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CASTING NOMINATION BALLOTS — In the above picture a group of Exeter and area residents are in the
process of casting ballots in Friday's Conservative party nomination in Clinton. From the left, they are, Bob
Simpson, Addie MacNaughton, Doug Hughson, Mary Fran Gaiser, Derry Boyle, Bob Pooley and Harry
Hayter, T-A photo,
Conservative nomination
BAKERS ON SKATES — Members of the Exeter figure skating club will be stirring up plenty of excitement at
Saturday's carnival. Shown above at baker boys are from the left, Kevin Varfey, Jimmie Lewis, Ken Miller,
Darryl Lammie, bonny Hennessey, Steve Pyrn and Dennis Eisensthink with dub pro Brad Loosley.
SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS — After Thursday's Liberal nomination in Hensall Ontario leader Robert Nixon
took time out to sign autographs for the children of successful candidate Jack Riddell. From the left, they are,
Brenda, Debbie, Donna, Heather and Wayne. T-A photo.
Liberal nomination
LIONS VISIT GRAND BEND - The Village Inn at Grand Bend was the scene for a weekend
Council meeting. Shown above are Grand Bend vice-president Ivan Luther, zone chairman 011ie Pangeman
of Wyoming; Governor Fred Jenkins of London West; beauty-district governor Cec Jerman, Inwood and Pat
Soldon, a vice-president of the Grand Bend Lions. 1"-A photo.
Lambton okays
Pqrkwqy idea
John Payne, reeve of Grand
Bend said. this week he received
approval in principle from
Lambton County council on
formation of a Lake Huron Park-
way Commission.
He expects Lambton will
provide $2,000 to assist in for-
mation of a planning committee.
The 12-man committee will.
consist of four persons each from
the city of Sarnia and the counties
of Lambton and Huron.
Thieves busy
in area again
Sleeping in
post offices
Exeter OPP and town police
have been receiving complaints
from area post offices regarding
youths using the facilities for
sleeping.
OPP Cpl. Ray Brooks said
some damage was done at the
Huron RitKki post office and
complair0. h'ave been received
from Zurich as well.
The E*eter post office has
apparently been used as sleeping
quarters by some youths during
the past week.
Police advise charges can be
laid under the Petty Trespass
Act.
Good year
for firm
The financial statement
presented at the recent annual
meeting of the Usborne and
Hibbert Mutual Fire Insurance
Company showed a very suc-
cessful year.
The 1972 operation resulted in
an increase to surplus of
$47,767.92. There were eight
major fires during the year and
losses totalled $200,821.52.
The total of direct fire in-
surance in force increased during
the past year by about $5,800,000
and now totals 86 million dollars.
Usborne and Hibbert insures
town and rural properties for
fire, wind, liability and theft with
more than 3,000 policies.
To show the growth of the
company, news clippings from
the annual meeting of 1913 said
the amount of insurance in force
was nearing the five million
dollar mark.
DirectOrs of the company are
Ray McCurdy, Timothy Toohey,
Robert Gardner, Clayton
Colquhoun, Martin Feeney and
William Chaffe. The agents are
Hugh Benninger, Clayton Harris
and Ross Hodgert.
Secretary-treasurer is Wally
Burton and the offices are located
on Main street south in Exeter
next to Exeter Flowers.
— Continued from front page
the extent it has under Mr.
Davis," he stated emphatically.
He said the concern over health
costs cited by Nixon were not
new—the government has known
about them for months—and
nobody has been more concerned
that the government.
Mr. MacNaughton reminded
the audience the Liberal ad-
ministration in Ottawa had
imposed medicare on the
country, despite objections from
former Premier John Robarts
and Mr. MacNaughton.
"Our opposition was to no
avail," Mr. MacNaughton con-
tinued, pointing out that it was
not surprising that the costs have
risen when universality is in-
troduced.
He said he was in favor of a
policy whereby those who can
afford it, should pay their own
premiums.
Under the federal plan, he
continued, Ontario was a net
loser because the 50 percent
received from the federal
government covers only 44
percent of the cost.
Local
A plan to unite, more than four
million Christians in Canada has
been unveiled before the
executive bodies of the Anglican,
Christian (Disciples of Christ)
and United Churches. The name
recommended for this new body
is The Church of Christ in
Canada.
"Will everybody have to have
the same form of worship?" This
has been the question asked most
frequently of the members of the
General Commission on Church
Union. The General Commission
was established by the Anglican
and United Churches in 1967, and
in 1969 was joined by the
Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ) and consists of 216
members, lay and clergy from
across Canada.
Executive Commissioners
Canon Ralph R. Latimer and
Rev. Robert B. Craig said,
ill e d ca
Hodgert 8 Hern 5
Urquhart 9 Marshall 5
Simpson 13 McBride 5
Down 10 Smith 9
Hewitt 5 Learn 3
Coates 1,3 Passmore 9
Dougall 7 Palmer 5
Reg Hodgert 6 Shapton 2
Powe 13 Finnen 7
Ross Hodgert 7 Webber 6
Parsons 7 Easton 6
Funk 9 Dougall 6
Clarke 7 Ross 4
Raymond 8 Lavier 3
Finder 8 McDonald 6
Murley 7 Prout 7
"It's a red herring," he said,
"and he (Nixon) doesn't tell the
whole story because it would
spoil the story in the first place.
Mr. MacNaughton advised the
audience there would be more
"blatant misstatements"made by
the opposition "and they should
be taken with a grain of salt".
He referred to the upcoming
by-election as a "new ball game"
and urged party supporters to get
out and work hard for their
candidate,
"I'll join you in the exercise,"
he said.
After winning the nomination,
Southcott returned to the plat-
form to join Mr. MacNaughton's
attack on the statements being
made by the opposition leaders.
He said he was annoyed by
Nixon's remarks about the
frightening Ontario debt under
Mr, MacNaughton,
Southcott said the debt had
been six percent of the gross
provincial product and only two
years ago Nixon had demanded it
be increased to nine percent.
"Now its only seven to seven
and a half percent, and nowhere
clergy
however, that people will be quite
free to choose their own styles of
worship. "While the essential
elements and order of services of
baptism, confirmation and
eucharist will he established
within that overall pattern, there
is freedom for the individual
congregations to use whatever
wording they consider ap-
propriate," said Canon Latimer.
The Plan of Union was greeted
somewhat warily by the Exeter
clergymen concerned, Rev.
Glenn Wright of Exeter United
Church and Rev. G. A. Anderson,
of Trivitt Memorial Anglican
Church.
"My own feeling is that it will
never come to anything," said
Rev. Anderson. "There is very
little interest. The churches have
got to the point now where the
people have little interest in their
Own church," he continued.
"If we were together more, the
United and Anglican churches
would begin to understand each
other more. Now we don't even
talk the same language," said
Rev, Anderson.
"In this town, the action seems
to, centre around the arena, or
legion activities. The church is no
longer the centre of community
activities.
"If we were together more, the
United and Anglican churches
would begin to understand each
other more. Now we don't even
talk the same language," said
Rev, Anderson.
He also referred to a former
attempted union between the
methodist church, the United
Church and the Presbyterian
Church, in which some sectors of
the Presbyterian Church resisted
the union.
near the nine percent Nixon was
demanding," he stated.
He also branded as "false" the
Liberal leader's remark that the
Premier's office was being
redecorated for the second time
since Davis took over.
"It hasn't been touched once,"
Southcott remarked, adding that
the Liberal caucus office was the
first one to have been done.
He also advised that the in-
crease in the Premier's office
staff was not so surprising in
view of the fact three provincial
secretaries had joined him.
"I could go on all night.. "
Southcott said in reference to
other opposition claims.
Other speakers included
Middlesex South MPP Bob Eaton
and Huron MP Bob McKinley.
McKinley reminded the Huron
voters that Nixon was planning to
retire as Liberal leader and his
,successor was not known as
yet.
He said this was a serious
consideration for yoters, because
the Liberals could end up with a
leader "worse than Steven
Lewis".
"I fail to see if the United
Church cannot complete union
with the Presbyterian Church,
how they could ever get along
with the Anglican Church," he
said.
He added, however, that 'The
whole thing about church union is
that when any church goes out
into the field, they are not viewed
separately, but all the same. For
this reason, church union would
be good.
"It would be nice to get to-
gether," he concluded, and ex-
pressed some optimism that the
final decision was to come from
"the bottom up, rather than the
top down".
Rev. Wright also expressed
some doubts about the terms of
the union, and concern that the
three ministries weren't being
given equal status. "They would
recognize each other's previous
Some help
from budget
Consumers of soft drinks in this
area may find some benefit by
the announcement in Monday
night's budget of a reduction in
federal tax.
Bill Gilfillan, of Tuckey
Beverages said Tuesday, "it's too
early to draw a proper
judgement, but we will en-
deavour to pass as much saving
on to the ultimate consumer as
we can".
Gilfillan continued, " While
we can't pass a comment on the
immediate effect, Tuckey
Beverages will endeavour to
promote refillable containers
with added incentives to con-
sumers such as price-offs and
price reductions".
"Promoting returnable con-
tainers is the Only way of solving
solid waste, litter problems and
local employment. Returnable
containers account for 95 per cent
of local production, therefore
increased employment will result
from any conversion or increase
in sales of returnable con-
tainers,"
"As manufacturing of con-
venience packaging is carried out
almost entirely in metropolitan
areas, control of tax is out of our
hands and any savings would be
controlled by them and affect
employment in metropolitan
areas."
In conclusion, Gilfillan added.
"T personally feel Mr. Turner
expects any company that gets a
tax reduction to do two things.
They are to pass savings on to
consumers and expand
businesses to help local em-
ployment."
Canada Division of Textron
Canada Ltd. at Grand Bend, the
40-gross-ton amphibious craft is
being operated by Northern
Transportation Co. Ltd. (NTCL)
for its owner, the Canadian
Ministry of Transport,
For the long trip from Trenton,
Ontario to Tuktoyaktuk,
Voyageur was dismantled into its
Last warning
to contractors
Contractors who fail to comply
with stop work orders placed on
projects by the local building
inspector will in future be
charged.
This was the decision reached
by Exeter council, Monday, after
learning that stop work orders
had been ignored on new homes
in the Dow subdivision,
Contractor for the homes is
J.P. Ducharme and he will
receive a letter advising of
council's decision to prosecute
further infractions.
However, council learned that
Ducharme did not ignore the stop
work order placed on the job by
building inspector Doug Trieb-
ner, but rather a London sub-
contractor involved in the
erection of the cement foun-
dations.
Clerk Eric Carscadden said
that Ducharme had advised
workmen for the firm not to
continue the work, but they had
not heeded his words.
The stop work order was placed
on the project because Triebner
felt the forms were being
removed from the cement too
soon after the concrete was
poured.
There was a suggestion at the
meeting that Triebner may not
approve the homes when they are
finished in view of the violation of
his stop work order.
ministry as valid," he said, "but
as a United Church minister, it
still kind of bothers me to see
Bishops consecrated, I am not
convinced that the faith is
preserved by any one individual
but rather by conversation
between believers."
He also expressed the fear that
there might be some loss of local
participation. "The thing you
fear in all regionalism is that you
lose participation at the local
level, and this would be
devastating for the church," said
Rev. Wright.
On the other hand, he said, a
regional board would make it
easier to plan and co-ordinate
such things as the training of
Sunday school teachers and
planning of curriculum,
He added that he was "much
happier since seeing the full plan
and seeing the scope they're
allowing within each church, The
detail they have worked out is
impressive," he said.
"I see it possibly bringing
vitality into the church," said
Rev, Wright. "It would be much
easier for people if they wanted to
move, and theologically, the
education is quite similar," he
said.
"As far as we're concerned in
Exeter, we have already had
inter-communion with the
Anglican Church. Anyway, he
said, "there is no pressure for
union, and no thought of closing
down one of the churches",
Dear Sir;
With reference to last week's
editorial concerning erection of
signs and Council's 'prejudice'
against John Tzavaras, I would
like to submit the following reply.
Council is in agreement that it
does not want any overhanging
signs on public property. A by-
law is being prepared to draw up
regulations concerning signs, but
it is presently in the hands of the
Town's lawyer.
Mr. Tzavaras requested per-
mission for an overhanging sign;
he wanted an answer from
council, The reply anticipated the
spirit of the by-law, and so a
refusal was forthcoming.
Although council may be
faulted for not waiting for the
approval of the by-law, it cannot
be accused of prejudice.
If the editorial was written to
spark controversy and make
people aware of the activities of
council, there was value in it. If it
Was Written as a serious com-
ment on the attitude of council, it
failed completely to grasp the
intent of the motion passed.
Yours truly,
Bruce Shaw
— Continued from front page
planning, have put Ontario into
the 'fiscal nightmare' Charlie
predicted," the speaker com-
mented.
Nixon explained that last year
the deficit was $600 million and
this year it would reach $800
million. The largest previous
deficit was $119 million under
Premier John Robarts in 1968.
"It's taken Premier Davis a
couple of years to get his feet wet,
but it now looks as if he's learned
to spend the taxpayers' money
with relative ease,'' the Liberal
leader stated.
He listed as "extravagant" the
$2 million annual rent for a 30
year period for the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education
building, and a similar rent for a
new office for the ministry of
agriculture in Toronto "so Bill
Stewart can look out over the
green fields of downtown
Tor onto" •
In the same list he included
Ontario place, which he said was
described by Phil Givens, former
Toronto mayor, as a $35,000,000
hot dog stand.
He also drew attention to the
tact Premier Davis has a budget
01 8995,000 for the Premier's
office, compared to the $350,000
spent in Mr. Robarts' last year.
Nixon noted Davis has also
doubled his staff and was
presently refurnishing his of-
fices, "the same ones he refur-
bished when he became Premier
juqt two years ago",
"The examples of poor plan-
ning are too numerous to list but
include several highway
decisions and the closing of 1,500
active treatment beds in our
hospitals," the opposition leader
cont Clued.
Citing the changes in local
government as the second im-
portant issue, he said the ex-
periments in Niagara, Ottawa,
Muskoka and York have been
expensive failures,
Noting that costs have
rocketted upward and so-called
local government has been made
even more remote from the
people, Nixon said the Tories'
best efforts to buy appeal with
were conducted while the craft
was both afloat, and moored.
These are believed to be the first
operations of a helicopter from
the deck A of an it Cushion
Vehicle.
The Voyageur traveled through
the locks and channels of the
Welland Canal in record time,
less than 3 hours — compared
with 12 hours needed for ordinary
ships,
Since it rides on a cushion of air
and leaves no wake, the
Voyageur traveled at up to 30
miles an hour through the 28-mile
canal.
Basically a self-propelled
cargo deck which rides on a four-
foot-thick cushion of air, the
Voyageur is able to traverse
land, water, snow, ice and
marshy areas.
the arrest of another Exeter man,
Donald Wayne Wolfe.
Police said the abortive rob-
bery attempt--which netted less
than $100--began when four men
entered the home of Mr. Evans
near Martintown, nine miles east
of Cornwall,
Mrs. Evans and the couple's
three children were bound by the
men, armed with sawed-off
shotguns, who then forced. Mr.
Evans to drive them to his bank.
grants and advertising have
failed to make regional govern-
ment work.
The third issue he dealt with
involved the provision and
financing of health services.
"Dr. Potter's usefulness in his
present post is certainly in
question" the speaker com-
mented, adding that unless
strong steps are taken soon, a
new minister must he appointed
and authorized to move to the
ministry of health and shake it up
from one end to the other.
"The final issue that must
concern the voters in these by-
elections is the government's
record in the allegations of
conflict of interest and raising
campaign funds to fuel the Tory
election machine," Nixon con-
tinued.
He referred to the Fidinam
affair and also to a letter sent to
Ontario doctors asking for funds.
He termed the latter "some kind
of blackmail".
"Surely the issues cry out for
rejection of the Conservative
record," he concluded.
Times-Advacoto, Orwry .22, 1973
Vehicle built at Grand Bend
Exeter OPP are investigating a
number of thefts in the area this
week,
There were two breakins.
Approximately $20 worth of
merchandise was taken from a
garage operated by Cliff
Langford in Hensall and two
stereo speakers were removed
from a summer cottage at Oak-
wood Park owned by D.H. Swift,
London,
A set of four wheel discs valued
at $180 were taken from a car
parked at Huron Park arena
while the owner, Mark Macera,
London, was attending a hockey
game.
A coat owned by Doug Miners,
Exeter, was stolen from the
Dashwood Community Centre.
The garment was valued at $100.
A headlight was stolen from a
car owned by John Bloetjes at the
Centralia College of Agricultural
Technology. ,k
Mrs. Mildred Burrows, Elmira,
reported the theft of a small
camera from a pickup truck at
Pineridge Chalet on Sunday and
police are investigating the
breaking of a window at the
Dominion Hotel in Zurich the
same day.
Five tapes were reported stolen
from a car owned by Kenneth
Kadey, Crediton. They were
valued at $34.00.
Plan for church union
react warily
The northern trials follow four
months of successful trials in the
Great Lakes. NTCL has been
operating the craft since ac-
cepting delivery on behalf of the
Ministry of Transport at Toronto
in August 1972.
For trials on the lakes, the craft
was equipped with a small
moveable crane at the bow end of
its forward 40- by 34-foot cargo
deck. The crane was designed
and built by Bell Aerospace
Canada.
The range of duties performed
with Voyageur on the Great
Lakes included buoy handling
using the deck-mounted crane,
barge towing, cargo hauling and
being used in Arctic region
A Voyageur air cushion vehicle modules and flown aboard five C- Voyageur exerts only a third of operations with a helicopter.
this month began operations in 130 "Hercules" cargo aircraft a pound per square inch of air In October, helicopter landings.
Arctic weather in the Northwest operated by the Canadian Armed pressure on its operating surface
Territories, Forces in support of the Ministry - leaving the delicate ecology of
Built by Bell Aerospace of Transport, the tundra unaffected.
Tuktoyaktuk is a village on the
Beaufort Sea near the mouth of
the Mackenzie River. It is just
below the 70th parallel, where
temperatures in February and
March average more than 20
below zero,
"We're operating routinely at
58 miles per hour over jagged,
frozen, two-foot-high snow
drifts," said Bert W. Mead,
director of ACV Operations for
NTCL.
The company, which has
operated throughout the
Mackenzie River system for
more than 40 years, is putting the
ACV to useful work in the tests.
Chiefly, the craft will be
evaluated with respect to com-
munity freighting needs and
logistic support for oil, gas and
mineral exploration and
development.
Following the Tuktoyaktuk
trials, Voyageur will travel to
Richards Island to perform oil
field tasks for a major oil com-
pany.
Then the craft will travel up the
Mackenzie to the Great Slave
Lake near the border between
Alberta and the District of
Mackenzie.
A wide range of tasks on the
Mackenzie and the lake will he
performed by Voyageur through
May and June for the Canadian
Coast Guard. Operations will be
from the community of Hay
River,
Finally, the schedule calls for
the craft to return to Tuktoyaktuk
for summer trials in the Arctic,
This will include tasks across the
tundra, which cannot be crossed
by conventional vehicles during
warm months.
Two Exeter men are presently
in custody in Cornwall facing two
charges of armed robbery and
one of attempted armed robbery.
Rick Weber and John Loader
were arrested in Sarnia this week
and returned to Cornwall where
they were charged with at-
tempted armed robbery of a
Bank of Montreal branch in
Cornwall on February 4,
They were also charged with
the armed robbery of bank
manager Robert Evans and
armed robbery of assistant Unable to unlock the bank
manager August Robertson. safe's time lock, the men hand-
A 23-year-old McGill Univer- cuffed or tied eight other em-
sity student, Claude Mercur, ployees as they arrived for work.
faces the same charges and The four men escaped as police
police have issued a warrant for arrived on the scene.
Two more to face
armed theft charge