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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-01-27, Page 1RETIRING ROAD MAN HONORED 1- Bill Routly who retired recently after serving close to thirty years as road superintendent in Usborne township was honored Thursday night. Above, Routly and his wife Elva are shown receiving a gift from Reeve Lloyd Ferguson at the left. Others in the group are councillors Bill Morley, Gordon Johns, Jack Stewart and Walter McBride, T-A photo 0' It 0'4 SOUTH HURON'S EATING CHAMPS — One of the features of the weekend Winter Carnival at South Huron District High School was the pancake eating contest. Above, Richard Jennison of the student council raises the, arms of the champs. Brett Lavier with 231/2 pancakes to his credit was the boys winner while Kathy Read took • the girls title for the third consecutive year. Both champs are grade 11 C students. T-A photo Voyageur testing • moved to Toronto J. C. Finnen H, J. Klumpp G. D. Finnen G. W. Parsons Jim Finnen DIL president Maurice L, Klumpp, chairman of the board of Dashwood Industries Limited, announced several executive appointments and promotions this week, J. C, Finnen, former general manager of the company, has been named president. He suc- ceeds Mr. Klumpp in that position. A native of the Kitchener area, Mr. Finnen joined DIL 13 years ago as sales manager and was named general manager in 1964. Ile resides in Exeter, Three vice-presidents have been named. They are H. J. Klumpp, vice-president and secretary; G. D. Finnen, vice- president of Sales and marketing; and G. W. Parsons, vice-president of finance. The latter was controller and Mr, Finnen is the former sales manager, Plant manager P. H. Panet has been named manufacturing manager and T. F. Duffy, marketing manager, has his responsibilities expanded to include advertising and sales Promotion. Assistant sales manager T. C. Van Wyck becomes manager of dealer sales and Ian McCallum steps up from assistant controller to accounting manager, The final appointment involves R, R. Latreille, who is presently Ottawa branch Manager. He has been named manager of branch operations and will move from Ottawa to the Centralia office, His position will be filled by John Ansley of Barrie. T. P. turfy Ian McCalluiti T. C: Van Wytk 'f' . , . . . „ . . N , a • ' - 1- -.e. DONATION TO MEDICAL CENTRE - The Grand Bend Lions club recently purchased a wheel 'chair and three sets of crutches for use by area residents. The equipment will be stored at the Grand Bend Medical Centre. Lion past president Prosper Van Bruaene tried out the wheel chair in the above picture. At the back are treasurer Mac Mactaren, president Pete Warner, director Emmerson Gill and Dr. Sean Trapp of the Medical Centre staff. T.A photo Ninety-eighth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, JANUARY 27, 1972 Price Per Copy 20 Cents •,:,:r4,rt,•:, • x•••;•.W.,•.•*; F . FAIR BOARD EXECUTIVE — The annual meeting of the Exeter Agricultural Society was held Friday night and the executive named for the corning year. Back, left, secretary-treasurer Garnet Hicks and vice-presidents Bruce Shapton and Maurice Love. Front, women's section president Mrs. Bev Skinner and newly-elected fair board president Bob Down, T-A photo Morning parade helps crowd Banner year tor u ta fa ir Usborne road budget up 19-fold in 30 years Close to 400 Usborne township residents attended "Bill Routly Night" at the Usborne Central School, Thursday night. Routly who retired at the end of December after filling the Testing of the Voyageur hovercraft under actual water conditions at the Toronto Island Airport began Wednesday. William Smith, president of Bell Aerospace said the hover- craft that was produced at the Grand Bend plant was disassembled, taken to Toronto by transport and re-assembled for further testings. Tests over land and bush conditions at the former Grand Bend asirport site were com- pleted late on the evening of January 3 and dis-assembly began the next morning. The Bell Aerospace president said although original plans were to use Lake Huron for water testing, the uncertainty of getting onto the lake in the winter time caused the switch to Toronto. The harbour in Toronto is kept open during the winter and position of road superintendent for almost thirty years was honored by ratepayers and residents from all corners of the township. Ina short speech at the close of testings are expected to continue for a couple of months. A crew of ten men from the Grand Bend plant are in Toronto to start testings. This figure will drop to about seven when the tests get rolling. Smith told the T-A Tuesday afternoon, "The switch to the Toronto testing site proves another thing — that the hovercraft can be dis-assembled and put together with very little trouble. Many people were skeptical." He added the crew in Toronto were able to reassemble the Voyageur without the aid of any fancy equipment, using only drums, boards and shingles. A second hovercraft vehicle is now on the assembly line at the Grand Bend plant and should be rolled out by the end of March. the night's program, Routly reminisced a bit about his ex- periences during his long term as township "road boss." He first took over the position as acting road foreman when the road superintendent the late Arthur Rohde joined the armed forces during the Second World War in 1942. His pay in 1942 was 40c per hour and he was the only permanent road employee at that time filling the positions of road foreman and grader operator. "There was no guaranteed work at that time. If there wasn't anything to do we went home and didn't get paid. Anyway, we didn't have any place to go as the township shed wasn't built until 1948," said Routly. He was named road superin- tendent in 1946. Previous to his road appointment, Routly was Usborne assessor starting in 1937. For his first years as assessor he received $70 per year. During a special equalization program in 1939, the assessor's salary was raised to $100. From 1940 until 1948 when Routly gave Snowmobiler hurt in crash There were seven accidents investigated by the Exeter OPP this week, all being of a com- paratively minor nature. The only injury reported oc- curred in a snowmobile mishap early Saturday morning on Sideroad 20 in Stephen Towship, A machine operated by Douglas Jennison, Grand Bend, hit a snow bank and the driver was tossed off, sustaining bruises. There was no damage to the machine. The incident was in- vestigated by Constable Dale Lamont, In another accident, Saturday, a car driven by Alan Lavier, Lucan struck a mail box owned by Gerald McFalls, Huron St., Exeter, causing damage of $200. Constable Ed Wilcox in- vestigated. At 10:30 p.m. the same day, a car driven by Hugo Theander, RR 1, Centralia, backed across the street into a parked car owned by Robert Pickell, Lon- don. Total damage was listed at $160 by Constable Lamont. The Crash occurred in Centralia. There was one accident Sun- day, it occurring at 8:20 p.m, on Highway 4, just south of Kippen. A car driven by Wilma Shepherd, London, skidded off the highway into the east ditch and rolled onto its roof. Damage was set at $250 by Constable Frank Giffin, who also investigated an accident on Monday at the parking lot of the Hensall arena. A car driven by Rollande Duffy, Hensall, skidded on the ice and hit a parked car owned by — Please turn to page 3 up the assessor position to devote full time to the road job, he received $100 per .nnum. Asked to name the worst storm in this area during his tenure as Usborne road superintendent, Routly said it was a toss-up between 1947 and the January, 1971 storm. Said the veteran Usborne road man, "last year's storm was the worst while it lasted, but the 1947 lasted a lot longer, In 1947, the storm started New Year's night — Please turn to page 3 Several new features helped make the 1971 edition of the Exeter Fall Fair one of the best in many years. Secretary-treasurer Garnet Hicks told the 'annual meeting of the Exeter Agricultural Society Friday night the attendance was in excess of 3,500 and the financial picture was good, The switch to the morning of the annual Fair parade was given credit for increasing the crowds. As one board member said, "a lot of people followed the parade to the fair grounds and stayed for Name officers for fund drive The South Huron and District Association for the Mentally Retarded met Tuesday night in the home of Lawrence Wein to complete committees for the forthcoming campaign for funds for a farm property and workshop. The committees drawn up were: treasurer, Bruce Shaw; schools and youth, Doug Mock, Don Weber; Business, stores, banks, Lawrence McCann, Gerald Godbolt, Carfrey Cann, Jim Dalton; Professional, medical doctors, veterinarians, dentists, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Klungel; Organization and councils, Rev, W. Jarvis, Rev. A. Black- well; public relations, W. Jarvis, Marg Purdy; Speakers, Alma Godbolt, Nonie Hemingway, Case Van Raay, Rev. Andrew Blackwell, Marg Purdy, Don Weber, Rev. W. Jarvis, Marg Wein, Helen Kneale; South Huron chairman for campaign is Case Van Raay, It was announced that a donation of $500,00 has been received to launch the campaign The S. H. committee will meet with the Goderich committee January 31 at Clinton to co- ordinate plans and to set a date for the campaign. Stole coat, fined $100 A Kirkton man, Douglas Ulch, Was fined $100 for stealing a coat at a Centralia hotel on December 30. He appeared before Judge Glenn Hays in Exeter court, Tuesday. The coat was owned by John Varley, Exeter, and was found in the possession of Ulch, The identification had been torn off, Judge Hays learned the ac- cused had been drinking. but said this was not justification for taking the coat and removing the label. Inch said he intended to take the coat back later, but Judge Hays replied "you are not im- pressing me a bit." He termed it a mean, low trick and said "the aspeet of thieving is all too little thought of." 9 Youth fined $200 on drug possession the rest of the day, A new feature, showing of calves by the feeder calf club and the ensuing auction sale drew a lot of interest as did the six heats of exciting harness racing. Record number of entries were reported in several classes. Bruce Shapton in charge of fruits and vegetables said the entries of fruit and apples in particular were close to double previous numbers, Mrs, Bill Dougall, head of the school exhibits said the number of entries by area school children was more than 1,200. The flower exhibits were outstanding, Mrs. Dougall said she had heard many favorable comments on the move last year, putting some of the school displays on the east wall of the arena. She added, "We will try and put all school — Please turn to page 3 A Huron Park youth, Randy Darwin Mason, was fined $20Q when he pleaded guilty to possession of drugs in Exeter court, Tuesday. The sentence was handed out by Judge Glenn Hays, Evidence indicated the police investigation was started on July 24 when a 14-year-old youngster at Huron Park was found to be ill. He told police he had received a capsule from Mason and had paid $2.00 for it. Two capsules were turned over to the RCMP and sent to Toronto for analysis and one was found to contain LSD and the other MDA, both on the restricted list. No great quantity of either drug was found in the capsules. The accused stated he was under the influence of drugs when the juvenile had asked him for drugs. Mason said he did not charge for the drug, although the boy gave him $2.00. Duty counsel P, L. Raymond, Exeter, said the incident ap- peared to be an isolated case and did not merit a jail term. Two area drivers appeared on charges of driving with an alcohol content over 80 mgs, and each pleaded guilty. Herbert W. Neeb, Zurich, was fined $100 and had his license suspended for six months. He was charged on November 26 after he was involved in an accident on County Road 21 in Stephen. Damage in the single- car crash was listed at $1,050, The other driver charged was Dennis A. Hutton, R.R. 1 Woodham, who was involved in a car accident south of Winchelsea on December 13. OPP Constable Bill Glassford said he saw a car in a field and two men shouting and using abusive language, A breathalizer test showed a reading of 160 mgs. Hutton was fined $75. Con- viction carries a six-month license suspension. In other cases, the following fines were levied: Nancy F. Lindsay, St. Marys, was fined $100 for careless driving following an accident in Stephen Township on July 13, The court learned she had been driving at a high rate of speed — up to 100 m.p.h. — when her vehicle went into the ditch, Her action had been prompted by a family dispute. Ronald V. Hartman, Stephen, was fined $30 for failing to come to a full stop at an intersection, Robert E. Richard, Exeter, was fined $40 and costs on a charge of failing to yield the right of way. He was involved in a two- car accident at the intersection of Huron and William Streets on December 22, David Scarrow, Exeter, paid a fine of $30 for having liquor in a place other than his residence. Franklin Ducharme, Exeter, pleaded guilty to having liquor while under the legal age of 18, and was fined $25. Gerald Cole, Forest, was fined $30 for following another vehicle too closely, He was involved in an accident in Stephen on December 23 when he ran into the rear of — Please turn to page 3 First meeting for Authority The first official meeting of the enlarged Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority will be held Wednesday afternoon, February 2 at the Exeter Legion Hall, One of the first items on the agenda will be to officially adopt the new name of the Authority that will now cover municipalities in the Ausable and Bayfield River watersheds. A report is expected from the building committee regarding the expansion of office facilities for the Authority. At the last meeting of 1971, a tentative budget included $50,000 for office expansion. At that time the committee was looking into the possibilities of adding to the present quarters located in Riverview Park in Exeter, buying an existing building elsewhere or constructing new facilities,