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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-06-29, Page 1SCOTTISH DANCERS — A pair of Exeter girls qualified recently to appear in the amateur division of the Kirkton Garden Party slated for July 19. Shown above in a version of their sword dance are Wanda Newby and Brenda Murray. T-A photo Little effect as yet from hydro strike DOCTOR KILLED — A Goderich psychologist, Dr, Ranjit Roy was killed in a two,car collision ire Hensall, Saturday night. The Roy car is shown in the above picture. T-A photo Ninety-eighth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, JUNE 29, 1972 PULLING FOR FRIEDSBURG DAYS — Everyone in the village of Dashwood is pulling together to make this weekend's FriedsburgDays a success as the fellows in the above picture demonstrate. Hubert Miller, George Tieman and Paul Watson are ready to provide the automation for publicity chairman Marie Tieman and food committee chairman Charles Martene. T-A photo Dashwood tug-of-war test to feature north champs CANNER FOREMAN HONORED Monday morning, Morley Phillips, a maintenance foreman with the Canadian Canners plant in Exeter was honored with a 25-year service award. Above, operations manager for Canadian Canners C. E. Fillmore presents Phillips with a watch. Next in the picture are district supervisor J. W. Farley and local plant manager Jack Urquhart. T-A photo 1 Local strike action by unionized employees of Ontario Hydro has been confined to off hours. "Our supervisory staff have taken care of all but one trouble call after hours since strike • activity began last Wednesday," said Walter Palmer, manager of the Clinton area office. In cue clearly defined emergency near Winthrop, union members responded to the call for assistance through their steward. • Hydro's transmission and distribution systems were so far unaffected by direct strike ac- tion, although supervisory personnel worked long hours last week to restore service after storms associated with Hurricane Agnes swept the province. The 12,000 member local 1000 Canadian Union of Public Employees has been in a legal strike position since June 21. The union has withdrawn overtime and on-call duty as part • of its strike action and has picketted work locations across Ontario, The Clinton area staff totals 46, five of which are supervisory personnel. There has been no progress at the bargaining table since the • ministry of labor temporarily suspended talks on the eve of the strike. "When talks were suspended, CUPE was asking for im- provements in wages and benefits which would add $40 • million to Hydro's annual operating costs," said Mr. Palmer, A Goderich doctor was killed early Saturday evening when he was involved in a violent two-car crash just south of the main in- tersection in Hensall, Dr, Ranjit K, Roy, 45, chief psychologist at Goderich Psychiatric Hospital, was dead on arrival at South Huron Hospital, The driver of the other gar, Bruce L. Vincent, 18, Gidley' St., Exeter, is in satisfactory condition in St, Joseph's Hospital, London, where he was taken for treatment of a fractured skull and a fractured right arm. A passenger in the Vincent car, Anthony MacDonald, RR 1 Hensall, was released after treatment for a laceration to his nose, OPP Constable Frank Giffin reported that Dr. Roy was proceeding south on Highway 4 when he overtook a car being driven in the same direction by Charles Schwalm, Hensall, In attempting to avoid smashing into the rear of the vehicle, the Goderich Man swerved and his car went out of control and was hit broadside by the northbound Vincent car. Both cars were demolished and total property damage was listed at $4,000, Dr. Roy worked at the Goderich hospital for a year and a half before going back to England in 1971. He returned last April and his wife and son Were planning to take up residence in Goderich on July 11, They reside in London, England, The fetal trash occurred around 7;30 p.m, It was one of eight accidents The Commission's offer of wage and benefit improvements would total $17,470,000 annually. Mr. Palmer said that the last contract agreement between the two parties had increased Hydro's annual operating costs by $17,372,000. Prepare books to secure names Exeter's centennial committee met for a brief session this week, with members noting that in exactly one year, the event will be at hand. The celebration is planned from June 29 to July 7. The women's auxiliary of the R. E. Pooley branch Legion announced they would soon be placing books at local and area outlets in which people can write the names and addresses of former residents, Early in 1973, letters will be sent to these people inviting them "home" to mark the com- munity's 100th birthday. At the meeting, a letter was read from Canada's Solicitor- General, the Hon. Jean-Pierre Goyer, advising that Exeter was being considered as among the communities where the RCMP musical ride or band may appear in 1973. The RCMP will also mark their centennial next year and the committee had written Mr. Goyer requesting that Exeter be included on the tour of the force's special groups who are planning extensive public appearances. investigated by the Exeter OPP detachment officers during the past week, Three Parkhill area men were injured in an unusual accident at 11:00 p.m., Friday. They were riding in a small car being towed behind a panel truck driven by Richard L. Dietrich, RR 3 Dashwood. The car apparently hit a rough spot in the road,, jumped the tow chain and rolled over in the ditch. James Pickering, RR 3 A proposed move by the Middlesex County Board of Education has brought a wave of protest from ratepayers in McGillivray township, Close to 100 McGillivray school supporters attended a meeting at the Central school last week when Middlesex director of Education John A. Gummow revealed plans to move grade seven and eight pupils from the feeder elemen- tary schools in McGillivray East and West Williams, Ailsa Craig and Parkhill Memorial to North Middlesex High School in Parkhill. uummow said the board has presented written plans to the Department of Education so that they can allocate funds for the project. However, there have been no building plans proposed as yet. The move, which has been under study since 1969, would mean that the five schools in question would become junior elementary schools, and the grade VII and VIII students would be integrated into the high school, The board hopes to im- plement the move by September 1973. The purpose of the move, said Mr. Gummow, is to make ad- ditions to Parkhill high school feasible, and to provide the junior students with specialized facilities such as shop, and home economics to which they do not have access now, There is not a large enough school population now at the secondary school to warrant additions, he said. However, with the additional number of grade VII and VIII students, several new facilities will be made available, Included in the new addition would be a gymnasium, with the present gym being converted into a library-resource centre. The only library at the secondary school now is in a small room which is still used as a classroom. There would also be technical shops, boys and girls occupational facilities, a music and theatre arts classroom, an art room and other regular classrooms. The move would also allow the public schools, to expand their facilities, without making ad- ditions necessary, said Mr, Gummow. Some of the schools do not now have any or inadequate kindergarten, library or general purpose rooms. With the extra space that would be available, he said, these facilitieS would be at hand for the elementary students too. Some of the parents whose children might be involved in the change, are not in favor, however. At a public meeting held last week in McGillivray school, attended by some of the county board members, parents objected to the move, saying they didn't want their young children exposed to the older students in the same building, Some preferred the idea of an addition to McGillivray school itself, This is not a satisfactory solution, said Mr. Gummow. "If we don't make some move like this now, we will have to do something to improve conditions in the five feeder schools. We just haven't got the elementary population to warrant additions Parkhill, suffered a broken leg and two others, Stuart Brown and Larry McCarthy, both of RR 8 Parkhill, sustained cuts and bruises. Constable Dale Lamont in- vestigated. Last Wednesday, a Dashwood lady sustained cuts and bruises following a two-vehicle collision on Highway 81 south of the Crediton Road, Doreen Thurman was operating a car involved in a to each School. It is much.cheaper to make one big addition in one place, than to have to make five small ones," he said. He said that although the younger students would not be in a separate wing of the high school, they would have their own classrooms, He added that it would also allow much more leeway for subject promotion. For example, an extremely bright student in one subject would be able to move to a grade IX level in that area of study. The reverse would also be, true. A grade IX student who needed extra training in a certain area Liquor offences and minor traffic charges constituted the majority of cases heard by Judge Glenn Hays at Exeter court, Tuesday. He was again critical of ac- cused persons asking for time to pay their fines when in fact they had money with which to pur- chase liquor, Robert Houston, Ailsa Craig, had been fined $30 for having liquor in a place other than his residence, and was admonished by Judge Hays when he asked for time to pay the fine. A fine of $30 was also levied against David Russell Graham, Huron Park, for having liquor in a place other than his residence, Paying similar $30 fines on the same charge were Ronald Kenneth Vanstone, Hensall; Raymond Gordon Keller, Dash- wood; Donald Budd, Clinton; and Michael Fitzmaurice, London, A London man, Charles H. Daines, was fined $100 after Huron population shows decrease According to a cehsus of the eight counties regarded as constituting western Ontario, Huron was the only one to register a decline. The census taken by Statistics Canada between 1966 and 1971 showed that the Huron County population had slipped from 54,446 to 52,951. Middlesex was the pacesetter being the only one to exceed the provinces average growth rate of 10.7 percent. The county which contains the city of London, reported a total population of 282,014 an increase of 32,611 in the five year period and a growth rate of 13.1 percent, crash with a truck driven by Richard Fletcher, Mt. Brydges. Mrs. Thurman was taken to South Huron Hospital Constable Bob Whiteford in- vestigated and listed damage at $1,100. On Thursday, a car driven by Elsborg Jensen, London, skidded out of control on Highway 4 north of Exeter and struck a natural gas breather pipe. Total damage was listed at $325 by Constable Ed Wilcox. would be able to move back to get it. Mr. Gummow had no idea of the cost of such a project, because no building plans have been made. He said that at the present time, however, the capital costs for new schools and/or new additions is financed by 90 percent government grant and 10 percent by the ratepayers, One of the persons objecting to the move at last weeks' meeting was Roy Cunningham, who was chairman of the last McGillivray township school board. The area is now represented on the county board by Jack Murdy of Lucan. pleading guilty to a charge of careless driving. He ran off the road in Stephen Township on April 21 and struck a road sign. Judge Ilays dismissed careless driving charges against Brian M. Hodgins, Parkhill, and Donald Roy Dietrich, Dashwood. Both had been involved in single car accidents. Hodgins went into the 'ditch on Highway 83 west of Dashwood. His car was damaged beyond repair and he was hospitalized. He told the investigating officer he must have gone to sleep and could not recall anything since leaving Dashwood. Dietrich, who also went into the ditch stated he applied his brakes and found something was not right and began skidding, causing the accident. The investigating officer reported skid marks of 200 feet on the pavement and 65 more on the shoulder of the road, A quantity of beer was found in the car. In other cases: John Raymond Moir, Hensall, was fined $70 and costs for travelling at a speed of 85 m.p.h. on June 1 in Tuckersmith Trnship. John Warywoda, Exeter, paid a fine of $40 for failing to yield the right of way while entering High- way 4 from the Crediton Road on May 27. He was involved in an accident at the intersection. Frank Dubarry, Huron Park, was fined $50 for travelling at speeds up to 90 m.p.h. on April 28. He was charged after passing a car being driven by OPP Con- stable Dale Lamont, Hugh J. McLachlan, Woodham, was fined $20 for failing to yield the right of way. Joseph R. Edward, Stratford, was fined $50 for speeding at a rate of 80 m.p.h. Albert W. Aitken, Melbourne, was fined $20 for having no red lights on the rear of his trailer. He also investigated a crash on Saturday when cars driven by James Davis, London, and George Demelo, London, collided on Highway 4 north of Exeter. There were no injuries and damage was set at $1,700. At 10:00 p,m., Sunday, a car driven by Harvey Tweddle, RR 3 Ailsa Craig, struck a parked car owned by Chester Mitton, RR 2 Crediton, The mishap occurred on the parking lot at the Stardust Restaurant in Crediton and Constable Wilcox listed damage at $100. Early Sunday morning, a hit and run was reported in Hensall. A car owned by Swaby Williams was hit while parked in front of his Xing St. residence, Damage was set at' $210 by Constable Bill Lewis, Williams had just purchased the 1972 model vehicle to replace his car which was wrecked in an accident at Centralia two weeks ago, The Other crash of the week happened at 11:00 p.m„ Satur- day, when a car driven by Pia Scholl, RR, 2 New Hambufg, went through the intersection at Highways 83 and 21 and tore up a portion of fence and lawn at the OWItC Lake Huron Water Supply System. Constable Lewis reported only miner damage to the car, During the past week the of- ficer 'charged 13 persons under the Highway Traffic Act and issued warnings to another 22 drivers„ There were two charges under the Criminal Code. In an interview with the P-A this week Cunningham said, "The majority of people in McGillivray don't agree with what is going on. Not one in the large crowd voiced any opinion in favour and this included parents with children that have not started school as yet. The main objection appears to be that the grade seven and eight youngsters are too young to at- tend classes in the same school with students ranging in age up to 19 years. Cunningham went on to say, "One thing I think is wrong is the difference in discipline between Dashwood's Friedsburg Days could blossom into the site of the Ontario tug-of-war cham- pionship. This year's event will see the best from three area counties participating and there's no telling where the competition could go from there. Organizers of this weekend's celebration report that a tug-of- war team from Cargill will be on hand. They're the declared Bursary started to honor teacher The English department at South Huron District High School announced this week they would institute a bursary award in memory of a former staff member, Mrs. Claude (Mary) Farrow, Mrs, Farrow taught at the school for 13 years and headed the department for five. She died in December of 1971 after suffering burns in her apartment when a garment she was wearing ignited on a stove. Bruce Shaw, head of the department, said several people have enquired at the school to see if a memorial was being set up. He said contributions for the fund would be welcomed and details can be secured from staff member Clay Murray or at the school. The award would consist of an academic shield and cash award to a member of the grade 13 graduating class. elementary and high schools. We think we are getting goad results at our own school and don't want our kids experimented with." The former board chairman added, "If they go ahead with this building program at Parkhill they may forget about our school. If there is a building program, it should be at McGillivray." "The McGillivray and East Williams schools were some of the first Central schools built. Our buildings were almost paid for when we joined the county system and since then our ratepayers have helped to pay for numerous gyms and libraries champs of Bruce and Grey Counties. Their main opposition will come from the Shipka Bulldogs, defending champs of Friedsburg Days. Cliff Russell's team has also won other laurels in the district and is unquestionably the best team in Huron County. Two other entries are expected. Jack Guenther is recruiting a Dashwood team and it is hoped the semi-finalists from last year, the Federation of Agriculture, will have regained their strength for a repeat performance. The pulls take place on Saturday at 4:30 and the final going at 7:00, Other sporting attractions have also been finalized. Mt. Carmel and Shipka will face each other in a softball game Friday night, while on Saturday night the Lieury all-stars will tackle the Hensall all-stars. A horseshoe pitching contest will be conducted throughout Saturday afternoon. Those tasty sauerkraut with ribs or sausage dinners will be served throughout the two-day event, starting on Friday at 5:00 p.m. and continuing through to Saturday midnight. Practically every able-bodied resident of the village will be working at the event in some capacity, ranging from bar tenders to cooks. Mrs. Charles Tiernan said the committee was looking for a couple of extra helpers at their meeting Monday and had trouble which we don't have at McGillivray." Echoing the sentiments ,of Cunningham was Kelly Robin- son, MeGilliVray'S represen- tative on the Parkhill high school board for seven years. Robinson said, "I'm very concerned about this. These children from the country areas are too young to go to a big school. The more school board officials talked about the move at the recent meeting, the more became opposed to it." He added, "With the way school enrollment is diminishing, — Please turn to Page 3 finding as person who wasn't already active. Two bands will perform in Saturday afternoon's parade. The Lambton Shriners Oriental Band will be present in addition to the Zurich Citizens' Band, Street dances will be held both nights and the New Dundee German band will be present to entertain diners. Special guests are expected to be on hand. Invitations have been extended to two families who are descendents of the Frieds Brothers who settled in the village and gave it its first name. Friedsburg was later changed to Dashwood because of a duplication with another com- munity. Stanfield to visit Huron next week Opposition Leader Robert Stanfield will tour part of Huron County next week. The tour was announced by Huron MP Robert McKinley. Mr. Stanfield will tour Dominion Road Machinery in Goderich on Wednesday and this will be followed by a reception at Goderich. Following the reception, the Progressive Conservative leader will be on a radio broadcast from CKNX Wingham and tape an interview for a TV show. Thursday he will travel to 'Kincardine for a tour of Bruce County. McGillivray parents op ose Money for liquor: have some for fine Several injured in area mishaps Goderich man dies in collision Price Per Copy 20 Cents