HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-01-16, Page 1'HIGH WIND DAMAGES — The high winds of the weekend demolished a tool shed on the property of Dan
McLeod at the south end of Exeter. Chris McLeod is shown in the above picture. T-A photo
Anson McKinley
after his grandfather, John
McKinley, was elected Stanley
Township reeve.
Mr. McKinley's brother,
Robert, a Progressive Con-
servative, has represented the
Huron and Huron-Middlesex
ridings in Parliament since 1965.
There has been considerable
speculation that Anson McKinley
has plans of getting into either
federal or provincial politics.
However, he temporarily
ended speculation he might
venture into provincial politics in
the next Ontario election when he
said he has "no intention of using
the office of warden as a step to a
higher or other political arena. I
AIL will give the office of warden all
Mlir the attention it deserves for 12
months."
His promise came as good news
to Jack Riddell, Huron MPP who
brought greetings to county
council.
"It's comforting to know you
are planning to devote a full year
sorest Lodge 133 on the 70th a nniversary of his joining the lodge. From the left are Don Webster, Worship-,.
Master of Lodge 133, Earl Watson, South Huron Deputy District Grand Master, Percy Simpson and past
District Deputy Grand Master sill Cann. T.A photo
RAP COMMITTEE HEADS — At Monday's first meeting of the year of
Exeter's RAP committee, Jack Underwood was named chairman and
Ruth Durand vice-chairman. • T-A photo
Underwood chosen
new RAP chairman
One Hundred and Second Year EXETER, ONTARIO, JANUARY 16, 1975
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Proceed with plans
to lease post office
Youth escapes jail
on police testimony
At a special meeting Friday
night, Exeter council voted
unanimously to proceed with
negotiations between the
department of public works to
acquire the former post office for
municipal offices.
In so doing, council turned
down a proposal by two local
businessmen, Mel Gaiser and
Jim Kneale, to lease space in a
building the two propose to build
at the former Cann's Mill site on
Main St.
Reeve Derry Boyle, chairman
of the property committee, said
the decision was based primarily
on economics.
Jackson gets
Lambton post
Dave Jackson, a 52-year-old
real estate agent from Grand
Bend, has been appointed Sarnia
registrar of the Supreme Court,
County Court Clerk and
Surrogate Court Registrar.
He replaces Ben Honsinger, a
former Petrolia police chief, who
resigned the position last Sep-
tember.
Jackson is a former member of
Grand Bend council, He ran
unsuccessfully in a bid for reeve
in 1972 and was also defeated as a
Conservative candidate for
parliament in the mid 1960's.
Stanley Township Reeve Anson
McKinley was elected Monday as
warden of Huron.
The 49-year-old Zurich area
chicken farmer defeated Clinton
Reeve Harold Lobb 34 to 22 on a
second ballot. McKillop Town-
ship Reeve Allan Campbell was
eliminated on the first ballot,
The McKinley name is a
familiar one in county political
circles.
The new warden said in his
address to county council his
election comes exactly 60 years
The post office building is
available for a yearly rental of
$2,250, while the rental fee for the
new building was estimated at
$10,000 to $12,000 by the two local
realtors.
"It was a nice proposal (the
new building)," Boyle com -
mented at the special meeting,
"but there are just so many other
things we can use that extra
money for,"
Boyle said the post office
building should be adequate for
the next 20 years, but added that
an addition could be made to it if
council felt it necessary.
He said it was not unusual for
people renting buildings to make
additions or renovations if they
had a long-term lease.
The department of public
works has indicated council could
secure a 20-year lease on the post
office, plus the option of an ad-
ditional 10 years. •
In their five-year forecast
submitted to the Ontario
government last year, council
had indicated an expenditure of
$250,000 for a municipal building
in. 1975.
Deputy-Reeve Tom MacMillan
noted that this money could now
be used for some other project, or
one of the projects on the five-
year forecast could be moved
ahead.
Other items on the forecast
included a senior citizens' nur-
sing home and a recreation
complex.
as warden," Mr. Riddell said.
"My next move is to make sure
Bill Davis calls the next election
this spring or fall."
Warden McKinley, who
replaces Bill Elston, Morris
Township reeve, is the second
Stanley Township reeve elected
warden in three years.
The 1972 warden was Stanley
Reeve Elmer Hayter.
Warden McKinley, operations
manager at McKinley Hat-
cheries, and wife Evelyn, have
six children.
He told- Huron's 44 other
coun'eillors he has "no great or
grand plans for the coming
year."
The strength of county council,
he said, lies in the integrity of its
members who must "manage
county affairs to inspire con-
fidence in the people we serve."
"Our contribution," he con-
tinued, "will be measured by
later generations. We are the
pioneers of today. We have to
look at how our actions today will
affect tomorrow." '
Warden McKinley was of-
ficially sworn in by Huron County
court Judge Francis Carter.
He has been a member of
county council for seven years —
the past two as reeve following
five years as deputy reeve.
For the past two years, Mr.
McKinley was chairman of the
county committee responsible for
the management of Huronview,
Huron County home for the aged
at Clinton.
Greetings were also brought by
Murray Gaunt, MPP (L-Huron-
Bruce) and Goderich Mayor Deb
Shewfelt,
Exeter merchants
plan for annual
The Exeter Board of Trade will
hold their annual meeting on
February 22,
This date was set at a meeting
of the executive last week.
Gerry Smith and Mareook are
in charge of the event, which will
be a dinner-dance.
Executive members have
tickets available now for the
annual meeting,
Councillor Ted. Wright also
noted the drains committee could
use some of the money,
In December, last year's
council had already expressed an
interest in acquiring the post
office in a letter to the depart-
ment of public works,
It had been written after
council recommended that the
1975 council seek a lease, They
could take no definite action
themselves because their tents
Area youths
get jail terms
Two Dashwood area youths
were sentenced to jail terms
when they appeared before
Judge Glenn Hays recently for
sentencing on charges arising
from a series of thefts, van-
dalism and property damage in-
cidents in the area this past
summer.
The two, Daniel Charles Dur-
din and Gerald Lawrence
Dietrich, had previously pleaded
guilty to the charges and Judge
Hays had ordered a pre-sentence
report prior to handing down
sentence.
Dietrich was sentenced to four
months definite and six months
indefinite on one of the break and
enter charges. In addition, he
was sentenced to 60 days on each
of the other charges with those
terms to run concurrent with the
first sentence.
Durdin was sentenced to 60
days on one of the break and
enter charges and 60 days con-
current on each of the other
charges.
Dietrich faced a total of three
break and enter charges and four
mischief. Durdin was charged
with two break and enter in-
cidents and four charges of theft.
over $200.
Some of the places victimized
included Hensall District Co-Op
at Zurich, the property of Clare
Masse, Hayter's Garage, the
Huron County works department
shed at Zurich, the Hay
Township shed, Schatz General
Store in Dashwood.
Bus drivers
congratulated
At a Thursday night meeting at
South Huron District High
School, bus drivers of the Exeter
division of Charterways of
Toronto were congratulated for
recording an accident free year
in 1974.
In attendance were Murray
McAlpine, safety co-ordinator for
Charterways, Lloyd Hewitt,
manager of the Exeter Char-
terways division, Constable John
Wray, safety officer of the
Ontario Provincial Police from
Goderich and Exeter police chief
Ted Day.
Films and demonstrations on
safe driving were shown and the
local drivers commended on the
good use of defensive driving
methods.
Drivers in attendance were
Don Hooper, Ray Rader, Elmer
Rowe, Ron Caldwell, Don
Dearing, Mary Weber, Aldeen
Skinner, Sam- Skinner, Shirley
Kipfer, Archie Webber, .Norm
Wainer, Grant Triebner, Susan
Gackstetter, Ken Baker, Ralph
Weber, Ortha Baker, Harold
Simpson and Lloyd Guenther.
of office were near expiry,
In writing the letter, Clerk Eric
Carscadden had advised the
department of this situation and
noted that the new council would
make a decision early in the new
year.
"Hopefully it will be ac-
cepted," Carscadden had added
to the end of his letter.
Friday night, the decision to
acquire the building was ap-
proved unanimously.
Mayor Bruce Shaw, as retiring
0 airman of the finance com-
ri of RAP made two
c'ommendations to the new
11 lance committee at the first
IAP meeting of the ,new year,
Monday.
Shaw recommended that there
be "little Or no net increase in the
budget over last year" and
suggested that RAP has the
potential "to come up with a good
strong black figure for 1975."
Shaw said that RAP has a
responsibility to be more active
in raising revenues and using
facilities to capacity, and that it
was time now for RAP to become
more creative and active in
finding ways of making money to
see a profit this year.
Reeve Derry Boyle chairman
of the 1975 finance committee for
RAP, said that RAP is "not ex-
pected to make money, it is a
community service,"
Shaw said that he expected the
A 17-year-old area youth es-
caped a term in jail this week
when a policeman advised court
officials that the accused "has
straightened up considerably".
Kenneth Barry Campbell, RR
2 Ailsa Craig, was appearing
before Judge Glenn Hays on
charges of careless driving and
driving while his licence was un-
der suspension.
He pleaded guilty to both in
Tuesday's court.
The charges were laid in Ex-
eter on September 21, just four
days after Campbell had had his
licence suspended for one year
on two charges of careless driv-
ing.
OPP Constable Jim Rogers
told the court he saw Campbell
pull from the car wash lot on
Main St. at a ''substantial
acceleration". The vehicle the
youth was driving fish-tailed and
slid sideways on the street in the
wrong lane before it was brought
under control.
However, Rogers later told the
court that Campbell had changed
his attitude towards . the law
.after "causing quite a bit of
problem during the summer"
and had not been in any trouble
since that time.
Judge Hays took this into con-
sideration in handing down his
sentence, noting that usually
"and with few exceptions" a jail
term is imposed on those who
town will always be supporting
RAP but that they have facilities
that are not being used to
capacity. He explained that the
town would like to see their
subsidy of the RAP ;committee
remain at approximately $40,000.
He said that he would like to see
the spread between expenditures
and receipts stay the same,
explaining that expenditures
could be raised to $100,000 if they
could get $60,000 in revenues.
Jack Underwood, chairman of
RAP said he felt this was a
reasonable request on Shaw's
part,
Reporting on last year's
finance committee, Shaw said
that expenditures for wages fell
toughly within the budget, with
overbudgeting for instructors
and underbudgeting for part-time
help. He predicted a roughly 16
percent increase in wages for this
year.
Shaw reported that last year's
drive while under suspension.
He said the charge amounts to
contempt of court.
He fined Campbell $228 and
added another six-month suspen-
sion to the term of suspension
still not served on the first two
careless driving charges.
The six-month suspension is
mandatory under the Criminal
Code for driving while dis-
qualified,
He told the accused he was
lucky no accident had resulted
from his driving on the date in
question "because it was very
poor".
In other, cases heard by Judge
Hays and Justice of the Peace
Douglas Wedlake, the following
fines were levied:
Gary W. Deitz, RR 3 Kippen,
$53 for having liquor in a place
other than his residence.
Walter J, Morris, Durham, $13
for a speed of 40 in a 30 zone.
Lawrence Edward Shaw, 111
Salem Place, London, $16 for a
speed of 73 in a 60 zone.
William R. Walker, Sanders
St., Exeter, $39 for a speed of 68
in a 50 zone.
Judge Hays gave a verdict of
not guilty in a charge of joyriding
against Donald Blair Foster, RR
3 Exeter, He had been charged
with taking a vehicle without the
consent of its owner on March.15.
Foster had been involved in an
accident with the vehicle.
budget for facilities was $3,000
short, He said that the net loss for
the arena was $1,000 because
revenues were down, and that
although the finance committee
felt they were making a con-
servative estimate on revenues,
they "weren't conservative
enough."
He said that a couple of areas in
particular showed a deficit, Ice
rentals and admissions were
down, "It was an off year for
drawing crowds." The ice rental
was raised but Shaw said that the
two price system used at the pool
this summer was not carried out
in ice rentals.
Derry Boyle said that the
finance committee had done a
good job on the budget despite
Overspending. He said that
with the hiring of a director and a
full time resources manager and
the expansion of programs, the
committee had done well to hold
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Ust priorities
for Usborne
At the first meeting of 1975 of
Usborne township council newly
elected Reeve Walter IVIefiride
outlined the important projects
for the corning year.
McBride who moved up from
the deputy-reeve post to replace
the retiring reeve Lloyd
Ferguson listed development of
the township's secondary plan
and a sanitary landfill site as the
most urgent items of business,
Salaries and wages were set for
members of council and township
employees. The Reeve will
receive $700 per annum, the
deputy-reeve's pay will be $650
and each councillor's annual
salary will be $600,
Clerk-treasurer and tax
collector Harry Strang and road
superintendent John Batten will
each receive $12,000 per year.
Hourly wage rates for road
department personnel for a 45
hour week were set as follows:
foreman - $4.50; grader operator -
$4,25; machine helpers - $4 and
day labour $3.
The waste disposal officer will
receive $25 per week, livestock
valuators are to get $20 per call
and car mileage allowance rate
was set at 17 cents per mile.
The road maintainer rental
rate was set at $12 per hour for
County and Township and $17 for
ratepayers. Snow plowing rates
will be $12 per hour for the
township and $26 per hour for
ratepayers. Rental of the power
mower will be $10 per hour.
Reeve Walter McBride and
Councillor Jack Stewart were
named to represent the township
on the Exeter and area fire board
while deputy-reeve Bill Morley
and councillor Murray Dawson
are representatives of the
Usborne recreation committee.
Named to the Kirkton Com-
munity Association and the
Kirkton-Woodham Community
Centre Board was councillor
Gordon Johns.
A petition for a municipal drain
presented by Gordon Prance and
Paul Cronyn at Lots 3 and 4
Concession 10 and 11 was ac-
cepted and will be forwarded to
engineer A. M. Spriet and
Associates for a survey and
report.
Land severance applications
from Archie Etherington and
Walter Creery were approved.
Council was advised by the
Ontario Ministry of Tran-
sportation and Communications
that the No Parking bylaw for the
Morrison Dam area had been
approved.
Tax collector Harry Strang
reported that tax arrears for the
year 1974 were $13,500.29 which is
four percent of the total tax
receivable roll.
Gravelling tenders for the year
1975 are being currently ad-
vertised and will close for con-
sideration at the next regular
meeting set for the township hall
at Elimville on February 4 at 1
p.m.
Reeve Walter McBride,
deputy-reeve Bill Morley and
councillors Jack Stewart, Gordon
Johns and Murray Dawson
received their oaths of office
from clerk Harry Strang and
Rev. Harold Snell presided over
the devotional exercises.
Four cottages
hit at resort
Cottage break-ins continue to
keep the Pinery OPP detachment
busy.
Constable R. J. Kotwa is in-
vestigating two breakins at
cottages in Southcott Pines.
Household property valued at
$971 was stolen in the breakins
discovered last week.
Two Port Franks cottages were
also entered, A chain saw valued
at $90 was taken from one of
them.
Only one accident was in-
vestigated, it occurring on
Wednesday when a vehicle
driven by Wayne Schagena, 96
Deerfield Avenue, Kitchener,
collided with a deer on Highway
21 near the Pinery Flea Market.
Damage to the vehicle was
listed at $1,000.
During the past week, the
Pinery officers charged 13 people
under the Highway Traffic Act
and two under the Liquor Control
Act. There was one charge under
the Criminal Code and the
Narcotic Control Act.
Shotgun blasts
shack at dump
Exeter OPP are investigating
one shooting incident and a theft
this week.
On Sunday afternoon, nine win-
dows and the stove pipe chimney
at the attendant's shack at the
Stephen dump were shot up by
someone using a shotgun.
Damage was listed at ap-
proximately $10, Constable Don
Mason is investigating.
Wayne Meidinger, Zurich,
reported to police that 10 tapes
and a case were stolen from his
car. Value of the items was set at
$80 ,
That investigation is being un-
dertaken by Constable Dale La-
mont,
Stanley reeve wins
Huron warden battle
Jack Underwood was elected that it wouldn't work and that it
chairman of the Exeter RAP was not nec,essary.%,„,,,
committee at the first meeting op, As a result of the 'rineeting
the new year, He succeeds Gord 'Lawn Bowling club and the Men's
Baynham who has been chair- Euchre club applied for and
man of the.committee for several received a grant to renovate the
years, facilities at the bowling club
Ruth Durand was elected vice- house.
chairman of the committee. A second general meeting was
Subcommittees were formed as
follows: finance, Derry Boyle
and Dave Zyluk; resources, Bob
Pooley and Lossy Fuller;
programs Ruth Durand and Gord
Baynham.
Mrs. Fuller and Derry Boyle
are representatives from town
council.
Mayor Bruce Shaw expressed
congratulations to the chairman
and vice-chairman on behalf of
the town. In his address to RAP,
Shaw said that council had been
involved in several problems
related to RAP in the last few
weeks.
He said that . senior citizens
have expressed their concern
with arrangements that have
been made recently concerning
the New Horizons grant. Shaw
said that "vocal members have
made known their apprehension
with the way things are going"
and said that Lossy Fuller was
appointed to RAP because of her
involvement with Seniors at the
council level,
The senior citizen's group that
was already formed are con-
cerned with what their prosition
is, he said since a group was
called together for the purpose of
the New Horizons grant for the
Well-Come Inn at the Scout
House.
Shaw suggested that RAP take
the initiative and call together a
public meeting of all senior
citizens from all groups to elect
an executive to deal with these
problems.
"There seems to be a lack of
communication between the
different groups," and he said he
could see no problems of one
group feeling threatened by not
having a mandate if all were
asked to elect their represen-
tatives,
He raised the question of what
constitutes a senior citizen and
suggested that there be a
membership fee charged for this
general group and that it be open
so that anybody who wanted
could join. He said that
regulations should be so open that
even he could join. "You'll never
find a way of determining a line
between middle age and the
twilight years."
McKinlay said that the same
problems had been brought to the
attention of programs committee
chairman, Ruth Durand and
himself and they were taking
steps to solve the problem.
In early spring RAP called a
general meeting of seniors to try
to establish a co-ordinated base
to apply for a New Horizon's
grant, At that time, McKinlay
said, he was told "not to bother,
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A BIRTHDAY RIDE — A sleigh ride along Exeter's Main street was part of the first birthday celebrations of
Matthew and Mark Baker, twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. David Baker, RR 3 Lucan. T-A photo
Shaw urges no increase
in RAP grant this year