HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-01-03, Page 3The Hon. Charles MacNaughton retired as Huron MPP and is shown in front of the nine warrants covering his
record number of portfolios.
Mayor Jack Delbridge and Reeve.Derry Boyle hoist Exeter's centennial flag. Boyle also acted as centennial
chairman.
Clint Hodgins, right, was inducted to the Harness Racing Hall of Fame at Goshen, New York. Shown with him
are Harry McNaughton, Alford Culbert and Art McLean.
Three veteran members of the SHDHS teaching staff retired.
to Lauretta Seigner,:Nic Dinnin _and Morley Sanders.
Principal J. L. Wooden, left, hands out presents
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JANUARY
New OPP offices open in
Lucan . . .Exeter Waxers win.
Novice Christmas hockey
tournament ,Floyd Riley Jr.,
Huron Park is the first baby of
the year born at South Huron
hospital . Elizabeth Kennedy,
Grand Bend returns after two
months stay in India ...Grand
Bend Chamber of Commerce and
Grand Bend Country Playhouse
get LIP grants councillors
and employees in Usborne
township get raise in
pay ...Walter McBride named
the first deputy-reeve in Usborne
township . Exeter pee wees
win Legion Zone C-1 tour-
ney , Charles S. MacNaughton
retires after serving Huron riding
in the Ontario Legislature for 15
years including numerous top
government posts . announce
plans to build new Exeter Post
Office at the corner of Sanders
and Andrew Streets.
FEBRUARY
Firemen complete renovations
to new Exeter fire hall at Main
and Victoria streets „ Huron
County withdraws from Mid-
Western Development eoun-
cil ... Jim Bengough, Hensall
killed in auto accident on High-
way 84 • . . Premier William
Davis calls Huron by-election for
March 15 to fill seat vacated by.
Charlie MacNaughton .E?teter
veteri narian Dick Roelofson
joins track staff of Ontario
Racing Commission . • , Grand
Bend Reeve John Payne 'starts
plans for Lake Huron Park-
way „ Exeter Legion bantams
win Lucan tourney . Jake
Hovius, Jr,, Hensall seriously
injured by falling tree .. , Big
Toe Coffee House stubbed by
Huron Health office . OHC
recommends 32 housing unit for
Exeter seniors . announce
Senator Richard Stanbury to
open Exeter Cen -
tennial ... Grand Bend druggist
Ted Flint and his wife in Mexico
during earthquakes ...Ausable-
Hayfield Conservation Authority
sets record budget of
$310,850 . . . Diane Walker
named Queen of Kirkton-
Woodham Win ter Car-
nival , Ontario hog producers
approve licensing . . Sduth
Huron District High School
wrestlers win Huron-Perth
championship for fourth straight
year • . Hensall clerk • Earl
Campbell refuses pay in-
crease . Goderich school
teacher Paul Carroll named NDP
candidate in Huron by-
election . . . Pineridge Chalet
Crippled Kids Day was a
tremendous success .. . Lions
clubs at Exeter, Grand Bend,
Zurich, Hayfield and Goderich to
donate bus to Bluewater Rest
Home . . Dalton Finkbeiner
attends World Arabian Horse
convention in London England
... Lorne Kleinstiver heads
Dashwood Chamber of Com-
merce ... Tillotson Plastics to
open manufacturing plant in part
of former DIL plant at Dash-
wood. Firm gets ODC loan of
$85,000 . . election nominations
completed with Don Southcott,
former executive assistant to C.
S. MacNaughton named to
represent the Conservativesand
Jaclf. Riddell, *farmer- auctioneer
and former high school leather
nominated' by the Huron
Liberals ..
MARCH
Premier Davis visits Huron
during election campaign at a
Goderich pancake breakfast and
Exeter luncheon. Liberal leader
Robert Nixon attends beef
barbecue at Pineridge Chalet and
NDP leader Stephen Lewis also
visits riding ... first Centennial
celebration is Exeter figure
skating club carnival . . Rev.
Douglas Warren, Credi ton named
chairman of Huron-Perth
Presbytery United Church of
Canada replacing Rev. F, M.
Foist, a of
Crediton • SouthnaHtuivr eon boys
win Huron-Perth curling
title . plan renovations of
Mentally Retarded workshop at
Dashwood . , Huron County
councillors give themselves pay
raises on 41-10 vote . , SHDHS
Conservtion club wins Canadian
National sportsman show con-
servation award Ontario
Bean Growers Co-Op to erect
$500,000 processing plant near
Seaforth . , Diane Walker
named campus queen at Cen-
tralia College . • . new Exeter
police constable is Jim
McMeekin . . . Carling street
houses damaged during spring
flood ... Grand Bend water
main drops into river . , ad-
vance poll in Huron by-election
reaches all time high , . Exe-
Fibercraft plans addition at
south-end manufacturing
plant .. , Grand Bend council to
erect fence along Ausable River
to protect school children
storm batters Lake Huron
shoreline . . . Liberal Jack
Riddell wins Huron by-election
with 2,900 vote majority over
Conservative Don Southcott
Julie Henderson, Lucan is 1973
Farm Princess Elimville WI
marks 25th anniversary .. .
Prime Minister Trudeau and wife
Margaret attend Easter Seals
sale kick-off in London , . More
than 200 from Huron attend
swearing-in ceremonies of MPP
Jack Riddell at the Ontario
Legislature ... new principal's
John Siertsema at J.A.D.
McCurdy and Bill Linfield at
Usborne Central named by Huron
County Board of Education .. ,
Allan Taylor former principal at
Usborne goes to Clinton Public
School „ •
APRIL
Lucan council approves special
garbage pickup ...Shipka Saints
win South Huron hockey
crown ...Charlie MacNaughton
named to head Ontario Racing
Commission . .. Exeter United
Church service depicts woman's
role as UCW celebrates 100th
anniversary . . Hensall pee
wees win Bluewater
region ... OPP Constable Don
Mason rings up $1,757 in five
minute Pepsi Cola shopping
spree at Darling's Clover Farm
store at Huron Park ...Brownie
pack organized in Dash-
wodd , Exeter Legion
Auxiliary tiee'wees win Ontario
"B" championship with final
win ft) Hunstville . .. Dr. Harvey
Cowen retires after practicing
dentistry for 50 years ...his
recent partner Dr. Don Gratton
begins two years post graduate
course at the, University of
Michigan ... Dr. ,Jim Jean and
Russell Lingard take over
practice of Dr. Cowen and Dr.
Gratton ... Hay township
chicken barn on the farm of Peter
Boersma is destroyed by
fire . . Harry Hayter replaces
Jack Riddell on Huron County
qq .--,
Board on Education . . Lucan-
Ilderton Jets win OHA. Senior
hockey cham-
pionship . . . Maurice Quance
retires after 67 years as harness
maker , ..tenders accepted on
renovations at 411C worshop at
Dashwood . Norm Whiting
heads Exeter Board of
Trade , bridge on Stephen
township sideroad 15 near the
Brand Bros. farm collapses.
MAY
Grand Bend bantams win
WOAA crown „ Huron jail
saved Val .flegier is crowned
Queen of South Huron \Distriet
High School . „ Cromarty land-
mark disappears. as corner 'store
demolished . Bill Farquhar
rolls perfeet 450 game in five pin
bowling . . . Mrs. Ella Hedden
celebrates 9Qth birthday ..
Douglas Martin and John Teevins
named to Grand Bend council to
fill vacancies created by
resignations of Ted Flint and
Walter Crumplin ... Irvine
Armstrong named president of
Western Ontario Funeral
Directors Association —tolock
Exeter dump gates — Pon
Webster represents. Huron at
Canada Council for the Blind
convention . Thompson-
Warner Motors at Grand
.expand facilities name of
Conklin, Lumber changed to
Discount Dave's South Huron
cheerleaders win H-P title •
Sylvanus Cann gets 50 year pin
and life membership from Exeter
Legion . . . Stephen okays
modular home park . teachers
Lauretta Seigner, Morley San-
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Employees of Hall Lamp went to the picket lines in November when the
parent Company went into receivership.
A new community hall was opened by residents of the Kirkton-Woodharn area.
The Stanbury brothers returned to open Exeter's Centennial. Robert is a cabinet minister and Richard a
senator. With them are former reeve Jake Sweitzer and Mayor Jack Delbridge,
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xeter Lions marked their 30th birthday in 1973. Shown above are past governor of district Al A. J. "Jake"
weitzer of Exeter, Elwood Tucker, governor of district A9 of Kitchener, 1973 Exeter Lions retiring president
Ross Dobson and incoming president Peter Raymond. Darlene Porter is Centennial and Exeter Fair Queen. Fire levelled the building formerly occupied by W. FLFuss- Electric in Hensall,