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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-06-27, Page 1FISHING WAS GREAT ,— Hundreds of area anglers enjoyed excellent fishing off the pier at Grand Bend Thursday as the perch appeared to line up for the many hooks dangling in the water. The above picture an Embro area fisherman is shown heading for home while the bottom, Sam Aquilina of Exeter shows a few of his large catch. T-A photo Damages are slight in district collisions Separate school up 10,5 1.00;000 debenture to .be issued Exeter tax rate up five mills. ALL CANDIDATES MEETING The three candidates from Huron-Middlesex met with members of the Federation of Agriculture and guests in Clinton Thursday to discuss their platforms and answer questions from the voters, Pondering a question from the floor are Robert McKinley, progressive Conservative; John Lyndon, Liberal; and Shirley Weary, New Democratic Party. T-A photo t 111111111111111111111iiiiii mom The pier at Grand Bend was a popular spot Thursday as many area fishermen took advantage of the hungry perch. One Hundred and First Year EXETER, ONTARIO, JUNE 27, 1974 Price Per Copy 25 Cents DIVING OVER — The third style of high jumping used at Friday's area public school track and field meet is shown by Ricky Skinner of Usborne Central school in the above picture. T-A photo OLD FASHIONED STYLE — Carl Yeo of J.A.D. McCurdy school at Huron Park used the conventional style while high jumping at Friday's track meet for area public schools. T-A photo A FOSBURY FLOP — During the high jump events at Friday's district track and field district elementary schools track and field meet several techniques were used. Above Phil McLeod of Hensall uses his version of the Fosbury Flop. T-A photo Nurses at hospital present grievances Eight accidents were in- vestiga ted by the Exeter OPPthis week, with no injuries being reported. Damage was com- paratively light in several of the incidents. At 6:15 p.m., Wednesday, a car driven by Wilmer Desjardine, RR 2 Dashwood, went out of control on Hay sideroad 15 and struck a ditch. Damage was set at $800, There were two crashes, Thursday, the first at 8:50 a.m. when vehicles driven by Arnold Walker, Seaforth, and, Linda Masse, Zurich, collided on Frederick St. in Zurich, with total damage of $500. At 7:10 p.m., cars operated by Douglas Coward, RR 3 Exeter, and Donald McGee, Goderich, collided on County Road 6 in Winchelsea with damage amounting to $1,050. Three crashes were reported, Friday, the first at 3:55 p.m. ' when ears driven by Wendy Powell, London, and Agnes Regan, RR 3 Ailsa Craig, were in a collision on the Huron Park post office parking lot, Damage was estimated at $450. At 7:25 p.m, vehicles driven by Paul Weida, Exeter, and Donald Foster, RR 3 Exeter, collided on Highway 4 with damage amounting to $300. The final crash on Friday was at 11:15 pan, when damage Was set at $600 as vehicles operated by Mark Stewart, RR 5 Parkhill, and Allan Rabin, Toronto, crashed on Highway 81. On Saturday, at 11:25 p.m , a car driven by Marilyn Boardman, Huron Park, backed out of a driveway on Algonquin Drive and struck a parked car owned by Allen Legoff, Huron Park. Total damage was set at $150. The final crash of the week was a hit and run. A car owned by Patricia Ottenhof, RR 3 Granton, was struck by an unknown vehicle while parked at the Kirkton Community Centre, Damage was listed at $175. During the week, the detach- ment officers charged 21 people under the Highway Traffic Act and issued warnings to another 40. There were seven charges under the Liquor Control Act and two under the Criminal Code.' The !majority of Exeter tax- payers will face a five mill in- crease in their rate this year, compared to last year when council managed to slash the rate by 10 mills. Residential rate fpr public school supporters this year is 130 mills and the commercial rate is 139,4, The latter is an increase of 7,8 mills. Separate school supporters, however, are not as fortunate. Their residential rate has jumped 10.5 mills and the commercial rate is up 14. Exeter council set the final figures for the tax structure at a special meeting, Wednesday. Some confusion had arisen over the budget and council members had left their regular meeting the preceding Monday in the belief Okay street, Senior plans At a special meeting of Exeter council, Monday, the tender for the reconstruction of Hillcrest Drive and part of Riverside Drive was awarded. The winning bid was submitted by Gerber Construction, Strat- ford, with a price of $72,731.15. It was the lowest of six bids sub- mitted. Highest bid on the job was $123,770.00. The winning bid was just slightly over the estimate on the job, In addition to the recon- struction, storm sewers will be installed on both streets and a sanitary sewer will be con- structed on Hillcrest. Both streets will be asphalted following the construction, which is expected to commence as soon as approval has been received from the ministry of tran- sportation and communications. Completion date is September 15. The project will provide the necessary storm sewer outlet for the mobile home park and sub- • division being planned by Len Veri. At the same special meeting, council approved the preliminary plans for the Ontario Housing Corporation's 32-unit senior citizen complex to be built in the area south-east of South Huron District High School, It will be a two-storey structure and, members of council were advised that OHC had purchased enough land in the area to house a second building if the need warrants. Please turn to page 3 Record sales for first play If advance ticket sales are any indication, then the season's first play at the Huron Country Playhouse will be a success. "It was the largest advance sale in the Company's history," said Managing Director James Murphy. The theatre's third season opened last night with the musical comedy "I Do, I Do", It is about marriage and in its original Broadway run, starred Mary Martin and Robert Preston. Based on the play "The Four- poster," it spans 50 years of a couple's matrimonial life together, from wedding night through parenthood to old age. Although the show is filled with songs its only well known hit is "My Cup Runneth Over with Love." The show's two stars, Peter J. McConnell and Patty Gail presented brief highlights from the musical at the pre-season dance, held in the tent Saturday night for season's ticket sub- scribers. The two Toronto based actor-singers are making their first appearance at the Playhouse this week. The guest director for the play is Patricia Carroll-Brown and the musical director is Barbara Spence. Performances will run the rest of the week and on Sunday night a production will be staged in the Kincardine Town Hall. that the tax hike would be around 12 mills. However, Clerk Erie Car- sea dden conferred with the auditor and called the special Wednesday session to straighten out the situation. While the tax rate increases this year, council will still be issuing a debenture for $100,000 to cover part of the cost of the proposed Anne St. drain which they hope will be constructed this year to relieve flooding problems in the south-east and core section of the community. Total cost of that project has been estimated at $150,000. Council plans to have that Two area men were each fined $100 by Judge Glenn Hays in Exeter court, Tuesday, after being found guilty of racing oh a- highway. Fined were Mark Heywood, Exeter, and Wayne Truemner, Zurich, who had been involved in the incident which took place on August 1 of last year. Police reported the race took place from the west end of Dash- wood and proceeded east,„ one car in each lane. Heywood eventually lost control of his vehicle and it collided with a house and. parked car owned by Theo Van Rompey, Dashwood. The driver and a passenger, Terry MacDonald, received only cuts and damage was listed at that time at $2,600. Heywood said the two cars passed each other on several occasions at speeds of around 70 to 75. At other times they were travelling at only 50 to 55. He said he and the other driver were "just fooling around". Defence lawyer K. I. McLean argued that the actions of Mark Heywood did not constitute a race as he did not drive his car at the highest rate of speed. He said in a race, the highest speed is used. However, Crown Attorney W. G. Cochrane countered that in The all-candidates meeting in Clinton, sponsored by the Agricultural Society turned out to be more of a battle between the 'audience and the candidates than between the candidates for votes. The meeting started slowly as the organizers and candidates waited in hopes that more than the 100 audience members would come. The three candidates were each given ten minutes to outline their platforms and promises and then an additional four minutes for rebuttal. Little excitement was generated by the candidates, as debenture run over a 10-year period only, which will result in a saving of $60,000 in interest as compared to what they would pay on a normal 20-year term. orThe debenture will add about four mills to the tax rate over that 10-year period and will result in an annual repayment of $16,000. The amount and terms of the debenture was one of the few things debated in the 1974 budget as presented by Clerk Eric Carscadden and the finance committee. Most departments show in- creases over last year with public works heading the list with a jump of over $20,000, despite the some races--such as in cross- country--top speed is not always used, yet it constitutes a race. He also maintained that when the two cars were at the passing point it would constitute a race. Judge Hays found both drivers guilty as charged and levied the $100 fines. Another fine of $100 was levied against Perry W. Mattson, Hensall, who pleaded guilty to reatingl,unnecessary noise with his vehicle in Exeter on May 19. The court learned he was squealing his tires by rapid ac- celeration around 12:15 a.m. Mattson pleaded not guilty to a second charge under the same section laid on May 25 in Exeter, Trial on that charge was set for September 17.' • Advance polls. open Saturday Advance polls for the July 8 federal, election will be held Saturday, June 29 and Monday, July 1. 'The polls will be open from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. Advance polling station is in the Exeter Town Hall. There is also one in St. Patrick's Parish Hall, Lucan. no local issues were really mentioned and candidates stuck closely to their party platforms. Liberal candidate for Huron Middlesex, John Lyndon, a Goderich theatre manager said that farm incomes had increased in the last few years beyond all expectations and that, on paper, it looked as if the farmers were doing fairly well. He added, however, that at the same time Smoke damages Dashwood hotel " Damages reached $10,000 in a fire at the Dashwood Hotel Friday night. Actual cause of the fire is unknown but one of the owners of the building Len Veri said "it started somewhere in the propane gas line. There was no visible evidence inside or outside the building. The fire created a lot of smoke and the Exeter fire department was called to aid the Dashwood brigade but the blaze was under control when they arrived. Veri said most of the smoke damage occurred in the Tiffany Dining Lounge. The dining room has been closed since Friday night for cleaning and repainting. It ,waS expected to be open for business as usual Wednesday morning. Some repairs were also necessary to the walls and windows which were damaged by firemen trying to get at 'the source of the fire, fact that council spent some $50,000 on a new works depart- ment shed last year. The $150,000 for the storm sewer is 'the major expense this year. Sanitation has jumped to $37,900 this year, compared to last year's actual expenditure of $20,512.72. The $20,000 for the new garbage truck is the main factor behind the sizeable increase. Protection to persons and property goes down from $173,662.44 in 1973 to an estimated $139,632.68 this year, Main reason for that is that council last year spent $50,000 to purchase ,the street lighting system from the PUC. However, the estimated Another Hensall man, Albert Rooseboom, was fined $200 on a charge of making a false statement concerning the fitness of a car he owned. He had a mechanics's fitness statement, but evidence showed that he had signed the form himself and had not had it done by the mechanic. Paul D. Truemner, Zurich, was fined $100 after pleading guilty to a charge of careless driving on May 25. He fell asleep and collided with a tree at 2:00 a.m. Judge Hays noted that anyone driving a car when sleepy is a menace on the road. Other fines levied by Judge Hays and Justice of the Peace Douglas Wedlake were as follows: Robert Bruce Dawson, Den- field, $13 for a speed of 40 in a 30 zone. David Vincent, Exeter, $38 for having liquor in his possession on May 18 and another fine of $38 for the same offence on May 19. Both times he was stopped by police while walking down the street with beer in his possession. Terry Phillips, Exeter, $53 for having liquor in a place other than his residence. Albert Visscher, RR 2 Kippen, Please turn to page 3 the cost of living had risen as well as costs to the farmers. He said that Liberal policies had left Canada with the smallest increase in the cost of living in the world. "The Liberal government is trying to make it easy for a farmer to make a good honest living like an industrialist does." Lyndon confessed that he would never make a good farmer because he gets confused on the issues, but said that a Liberal government would get incentives into the system to increase production to prices down. Robert McKinley, a Zurich area chicken farmer, the Progressive Conservative candidate said that "We are now back in the squeeze that farmers knew many years ago". McKinley said that during his nine years as MP for Huron Middlesex, his particular interest was farmers in the area. He said that the price and wage controls that the government is advocating were introduced by the Trudeau government under the Price and Incomes com- mission when inflation was only 4 percent but that theresults of the commission's final report had never been made public. Price and wage freezes are, McKinley said, a method of control. At present money is tight and interest rates are high. "Something has to protect us from recession and severe unemployment", McKinley said, "It looks like a dreadful Please turn to page 2 cost for street lighting is still $19,200 which is more than $3,000 over the cost in 1972 when the PUC owned the system. Policing costs are up over $10,000 to a total of $68,470. Recreation and community services, which includes the park, library, recreation and community centres budget is up to $46,700 this year, an increase of about $7,300. General government which includes salaries for council members as well as the clerk and his assistant are up almost $4,000 at $31,400 and other expenditures including office expense, elec- tions, employee deductions, etc. A list of grievances from the nursing staff at South Huron Hospital is now under con- sideration by the administration, according to Harry Hayter, president of the hospital board. Hayter said that a delegation of four nurses had met with the Administration and management committee of the Hospital board on Monday night. Although he would not say what the problems were, he said it had been a "very good meeting." "I was certainly pleased with our discussion. It was very en- couraging," the president said. Ile said that some of the nurses' accusations had already been Answered by hospital department heads and that the main problem had been lack of communication. "The nurses -greed," he said, "that lack of communication had been a problem . . it broke down total $38,200, compared to. last year's total of $32,$91. Also included in the bpdgetis ► reserve of $25,000. -for the pur,- chase pf the old post office building. 'The final category is debenture debt payments and this is dawn this year to. $87,515. A total to .be raised this year through .general taxation is. $557,472,80, based an an assessment of $4,123;293. Of that amount, 000;801.59 Is for general town purposes, $71,175.04 for .county, $92,384:57 for high school, $90,136.67 far public school and $2,915.00 for separate school. and people were getting frustrated." The nurses had first ap- proached the hospital ad- ministrator, Alice Claypole and Mrs, Jean Wilson, head of nurses June 18 to request a meeting with the administration and management committee. Miss Claypole said she didn't know what it was all about but that it was merely an internal problem, "All hospitals have them" She said. She later refused to either confirm or deny that any meetings had been held with the nurses, Ilayter Said that the nurses agreed to try and solve their problems with hospital ad. ministration and then report back to the committee before the next general board meeting. Two drivers pay $100 for racing on area road Election interest is low, only few at farm debate y.k