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
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The pier at Grand Bend was a popular spot Thursday as many area fishermen took advantage of the hungry perch.
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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