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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-08-26, Page 3r\V YaR 3OUBL:s ALL Bi SPKL-13 TimasAcivovote, Augu0 26, 1971 Nye Books .said disgraceful,. but board okays them. Wi<LI.1AM GILIVIARTIN William Gilmartin formerly of London, passed away suddenly in England, August 20, 1971. He is survived by his wife, the former Laura Woodall, and two children, Dan and Kerry. Funeral services will he held at the R. C. Pinney- Funeral Home, Thursday with interment in Exeter cemetery, FftEpEfficic WILLIAM SCHROEDER Fred Schroeder died at South Huron Hospital, August 22, 1971, in his 65th year, He was the husband of the former Erna Lehnert, the father of Mrs. Brian (Heide) Smith of London, and grandfather of Annette and Brendan. The funeral services were conducted from the T. Harry Hoffman Funeral Home with Rev. George Reinhardt of- ficiating, Wednesday. Burial was in Dashwood Lutheran cemetery. Pallbearers wereAlbert Miller, Reinhold Miller, Carl Tyler, Don Smith, Milfred Merrier and Stan Holubowicz. ADVERTISING — Floats of all sizes and descriptions were entered in Monday's Lucan Centennial parade, The Wraith-Storey hardware float was probably one of the smallest. Steve Storey drives the tractor while Harry Wraith is seated in the centre and Barb Wraith follows with the plumbing equipment. GEORGE E, BROWN George E, Brown died at St. Joseph Hospital, London, August 22, 1971, He was the brother of John W. Brown of Sylvan, and Mrs. John (Emma) Hodgins of Parkhill. The funeral was conducted from the M, Box & Son Funeral Home, Parkhill, Wednesday, with interment in Sylvan cemetery. of education, schools and teachers to adopt a positive and constructive approach to reaching these goals by means of caluded. definite program moral and religious education," she con- Accidents — Continued from front page damage at $9f0, In the other crash on Saturday, cars driven by Charles McCarron, Wallaceburg, and Joseph Shepperd, Corinna, csot.I1 jidoesdepohn Highway 21, south of Constable Lewis listed damage at $175. In a crash earlier in the week, cars driven by Earl Heist, Crediton, and Dianne Colter, Grand Bend, collided on the Crediton Road east of Crediton, Jean Jennison, Grand Bend, a passenger received bruises, Constable Al Quinn listed damage at WO. During the week the officers charged 17 persons under the Highway Traffic Act and issued warnings to another 20 drivers, There were two charges under the Liquor Control Act and two under the Criminal Code. For the second consecutive year, the members of the Huron County Board of Education have given careful discussion to the matter of English Literature books to be used in the county's five high schools — and Monday evening's free-swinging discussion resulted in three board members voting against the list as presented. Those members were Mrs. Marion Zinn, Ashfietd; John Henderson, McKillee; and the Chairman, Robert Elliott, Goderich Township, In questioning the ad- ministration concerning the wisdom in putting some of the books on the list on the course of study for Huron high school students, John Henderson claimed that some of the books studied last year were "disgraceful". "Decent girls don't want to be in the room when they are being studied," said Henderson. He said he was aware of a complaint which had been made to the school principal concerning a certain book studied in class. The student had been advised that the board had approved the list of books for study. "Some of these books cost only 50 cents per unit," argued Henderson: "What good can they MANPOWER FOR FIRES — Equipment of the Lucan fire brigade in use in the 1880's was part of Monday's Centennial parade. Providing the pulling power were George Dauncey, Evan Bouchard, Don Riley,Dan Gwalchmal, Don Hirtzel and Larry Lewis. T-A photo MRS. IDA LILLIAN ARCHER Mrs. Ida (Batten) Archer, London, passed away in St. Joseph's Hospital, August 18, 1971 in her 88th year. She was predeceased by her husband, the late Wesley Archer. Surviving is her sister, Mrs, Cora Perkins, London, and several nieces and nephews. The funeral was conducted from the James A. Harris Funeral Home, London, with a member of the Jehovah's Wit- nesses officiating, August 20. Interment was in St. James cemetery, Clandeboye. ERNKST CERSON Ernest Cerson, former Exeter Canadian Natignal Railways Station agent, passed away suddenly at his hpme on Gidley Street West, August 20, 1971, in his 75th Year. Before his retirement from Clslil in 1962 he had been em- ployed with that organization over 46 years, 20 of which had been spent in Brampton es a telegraph operator. Mr. Cerson had served overseas in the Canadian Army in the two world wars and retired from the Lorne Scott Regiment of Brampton with the rank of major. He was a life member of the Moeca Temple Shriners and belonged to several other organizations including the Royal Canadian Legion and the Masonic Lodge. He had also served on the session of James Street United Church. He was born in Greenock Township in Bruce County, the $on of the late Mr. & Mrs. William Cerson. Surviving besides his wife, the former Ethel Splan, is his brother, Wilfred of Bervie, and his sister, Mrs, George Robertson of Kincardine, and several nieces • 41% and nephews, The funeral was held from the Hopper-Hockey Funeral Home, August 23, with the Rev, Glen Wright officiating. Interment was in Purdy's cemetery. Acting as pallbearers were • 4 Allan Bettles, Bill Dougherty, Ernest Wells, Peter Coates, Fred Huxtable and R, E. Pooley. WARREN L. BROCK Warren Brock passed away at South Huron Hospital August 18, 1971, in his 75th year. He is survived by his wife, the former Willa Stewart, one daughter,Mrs, Edwin(Jean) Miller and three grandchildren, Brian, Barry and Barbara Miller, daughter, Mrs. Edwin (Jean) Miller, and three grandchildren, Brian, Barry and Barbara Miller. Mr. Brock moved to Exeter in 1960. Previously, he farmed on Lot B, Con. 8, Usborne Township where be was born and raised. He was a member of Zion West United Church where he served as an elder for many years. Since moving to Exeter he was a member of Exeter United Church. The funeral was held from the Hopper-Hockey Funeral Home on Saturday, with Rev. Glen Wright officiating. The pallbearers were Norman Brock, Tom Brock, Brian Miller, Barry Miller, Robert Alguire and Tom Jenken. possibly be." Jim Coulter, superintendent of education, reminded Henderson that these paperback books would cost a good deal more if they were purchased in the hard- cover volume. lie said the books are examples of Modern English Literature and are studied in that light. Coulter said he had asked the opinion of the Huron County librarians concerning the book lists. He admitted that the librarians had questiOned the value of some of the Woke on the list, and said that only one book — The Godfather — had been removed from the list. "I read it and considered just one page too vivid," said Coulter, "I'd like to hear a teacher present a lesson on one of these books," said Henderson, "Maybe I'd learn something." Although Mrs. Marion Zinn defended the idea of the Modern English course in secondary school, she expressed the hope that English department heads would take greater care in selecting books to be studied. She bad a complaint from a ratepayer concerning a book studied in school last year and quoted from a brochure on mind- pollution. The brochure deplored the fact that "pornography is openly featured in lewd books used for English Courses in high school, as though there is an in- sufficiency of the great classics of our literature for cultural educational enlightenment". Mrs. Zinn was the author of a report on Moral and Religious Education heard later in the evening. In the report, Mrs. Zinn wrote, "Schools and colleges are already moving in the direction of sharing with students, or delegating to them, responsibility for making important decision in matters of behaviour, course content, instructional styles and school policy generally. High school freshmen will not learn how to do these things well until the school provides practice in applying democratic theory and processes to issues that are real to them. This is unlikely to happen unless the operative unit becomes the pupils' home-room with the home-room teacher a key person in the moral education program of the entire school". "The time has come for boards Lengthy parade opens week to celebrate Lucan birthday WILLIAM A. CAMPBELL William Campbell, formerly of Detroit, passed away in Jackson, California, August 21, 1971, in his 73rd year. He was the son of the late John and Isabel Campbell of West Williams and was predeceased by his first wife the former Mabel Singular in 1947 and a son John, in 1952. He is survived by his wife, the former Mary Carpenter and a daughter, Mrs. Thomas (June) Lawson of Detroit. Also surviving are his sister Mrs. Lawrence Lang, Detroit, two sisters-in- law. , Bertha Singular and Mrs. Alfred Mallet, both of London, and one brother-in-law Trueman Singular, Broadview, Saskat- chewan. The funeral will be conducted from the T, Harry Hoffman Funeral Home Thursday at 2 p.m. with Rev. Douglas Warren officating. Interment will be in Nairn cemetery. Air show — Continued from front page breath-taking inverted ribbon pick-up in his Citabria and Professor Lyjack, Ann Arbor, Michigan, fills the sky with noise and intricate maneouvres with his Waco Taperwing. Sky diving will also be an at- traction again this year and the Canadian Armed Forces will have a huge Buffalo on hand for static and flying display. The competition on both Saturday and Sunday will be held basically from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., with the exciting air show following from 2:00 until 4:30. Competitors will be vying for the Molson awards. Last year's show was watched by over 10,000 thrilled people. Ground displays include antique and home-built craft, along with Bob Poberezny's Warbirds of America. Radio controlled models are also featured throughout the two- day show. More than 2,000 persons lined the streets of Lucan and the neighbouring roads of Biddulph township Monday night as close to 40 floats and bands par- ticipated in the Lucan Centennial parade. Heading the mile-long procession was the Centennial stagecoach carrying Centennial officials and visiting dignitaries. Included were Lucan reeve Ivan Hearn, Huron MPP Bob McKinley, Ontario Agriculture Minister Bill Stewart, reeves George Dixon of McGillivray, Graydon McRoberts of London township, George Phillips, Ailsa Craig and Wilson Hodgins of U.S. duty to affect area turnip shippers Six go to conference Exeter court — Continued from front page charge of careless driving arising out of an accident on Highway, 21 on July 21. Merritt did not stop at the scene, but the driver with whom he had been in collision gave chase and caught him, The ac- cused said he panicked at the accident scene. John C. Webster, Zurich, was fined $100 on a charge of careless driving on July 21, He was driving into Crediton and collided with a vehicle coming out of a laneway. Webster's vehicle left 80 feet of skid marks on the pavement. In other cases heard Tuesday: John Alexander Miller, Seaforth, was fined $30 for consuming liquor while under the age of 21. Michael Paul Epplett, Leamington, was fined $35 for having liquor while under age on July 3. The charges came less than a month before the age limit was reduced. James Douglas Bell, Lon- desboro, paid $30 for following another vehicle too closely. He was involved in an accident at the intersection of Highways 4 and 83 on July 2. Gordon Bruce Pryde, Hensall, was fined $30 after pleading guilty to a charge of failing to yield the right of way. He was involved in an accident on July 21 in Hay Township. Gregory Revington, Lucan, was fined $20 for driving a motorcycle without a license plate and another $50 for driving the machine without having proof of insurance. Terrence Wayne Taylor, Lucknow, was fined $60 for a speed of between 50 and 60 in a 30 m.p.h. zone in Exeter at 6:30 a.m. on July 9. He said he was in a hurry to get to work, that could arise would be if American farmers have a bumper crop of turnips and provide added competition to Canadian shippers. Officials at Kongskilde Limited and JF Machinery, both of Exeter reported that agricultural implements are exempt from the new duty. The same situation is in effect for automotive parts according to a spokesman at Hall Lamp at Huron Park. Bill Smith, president of Custom Trailers in Exeter and secretary of the Canadian Mobile Home and Travel Trailer Association said the duties would not affect his industry. Said Smith, "All materials used in the mobile home business are Canadian made and all sales are completed in Canada." Biddulph who is also warden of morning with an english and Middlesex county. western horse show going in the Next in line came Centernilafternoon. At night, a teen-age Queen Mrs. Bob Coleman who s dance will be held. rode in a carriage supplied by An ecumenical church service Clarence Haskett. Handling the will be held in the arena Sunday reigning duties were Bill and afternoon at 2:30 with Bishop Nancy Deeks. Before the parade, Reeve Hearn presented Mrs. Coleman with roses donated by Hill Flowers of London. Four top notch bands were included in the parade. They were the award winning Midlanders of London, the Mocha Temple trumpet band, also of London, and Legion bands from Strathroy and Mitchell. Included were floats produced by the Lucan Lions, Legion, Women's Institute, various church groups, etc. The Centennial program that included track and field, swimming and square com- petitions Tuesday night and a steak barbecue, Wednesday continues tonight, Thursday with a special program at the arena featuring the Men of Accord of London. Friday night, Desjardine's orchestra will provide music for adult dancing. Saturday, a fastball tour- nament will get underway in the William Townsend as the guest speaker. Dedication and unveiling of a Centennial plaque will be held after the church service. R. Alan Douglas, curator of the Hiram Walker Historical Museum of Windsor will represent the province, A ceremony will be held Sunday afternoon at 3:30 at the Lucan Community Centre, The 'plaque will be unveiled by Lucan councillors Bernard Avery and William Mathers. Rev. W, C. Tupling of the Lucan United church will be in charge of the dedication and Lucan Reeve and Centennial committee chairnian Ivan Hearn will be program chairman. The plaque is one of a series throughout the province by the Ontario Department of Public Records and Archives. An antique show under the direction of the Lucan Women's Institute will be on display in the arena all week. The only district business apparently affected by the latest tariffs placed on imports by the United States government are the processors and shippers of tur- nips. The four area shippers, Quality Produce, Exeter Produce, Huron Produce and A & P of Centralia will be charged 10 percent of FOB costs. Len Veri of Exeter Produce said the duty was not to exceed 25c per 100 pounds of produce. The maximum on a 50-pound bag of turnips would be 121/2 c. Veri said the new duty should not affect the turnip industry "too much" at this time. The higher costs will be passed on to the American consumer. About 99 per cent of turnips processed at Exeter Produce are shipped to the United States, He added that the only problem Reports on trip to United Nations Stephen water — Continued from front page wears on, Empey produced results of tests taken on May 5 and July 5 and 6. At the Oakwood subdivision, the first test showed two un- satisfactory wells out of 13, In July, 15 wells were found below standard out of 57 sampled. Of 19 residences and establish- ments tested along Highway 21, 10 of 14 wells in the first test were satisfactory while in the July samplings the figure had dropped to four out of an even dozen. In addition some of the drilled wells showed a high sulphur content. Since the first hearing, the township received 35 letters asking for re-opening of the issue and 14 withdrawls of original objectors. With this evidence, the OMB agreed to another hearing. At the hearing, Laughton called on 50 ratepayers either in person or by agent who showed they were in favour of getting water from the Lake Huron water systemnow in operation. , When questioned by the board, ee B. M. Ross of Goderich, engineer on the proposed system said the estimated costs a year ago of $180,845 would still be in effect. Ross added that there were several savings involved and he felt the estimated cost would hold up, This was substantiated later by Archibald Forsyth, municipal projects supervisor of the OWRC who added that a government grant initiated since the original hearing should bring the overall cost down to about $122,000, Former druggist marks 50 years A former Exeter phaimacist, Bill Manson, was among the members of the class of 1921 recently honored by the Ontario College of Pharmacy. Each received a framed golden anniversary certificate. In the summer of 1916, Mr. Manson registered as an ap- prentice with the late W. S. Cole in Exeter and remained here until he joined the C.A.M.C. at London during World War I. He entered Pharmacy College in 1920 and after graduation, worked in Toronto and then opened his own drug store in Forest. Eight years later he and his wife returned to Toronto and Says everyone must help out Six trustees of the Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board will attend the Canadian Catholic Trustees Association Conference in Thunder Bay on September 16, 17 and 18. The Superintendent of Education, John Vintar, or his assistant, Joseph Tokar, will also attend, with trustees: board chairman, Howard Shantz; David Teahen and F. J. Vere, all of Stratford; Oscar Kieffer, RR 1 Bluevale; John McCann, RR 3 Ailsa Craig; and Vincent Young, Goderich. In other business Monday night the board granted permission to Rev. M. J. Hughes of Stratford to hold a COR Weekend (a retreat for young people) in St, Michael's School in Stratford. The custodians in the 19 separate schools in Huron and Perth will meet in the board rooms in Seaforth, with the initial meeting to be held on August 31. At this meeting, set up by the business administrator, Jack Lane, they will deal with the rules and regulations for custodians so that they will all be aware of their responsibilities, Too, they will plan subsequent meetings with in-service programs for them to learn new techniques. A meeting in Toronto on August 30 concerning provincial support for separate school education to the end of Grade 13, will be at- tended by Superintendent John Vintar or Joseph Tokar; board chairman Howard Shantz and trustee Francis Hicknell of RR 5 Seaforth, By that date it is ex- pected that Premier William Davis will have handed down his ruling on the extension of grants to the end of Grade 13 for separate schools. Regarding this extension of grants, each trustee was presented with a book, Com- pletion Campaign Handbook 1971, which had been prepared by the English Catholic 'Teachers' Association of Ontario. A discussion was held on renovations to the existing storeroom at the board office location to make it a new resource area, The property committee is to bring in a recommendation on the proposal. By RICHARD OTTEWHLL A trip to another city, or province, or country, does a lot to change one's ideas about various things. At. least this is what I found to be the case during my recent visit to New York City and Washington D.C. My thanks will always be ex- tended to the Oddfellows and the Rebekahs who allowed me to travel through the United States a NDP suspend Goderich man AGoderich man who announced last month he will be an hi- dependent ND? candidate in Huron riding in the next provincial election, learned last week he has been suspended by the party. Ed Bain, 54, who had uri- v, successfully sought the party nomination for the riding, said he learned of the suspension by the provincial council of the party When he returned from a vacation in Sault Ste, Marie, He said the suspension is in effect "Until I withdraw tny ti candidacy." Mr. Bahl said he had no in- tention of withrawing his candidacy, and wh ri Asked if he Will be termed an "independent NOP" on the ballot, he replied; °I expect so." Part of Sunday's ()ranee Lodge Parede in Lucan after working in a private store, joined Parke Davis & Co, Ltd, as a Medical service representative, After retirement hi 1964, he returned to part.time work at the store in Forest Hill which he had left In 1935, Out of 168 members of the 1021 class, 75 are still living and' 80 attended the golden anniversary celebration, provide money and people for the UN to work with. Just think, if everyone of us in Canada gave 50 cents for work by the UN, that would be $10 million: That would feed a lot of little kids, and do a lot of research in the fields of communication and disease. See, we can do something! I guess what I'm really trying to say is that we must CARE. If we want to learn, then we must Remember, the UN is a part of us, and the sooner we try and help out, the sooner things like poverty, the Middle East, pollution — I could go on for a page — will be put under control. We must understand that the UN is an individual,thing. It has the potential, but it needs our support: it's everyone's business. Keep reaching out and caring for "He who scattereth has much," and pretty soon we'll all be like little sources of light; and We can destroy the 'darkness that engulfs the world, before we become permanently blind, and it destroys us. read books and newspapers; if we want to help, then we Must talk to friends, write letters, wend money, But do something, for apathy is 'death, and we don't want to die, with 37 other students from Ontario, and gave me the chance to meet about 150 young people from the States during my six- day stay in New York. I guess the reason I'm writing this article is to get a point across that has changed my ideas drastically. We stayed in N.Y. to study at. the United Nations headquarters there. I went down thinking that the U N was some kind of isolated power: a giant Zeus sitting high up on Mount Olympus, If it wanted to solve a problem (which I thought it didn't) it just found a solution. But I didn't care, because it had nothing to do with rne. Man! Was I a dummy! The United Nations is really an ex- tension of us; the people of Ontario -- the people of the world. The U N doesn't run on thunderbolts, but instead a People Power. The fact that the UN is quite. human was made very evident when we interviewed the delegate from Israel and the delegate from Egypt, They lied, quibbled, argued; and got nothing done, But of course these men are just representing their countries. Hut . it is ordinary people like us who make .p these countries. Get what I'm driving at? The UN is a part of us, but more importantly, we are a part of the UN. There's a room at the UN called the Meditation Room. In it a single beam of light penetrates the darkness and lights up a single block of marble. In many ways, the UN is like this source of light, and we are like the marble. The light reaches out to us — as nations as a whole, and to each and every one Of us as in- dividuals. We can sit and bath in the light, but the only way to make it stronger and brighter is by responding: as nations, and as individuals. In this way, we all become little points of light hi the darkness, and pretty soon maybe there won't be any darkness left. Great ie theory you say, I say, great in practise tool We can all respond — together es countries, and separately as individuals. Get the gov't. off of its self- centered throne and get it to give more money to things like UNICEF' and WHO, which help developing countries. Write letters to to newspapers, to magazines — get Ottawa to pledge support to all the UN organizations, to be mediators in world crises, to