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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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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,