be repaired --1#49.0t: t4.104 the pipe apart, by.smearing the joint with any of several metwodPiRg ,cements, which POSt vary little at your IfX(.41b.ortiware_490,. PRESCRIPTIONS Filled Co-Op and Blue Cross at Middleton Pharmacy NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Estate of Michael Kelly, late of the Township of Stephen, in the County of Hur- on, who died on or about the 30th day of December, 1970. Creditors and others having claims against the above estate are required to send full par- ticulars of such claims to the undersigned on or before the 26th day of February, 1971 after which date the estate assets will be distributed having re- gard only to claims that have then been received. PETER L. RAYMOND, B.A., Barrister & Solicitor, Exeter, Ontario Solicitor for the Executors. 5c 24 Tenders Wanted Math at 2:00 a.m. for boys at Stephen Now Ready To Serve You .. . JERRY MATHERS TYPEWRITERS SALES • SERVICE • RENTALS • SUPPLIES 92 Main St.— Exeter 235.1840 Over 12 years of service experience to offer you in Exeter arid District — feel free 1c1 disCuss your needs with us. Bring your machine or calf for fast friendly service. 1