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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-05-20, Page 1ELABORATE CRAFT — This Hughes 48 is believed to be the most elaborate sail boat ever produced in Canada. The Huron Park firm custom designed and built it for London lawyer Joseph Jeffery with over $40,000 worth of "extras". Launched at Goderich last week, it has an automatic pilot system with a computer built into the steering. It also has radar, three radio systems, dual instruments at the bridge and navigator's station. Will try once more to get traffic lights Ninety-sixth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, MAY 20, 1971 Price Per Copy 15 Cents Still long way to go before reality SLOWING THE FLAMES — Fire broke out in the Pinery on two occasions during the weekend and the Dashwood fire brigade was called in to assist the Grand Bend force. Dashwood firemen Harold Schroeder, Hugh Boyle, Frank Mclsaac, Alphonse Grenier and Don Bender are ready with brooms after digging a trench. T-A photo GB garbage contract is let, stop, park signs approved CONTINUING PARK PROJECT — Members of the Exeter Lions club are making good progress in improving Lions park, located east of Riverview Park. Saturday large stones were moved into position to create a cairn near the bridge linking the two parks. Above, Lions president Clarence McDowell is directing a bulldozer while looking on are Mel Gaiser, Glenn Kells, Ray Gannon and Walter Rontaniuk. Beginning the middle of June, June 15 to September 6, 44 places the residents of Grand Bend will require daily pickup, 27 on a have a municipal garbage twice-a-week basis and eight collection service, others only once a week.' At Monday's regular meeting For the off-season from Sep- of council, the tender of tember 7 to June 14, 14 com- McDonald's Sanitation Service, mercial properties would need R.R. 1, Crediton was accepted to twice a week service with 25 collect all garbage in the village others on a once-a-week system. for a term of one year. During the summer, from May The Crediton firm that 15 to October 15, 759 residences provides waste disposal services would have garbage picked up for numerous municipalities in twice a week while from October this area submitted the lowest of 16 to May 14, 431 household four bids at $12,120 per annum. pickups would be made. A letter Prior to the tender calls, a has been received from the survey was made of all property Ontario Waste Disposal Branch owners in Grand Bend asking informing that conditions at the what their garbage collection improved. For - dump are much requirements were. For commercial owners from A bylaw was passed Stephen cracks down on Huron Park dogs KIN 'PEPSI DRIVE Members of the Kinsmen and Kinette clubs of Exeter staged their annual Pepsi drive Thursday night. John Burke, centre takes time out from his gardening bores to purchase a case from Craig Davidson and Gernot Dauber. T-A. photo GETTING FINGERPRINTED — During a visit to the Exeter detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police Wednesday, one member of the Crediton Cub pack had his finger prints taken, Corporal Ray Brooks is showing the finished product to Mark Swartz. Others are at the extreme left, Mark Warren, Harold Borden, Randy Warren, Danny Galloway, Dale Dinney, Chris Dye, Tim Bushfield and Matthew McClure, T.A. photo Approve new house, office to crackdown on permits Okay... si e for mobile homes types of proposed residential housing. Although the site recom- mendation has been submitted by the board and approved by council, both groups emphasized strongly that further study is — Please turn to page 3 Exeter council this week date for the meeting was established, Several permits were approved at the meeting, including a new office building for Usborne & Hibbert Mutual Fire Insurance Company. The 26' by 36' building will be located on Main St. just north of Exeter Flowers. Paul Ducharme was granted a permit to construct a new home on Sherwood Crescent; Glen Robinson received approval to erect an above ground swimming pool and Milt Keller was given a permit to renovate a house on Main St. North for Mrs. Prance. Miscellaneous permits were granted to; R. Dinney, G. Appleton, M. Gunning, T, Walker, Ashley Smith, G. Hamilton, T, Elliott and Exeter Coach Lines, Backing a suggestion from Police Chief Ted Day, Exeter council will try once again to convince the department of transport of the need for traffic lights at the corner of Main and Sanders St. • In making his recom- mendation, Chief Day explained there have been five accidents at the intersection this year already, and a total of 20 on Main St. between Huron and Gidley. One member of council who had no difficulty backing the • suggestion was Bruce Shaw. His six-year-old son, David, was involved in a car-pedestrian mishap at the corner Friday evening. The lad escaped with bruises, but his father told council it could • have been much worse and it was unfortunate that some misfor- tune had to occur before action could be taken. The matter of traffic lights has been discussed, on several oc- casions in the past few years. Former councillor Ted Wright spearheaded attempts to have them erected, but a survey by the department of transport in- dicated they were not required in Okay tender for sewers Exeter council Monday night approved the bid of Elgin Con- struction, St. Thomas, to un- dertake the new storm sewer on • William and the sanitary system planned for the Thomas St. area. The lowest of seven bids, the firm submitted a price of $82,711.25. It was about $900 lower than the next bid and was less than half the top bid of $169,848.38. • B. M. Ross, council's engineer, was on hand to check the bids with council and said he wouldn't hesitate to recommend any of the seven bidders. Council approved the contract subject to further inspection by B. M. Ross and approval of the department of highways. It was indicated that the St. Thomas firm was anxious to get at the job as soon as possible. Completion date, as set out in the contract, will be September 30, — Please turn to page 3 Teachers get negotiating aid • Huron County secondary school teachers have called in negotiators from the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation to take over salary negotiations with the board of education. The teachers made their • decision known after a meeting Thursday night. The decision was made after what the teachers called an "insignificant move" by the board's salary negotiating committee, referring to an in- crease in the board's offer from 3.5 percent to a five percent in- crease. The board said the teachers are asking for increases of 8.4 perc- net "which the board feels it cannot possibly justify due to the economic situation and the teacher supply and demand as it exists this year". Mrs. Dorothy Wallace, he committee salary Comittee "head, said the next meeting with the OSSTF negotiators present would be held on May 27, view of the amount of traffic. Members at that time com- plained that the survey must have been taken on a Wednesday afternoon when traffic was ex- tremely light. Council had the intersection wired for traffic lights when the reconstruction was undertaken, but never agreed to spend the $5,000 required for lights. That's the estimated cost, and would have to be paid entirely by the municipality unless the depart- ment agrees they are necessary. Chief Day said the corner was extremely bad and visibility was so poor that motorists on Sanders St. had to enter the lanes of traffic on Main before they could see south or northbound traffic. He said the accident rate would be reduced all along Main St. if traffic lights were erected. At the same time, Chief Day said he had issued standing or- ders to his department that an officer be on duty at the in- tersection each Friday between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. to help pedestrians and vehicular traffic, Council also approved the Chief's recommendation that crosswalks be painted at the intersections of Huron, James, John and Sanders. He said diagonally painted lines give the motorists a better warning that there is a crosswalk and he said it should encourage people to use them rather than cross at any location on Main St. Two fire dep'ts plan fireworks Area residents will have an opportunity to view a mammoth fireworks displays this weekend. The Grand Bend firemen will have a display on the beach at dusk on Saturday night, while their counterparts in Hensall will be staging a show on Monday at dusk. Finds attraction `fantastic thing' Mayor Jack Delbridge was among the people who took ad- vantage of a special invitation to get a preview of Ontario Place over the weekend, The guests were referred to as "politically acceptable" people by Reeve Derry Boyle. The Mayor said the new at- traction on the Toronto water- front is quite a deal .and later termed it a "fantastic thing." However, he told his fellow council members it wasn't something he could tell them about. You have to see it he in- dicated. Mayor Delbridge did have a complaint about the fact work- men were engaged over the weekend putting the finishing touches on the multi-million dollar project. He said they were probably getting double time at least and felt that with the unemployment so high, more people should have been hired rather than giving some overtime work. agreed wholeheartedly with the planning board's suggestion that only one mobile home park site be approved at the present time. The site chosen is that being planned for development by Len Veri in the area north of the curling rink. A Kitchener firm had sub- mitted plans to develop a similar park east of the fairgrounds and they will be advised that council will not consider this plan. The primary reason for the recommendation of only one site was the consideration of the market demand. If both projects were developed to their maximum capacity, the result would be 350 to 400 units "which the planning board considers would exceed the foreseeable demand" stated board secretary Helen Jermyn in a written report to her fellow council members. She noted it was the un- derstanding of the board that a minimum of 50 units is necessary to satisfy the economic con- siderations of the park developer and an optimum size from both esthetic and economic points of view is 80 units. The board used the following criteria for their decision, which was approved by council: 1. The land of the mobile home park should not prejudice the availability of land for con- ventional housing of a high assessment value. Esthetic and service factors should be carefully considered. 2. The site should be capable of being adequately serviced with a minimum of public expenditure. 3. The traffic generated should have direct access to a main artery without having to go through a developed subdivision. 4. The location should fit well into both existing and future land use with regard to residential and traffic patterns. The points which led to the final choice of the Veri proposal were as follows: 1. Direct assess north to High- way 83 as part of an overall consideration of the traffic pattern. 2. Extension of Alexander St. East. 3. Access from Riverside Drive to Keller property for possible future development. 4. A more detailed land use plan be prepared for the entire parcel of land, including the Boy injured in bike crash A Huron Park youngster was injured in the only accident in- vestigated by the Exeter OPP detachment officers during the past week. Terry Anger, 103 Kensington Crescent, was riding his bicycle on County Road 21 when he was involved in a crash with a car driven by Larry Cronyn, Cen- tralia. The lad was treated at South Huron Hospital for multiple cuts and bruises and released. Damage in the mishap was set at $50 by Constable Dale Lamont. During the past week the detachment officers charged 35 persons under the Highway Traffic Act. Many of those were caught speeding by the OPP air patrol. Another 12 drivers received warnings. One person was charged with impaired driving. Charge man with arson A Kirkton man, John Lapointe, has been charged with arson as the result of investigation into a fire which gutted his home on May 3. He appeared in Goderich court, Monday, and elected trrial by judge and jury. He was remanded until June 29 and was released on property bail of $1,000. The fire in the former Kirkton bake shop broke out around 11:00 p.m. and the Exeter fire brigade fought the stubborn blaze for over three hours before they had it under control, Damage was estimated at around $3,000. The investigation was headed up by Robert Kaufman of the Ontario Fire Marshal's office and OPP Constable Don Mason. Exeter council this week held another of their lengthy debates about people starting building jobs without permits and threatened to take court action if necessary to teach some of the culprits a lesson. Councillor Ross Taylor ended discussion when he said he en- joyed the debate, noting that he had brought the matter ui twice a year for the past five years. One contractor who started a home without a permit will receive a letter advising that council was "disturbed." Councillor Helen Jermyn said that word was putting it mildly and if Clerk Eric Car- scadden could find a better word he could use it. The debate was started off by Ken Ottewell, who complained that council had no policy regarding permits, adding that one contractor was able to get a permit without submitting plans while at other times a contractor couldn't. He also suggested some of the buildings weren't being put up to the National Building Code specifications. "People are laughing at you," he told council, adding later in the meeting he didn't like to be laughed at. He said council had a duty to protect the potential home buyer by ensuring the building met the required standards. Ottewell suggested that council should explore the possibility with Stephen and Hay of ap- pointing a full-time building inspector for the three municipalities. It was noted that council should have a study of the entire situation and decree which jobs required permits and which didn't. People starting work without permits would be ordered to cease until a permit was ap- proved. Investigate theft of `golf club set OPP Constable Dale Lamont is investigating the theft of a set of golf clubs from the Par 3 golf range north of Grand Bend, Saturday. The clubs, valued at $350, were owned by SHDHS vice-principal Morley Sanders, R.R 1, Grand Bend. The matter will he discussed at a special meeting of council. No Job printing plant sold by publisher Herb Turkheim, publisher of the Zurich Citizen's News, an- nounced this week he has sold his job printing business to one of his employees, Allan Brokenshire. native of Zurich, Mr. Brokenshire, is the son of the late Whitney Brokenshire, former clerk of Hay township. While the two businesses have been separated, they will still operate out of the same building, with Mr. Turkheim remaining as publisher-editor of the newspaper. Stephen township Tuesday night took steps to crack down on the dog problem at Huron Park. Clerk Wilmar D. Wein and dog control officer Dick Roelofson of Exeter were instructed to lay charges immediately if any dogs are found running at large. No warnings will be issued. At least four cases of children being bitten by dogs has occurred at Huron Park this year. In instances where the dog can not be caught but the control officer is able to establish ownership charges will definitely be laid. Early morning call false alarm Exeter firemen and residents were awakened by the fire alarm at 2:30 a.m., Wednesday, but there was no fire, The alarm system al, Canadian Canners Ltd., which is hooked directly into the local fire hall, apparently malfunctioned setting off the alarm. The application of Mervin Dietz to open an eating establishment on part of Lot 5, LRE Concession on the east side of Highway 21, north of Grand Bend was ap- proved. The Dublin area man will establish a drive-in restaurant of a different nature. Frozen foods, such as steaks will be sold by the operator and barbecue pits will be available to allow the purchaser to do his own cooking. This type of food operation is popular in Florida. William Averill of Crediton was given permission to construct a gas bar in connection with his Stardust Motel and Restaurant at the westerly limits of Crediton. Decision was reserved on an application by Bill Ford to establish a mobile home park on Concession 6, north of Crediton. A grant of $75 was approved to assist the Little League baseball program at Huron Park. Bruce Gibbs and Bob Richardson of the Huron Park executive made the request. authorizing the placing of stop and no parking signs on several streets in the village of Grand Bend. Stop signs will be erected on southerly side of King Street at Woodward and the northerly side of King at Huron. A similar stop sign goes on the south-west corner of Hill street at Centre. Two bump stop signs will be placed on Queen and Huron streets. The "No parking between signs" will be erected along the westerly side of Huron street from Main street north for a distance of 175 feet to ac- commodate a bus stop. A grant of $100 was made to the Grand Bend volunteer fire brigade to aid in staging their annual fireworks display on the beach. This year's display will be held — Please turn to page 3