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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-01-11, Page 1DOWN THEY GO Adults and animals joined with children in enjoying activities at Morrison Dam Sunday afternoon. Above, Gary Balsdon and his dog Bubbles head down the slopes on a toboggan. Below, Greg O'Toole is ready for a flying saucer ride, T-A photo Hay okays boosts for all employees 411 4}1.0, t. Ott ,P41:4 A VISIT TO THE PET SHOP — Grade tnreJ1 students of Exeter Public School visited Pat's Pet Shop Monday afternoon to look at the pets and purchase a gerbil. Taking a good look in the above picture eta parrot sitting on Harold Patterson's shoulder are Catherine Patterson, Brenda McDonald, Lorraine Warwick, Daryll Keller and Janice Cairns. T-A photo WINTER TRANSPORTATION — Sunday was a good day for good old fash.,:.,nea winter transportation and a group of List orno township youngsters took advantage of the opportunity. Above_ Scott and Heather Jamieson and V.. ,y Ptatt or,' roody to hood Out for spin with the jomieson's pony Charlie. T-A. photo At Stephen township council's hoped the water system for the inaugaral meeting for 1973, held west end of the township would be Thursday morning, Reeve approved this year and Joseph Dietrich advocated an the township waste disposal sites increase in the amount of get proper sanction, calcium put on township roads to Councillor Kenneth Campbell curtail dust, asked for more communication At the same time councillor between council members and Stephen Dundas suggested more ratepayers. rural roads should be paved to The council Was sworn in by solve the same problem. clerk Wilmer Wein and Rev. On the same theme deputy-, Douglas Warren of Crediton reeve Cecil Desjardine said he United church gave the group realized the provincial govern- guidance for the year in a short silent was short of funds for road address. work and said, "the time may Newly elected councillor David come when we will have to use McClure was absent for the more of our own money for morning part of the meeting but roads." arrived for the afternoon session Reeve Dietrich also said he and was sworn in. During regular council business, clerk Wein was in- structed to write Bluewater TV Cable asking that the proposed cable television service for the township be extended to include Credit= and Dashwood in ad- dition to Centralia and Huron Park. Larry Dobson was hired to handle the duties of supervisor at the township's waste disposal site at part of lot 3, concession 5. Dobson will receive $2.50 per hour. The dump in question will be open each day, Monday through Saturday from 9 a,m. to 5 p.m. The township dump on concession 15 is open each Wednesday and Saturday during the same hours with Percy Warden in charge. Clerk Wein was also instructed to call tenders for hauling of 22,000 cubic yards of gravel to township roads this year. The gravel is stockpiled at Prout's pit in Usborne township. The following appointments were made: Fence viewers - Harry Gielen, Bruce Shapton, Harry Sheppard, Ralph Weber. Stock valuators - Bruce Shapton, Jim Love. Pound keepers - Ervin Devine, Jim Love, Russ King, Walter Weber. Dog control of- ficer - Harvey Hillman. Pound keeper - Exeter Veterinary Clinic. Trench Inspector - Frank Mclsaac, Warble fly inspector - Joe Varley. Industrial manager - Joseph Dietrich. Drainage engineers - Gamsby and Man- nerow and C. P. Corbett Ltd. Auditor - A. M. Harper, Crediton Community Centre - Mrs. Harvey Hodgins, Mrs. Ross Krueger, William Averill, Lloyd Bender, Lorne Hodge, Gerald Dearing, Ken Campbell, Dave More calcium suggested for Stephen township roads Area reeves split in warden election. The salaries of several town- ship employees were raised at the January meeting of Hay township council Monday night. Road employees received an increase of 20 cents per hour; office staff, $10 per week; and the clerk Wayne Horner received a $600 raise, half of which is to be paid by Hay Telephone. Fence viewers, building in- spector and drainage inspector will all receive $2.40 per hour, plusmileage,while on the job, For 13 regular meetings, the Reeve is to receive $475, the Deputy Reeve, $425 and each councillor $400, In addition, each receives $18, in- cluding mileage, for special meetings. Several appointments were made at the meeting: stock evaluator, Herb Klopp; pound keepers, Ray Ingram, Herb Neeb, Larry Jacobe, Leonard Merrier, Wes Rader, Clare Geiger, Mel Gingerich, Harold Deichert; fence viewers, Lorne Chapman, Lloyd Walper, Roman Meidinger; to the Dashwood Community Centre Board, Reeve Joe Hoffman; to the Dashwood Recreation Board, councillor Lionel Wilder; weed inspector Alex Chesney; and returning officer is township clerk Wayne Horner. Township solicitors are Don- nelly and Murphy, and the auditor is A. M. Harper, Goderich. Louis Farwell is the building inspector and town drain inspector, The council of the township of Hay will act as the court of revision and drainage; signing officials are Wayne Horner and Reeve Hoffman. Deputy Reeve Campbell was appointed to the Exeter and area fire board, and Councillor Tinney will repreSent council on the Atiaable-13ayfield Conaervation Authority. Council made a motion'to apply to the Department of Tran- sportation and Communication for the final payment of the — Please turn to Page 3 McClure, Roy Gibson. Crediton Parks Board Gerald Schenk, Steve Dundas, Cecil Desjardine, Mrs, Lorne Hodge, Fred Bowers, Alf Smith, Jack Jesney, Allan Becker, Mrs, Charles Browning Jr. Centralia Centennial Centre Steve Dundas, Ken Campbell, Ken Hodgins, Earl Dixon, Ralph. Lightfoot, Mr, and Mrs. Lawrence Hirtzel, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Cronyn, Dashwood Athletic Field - Joseph Dietrich, George Tiernan, Bill Vandeworp, Bob Hoffman, Glenn Webb, Ervin Rader and one representative from Hay township, The next meeting of council will be held on January 16 at 7;30 p.m. with the first meeting of February slated for February 1 at 1:30 p.m. Playhouse aid totals $30,000 Work started Monday on a $50,000 project to improve the Huron Country Playhouse facilities at Grand Bend, in hopes that permanent facilities will be ready for the summer theatre season in 1974. A $30,000 local-initiatives grant has been approved by the federal government and private sup- porters of the rural playhouse "are well on the way" toward raising another $25,000, said artistic directorsof the Playhouse, James Melphy. - Ten Idea men's. headed carpenter-foreman Ron Desjardine, Dashwood, began the renovations Monday. At present, they are tearing down an old barn on Highway 21 about seven miles north of Grand Bend and will be using the materials from this barn to keep the authentic at- mosphere of playhouse. Their first job, said Mr. Murphy will be to winterize the barn, so they can work on it. This will involve fixing the roof and doors and windows. Varying numbers of workers will be employed on the project until the end of May. This work will still not com- plete the transformation of the old barn into a summer theatre, Mr. Murphy said. The Playhouse will operate out of a circus tent for a second year but it is hoped that the barn will be ready for performances by the summer of 1974. Most of the work on the barn will centre on the ground floor. The plywood partitions used to create dressing rooms and a makeshift art gallery in the former stable area last summer will be torn out and replaced by weathered boards purchased from the demolition of another barn on a nearby farm. Improvements will be made to the open-air bar under the overhang at the opposite end of the barn. Public restrooms will be built in to replace portable toilets used last summer. There will also be renovations to the farmhouse, which serves as living quarters for the actors during the summer season; a dormitory will be created in the upper storey of the drive shed and the office; and storage facilities on the shed's lower floor are being improved. The Playhouse season which lasted six weeks during its first summer, will be extended to eight weeks this year, Mr, Murphy said, The plays have not yet all been chosen, Kinsmen issue, beard challenge Exeter Kinsmen announced this Week they are sponsoring a beard growing contest for Exeter's centennial. Entrants may register with any of Exeter's barbers or a member of the Kinsmen Club before January 31, Judging Will be eonducted during the centennial celebrations in the first week of July. Prizes and categories are to be announced at a later date chairman John Snell reported. An Exeter man was fined $300 or 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to a charge of failing to remain at the scene of an ac- cident before Judge Glenn Hays in Exeter court, Tuesday, John Bregman was charged after two parked cars were side- swiped in Exeter on November 27. Total damage in the collisions was listed at $1,200 by police. The court learned that Bregman reported his in- volvement in the incident the day after. A fine of $150 or 15 days in jail was levied against Garry P. Voison, Ailsa Craig, after he was found guilty of causing a disturbance in a public place by using abusive language, He had pleaded not guilty to the charge. Crediton resident Norm Eveland testified he had been in the Stardust Drive-in Restaurant in Crediton on September 15 and the abusive language was directed at him by the accused over earlier incidents, relating to a money matter and the fact Eveland had reported the ac- cused for squealing tires on a Crediton Street, He said the abusive language was hurled at him for about five minutes. Another witness told the court there were both men and women in the restaurant at the time. Samples of the abusive language used by Voisin were written out and handed to the Judge at Tuesday's court. He said the obscenities used would nauseate most men, let alone women, They were termed "utterly sickening" by Judge Hays, who warned the accused theta second offence would mean a long jail term. Another Ailsa Craig man, Colin Brewer, was fined $30 for failing to report an accident in which he was involved on September 21 in Stephen, His vehicle ran off the road and struck a fence and it was not reported until the following day. His Car Was extensively damaged, with police estimating it at $1,000, Brewer said he called the Exeter 01'P after the accident but could not reach them until the following day. In other cases heard by Judge - Please turn In Page 3 Grand Bend was one of several area communities receiving grants under the federal government's Local Initiative program better known as Winter Works. Reeve John J. Payne Sr. received a telephone call from Ottawa Wednesday morning of last week saying $55,000 of federal funds had been allocated to Grand Bend. Payne moved swiftly and by Thursday a supervisor and 15 men had been hired and are now working on the beginning of nine projects outlined in an earlier application to Ottawa. In the first days of the project workmen are engaged in clearing the banks along the river and removing the short posts along the beach on the west side of government road, Other activities expected to be completed with these funds which are provided for labour only are complete a vehicle turn-around at the west end of main street, new beach fences, beach house showers, new Government Road lighting, graded parking lot, washroom facilities for visiting boaters, picnic area, tennis courts and washroom facilities at Salaries were set at the first meeting of 1973 of Usborne council held at the township hall in Elimville hall, Thursday. An increase of $50 across the board was granted to all mem- bers of council. Reeve Lloyd Ferguson's stipened was raised to $550 per year, the new position of deputy-reeve created this year and which is being filled by former councillor Walter McBride pays 500 and each of the councillors will get $450 per year. The councillors are Bill Morley, Jack Stewart and Gordon Johns. The salary of clerk-treasurer and tax collector Harry Strang was set at $8,000; road superintendent John Batten Roy Pattison, Reeve of East Wawanosli, was elected Warden- of Huron County after four ballots, Tuesday. It was the first time since 1919 that the township had been favored with the warden's post, Pattison narrowly wen the battle with a 28-26 margin over Hullet Reeve Hugh Flynn. It was the second attempt at the war- denship for both men. Pattison having lost in a bid last year and Flynn the year before. There were five candidates in Tuesday's race. Harold Lobb of Clinton was ousted on the first ballot Bayfield's Oddleifson followed on the second and Everett Mcllwain of Goderie,h Township was dropped on the third. Pattison has been involved in municipal politics for 25 years. After serving on school board, he joined council in 1960 and became the village recreation property near the Legion. Reeve Payne was • criticized severely at Monday's meeting of council for his personal handling of the winter works program. In reply, Payne said time was of the essence and if he had not rushed the program the grant would not have been received. Councillor Murray Des Jardins accused Payne of "jumping the gun" by signing his name as reeve to all the correspondence when the Chamber of Commerce is to be the sponsoring body. In defending his position Payne said, "this is the greatest thing that's ever happened to Grand Bend. We will never have this chance again." After considerable discussion, new councillor Bob Sharen proposed a motion to turn over all organization of the winter works program to a committee to be formed by the Chamber of Commerce. Sharen added, "We know now it had to be done this way, but let's get it more organized. The C of C steering committee can handle the program but should make a — Please turn to Page 3 receives $8,820 per year and the custodian of the township hall will get $250. Casual labour will be paid at the rate of s$2 per hour and an increase of 20 cents per hour was granted to the road department employees. The sanitary in- spector will receive $5.50 per week in car expenses and dog tax collector George Frayne will be paid at the rate of $1 per dog. Councillor Bill Morley advised council the Kirkton-Woodham Community Centre project was being held up because of lack of final approval from officials of the Local Initiatives Program, Road Superintendent John Batten was instructed to Call for tenders for 1073 gravel at the a member of county council Silt years ago. Area reeves and deputy-reeves were split in their support, many of them jumping from one can- didate to another as the balloting continued. Exeter Reeve Derry Boyle apparently had the most trouble making up his mind. He split his two votes on the final ballot. Supporting the winner in the final ballot from this area were Joe Dietrich, Stephen; Lloyd Ferguson and Walter McBride, Usborne; Anson McKinley and Cal Iferton, Stanley. Supporting Flynn were; Helen Jerrun, Exeter; Joe Hoffman and Harold Campbell, Hay; Cecil Desjardine, Stephen; John Baker, Hensall; Elgin Thompson and Ervin Sillery, Tuckersmith. On the first two ballots, Baker supported Pattison and then on the next two he switched his support to Flynn. Boyle ended up casting votes for four of the five candidates. On the first he gave two votes to Oddleifson and on the second switched them to Flynn. His ballots on the third go-round went to Mcllwain and on the fourth they were split between the final two contestants. There are a total of 17 new faces on county council this year, seven of them being deputy- reeves from municipalities which previously did not have members in this capacity. Exeter's Helen Jerrnyn is the only female member of council, the first to sit in Goderich since Hensall's Minnie Noakes. Most of the warden candidates stuck to a similar theme during their pre-election statements to council, calling for more em- phasis on county-wide planning and cooperation among municipalities. Mcllwain said the "traditional rivalry between municipalities will have to be done away with if the county is to prosper. If the county prospers, so does each municipality". Mr. Oddleifson, a staunch supporter of Huron County developing on its own, urged councillors to fight against "being swallowed by the regional government amalgamation plans of the province". Named to the striking com- mittee to bripg in the committee list for the year were the Warden, Wilmer Seaforth; Frank Cook, Clinton; Gerry Ginn, Goderich Township; John Baker, Hensall; and Cecil Desjardine, Stephen. Accident victim out of hospital Doris Webb of RR 2, Dashwood returned to her home Monday from St Joseph's Hospital in London. She was injured in an accident near Lucan December 30 in which William Donald Gilbert of Ailsa Craig was killed, February meeting, A borrowing bylaw with a limit of $100,000 was approved. Tax collector Strang reported $291,481.02 or 94.6 per cent of the 1972 taxes had been received. A grant of $25 to the Huron Plowman's Association was approved and memberships in the Ontario Good Roads Association, Ontario Association of Rural Municipalities and Ontario Drainage Association were renewed. Councillors McBride and Morley were re-appointed to the Exeter and area fire board, General accounts amounting to a total voucher of $20,922.23 in- cluding four tile drainage loans were approved for payment. A SKATING CHAIR — A chair is very helpful for a beginner skating lesson as Robbie and Dove Russell find out at Friday's parents and tots skating session at the Exeter arena. T-A photo Driver pays $300 for leaving accident Louise Clipperton Resort appoints woman as clerk Positions in the Grand Bend village office will change as of February 1. The resignation of clerk Mrs. Gladys Crumplin was accepted by village council Monday night. Her assistant for the past year and a half Louise Clipperton will assume the clerk's position. Mrs. Crumplin who listed health reasons in her written resignation said she would be willing to carry on for sometime to assist the new clerk. Mrs. Clipperton will receive $6,000 per year with council agreeing to review the salary scale at the end of six months and giving an increase of $300 per annum at that time. Resort gro in federal Ninety-Eighth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, JANUARY 11, 1973 Price Per Copy 20 Cents s get $85,000 vernment aid GB council gets $55,000 Council okays pay boost for selves and employees