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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-01-10, Page 1.Impaired driver sent to jail Was fined $150 and had his licence suspended for six months. He also had a previous conviction, A restricted licence suspension of three months and a $150 fine was levied against Howard Thompson Grand Bend. He had pleaded guilty to driving while impaired on October 13 in Stephen Township, Raymond & Smith, Bosanquet Township, who had earlier been sentenced on an impaired driving charge, appeared before Judge Hays and asked for a change to a restricted suspension. This was granted. Earlier, he had been fined $200 and had his licence suspended for six months, In other charges heard at the two court sessions, the following fines were levied: Joseph Haskett,' Biddulph, $13 for a speed of 40 in a 30 zone. Gary W. Peitz, Kippen, $28 for having liquor in a place other than his residence. Terry J. Pfaff, Crecliton, $28 for having liquor in a place other than his residence. Albert Rooseboom, Hensall, $28 for having liquor in a place other than his residence on December 7 and a similar fine for the same offence on October 31. Cornelius Postma, Clinton, $13 for a speed of 70 in a 60 zone. Bradley A, Hargreaves, Brucefield, $28 for having liquor in a place other than his residence. John Patrick Sweeney, London„ $50 or five days in jail for causing a disturbance in Seaforth. lie decided to take the time in jail by adding it on to a sentence he Is already serving for another in- cident in which the fine was $75. Gabriel A.P. Mol, Exeter, $43 for following another vehicle too closely, Emerson J. Gloor, Clinton, $43 'for following another vehicle too closely. Andrew R. Lord, Crediton, POO for failing to remain at the :scene of an accident, He struck a flag. pole and told the investigating officer he was frightened and left the scene. Lloyd Allan, HOWL .$100 for careless driving in Hensall on September 4, He ran into a utility pole on that date, causing damage of $700, Robert W. McKee, Hfbbert, $23 for failing to stop at a stop sign. At Friday's court, a major portion of the fines were for speeding and were as follows: Ronald W. Smith, Zurich, $23; Leo Blair, London, .Stewart M. Tait, London, $13; Leslie J. Wrightly, London, $13; Ban10 An F. Brennan, AilSa Cram, $18; James W..Jesney, ,Centralia, .$2g;: James D. Kelly, London, $13; Harold B. 'Pratt, Crediton, $47; Ruth M. Gingerich, Zurich, $13; Wilfred. W. Jewell, Si'mcoe, $13; Gerrit Wynja, Seaforth, $13i. James H.' Heard, .Clinton, $U; Daniel M, Dalton, .Grand Bend, $13; Leonard J. Weroham, Brussels, $15; Charles Browning Jr., Crediton, $13; Allen R. Smith, Crediton, $13; Patrick P. Smith, Grand Bend, $18; John R., Smith, .Crediton, $13, FIRST BABY OF 1974 - The year 1974 was four days old when the first baby arrived at South Huron Hospital. Weighing in at 8 pounds, 13 1/2 ounces, Tiffany Nicole is shown with her mother Mrs, George Tryon; RR 3, Exeter. Mr. and Mrs. Tryon have one other child Traci, two and a half years old. T-A photo Five drivers appeared before Judge Glenn Hays in two Exeter court sittings this week on charges of impaired driving. All were found guilty. On Friday, Robert JaMes Carlile, Hensall, was sentenced to 14 days in jail and had his licence suspended for six months after being found guilty of im- paired driving, He had pleaded not guilty and told the court his erratic driving was due in part to his steering gear being loose. Carlile stated this caused him to weave. He also said he was unable to perform the "toe to heel test" sobriety test for OPP Constable Bill GlaSsford because of the two- inch heels on his shoes, Crown Attorney W.G. Cochrane maintained the accused had had sufficient beer for impairment and that the observations of an experienced police officer should be taken into consideration. Judge Hays handed down the guilty plea and levied the jail sentence after being advised the accused had a number of previous convictions. A Stratford man, Gilbert Manktelow, pleaded guilty to impaired driving and was fined $150 and was given a restricted suspension of three months. He will be able to drive to and from his work. The other three drivers ap- peared at Tuesday's court session. Lloyd Andrew Lee, Dashwood, was fined $125 and had his licence suspended for six months. The accused did not take a breathalizer, saying there was no sense when he knew he was impaired, It was his second of- fence, • Wayne Louis Rabideau, Forest, One Hundred and First Year Price Per Copy 25 Cents EXETER, ONTARIO, JANUARY 10, 1974 Resort to proceed with garbage plans Garbage collection on a reduced basis will go into effect in the village of Grand Bend on a trial basis for the month of June. Despite vigorous protests from a commercial property owner at a Monday night meeting, the plan to cut commercial garbage pickups to three per week during the summer months was given approval, Mrs. Inga Gallant, owner of the Moulin Rouge Tavern on High- way 21 insisted that daily pickup was necessary during the peak summer periods. Under the new plan, councillor Tom Webster said the pickup schedule would be the same all year round with three com- mercial collections and one residential each week. He explained that the Grand Bend service was much better than any other municipality in the area with most providing only two or three at the most com- mercial pickups each week. The present contract with McDonald's Sanitation of Crediton has the village paying Council, employees et increase in Ha More area workers off Councillors of the township of Hay raised their own salaries along with those of their em- ployees at the first meeting of council in 1974. The salary of the reeve was raised $200 per annum to $600 while the increase for the deputy- reeve and councillors is $175 per year to $550 and $525. respec- tively. In addition the reeve will receive $100 per year for mileage and all others $75 apiece. Pay for special • meetings is up to $17 from $15. The wages of road superin- tendent Karl Haberer was raised from $3 per hour to $3.65 while increases for other road department employees ranged from 55 cents to 70 cents per hour'. Clerk-treasurer Wayne Hor- ner's salary for 1974 will be $10,000, This amount is paid equally by Hay township and the Hay Municipal Telephone System for whom he fulfills similar duties. His assistant Joan Ducharme was granted an increase to $6,500 DEPICTING PIONEER LIFE - Grade eight students at Exeter Public School are currently presenting plays. In the above picture Pioneer Homes and Family Life is the theme. From the left are, narrator Tannis Bishop, Suzanne Janke, Cindy Wasson, Cindy Horn and Nancy Dowker. T-A photo Snowmobiles in collisions Make offer for post office, but may change their mind A production line change and a shortage of materials has caused the layoff of 74 employees at the Hensall plant of Bendix Home! Systems Limited. A Bendix vice-president Don Morphew said the layoff was caused by a switch in one production line from recreational vehicles to the manufacture of mobile and industrial housing. A, ,second production line continues with about 120 em- ployees on the job. Mr. Morphew, told the T-A Tuesday morning a shortage of certain materials and a time lag in delivery along with the change in production lines was the reason for the layoff. He added, "under provincial labour laws, a temporary layoff can not be any longer than 13 weeks, but I hope we can be back in usual production early in February." About 140 workers at a second Bendix plant in Hensall producing mobile homes are not affected by thelayoff. In late December, 40 em- ployees of Glendale Corporation another mobile home manufacturer laid off 40 em- ployees. yet ascertained the costs of renovations to the post office, although they hoped to have a local contractor look at the building in the immediate future. Councillor Ted Wright, one of those absent when the decision to lease the post office had been made, then suggested there were many ratepayers who didn't want to give up the town hall. Deputy-Reeve Helen Jermyn said council weren't giving up on the town hall, but rather the old building was giving up on council. Guess what? Someone had something good to say about snowmobilers at an Exeter council meeting! The praise came from Coun- cillor Ted Wright, who said the majority of snowmobiler should be congratulated for the manner in which they were operating their machines. In December, Wright had led a blistering attack against. some operators over their poor driving habits and lack of courtesy. He said they had apparently taken council's warning about banning the machines unless improvements were made. Other members indicated there were few complaints regarding the machines recently. $16.200 per year for all garbage collection. Webster suggested to the commercial owners that if extra service was necessary, arrangements could be made with the sanitation company for an extra pickup at a cost of $75 per day. He said there were 32 establishments in Grand Bend which could possibly fall into this category. On this basis, the extra cost to each commercial owner would be only $2.35 per day. Two other commercial owners in attendance indicated they were satisfied with three collections per week. They were Leo Masse of the Tender Spot and Ray Richardson of Mary Bell Dairies, In their explanation to the delegation council members pointed out garbage collection costs paid by other area towns and villages was much less than Grand Bend. Exeter's cost was listed at $14,256 and Forest at just over $12,000. Broken down on a per capita basis Grand Bend's cost is $21.62 while Forest's is $5.09 and Exeter's $4.31 Mrs. Gallant suggested service to cut back in the winter and this •tinie bniset in the tuthmer . She. was told some of the extra pickups are now being made by. company trucks on the way to service other communities. Any extension in this service would again coat more money. Councillor Doug Martin, a residential property owner said to Mrs. Gallant, "I am one of those helping to pay for your wonderful service, It's costing me over $43 per year and I have only a couple of small cans per week. At the conclusion of the discussion Reeve Bob Sharen assured everyone the experiment was for one month. He added "if it doesn't work, we'll take another look at the situation. "This is strictly an economic move to try and keep the tax rate down." Exeter' endorse GB suggestion Exeter council this week en- dorsed a resolution from Grand Bend calling on the provincial government to allow municipalities to name alternate representatives to county council when the regular representatives are unable to attend due to health reasons. Grand Bend initiated the petition following an experience last year when they went about three months without a representative on Lambton County council when former Reeve John Payne was sick. If their suggestion is followed, municipalities could name another council member to fill the vacancy on county council on a temporary basis. Damage set at $15,000 in Crediton garage blaze business for more than 40 years. Thanks to the co-operation of ' volunteers the Crediton garage was backin business in a partial way Monday morning. A large number of helpers spent the entire weekend in cleaning up, painting and con- structing makeshift doors and windows. Members of Exeter council continue to change their opinions and decisions regarding municipal offices as they pertain to the local post office and the town hall. In December, council were advised they could possibly lease the present post office and at that time a committee of Bruce Shaw and Harold Patterson was named to investigate the situation. They were asked to bring in a report outlining the suitability of the building and the anticipated cost of alterations to suit coun- cil's needs. However, a special meeting of some type was apparently held later in December at which time a majority of council members (some weren't present) approved a suggestion that they would lease the building for $1.50 per square foot. (That works out to about $3,000 per annum). Monday night, council struck out on a different course, despite the fact Clerk Eric Carscadden advised he had already written the department of public works making the offer to lease the post office at $1.50 per square foot, Councillor Bruce Shaw .reported his committee had not Casual labour will be paid $2.75 per hour in the summertime and $3 per hour during the winter The tender of Ross Scott Fuels of Brucefield was accepted to provide fuels for township use for the year 1974. The township will obtain diesel fuel at 2,3 cents per gallon less than the tankwagon price of 28.3 cents. Gasoline will be supplied at 2 cents per gallon less than the tankwagon price of 30.6 cents per gallon and the furnace fuel price will be 2.5 cents less than the tank- wagon price of 28,3 cents per gallon. If tankwagon prices rise the increases will be passed onto the township but the discount figures will remain firm. Councillor Lloyd Mousseau was named to represent Hay on the Hensall-Hay-Tuckersmith fire protection committee. The township road account will he charged 25 cents per cubic yard for 6,883 cubic yards of gravel used from the municipality's property at part Lot 15, Concession 6. Council supported a resolution from the village of Grand Bend asking the Province of Ontario to consider 'changes in the Municipal Act to allow the ap- pointment of an acting reeve in the absence of the head of a municipality for attendance at county council. A resolution from the Ausable- Bayfield Conservation Authority to call a meeting to consider enlargement of the Authority by adding that part of Lake Huron within the corporate boundaries of the townships of Bosanquet, Stephen, Hay and Stanley and the village of Grand Bend was ap- proved. A subdivision agreement between St. Josephs Shores Development and the township has been signed. A petition has been received for repair and improvement of the main branch of the Black Creek Municipal drain, Council has agreed to pay their share of the costs of a study currently being undertaken by the' township of Stephen to provide a water system for the police village of Dashwood. The following grants were approved: St. John's Ambulance $10; Salvation Army, $25; Canadian Cancer Society, $50; South Huron Agricultural Society $40 and $4 per calf to each 4-H member; Zurich Agricultural Society, $150; Huron Plowman's Association, $20; Rehabilitation Foundation for Disabled, $10. Thieves stuck switch vehicles Two cars and a snowmobile were stolen in the area this week, The snowmobile, a 1970 model Ski-Doo was owned by Ross Scott, London, and was taken from the Pineridge Chalet near Hensall during the period from December 28 to January 6. The machine is valued at $350. The cars stolen were owned by Mathers Motors, Exeter, and Jack Taylor, RR 3 Exeter. The 1966 Falcon taken from the Exeter automobile dealership was found stuck on a sideroad near the Taylor farm in Usborne The thieves apparently aban- doned the vehicle and stole the 1969 Buick from the Taylors to continue their journey. The vehicle has not been recovered. The incident occurred during the night on Monday. Entering the discussion at this point was Councillor Ben Hoogenboom, who said he had chatted with former councillor Mery Cudmore and was advised that there never had been an engineer's study undertaken on the town hall to determine if it could be renovated. Shaw replied that a local contractor had suggested the only good part of the building was the foundation and that there were large cracks in the walls which could not be fixed. "Mery said the only bad part was the tower," Hoogenboom replied. He said many ratepayers wanted the town hall saved and he suggested an engineer be asked to take a study on it. Mrs. Jermyn said many ratepayers had advised her the old town hall should be aban- doned and one businessman said that if a nickel was spent on it, the money would be wasted. Reeve Derry Boyle suggested the matter should be placed on the ballot in December for the ratepayers to decide. He left little doubt where he stood on the matter, terming the preSent town hall a "monstrosity". Councillor Tom MacMillan appeared of the same opinion, stating they should have blown up the building 20 years ago. The debate finally ended when members were asked to give the matter some further con- sideration so a further discussion can be held at the next meeting. Morris reeve wins Huron warden post Prompt action by the Crediton fire department and volunteers was instrumental in keeping a fire at the Crediton garage from getting out of hand, Friday morning. Shortly before 11 a.m, a battery in a tractor being overhauled blew up and the machine caught fire. Owners of the business, John and Eugene Pritchard were unsuccessful in their attempts to tow the tractor out of the building with a wrecker when it became jammed up against the doors. Several minutes later, the gas tank exploded and fire spread to the ceiling of the garage, A hole was torn into the roof to get at the blaze. Members of the Exeter fire William J. Elston, 49, reeve of Morris Township, was elected warden of Huron County at the inaugural meeting of council Tuesday. He defeated three other candidates to win on the fourth ballot. " Mr. Elston, who has been on county council for seven years, replaces Roy V. Pattison, reeve of East Wawanosh Township, whose one-year term expired Jan. 1, Also running for warden were three other reeves: Ed Oddleifson, Village of Hayfield; Hugh Flynn, Hallett Township and Charles Thomas, Grey Township. Mr. Elston's closest rival was Mr. Thomas, who took 22 votes compared to the victor's 30. Mr. Elston was nominated by Joseph Dietrich, reeve of Stephen Township, In a speech to council bay portion of the Crediton garage from spreading to the rest of the building. Total damages have been estimated at $15,000 T.A photo FIRE BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL - The Crediton volunteer fire department with help from Exeter were able to keep o fire in the north before the vote, Mr. Elston said the county must "make an en- vironment where people will build more homes." He also said the reeves must work together to solve their in- dividual and collective problems. County Court Judge F.G. Carter installed Mr, Elston as ,warden. The invocation was given by Rev. G.L. Royal of Knox Presbyterian Church, Goderich. Welcoming addresses were given by Goderich Mayor Harry Worsell; Jack Riddell, MPP for Huron; and Murray Gaunt, MPP for fluron-truce. Reeves named to striking committees were: Robert Gib- son, tiowick Township; Joseph Dietrich, Stephen Township; Anson McKinley, Stanley Township; John Baker, Village of Hensall; and Robbie Lawrie, Village of Myth. brigade were called and assisted in getting the fire under control and protecting nearby buildings. Unable to get to the office from the garage area due to the flames, John Pritchard dashed outside and broke the office window and was able to retrieve money and records. A charger had been connected to the tractor battery about 20 minutes before it exploded. The tractor an International model was owned by Ross Krueger, RR 3, Crediton. Damage to the tractor was estimated at $5,000. Damages to the building proper and equipment was listed at about $10,000 by the owners who took over the business a couple of months ago from Lloyd Hey. Mr. Hey operated the garage Subsidies approved for Exeter darn job The Honourable Leo Bernier, Minister. of Natural Resources and Jack Riddell, M.P.P. for Huron, announce the approval of a provincial grant in the amount of $2,975 to the Ausable Bayfield Censervation Authority for major maintenance work on the Exeter Dam, This work is to ensure that the structure is maintained in safe and proper working, order. The Concrete walls Of the intake Runic are in an advance state of deterioration, The Authority proposes to repair and reinforce these walls. The Town of Exeter is the chief benefiting municipality and will pay the major portion of the Authority's share of the cost, Approval has also been given for a provincial grant of $250 to the Ausable Bayfield Con- servation Authority for the third phase of the Streambank erosion control in the river channel below the authority's dam in the Riverview Park in the Town of Exeter,