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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-10-31, Page 3Times-Advocate, Octpber 31, 1.974 Page 3 If Mtistard report implemented Local hospitals could disappear permission to engage another planner for the year 1975. This additional personnel would assist the present staff to expedite zoning bylaws at the local level. James Mair of Morris, chairman of the planning board, told council that the further the county goes with planning, the greater the need for secondary plans and zoning bylaws. "Some of the problems we've encountered might have been handled easier if we'd had more zoning bylaws in the county," said Mr, Mair. He termed it "regrettable" that the planning budget would have to be considerably in- creased to meet the salary of an additional staffer. It was estimated that an additional $18,000 would have to go into the budget to finance the extra ex- pense. Stan Profit, deputy-reeve of HONOUR POSTAL WORKERS — During Wednesday's official opening of the Exeter post office, three postal employees were honored. From the left are postmaster Harvey Pfaff, Henry Dyck, local employee with 25 years service; Murray Scott a rural courier for 25 years; E, R. Guenther with 50 year service and area post office manager Ira Jones, T-A photo Interesting artifact displayed at museum A summary of the con- troversial Mustard Report was Prepared by Dr, Frank Mills, Huron County Medical Officer of Health, and presented to each member of county council at the regular monthly meeting Friday, October 25 in Goderich. "I think it is an excellent summary of the report and I urge each member of council to read it carefully so you will be fully aware of the possible hn- plications involved if this report should ever be adopted by the provincial government," Clerk- treasurer John Barry told council. He also predicted it will be "difficult to get financing for capital expenditures" at the five county hospitals from now on. Mr. Berry gave as an example the "long and tedious" effort by the board at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital in Goderich to obtain permission to build An interesting artifact on display at the Museum is the "Waterlift" (from the Bixel home). This is a rare piece of pumping equipment which has Post office pioneers honored at opening Goderich, asked why municipalities don't hire their own planning consultants if the need for secondary plans is so great. Hewes told it was costlier for a municipality to engage their own planning staff, It was also pointed out that it had been agreed that the county would provide the planning staff to assist the municipalities to ensure a total planning concept for Huron, "Possibly we need a little more overall planning," said Mr. Mair, It was noted that some of the greatest planning problems arise "where town and township. meet". In other business, it was learned a new library van has been ordered from Jim Hayter Chev-Olds Limited of Goderich in the amount of $3,691.50; that the official opening of the Huron- Perth Regional Assessment Office is set for November 14 at 3:30 p.m.; and that the Association for Rural Municipalities of Ontario is keenly interested in increased membership for the coming year. additional emergency facilities there. "If the report is implemented," warned Mr. Berry, "we will be looking to larger hospitals," He asked county councillors to "stand up for Huron County and its hospitals". lad Oddleifson, reeve of Bayfield, also voiced concern that if the criteria set out in the Mustard Report was adopted, there could be a "reduction of supported medical centres from five to three", "If there is any reduction in grants to any particular hospital, we should object very strenuously," said Mr. Oddleifson, "We should be very, very militant about it." lie said in his opinion, Huron had an excellent medical setup for a rural county and noted the five hospitals were adequate and serving a need here. The planning board was given records are correct he was only 14 years old at the time." "We also wish to recognize one who has already given 31 years of service to the post office, Murray James Scott and a member of the present staff Henry Dyck, who has completed 25 years of ser- vice." Notes increase in use of liquor Police Chief Ted Day reported this week that his department have noticed a considerable increase in the number of liquor offences this year. "These types of offences have . increased by at least 50 percent," h These include minors having liquor and people having liquor in residences. sncesother than their He noted that the penalty for the latter has been stiffened and first offenders winnow be paying $53 and second offences will result in penalties of $78, On further charges, offenders must appear in court and will be fined according to their record, Approve protect at Bayfield site Tenders are being called for repairs to the north harbour wall at Bayfield. The closing date for tenders is November 14. Postal pioneers were honored Wednesday morning when the new Exeter post office was of- ficially opened. Mayor Jack Delbridge was on hand to cut the ribbon to open the new facility at the corner of Sanders and Andrew streets On the former Seldon property. The history of postal service in this area goes back 132 years when Joseph Hardy was ap- pointed postmaster on October 6th 1842 and the name of the office was Hay. Exeter itself was first served by storekeeper John McDonell 13 years later on July 1st 1855. Since that time there have been 12 postmasters at Hay and seven at Exeter. John McDonell resigned after only one year. William Saunders took over in 1856 and served for 21 years until his death in 1877. That FIRST BINGO WINNERS — Sharing $300 in the first Exeter Lions, were two district women. Shown above are bingo chairman Doug Knowles; Connie Semple, Huron Park; Carol Johnston, Zurich and Lions presi- dent Glenn Kells. T-A photo Separate school board okay pay increases for secretaries RCR's head for Cyprus Two collisions in Pinery area Officers of the Pinery Park detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police investigated two accidents this week. The first occurred Thursday in a private parking lot in Grand Bend. A vehicle owned by the Ontario Ministry of Environment Services Forestry branch was struck by an unknown vehicle. Constable F. A. Gardiner set damages at $50. Friday at the intersection of Highway 23 and Lambton County road 3 vehicles driven by Anthony Telek, Windsor and Garnet L. Snell, Port Franks collided. Constable G. W, Clark estimated damages at $900. Officers of the detachment investigated 25 occurrences during the week. Charges laid included eight under the Highway Traffic Act, four for' liquor fences and two persons were charged with impaired driving. same year David Johns was appointed in March and served for 20 years. He was followed by Edward Christie 1898 to 1917 and W. M. Russell from 1917-1921. Then came Milton William Pfaff who served for 32 years until retirement' in 1953. He was followed by the present post- master Harvey Pfaff (no known relative of Milton Pfaff) who has now served 21 years in that capacity. The Exeter office has grown with the community and has developed from a Renvue office (in a store) to a semi-staff office, to staff office, and the volume of business and the size of the staff has grown with it. Area' manager of Postal Ser- vices said he wished to pay tribute to all those postal pioneers who served so long and faithfully, Not only the post- masters, but their assistants, and the Rural Route couriers and those who operated the tran- sportation of the mail through the district - from stage coach to modern transport. He continued "that brings us to acknowledge a man we are glad to see here today, Earl Guenther, former postmaster of Dashwood. He was postmaster there from April 2 1928,until Janeary 24.196e„ a span of 43 years. Earl also has a • long history in the mail tran- sportation- business's'. It' was through his efforts that the mail kept moving during the nation- wide railroad strike in 1950." "Even before he was post- master he was carrying mail bags from July 1st, 1910. If our Exeter council —continued from front page nounced any intention of running to date and that is Dave Zyluk, a resident of Sherwood Crescent. Zyluk is a teacher at Precious Blood Separate School. The other four sitting members of council have all stated they swill seek, reselection,. They are "TbinNtacMillan, Ted Wright, Bob Simpson ,and Harold Patterson. The latter two are completing their first terms. MacMillan has served for six years, and noting that there would be new members coming onto couricil this year, said he felt he should give the ratepayers the benefit of his experience. He also noted he would like to stay on long enough to see the sewer project completed. "I agree with Helen Jermyn that the ladies should take more interest," he stated, adding that many women actually have more time at their disposal to devote to municipal work than the man of the house. Wright, who had considered seeking a higher ' position on council, said Monday he has decided to "stay where I am". In announcing his candidancy, Patterson said he has "very much" enjoyed the past two years. "I'm learning all the time," he said. Simpson, who only recently made up his mind to seek re- election, has been chairman of the sanitation committee. "I guess I'll give it another whirl," he told the T-A when asked about his intentions, Most of the members of the `Royal Canadian Regiment who reside in Huron Park will be heading for Cyprus sometime in November. The T-A learned late Wed- nesday afternoon that 790 members of the RCR's will make up a part of Canada's peace keeping force in the Middle East. been donated by Mr. Fergus Brady, with the request that a short history of the house and family be given. The "Waterlift" was on display at the local Fair and the following history has been written by H. Anderson, who was responsible for securing and restoring the Waterlift for the Museum. Matthew Bixel (from Ger- many) and three sons; Cyrus, Arthur and Oscar came to Ingersoll and then to Strathroy, arriving here in 1874. They started the Bixel Brewery on Caradoc Street that year. Shortly afterward Arthur and Oscar went to Brantford and started the Bixel Brewery there. In 1889 Cyrus built the home at 7 Kit- tredge Avenue and married Emily Banghart, Here Arthur Winlow Bixel was born and Aunt Clara Banghart lived with them. Cyrus died when Winlow was fourteen. Several years later Mrs. Bixel married D. C, Ross (later Judge Ross). Mrs. Clara Newton is their daughter. Mr. Fergus Brady purchased this grand old home and still lives there with his family. "Waterlifts" were installed before the turn of the century in luxurious homes with inside plumbing. In the attic there was a large storage tank for hard or impure water. This was filled by a windmill (usually wooden) or the gardener, or, in Mr. Bixel's case, a steam pump in the basement of the coach house, pumping from the spring creek. The pipe from this tank led to the "Waterlift" in the basement and the water pressure operated a piston. On the other end of the piston rod was another piston which pumped soft water to a soft water tank in the attic which supplied all the bathing and washing plumbing. The discharge from the power cylinder was piped to toilets, lawn, garden taps and coach house. Every time a toilet was flushed or any hard water used, it automatically pumped some soft water. "Waterlifts" were replaced by electric pressure systems when current became available soon after the turn of the century. The manufacture of "Waterlifts" ceased after 1900, Why not plan a visit to the Museum soon to see the "Waterlift"? Also view the HandicraftDisplay - quilts, rugs, copper tooling and the various forms of needlework. The week of November 11 to 15 will feature demonstrations on quilting, rug making, buck weaving, liquid embroidery and other handicrafts. More in- formation regarding this in next week's column. School reps plan to stand first meeting in December. Trustee Howard Shantz of Stratford was nominated to at- tend a Ministry of Education Conference on Evaluation on Wednesday November 20. The Ontario Separate School Trustees Associa tion is seriously evaluating its relationship with the Ontario School Trustees Council, but is not going to "pull out" of the council, the board learned in a letter from OSSTA president E. J. Brisbois of Toronto. The Council is made up of public and separate trustee associations, including the OSSTA, the Ont. Public School Trustee Association, the N. Ont. Public and Secondary School Trustees Association, and L'Association Francais des Counseils Scholaire d'Ontario. Area councillors decide Tuesday With nominations for the up- coming municipal elections opening within a week, members of present councils in the town- ships of Usborne and Hay have not made their future intentions known. Both councils expect to discuss the situation at their next • meetings slated for Tuesday. At Usborne reeve Lloyd Ferguson told the T-A he may consider "stepping down" if any sitting member wished to take over the reeve's position., Hay township reeve Joseph Hoffman said no one had made their intentions known and the matter will be discussed Tuesday. SOLOMON JOSEPH BECHARD Solomon Joseph Bechard passed away at South Huron Hospital on Saturday, October 26 in his 72nd year. He was the husband of Blanche Marie Jeffrey and father of Mrs, Dave (Pearl) Hubbard, New Baltimore, Mich., Mrs. Allen (Olivia) Lapham, New Baltimore, Mich., Mrs. Sally Bechard, Mt. Clemens, Mich., Gloria, New Baltimore, Mich., Bruce Bechard, California. Three step-children also sur- vive; William Fiscus, Grand Bend, Mrs. J. Brown, Grand Bend and Mrs. H. Stumpf, Kit- chener. He is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Mary Holland, Utica N.Y., as well as thirty-two grandchildren and twelve great- grandehildren, He rested at the Westlake Funeral Home, Zurich until Taesday. The funeral mass was held at St. Boniface R.C. Church, Zurich with Rev. Father Durand officiating. Interment was in St, Boteface Cemetery, ALFRED E. WUERTH Alfred E. Wuerth of Exeter passed away at South Huron Hospital on Wednesday October 23, in his 84th year. Mr. Wuerth Was born in Crediton in 1891. He learned the shoe trade As A boy from Bernard The two members of the Huron County Board of Education representing the town of Exeter and the townships of Usborne and Stephen will be seeking re- election. Clarence "King" McDonald of Exeter told the T-A Tuesday night he was definitely in the running. Several weeks ago he was undecided. The other area member Harry Hayter of Dashwood who was appointed in May, 1973 to com- plete the term for Huron MPP Jack Riddell indicated earlier he was returning. McDonald along with fellow trustees Herb Turkheim of Zurich and Alec Corrigan, Howick township and Huron board superintendent Bob Allan are attending a three day seminar in London this week. The seminar with more than 200 persons expected to attend will discuss "Community use of Schools". Three reports have already been made, These will be studied and recommendations made to the Ontario Minister of Education. Thieves get cash from local store Exeter police are investigating the theft of a large sum of money from the Hopper-Hockey Funiture Ltd. store. Police report that over $600 was removed from the firm's office sometime Thursday. A number of suspects have been questioned by police and the investigation is continuing by Constable Jibs McMeekin and Chief Ted Day, Two collisions on town streets Two accidents were in- vestigated by the Exeter police department this week. Damage was set at $1,400 on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. when vehicles operated by William Bowman, London, and Robert Frences Huron Park,collided at the intersection of Highways 4 and 83. Constable George Robertson investigated. The other,. accident occurred Tuesday when a car driven by Danny Stuckless, Exeter collided with a parked vehicle owned by Gordon McTavish also of Exeter, Constable Joe O'Driscoll set damage at $700. the Board voted to ask Kyles, Kyles and Garratt to contact both contractors and give them twenty days notice to correct the deficiencies. Ed Rowland, HPRCSS maintenance co- ordinator will check both schools after 20 days and the Board itself will repair anything that hasn't been cleaned up and deduct the cost from the held back portion of the contractor's fees. Mr. Lane reported that notices had been sent to 500 Catholics who were identified on the assessment rolls as being Public School supporters asking them to con- vert to Separate School support. To date, he has received 53 positive replies, bringing in $140,000 in additional assessment, amounting to about $3,500 in additional tax dollars. Nov. 1 is the last day for changing the assessment rolls. Trustee Looby commented that a comparative list showing the assessment figures for this year and last in each municipality would be useful to each trustee., The figure for this year are available in the budget, he was told, A specialist in correcting speech disorder, Dr. Seppo Tuomi of University Hospital, London, will do diagnostic screening of children in the board's Huron County Schools who have been identified by teachers and principal as having speech disorders, at St. James School in Seaforth on Thursday October 31. After diagnosis the children will be referred to cinics in either London or Kitchener, Children from Perth County who attend HPRCSS Schools can attend a speech therapy clinic in Strat- ford, Assistant Superintendent Joseph Tokar told the board, Superintendent John Vintar will attend the Ontario Education Administration Officials annual conference in Ottawa next week. Mr. Vintar is on the organization's board of gover- nors and said the conference will cover strategies in negotiatioesiand financial plan- ning and media effectiveness. Stratford trustee David Teahet commented that the 'conference would cover a great deal of in- terest to trustees . ."tait they are not invited, are they?" Mr. Vintar agreed that trustees weren't invited and said that there will be a similar conference set up for trustees in the future. Superintendent Vintar said that the Professional Development Day held Oct, 21 was of aldifferent format and teachers felt that it met their needs better. The Ontario School Trustees Council is offering an in-service training course for trustees after the December 2 election, the board was told. They decided to discuss the tourae further at their Secretaries in the 20 schools operated by the Huron-Perth 'Roman' Catholie Separate SChool Board were granted an increase of 25 cents per hour, retroactive to September 1 of this year, and a further 25 cents increase, ef- fective February 1, 1975 at the board's regular meeting in Seaforth Monday night. HPRCSS Board Chairman Michael Connolly said the raise was authorized by the board on the recommendation of the Personnel Committee. The employees are not unionized, Mr. Connolly said. The raise brings the school secretaries' salaries up from $2.80 to $3.05 per hour and to $3.30 per hour in February. HPRCSS Business' Administrator Jack Lane reported that a list of small deficiencies following con- struction at Holy Name School in St. Marys and St.Aloysius in Stratford have still not been remedied by the contactors. Mr. Lane said that one contractor told him he was not aware of some of the items on the list. The board has held back $4,000 in the St. Aloysius job and $2,000 at Holy Name until the deficiencies ae cleared up, Dublin trustee Joseph Looby said that 'the architect, Kyles, Kyles and Garrett of Stratford should take care of getting it cleaned up "that's what he's being paid for." On a motion from Mr. Looby, Speeder stopped, but locks self in A story related in Exeter court Tuesday indicated that police were considering smashing a window to apprehend a motorist stopped for speeding who sub- sequently locked , himself in his car. The incident occurred in June of this year after police stopped a car driven by Edward Helm, RR 2, Clinton. He had been spotted by the OPP air patrol, and when the officer on the ground went to get Helm's identification the driver locked the doors and wouldn't talk to the officer. After considerable deliberation, the officer in the aircraft suggested the officer on'the ground would have to use a tire iron to break one of the car windows. However, before this action became necessary, a passenger in the Helm car unlocked one of the doors. Helm was fined $15 for travelling at a speed of 72 in a 60 zone. Other speeders who paid fines Tuesday were as follows: James Mills, London, $13; Patrick J. Hogan, RR 8 Parkhill, $13; Wayne Layton, Clinton, $78; John D. Walker, Grand Bend, $13; Wally Tennant, London, $19; David A. Jervis, Clinton, $13; George Paul Gardner, London, $13; Gerald Brown, Willowdale, $21; Elgin E. Sleightholm, London, $49; ; Antonio Manzara, London, $51; Gillian E, Marriott, Vanastra,$18; Mark Stewart, London, $21; John H. Johnston, London, $13. Youths tackle leaf problem Brown and was employed for 23 years with Charles Zwicker in the grocery and grain business. In 1936 he moved to Hensall and started in the grocery business on his own. Mr. Wuerth came to Exeter in 1938 where he started a shoe store across the street from the present Wuerth's store. His business was mainly repairing at first and he had only 2 or 3 boots to sell. Alf Wuerth retired from the business thirteen years ago when he sold the store to his son and daughter-in-law Ray and Willa Wuerth. He was active in OddfellOws and in the James Street United Church choir, He was also active in the Exeter band where he played trombone, drum and cymbals, Alfred Wuerth was the husband of Lucilla Swartz. They were to celebrate their 59th wedding Anniversary in December, He was the father of Elva, Mrs, R. M. Long of Birmingham,- Michigan; Reginald of St. Catharines and Reynold of Exeter. He is also survived by seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The funeral service was held at the R. C, Diririey Funeral Home, Exeter ors Saturday, October 26 With Rev. Harold Snell of ,. ficiatirig, Interment was hi Creditors Cemetery, About 25 local youngsters tackled Exeter's leaf problem on Saturday and cleared most of the community of leaf piles, However a similar number of piles appeared on the boulevards this week and it is expected the youngsters will be called on to complete the task. Councillor Brute Shaw presented the plan to have teenagers assist With the project after councillors defeated a move at their Isla meeting to have the anti-burning bylaw changed to at least allow leaf burning, Shaw issued a plea for assistance through the school and Saturday morning the youngsters Showed up eager for Work, The town's garbage packer was put into service and two loads of leaves were taken to the dump by the end of the afternoon, Works superintendent Glenn Kens, who helped supervise the Work, said it is expected that the same procedure will be followed sometime later this week in an effort to complete the job' of getting rid of all the leaves. Residents are still urged to bag their leaves Where possible. Exeter court —continued from front page Gerrard Sartori, Goderich, $150 or 15 days for careless driving. Joanne M. Rasenberg, Zurieh, $38 for having liquor le a place other than her residence. Brian J. Chappel, Hay, $53 for having liquor in a place other than his residence, Francis J. McGrath, Huron Park, $M for failing to yield, Judge Hays asked for a pre- sentence report before passing sentence on James Moffat, Huron Park, Who pleaded guilty to charges of stealing a motor vehicle and leaving the scene of an accident on October M. On that, date he took a car front a service station and it later collided with a parked ear causing damage of $500, ZURICH CHURCH ANNIVERSARY -- The 100th anniversary of emmtinuel United thursh in Zurich was celebrated Sueday. Above, anniversary committee choirman Wayne Horner looks on as Mrs. Melissa Geiger is welcomed by the guest minister Rev. Allah D. Churehiii of St. Andrews United choral in Chatham. At the right is E m rti cm u M minister Rev. Bruce Guy. T-A photo iJs.AILL AO. ?.k • WM,