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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-03-16, Page 1Stephen township Tuesday night took clefiMte steps to curb the problem of dogs running at large at Huron Park. The township dog control bylaw is being updated and a dog control officer was hired. Harvey Hillman, a resident of Huron Park was named as dog control officer arid enforcer of the bylaw. Clerk Wilmar Wein said Hillman was retained as the dog control officer for the township with special emphasis on Huron Park. He said his office and township officials had been deluged in recent weeks with calls from irate tenants at Huron Park regarding dogs running at large, In addition to his duties as dog control officer with powers to lay charges, Hillman will also collect June 30 and December 15. The township solicitor was authorized to proceed with collection of tax arrears at Huron Park. Council will be applying to the Waste Management Branch of the Ontario Department of lnergy and Resources for licences to operate the township dumps at Concession 5 and 15. After hearing a report from councillor Gerald Dearing from the Exeter and area fire com- mittee, council decided to oppose one of the stipulations of the new agreement. The original agreement from the Town of Exeter called for each township to pay the costs of their own representatives in attending fire board meetings. Stephen will ask that these costs :)e, added to the overall fire department charges and shared by the municipalities, THEY TOOK TO KNITTING - Several boys joined the knitting classes being taught durin4 the current elective programs. Above, Mrs. Pearl Gans is helping Steven Gwalchmai and Paul Hockey tend to their knitting. T-A photo Temp rises, but needs aid Since last week's report the "Kind Hearts" of Exeter have pushed the temperature on the Easter Seal thermometer up to $950. The campaign organizers are grateful for the response and are optimistic about the final results- but all who have not donated please take note of the fact the the 1972 qtiota of $2,300 is still short by $1,350. The Exeter Lions Club Easter Seal district is especially for- tunate in that it has very few crippled children. We seldom see one on the street and it is easy to forget that there are many hundreds in our province. Your Easter Seal dollars are put to exceptionally practical use on behalf of the unfortunate children - leg braces, self feeding devices for those with muscular control problems, drugs for the partial control of Cystic Fibrosis. Wheel chairs, artificial limbs. Our provincial Timmy on the Green Easter Seal Envelope has two man-made legs and now can run and play with his dog, and this is only a start on the list. In the main these things are not covered by our Provincial Medicare Program. Appoint special dog catcher to end Huron Park problem YOUTHFUL SONGSTERS — During intermissions of Tuesday's fashion show at the Grand Bend United Church visitors were entertained by songs from Linda, Kathy and Janet Allister. dog tag fees at Huron Park, The Exeter Veterinary Clime will continue to operate a dog pound for the township and will be co-operating with the new dog control officer. Ask for water Clerk Wein was instructed to ask the Ontario Water Resources Commission for the feasibility of constructing a secondary water pipe line from Lake Huron north of Grand Bend to help relieve water shortages at Mount Car- mel, Dashwood, Crediton, Centralia and Huron Park. One tax notice Council approved a plan whereby 1972 taxes will be collected in two installments but only one notice will be sent to ratepayers, The notices for payments due June 30 and November 30 will be sent out sometime in May. Last year municipal taxes were due Ninetyeigbth Year Price Per Copy 20 Cents EXETER, ONTARIO, MARCH 16, 1972 Ice conditions didn't Storm cuts hydro, closes area schools phase area drivers To improve Hay roads Despite treacherous driving conditions caused when area roads were turned into skating rinks, the Exeter OPP report there were no accidents on either Monday or Tuesday, There were four other ac- cidents during the week, all occurring prior to the severe ice storm, On Thursday, a car driven by • Kenneth Baker, Dashwood, skidded on the 16th concession of Stephen and collided with a telephone pole. Total damage from the lines, they started to whip into each other causing short circuits. There were no reports of any other type of damage in the district, although many tree limbs came crashing down with the ice load. The works department craw in Exeter spent most of Tuesday clearing broken branches and limbs from streets and boulevards. was set at $100 by Constable Bob Whiteford. The other three crashes all took place on Saturday. Damage was listed at $1,600 by Constable Bob Whiteford when cars driven by Joseph Hoffman, Zurich and William Herdman, Dashwood, collided on Huron County road 2, north of Highway 83. Later in the day, a car operated by Henry Perala, Sarnia, skidded on a snow-packed section of High- way 84 east of Zurich and rolled on its side in the ditch. Constabler Whiteford set damage at $400. The final crash was a hit and run, reported at 10:30 p.m. at the parking lot of the Dominion Hotel in Zurich. A car owned by Stewart Cleave, Hay Township sustained damage of $75. Con- stable Bill Lewis investigated. During the week, the detach- ment officers charged nine persons under the Highway Traffic Act and issued warnings to another 13. There were five charges under the Criminal Code and three under the Liquor Control Act. Snowmobile to Port Elgin pen house at College MICH IS THE 91GHT SIDE UP? -- When Melvin Whiting of Exeter purchased his 1972 licence plates several weeks ago he didn't realize his plates were a little different. The Ontario and 1972 on the plates are a little confusing. T-A photo Chrysler dealer 4v will drop agency George Dobbs announced this week that Dobbs Motors Ltd. would be moving from its present location at the end of the month. The firm will be giving up its Chrysler agency and will be solely engaged in the sale of used car* and trucks•from the former Wedge lot across from the LCBO store on Main St. The building now used by the firm is owned by the Sun Oil Company and as yet no an- nouncement has been made as to its disposition. Sale of the garage equipment owned by Dobbs Motors will be held on April 8. The firm's founder, Fred Dobbs, assumed the Chrysler agency in 1941 and was joined by his son in the business in 1949. The latter pointed out that owners of cars purchased from the firm would have no problems in obtaining service for the balance of their warranties, because they are honored at any Chrysler dealership. Six Exeter snowmobile en- thusiasts drove their machines to Port Elgin, Saturday. They covered the 90-mile trip in a little over six hours, being slowed down at times by poor travelling conditions, par- ticularly at the southern end of their trip. Making the lengthy jaunt were Dalton Skinner, Jack Schell, Ray Jory, Toni Arthur, Eric Kints and Gerald McBride. Each was driving a machine of a different make and none en- countered any mechanical problems. A bolt dropped out of the ski of one machine around Brucefield, but it was quickly repaired. The wives of the six men drove cars to Port Elgin and the machines were hauled back Sunday afternoon on trailers after the couples enjoyed another 65-mile jaunt around the Bruce area earlier in the day. While the machines held up without any problems, most of the enthusiasts were using liberal amounts of liniment on aching muscles Monday, This week's ice storm resulted in wide-spread hydro in— terruptions throughout the area and ice-covered roads resulted in the cancellation od school for rural students, Tuesday. Officials felt it was too dangerous to send buses out onto rural roads which were covered with glare ice, and in some locations the schools would have been closed anyway due to lack of heat from the power failures. Walter Palmer, manager of Ontario Hydro's Clinton office said crews from that centre worked up to 38 hours without a break in an effort to restore hydro service. "They were pretty drowsy," he said of the men who finished work around midnight onTuesday after starting to battle broken lines and poles around 8:00 a.m. Monday. A half dozen crews from centres as far away as Newmarket and Essex were called in to assist and some of them continued their effort until 3:00 a.m. Wednesday. Palmer said service was restored to most areas by late Tuesday and isolated sections had their hydro back in service Wednesday norning. Areas hardest hit were Usborne, Hay, Hullet, Grey and Morris Townships. There were only about half a dozen poles snapped off, but there was a large number of broken conductors. This entire area was without hydro around noon Tuesday when the ice started to fall clear from the high tension lines bringing hydro into the Centralia station on Highway 4. The Ontario Hydro manager explained that the situation was akin to releasing pressure on an elastic band. As the ice fell clear Marijuana charge costs youth $125 At the regular March meeting, Hay township clerk Wayne Horner was authorized to call tenders for materials for reconstruction of two and a half miles of road. Approximately 20,000 cubic yards of sand cushion will be needed for concession Road 5 and 9 for a two and a half mile distance north of Highway 83. Because previous com- mitments had been made, warble fly spraying will continue this year despite withdrawal of provincial support. William Watson will be han- dling the spraying operation with a charge of 18 cents per head per spraying. Wilfred Mousseau is the inspector and will receive $2.50 per hour and 15 cents per mile travelling allowance. A petition was received from' Harold Jones and Jake Hovius for a clean-out of the upper portion of the Black Creek municipal drain. The McAdams-Dietrich drain was provisionally adopted. Adoption of the Bender drain bylaw was delayed to allow further investigation. The proposed road expenditure budget was set after receiving subsidy figures from the Ontario Transportation and Com- munications department. The provincial subsidy on $38,800 construction costs will be $20,600 while expenditures of $93,400 on maintenance will return $47,300. Road superintendent Karl Haberer will attend the C. S. Anderson road school at the University of Guelph, May 7 - 10, General accounts were ap- proved in the amount of $4,942.87, drain accounts totalled $472.80 and road accounts were $3,992.46. Police search for east coast woman Exeter police have asked this newspaper to assist in learning the whereabouts of Miss Barbara Chapman, 77 Pitt St., St. John, N.B. If the woman is in the Exeter area, she is asked to contact the local police, They are also attempting to locate the owner of a man's wrist watch found on Main St. near John on Thursday, The owner may claim it at the police station. The case was one of four heard by Judge Hays this week. James Paul Morrissey, Credi ton, was fined $30 for having liquor in a place other than his residence. Five bottles of beer were found on the front seat of a car stuck in an Exeter laneway and it was spotted by police when they called a tow truck to remove the vehicle. James Rader, Stratford, was fined $35 for consuming liquor while under the age of 18. In the final case, Roy W. Swart, Seaforth, was fined $15 and costs of $3 for speeding at a rate of 45 in a 30 m.p.h. zone on Highway 84 An Exeter youth was fined $125 when he pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana before Judge Glenn Hays in Exeter court, Tuesday. Daniel P. Laing was charged after being stopped by Exeter police on December 25, A plastic container with a substance in it was turned over to the RCMP and an analysis showed the substance to be marijuana. The court learned there was only a small amount of the drug in the container and that the accused was not under the in- fluence of drugs at the time he was apprehended. The annual Open House at Centralia College of Agricultural Technology will be held Wed- nesday and Thursday, March 22 and 23. This year's Open House puts the emphasis on "College — A Pattern for the Future." The exhibit areas will be open Wednesday from 1.00 p.m. to 9 p,m. and 10.00 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Three home economic demonstrations will be held each day. Featured will be "Do it in a Flash with a Blender," A Little Bit More to Oranges" and "The Wonderful World of Spices and Herbs." A fashion show will be held at Huron Hall Wednesday night at eight o'clock and Thursday af- ternoon at two o'clock. A Thursday night dance at Huron Hall will wind up the two- day event. • Area clergymen differ on abortion, drug topi cs • The Times-Advocate begins a new series of interviews with district clergy on controversial questions of the day. This week's opinions are offered by Rev. Jack Roeda, Christian Reformed Church, Exeter; Rev. Austin Gedcke, Pentecostal Tabernacle, Exeter and Rev. Bruce Guy, Dashwood United Church. The ministers indicated they would appreciate any 'feed back' the readers would care to make. hatred is to make it almost im- possible for him to develop into a real person. Unless you, in your home are able and willing to share love and security with a child who will not receive it from his natural parents then you should have very little to say about abortion, unless you are asked for your opinion by someone needing to make a decision about it. chemically induced means — a pill for every occasion. certain communities ex- perimenting with it. Legalization? No! Pot may well be the most dangerous drug used today in North America. Quoting Rev. David Wilkerson, author of the Cross and The Switchblade, and Director of Teen Challenge in New York City, from 10 years of counselling with problem youth, "90 percent pupils of the eyes and retards muscle response. Further, it tends to increase laziness and anti-social attitudes, eliminates inhibitions, reduces judgment, gives one a feeling of greater capability than he ac- tually has, confuses his sense of time and space. The real danger of marijuana is the very fact that it is con- of all the drug addicts we have ever treated began with marijuana and then graduated to something harder". Consider the effects of marijuana. It becomes an opener for other drugs, paves the way to alcoholism and drug addiction, destroys moral values (especially sex standards), quickens heart action, dilates the sidered relatively harmless by many. Some may view it not to be addictive, but it certainly is "habituating or habit-forming" and leads many youth to the' inevitable — experimentation with other drugs that break minds and, bodies. Question: What stand does your church take on the question of abortion and do you support this stand? A. Mr. Guy: I believe that marijuana should be legalized. This does not mean that I recommend its use. The No. 1 drug problem continues to be alcohol, causing loss of life, family upsets and property damage. Yet citizens may legally purchase and consume this drug in many different forms, But anyone found guilty of possessing marijuana is a criminal, with a criminal record. This, to me, is a "double standard" with all its evils and conflicts. However, the use of "escape" drugs is not really the problem but only that particular in- dividuals attempt to find a solution for his problem, That problem usually is loneliness and frustration. If a person can be offered real love and acceptance, affirming his worth as a person, this solves the problem Of loneliness and frustration better than anything else, I have little faith in the authority of law to make persons "good", I find I must express gratitude to the friends who have loved and Accepted me And helped to make me a person with less loneliness and frustration, intentional use of abortion as a matter of birth control is morally undesirable and that bringing an unwanted child into the world is irresponsible." My own position on abortion is close to the above position. I believe that every child has the right to be wanted and loved. We should be at least as concerned with the development of the person after his birth as before it. It is a fact that a person must have love, some security, and warmth of social contact in order to develop into a real person and that most persons develop in direct proportion as these basic needs are met. To bring a -child into a situation where the main feelings are hostility, rejection, fear and Question; Should Marijuana Be Legalized? • Mn Roeda: At this point in time, the question is difficult to answer. I say difficult because as you know, in making any moral or ethical decision, the facts and circumstances must be known before a decision can be made. And from my reading on the subject, I gather that the facts about the effects of marijuana are anything but clear. I should think that before marijuana is legalized it should be quite clearly established that it can cause no real harm to the individual nor will threaten the general well-being of society. I might add that I think that the penalties for users should be less severe, Personally, I find marijuana repulsive because it charac- terizes in a More extreme way a sickness hi our society to escape the frustrations of living through Mr. Gedcke: The official position of our Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada on this delicate subject has been clearly established during the past few years. We strongly disagreed with the position of Government on abortion, and tabled such protests at conferences and also through petition. We stand opposed to abortion on demand. We further do not feel that a prospective mother or even a team of physicians can justly make decisions affecting that unborn child. Indeed, they may make a wise decision in terms of the mother's state of being; but still, it places them as judges over the unborn. We recognize the value and full quality of each life, be it young or old or even yet 'unborn. Life begins at conception', and in our opinion such life is hureart should therefore be treated as human life, with every effort made for preservation of such life. At the 'same time, we agree — Please turn to page 8 Thieves strike Henson ()gain Mr. Guy: The position of the United Church of Canada on abortion, as stated by the Twenty-Fourth General Council is summarized thus: "We recognize — 1. The value of the foetus; 2. The right of the child to be wanted; but nevertheless affirm that abortion is morally justifiable in certain medical, social and economic circumstances, and recognizes that an abortion should be a private matter bet- ween a woman and her doctor. "Therefore we call on the Canadian Government to remove from the present Criminal Code all sections relating to abortion; and enact penalties for people who perform abortions without the medical qualifications required for that purpose. "We urge the avoidance of judgmental pressures and request the initiation of discussions of mere and legal issue, of abortions with persons of differing views, "We further recognize that the OPP Constable Al Quinn is investigating a theft at Hensall this week. Terry Mattson, reported that an eight-track stereo player, along with two speakers and in tapes were removed from his ear. Value of the equipment was set at $115. A flag was also stolen from the J. A, D. McCurdy school at Huron Park, but it was later recovered and charges are pending against a juvenile. Constable Prank Giffin in- vestigated. FIRST IN A SERIES oit INTEAVIEWS with area clergy begins this week in the Times-Advocate. Ministers will discuss controversial questions of the day, Above, Women's Editor Mrs. Gwyn Whilsmith, talks with Rev. Jack Roeda, rixeter Christian Reformed Church; Rev. Austin. Gedcke, Exeter Pentecostal Tabernacle, and Rev. truce Gay, Dashwood United Church. T-A photo Mr. Gedcke: Should marijuana be legalized is a "very timely question, considering we are living in the "Marijuana Geeeration", With up to 50 percent of youth hi $