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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-02-15, Page 1:eat-V,-_,41ee.a5V!Wtl CROWNING OF THE QUEEN — The chores of crowning the new Snow Queen of the Kirkton-Woodham Winter Carnival fell to last year's winner. Above, Brenda Parkinson places the crown on 1973 Queen Diane Walker T-A photo Stephen names two for inspection work One Hundred and First Year EXETER, ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 15, 1973 Price Per Copy 20 Cents ARMS CROSSED FOR LUCK — With arms crossed for luck, newly acclaimed NDP candidate Paul Carroll stands talking to the NDP provincial party leader, Stephen Lewis, left and his nominator, Sandi Profit, Goderich. Mr. Carroll is a Goderich elementary schopl teacher and will carry the NDP banner in the March 15 Huron by-election. T-A photo Nee4 not answer Exeter's RAP committee Went almost an hour Monday night discussing the need for youth activities and facilities in the community, but held the matter in abeyance until . the next meeting or until "someone Comes along to help the kids." The discussion started when chairman Gord Baynham asked member Bruce Shaw what the fate of the Big Toe coffee house was, "It's uttering its dying gasps," Shaw replied. Last week, the Huron County Health Unit advised the facility would be closed down unless proper washroom and heating requirements were provided, Shaw said it was difficult to estimate the value of such a facility for the young people of the community. According to some active members and adult supervisors there was a benefit, while others questioned what was being accomplished. "Some good kids were in- volved," he continued, adding that the adult supervisor, Fred Simmons Jr., was quite sincere, However, Simmons has left the community to take a position in Toronto and Shaw said this was a real loss to the operation of the coffee house. Shaw suggested a type of teen town organization was needed in the community so young people could channel their energies and enthusiasm into worthwhile projects and activities. Baynham explained that RAP had a responsibility to provide for the need, if there was a need. "I don't know how to channel their interests," Shaw replied, adding that the organizers of the coffee house had an uphill battle in that endeavour due to a lack of encouragement from the com- munity. Other members joined the discussion to point out that few people wanted to undertake any responsibility in organizing teen activities because they did not know what the young people wanted or feared they did not have the leadership qualities required for the job. Reeve Derry Boyle also noted there was a problem in providing a proper facility. He said later in the meeting that perhaps the present town hall could become a centre for youth and senior citizen activities in the future if the town vacated the building. "It may sound like a cop-out," Shaw noted at the end of the discussion, when he suggested the matter would have to be tabled "until someone comes along to help the kids," "I don't know the solution," he admitted. FOOD FOR KIDS DAY Appetites of the many visitors this weekend for the Crippled Kids boy at Pineridge Cholet should b© well tekeri care of. Shown grinding up meat for mooseburgers are from the left, Ron Menlo, George Seer, Russ Tieman and Rots Veal. Citizens News photo a half hours over the incident. Anderson when the latter became Judge Hays admonished the sick. accused pair for depriving other While he was ill, his com- people of the protection of the constable. He noted a serious crisis or crime could have oc- curred and the police officer would not have been available. A Grand Bend man and one from Thedford were each fined Exeter OPP are investigating $150 after pleading guilty to a one theft and one act of van- charge of stealing money from dalism which occurred in the William Anderson on January 20. area this week. John Burley of Goderich also Over the weekend, two beer pleaded guilty to the charge but. bottles were tossed at a large 6' sentence was delayed until by 6' plate glass window at the February 21 pending his Making Bank of Montreal in Hensall. The restitution, window was broken with damage The court learned that John listed at $80. Pitnperton, Grand Bend, and Constable Don Mason is in- Joey Ronald Murray, Thedford, vestigating, had made restitution for their Richard Bedard, Zurich area 'part in the incident, builder, reported the theft of $150 Evidence indicated all three worth of lumber from a site on accused persons had been Highway 84 between Zurich and drinking and were tiding with St. Joseph's. Bottle smashes window at bank Paul Carroll, a 28-year-old Goderich elementary school teacher, was acclaimed as the New Democratic Party's can- didate in the March 15 Huron riding byelection at a party convention in Clinton Monday. In his acceptance speech, Mr, Carroll said that of the five weekly newspapers serving the riding of Huron, one "continues to ignore us as a political entity", He went on to say that in 1971, the same paper changed, somewhat, but remained sceptical until the results of the provincial election were known. Mr, Carroll ran for the NDP in that election and polled 3,427 votes, or 20 percent of total ballots, This was just over 200 votes less than the Liberal Party and a rise of 10.1 percent for the NDP from the 1967 election. "We are now entering a by- election which will stop those same weekly editors and will still the smug smiles from secure Tories," said Mr. Carroll. • He said that "already, the Tories say there are no issues in Huron County" and called Premier William Davis "arrogant" and the PC's a "bureaucratic, autocratic type of Machines crash, youngster is hurt A nine year-old Exeter girl is in St. Joseph's Hospital London suffering internal injuries received in a snowmobile-car accident Saturday afternoon. Peter Raymond and daughter Catherine were riding a snowmobile on Waterloo Street at the intersection of Market when they were involved in a collision with a motor vehicle driven by Peter Jansen, RR 2, Brantford. Mr. Raymond was taken to South Huron Hospital and released the same day. Constable George Robertson estimated damages at $200. Plenty of food, activities for Crippled Kids days Ca rroll. s a ys N DP will still 'smug Tory smiles' realized, said Mr. Lewis, "they workable number. He said, responded in two predictable however, that the NDP's would ways." They put an arbitrary battle the Conservatives on their ceiling of a five percent increase "refusal to provide an adequate in hospital spending which, said tax base for the communities Mr. Lewis "will only affect the being regionalized and their hospital workers." The second refusal to consult the people step taken by the Conservatives .affected". was to cut back on the number of Mr. Lewis said the Con- hospital beds. "The only effect of servatives had "an obsession this measure might be to imperil with growth for growth's sake. the quality of health services in Everything that takes place in certain communities," he said. this province seems to be He also questioned the present predicated on what will serve government's approach to Metro Toronto best", he said and regional government. It is called the proposed Pickering "causing a sense of unease International Airport a "piece of through the province" he said. absurdity", "The NDP supports regional "There are traditions and government in principle," said communities outside of Toronto Mr, Lewis and added that there is that will not best be served by "inherent wisdom" in the con- what is best for Toronto," he cept of reducing - 900 continued. municipalities to a more — Please turn to page 3 government, responsive to the people only in times of crisis". Mr. Carroll said that one of the main issues is the distance which separates the people from the governmental process. "The barriers of distance between the people and this government must be removed," he said, The guest speaker at the meeting, provincial NDP party leader Stephen Lewis agreed with Mr, Carroll. He came down heavily on the Premier and on the Conservatives for "adjourning and convening legislature in such a cavalier manner". "They (the government) are distant. They have removed themselves from active in- volvement with the people at large," said Mr. Lewis, "Bill Davis agrees with government for the people, not with the people". Mr. Lewis said that some very important themes are beginning to emerge, including "the question of health costs and •the entire medical care insurance plan. "These basic issues around services to people are coming back into the political arena," he said. Mr, Lewis said that some very important themes are beginning to emerge, including "the question of health costs and the entire medical care insurance plan. "These basic issues around services to people are coming back into the political arena," he said. "The Tories only accepted it (health care legislation) because it brought $169 million into the province," said Mr. Lewis. And he charged that they made two great mistakes when they did adopt it. First of all, they placed all the services within the hospital, and were insensitive to the needs for community health centres and other services. The second mistake, he said, was that no constraints were put on the Ontario Medical Association fee structure. When these mistakes were of deteriorating RAP ponders problem The fifth annual Crippled Children's. Day at the .Pineridge Chalet near Hensall'proMises to be bigger and better than ever this year. The fun-filled weekend begins Friday night and con- tinues until late Sunday af- ternoon, Area snowmobile clubs are joining with the Pineridge folks in providing snowmobile parties, trail rides and free snowmobile rides for the children. The Exeter Saddle club is providing quiet horses for rides for children. Charlie Webber will Net over $1300 at local starve-in The final results of an effort by about 35 area young people have finally been tallied. The youngsters, who took part in a "starve-in" for Compassion of Canada in the fall netted $1,348.18, which will be used to assist orphan children around the world. In addition, three families have each formally sponsored a child. The starve-in was under the ..auspices of the South Huron -Youth for Christ and South Huron Reach Out. Gerald McAuley, one of the organizers predicted at the lime that they hoped to raise about $1,200. During the two-day effort, the young people were entertained by a local group and folk singers, and participated in various arts and crafts and seminars. "Compassion" is a charity organization in London run by Rev. Jim Sommerville, be on hand with his horse and sleigh. and the 'London IVICit1W Flying Club will be in operation Sunday afternoon with a demonstration of model flying. Dancing to the music of Joe Overholt will take over the spotlight Friday and Saturday nights. The Seaforth band will also be in attendance along with local entertainment provided by Bob and Danny Heywood, Joe Overholt and the Staffa Step Dancers. The Sunday morning program will again be highlighted by the popular pancake and sausage breakfast. CFPL's gourmet cook Bill Brady will again be on hand to display his culinary prowess along with the old Pineridge stand-bys Bob Baker and Russ Tieman. Sunday afternoon personalities from London, Wingham and Kitchener radio and TV stations will be ill attendance and will vie for lop honours in snowmobile races. London's 1973 Timmy will be in for (lie Sunday afternoon program. He is 12 year-old Duncan Minnis. To take care of the hungry appettites, plenty of moose burgers, venison burgers and hot roast moose sandwiches will be available. George Beer of the Pineridge reports 1,600 mooseburgers are ready to be put on the griddle. In addition six deer have been donated by Keith Lindsay, a former bank manager at Hensel] and now of Ingersoll and other Bank of Montreal managers at Hamilton, Toronto and North Bay. for each additional hour at any fire. Arnold McCann has been re- appointed as Stephen's building inspector and he will receive $10. for each permit. Lawrence Dietrich was named tile drainage and municipal drain inspector. He will be paid $3 per — Please turn to page 3 Two area youths were fined $300 each in Exeter court by Judge Glenn Hays, Tuesday, after pleading guilty to charges of public mischief by reporting a theft had been committed when it had not. Given the stiff fines, with an alternative of 30 days in jail each, were James Robert Randall, Huron Park, and Raymond Stuart Beaver, Exeter, They were charged on February 3 after Randall had hit a hydro pole while driving a vehicle owned by Beaver. When Randall reported the accident to the car owner, they decided to advise police the car had been stolen, OPP Constable Bill Glassford was sent on -a wild goose chase by being required to investigate the false theft, The court learned the constable was tied up for five and The Exeter arena is showing its age and Exeter's RAP com- mittee learned Monday night that required repairs and replacement over the next few years may add up to sizeable figures. After learning some of the grim details of the problems in the building built in 1936, there was a suggestion by some members that a new building would have to be considered in the immediate future, The debate started after RAP received drawings from the engineers who recently studied the building. While their original letter indicated the structure could be strengthened. ,,"ei.:.dnornically", the figure quoted in recent information set the price at $30,000. Arena Manager Alvin Willert also advised that new heaving was evident in the arena ice surface floor and he noted that the life of the piping under the floor was nearing its limit. The pipes have been in for close Usborne okays gravel contract Usborne township council has accepted the tender of a Stratford firm for the municipalitys' gravel contract for 1973. Jack Tanner Construction, RR 2, Stratford will crush and spread 15,000 cubic yards of gravel on township roads at. 96 cents per yard. This was the lowest of four tenders received and the ac- ceptance is subject to approval from the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Com- munications. Under the Provincial- Municipal Employment Incen- tive program, Usborne will receive $2,000 from the Ontario Subsidies branch to be used for site preparation of the new Kirkton-Woodham Community Centre. Approval was given to a land division application from Laverne Heywood at Lot 16, Concession 2. Road superintendent John Batten was named trench in- spector, to 20 years, and in some arenas they have had to be replaced after only, 15 years. He reported that one com- munity 'recently spent $70,000 replacing the floor in their arena. The lighting system is also deteriorating at the local facility and it was predicted it too was almost worn out and would have to be replaced. Member Jack Underwood noted as well that the compressor may soon have to be replaced as well. "You're not painting a very pleasant picture of our arena", Bruce Shaw stated early in the discussion, and when further preblema. Wgre,,cited he,aaked if Willert had "any other good news". "Let's fact it", the arena manager pointed out, "it's old and we've had the best years out of it", Willert said it would be possible for RAP to spend as much as $125,000 on the arena in the next five years and they would still have an old building. He suggested they should be thinking about conducting a lottery to build a new arena, cost of which was roughly estimated at up to $300,000 by Reeve Derry Boyle, RAP has spent over $25,000 in the past two years making renovations and additions to the structure. In the matter of the engineers' report on the structure, Firemen douse chimney blaze Exeter firemen quickly doused a chimney fire at the home of Lloyd McDonald RR 1, Hensall early Friday evening. The home is located on High- way 4, one and a half miles south of Hensall, Fire Chief Gary Middleton said there was no damage to the building, The fire siren rang on Tuesday at noon, but it was a false alarm, Workmen were hooking up the alarm system in the new fire hall and apparently activated the siren. arena Underwood noted that he might quarrel with a few of the recommendations made, but suggested most were "right on". He said RAP should ascertain how far the ministry of labor would require them to go in strengthening the building, He said the structure didn't appear to be in any danger of falling down and in fact it had withstood many heavy loads in the past. "We should see how far the ministry will make us go", he suggested. Chairman Gord Baynham agreed, adding RAP should drop the matter until a new MPP is electad for .Huron. RAP could then send a couple•of delegates to Toronto with the new member and discuss the matter with the ministry. panions stole his wallet con- taining $60.00. Judge Hays termed the affair "a sneaky, mean, cruel trick" and noted the three had given themselves criminal records. John Clark Webster, Zurich, was fined $125 or 12 days in jail after pleading guilty to a charge of causing a disturbance at the Club Albatross in Huron Park by shouting and using obscene language. He was charged following an incident on January 27. Although he levied a fine, Judge Hays said prior to his decision that it was becoming apparent that a jail term was the only way of treating such of- fences as there had been so many lately, Glen E. Thompson, RR 2, Ailsa Craig, was fined a total of $100 on two charges, both arising out of incidents on January 17. He pleaded guilty to a charge of creating unnecessary noise by sounding a horn in an unreasonable manner, and also to the second charge of petty trespass. It was laid after he drove his car onto the lawn at the Centralia College of Agricultural Technology. Other fines levied by Judge Glenn Hays and Justice of the Peace Douglas Wedlake were: Edward Joseph Webster, Zurich, $60 for having liquor in a place other than his residence. He had one previous conviction on a similar charge. Ronald W. Smith, Zurich, $20 teroperating a motor vehicle with no headlight on the right side. Carmen Joseph Donahue, Bluevale, $50 for failing to produce proof of insurance On a vehicle he was driving on December 25. Stephen township council this week completed an agreement with Crediton police village of- ficials for the use of the Crediton fire engine in Huron Park on a stand-by basis. If the Huron Park fire department needs additional help at a fire the Crediton machine may be called on, Stephen will pay $150 for the first hour and $75 Policeman sent on wild goose chase ICE CREAM MAKERS — Good old fashioned home made ice cream was whipped up by students at Stephen Central school last week. Shown above forking in the ice and salt are David Delbridge, Steven Riddell, Marilyn Walper and Scott Geiser Fined $600 for theft that wasn't