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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-05-19, Page 1e exelerZinesearAtwocate SPECIAL VISITOR AT LIONS — The guest speaker at Thursday's Exeter Lions club meeting was Edward Kincaid representing the Leader Dogs for the Blind group. Along with Kincaid was his dog Wulf. From the left with the two visitors are Exeter Lions Frank Giffin, president Max Dawson and Larry Snider. T-A photo Centre board presents report, Usborne first to give approval Area residents show concern on many school problems Public forums on education were held at South Huron District High School and Stephen Central School Tuesday night. The forums were part of the South Huron Schools Evaluation Programme when parents, teachers and students had an opportunity to express their concerns and state priorities. Exeter Public School principal Jim Chapman is co-ordinating the evaluation program which is being financed jointly by the Ontario Ministry of Education and the Huron Board of Education. The external team evaluation meeting at Stephen Central at- tracted four teachers and six parents in addition to the five members of the panel and Huron's attendance officer Don Young. The meeting was directed by Reg Shadbolt, a superintendent from the Frontenac County Board of Education. Assisting were Mrs. Dolores Wing, chairman of the Leeds and Grenville Board of Education: Mrs. Ilene Carter, primary consultant with the Lambton Board of Education: Pascal Calarco and John Milliken, both Education Officers with the Ministry. The main concerns voiced by the parents and teachers were a possible return to the inspector system, integration of bus systems and discipline at school and on the buses. Dave McClure, a parent and Howard and Peter Hughes, founders of Hughes Boat Works, have announced they will sign an agreement today (Thursday) to purchase the assets of North Star Yachts of Huron Park. The deal is between the Clarkson Company, London, who are the receivers of North Star Yachts, and the Ontario Develop- ment Corporation and the Cana- dian Bank of Commerce. The latter two were the secured creditors of North Star, Howard Hughes advised the T- A that the business will be reopened at the existing Huron Park facility, which was built two years ago by the ODC for North Star, Production is expected to com- mence in the first week of June. "Initial production will be bas- ed on the existing line of yachts built by North Star," Hughes said. The name of the company will be Hughes Boat Works Ltd. The company will be hiring ap- proximately 25 hourly paid production personnel immediate- ly, together with several key management people. Previous employees have been invited to contact a represen- teacher at South Huron District High School led the move for the return of what he called "subject inspectors", Looking for a white dog A six year-old Exeter girl will be forced to undergo rabies shots as the result of a dog bite if the animal is not found very shortly. The girl is Leigh Ryan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ned Ryan, 229 Kingscourt Crescent, Exeter. Leigh had ridden her bicycle to the Exeter Public School playground with a friend Kim Van der Weil when she was bitten. Only moments after the girl was bitten the dog was called by a woman who put it back on a leash. She was" accompanied by several small children. The youngster went im- mediately home to tell her mother who returned to the playground but the woman and dog were gone by this time, Ned Ryan told the T-A Wednes- day that he believes the dog is a Samoyed and goes by the name of Trixie, Ryan said if the dog is not found the series of rabies shots would have to be started in about two weeks. Anyone with any information about this incident is asked to contact the Exeter police office. tative of the new firm who will be on hand at Huron Park next week, starting on Tuesday, May 24, The Hughes brothers, along with their wives, Mary and Pat, founded their yacht firm in Toronto in 1963 and moved to Huron Park in 1967 in co- operation with the ODC. They were the first industry to settle at the former RCAF base. The business was sold to United States Steel Corporation in 1969 and the brothers remain- ed with the new owners until 1971, They employed 80 people when they sold to the steel firm. They moved to the Orangeville area where they now own and operate Hughes Motor Homes and Hughes Motor Coach. They sell new and used motor homes, rent motor homes and their fac- tory produces motor homes for General Motors. In addition they install in- teriors in highway coaches for such firms as Charterways and Greyhound. Howard Hughes said they would maintain the business in Cit.angeville and both will become involved in the boat business as well. McClure suggested the present method of superintendents handling the work of former inspectors was "doing it the hard way." He added, "Under the present system they do more consulting than inspecting." To this remark, Shadbolt replied, "Huron doesn't have curriculum experts. Superin- tendent Jim Coulter is the or- chestra leader for curriculum." Shadbolt continued, "Are you as taxpayers willing to bear higher costs? This type of in- spection you suggest will cer- tainly call for more resource people." Stephen Central teacher Marg Hogarth agreed with some type of inspection saying, "I would like to have a primary consultant for guidance." On the subject of discipline, McClure commented, "As far as I am concerned all parents, society and the schools are falling down with discipline. In replying -to the discipline question, Mrs. Carter said, the highest point on the internal report was discipline. All of us have to become actively in- volved." Mrs. Lorraine Bowers, Crediton, suggested students should not be allowed to drive to high school as this causes problems. She said all students should ride the buses provided. McClure suggested temporary car park passes for students having to 'go home early to work or staying for extra curricular activities at school. Mrs. Marianne Bender, a parent and secretary at Stephen Central said, "It's the fault of parents that students do not take the buses as they should." Huron's attendance Officer Don Young interjected, "The Board has no say as to how the students get to school." Please turn to page 3 Debate over police office An attempt by the two female members of Exeter council to have the new police office completely renovated this year failed to draw the support of the males when the subject was broached this Week. Councillor Barb Bell said she felt the building should be completely finished now, rather than holding back some of the renovations until next year. She was supported by Coun- cillor Lossy Fuller, who noted that the police would have to be uprotted again next year to complete the renovations and suggested council spend a little more this year and finish the project. She said some of the lighting in the new building was inadequate and should be altered now. Mrs. Bell said it would probably only cost about $1,000 to complete the renovations. However, their motion to complete the work was defeated, Mrs, Fuller then mentioned that there were "too many bosses" on the project and suggested the workmen involved should only have to answer to one person. There were indications that several council members had been giving directions to date and this was creating some confusion for the workmen as to who they were to take directions from. Councillor Harold Patterson said he couldn't understand that, noting he hadn't been near the place. At any rate, council decided to empower the police committee to supervise the project and the property committee would with- draw. Usborne Township council have given tentative approval to recommendations presented this week by the South Huron Recrea- tion Centre board of manage- ment, including agreement to share a portion of the current year's anticipated operating deficit. Usborne Reeve Bill Morley said council reached that deci- sion Tuesday night, after they had received the report from the board of nianagement. All four area municipalities had been invited to the meeting, but Usborne was the only council to appear in total, Representatives from Exeter and Stephen were also on hand and those councils are expected to deliberate the recommen- dations in the immediate future. Hay was also invited, but no representatives were present from that township. "We had all our council there and felt it was a golden oppor- tunity to discuss the proposal", Morley said. While Usborne has agreed to Debate for hour Council and the Exeter PUC debated that controversial fire protection cost for almost an hour, Monday, with the former finally agreeing to pay the 35 percent increase similar to all other water customers. PUC manager Hugh Davis and Reeve Si' Simmons carried on most of the debate and the Reeve was still unconvinced at that end of that lengthy session that the increase in fire protection costs was justified. However, when council voted on the matter later in the meeting, Simmons did vote to pay the increase. "Reason prevails," Mayor Bruce Shaw commented when Simmons joined in to make the decision unanimous. The debate over the 35 percent increase has waged for some Saddle club gets grant The Exeter Saddle club receiv- ed $1500 in Wintario funds last Thursday to add lighting facilities to their new outdoor show ring. The show ring, built by club members from Huron and Middlesex counties, was of- ficially opened Sunday with Jack Riddell cutting the ribbon at the opening ceremony. Other Wintario grants for Huron County projects will be received by the Seaforth Arena and Community Hall, Howick Township, Goderich Oldtimer's Hockey Club, and the Seaforth Industrial Hockey League. The grants range from $110 for the purchase of goal pads by Seaforth's Industrial League to $70,000 for reconstruction of the Seaforth arena. The Wintario grants issued to Huron County projects Thursday totalled $75,- 166. The Exeter Saddle Club has horse shows planned for Sunday afternoons throughout the summer and will sponsor the Mid-Western Quarter Horse showtat theEXeter.fairgrounds on June 11. share in any operating deficit for the current year, they did not agree to enter into a long range agreement as the board of management had hoped. The board had suggested the municipalities agree on a cost sharing formula and that the percentages agreed upon would be in effect for three years and then re-negotiated at that time. Usborne did agree to pay 30 percent or $4,000 towards any operating deficit in 1977, whichever is the lesser.amount. Morley said council would take another look at the situation next year after the board had been in operation and had a clearer un- derstanding of what the deficit may be in a full year's operation, He said Usborne was not prepared to agree to terms on a three-year basis at the present time. They felt it would be unfair to obligate their ratepayers on that basis when the operating deficit was still an unknown quantity. However, he was quick to point out that he was very optimistic time and at their last meeting, council agreed only to pay the same rate as last year. Monday night's decision rescinded that motion and approved paying the increase as billed by the PUC. Simmons started off the debate by telling the PUC that council didn't think they should pay the increase, but added that they would if the Commission could give them a good reason why they should pay, PUC chairman Murray Greene simply stated that everyone else had to pay the 35 percent increase in water rates and wondered why council members were of the opinion they shouldn't. Simmons asked for an ex- planation of the increase and Davis said it was due primarily to the cost involved in the new wells and pipeline in Usborne Town- ship. He went on to note that much of the cost involved in installing new mains was due to fire protection as those mains had to be over- sized to provide enough water for the firemen. Davis said that a two-inch main was adequate to supply domestic water, but the mains had to be over-sized to six inches to provide for ample water in fire emergencies. Noting that the bill for fire protection had increased from $387 per month in 1962 to the current figure of over $2,000 per month, Simmons said if council increased taxes at a similar rate, the present mill rate in Exeter would be over 400 mills. "You're asking us to put one and a half mills on the rate to subsidize you." he told the PUC. Davis replied that the in- creases were due to major capital expenditures and reminded council that they had all wanted the new Usborne wells installed and had sat in on meetings when those wells were being discussed, Simmons said that Clinton had not increased their fire protection costs at the same rate Exeter has and wondered why, when the two communities had grown about the same in'population over the past 15 years, that the centre would not operate at a large deficit. He said if an ambitious manager was hired to keep the centre humming with activity he didn't anticipate a very great deficit on the operation. Most of the other recommen- dations submitted by the board were tentatively approved by Usborne, Morley said the township had two represen- tatives on the board in the per- sons of Howard Pym and Blob Down and they were both compe- tent. "We don't want to step on their toes," he said. "They're capable of making decisions." In their budget this year, Usborne has set aside two mills for recreation purposes, That comes to about $6,400, The Reeve said he anticipated some of that would have to go towards helping with any deficit at the new swim- ming pool in Kirkton. The recommendations outlined by the board and being con- sidered by the contributing municipalities are as follows: He was advised that Clinton had a much closer water supply and their capital plant cost was probably not even near 50 percent the total for Exeter. Davis also noted that Clinton Please turn to page 3 Dave Zyluk to represent NDP A former Exeter resident is contesting the riding of Huron- Bruce for the New Democratic Party in the upcoming provincial election. Named at the nomination meeting in Kincardine was David Zyluk, principal of Kingsbridge Separate School. Zyluk spent several years in Exeter on the teaching staff of Prcious Blood Separate School. While in Exeter he ran un- successfully for a council seat in the 1974 municipal election and was a member of RAP for two years. 1. That a recreational ad- ministrator be hired. 2. That councils accept the 1977 budget as presented. 3. That the councils enter into an agreement whereby the operating deficit is shared among the municipalities accor- ding to a formula, 4, That councils accept the rental rates and fee schedule as outlin- ed in the report. 5. That councils approve the board's plans for the purchasing of additional equipment to max- imize the benefit to be derived from Wintario grants. 6, That the town of Exeter ratify the following agreements entered into by the recreation sub-committee of the board: (a) tennis club, (b) soccer club. 7. That a petty cash account of $500 be advanced to the board immediately. Expect deficit In their proposed budget for the current year, the board predicts a deficit of around $14,- 000. That's based on anticipated revenue of $36,050 and expen- A 29-year-old Brucefield area man, Charles R. Lince, was kill- ed Wednesday morning when the motorcycle he was riding collid- ed with a tractor trailer on Highway 83 at the Staffa Road. The fatal accident took place at 7:05 a.m. Lince had been eastbound on Highway 83 and the tractor trailer, owned by Cronyn Transport of Dublin and driven by Donald Seymour, Concession 4 of Tuckersmith, was southbound on the county road and crossing Highway 83, The motorcycle hit the right front wheel of the tractor. Lince was pronounced dead at the scene by coroner Dr. William O'Connor, Grand Bend. The vic- tim sustained a massive skull fracture and internal injuries. The body was taken by Hoff- man's Ambulance to Stratford Hospital for a post mortem. OPP Constable Jack Straughan was in charge of the investiga- tion, assisted by Cpl. Ray Brooks. The motorcycle was totally wrecked with damage in the ac- cident being estimated at $2,000. A six-year-old Exeter area youngster escaped injury Sunday when his bicycle was involved in a collision on Huron St. East, The driver of that vehicle also escaped injury when he ended up in the ditch as the vehicle over- turned. John Penninga, Exeter, was eastbound on Huron St. around noon when he took evasive action to avoid hitting the young cyclist, Thomas Rolph, RR 3 Exeter. The car just clipped the rear of the bike. The Penninga vehicle sustain- ed $1,500 in damage when it roll- ed over and came to rest on its roof in a field. OPP Constable Wally Tomasik investigated the incident, In another Sunday accident, damage was set at $2,500 when a vehicle driven by Harold Eberhardt, RR 2 Centralia, struck a private drive and culvert area on Highway 4 south of Exeter. The driver sustained minor in- juries. Constable Jack Straughan in- vestigated. There were two accidents on Friday, both of a similar nature. un,ures of $50,090. Those figures do not include any recreation program for Ex- eter, but are strictly for the operation of the rec centre. Anticipated ice rental for 1977 is about $13,000 and the canteen and pro shop is expected to generate revenue of $12,500. Bar receipts are set at $5,000 and hall rental at $3,000. The board told the councils that they felt a competent in- dividual is needed to help co- ordinate recreation in the par- ticipating communities as well as administer and promote the rec centre. "With this in mind, the board's choice as an administrator has a three year business administra- tion diploma with a number of years practical experience. He is presently enrolled in the recrea- tion leadership program and is eligible for the interim "B" cer- tificate and he has managed two arenas for a private concern for a number of years." A suggested salary for that Please turn to Page 2 Price Per Copy 25 Cents A vehicle driven by David Smale, RR 1 Hensall, struck a parked car on a Hensall parking lot. Damage to the vehicle owned by Hugh McEwen, RR 2 Hensall, was estimated at $200 by Constable Frank Giffin. In the other collision, a vehicle driven by Francis Morrison, Huron Park, struck a parked car owned by Bruce Bird, also of Huron Park. Damage in that one was set at $120 by Constable Bill Lewis. . Two cyclists are injured Two bicyclists have been the victims of collisions during the past two weeks. Deborah Totter, 425 William St., Exeter, collided with a vehicle driven by Helen McCann, RR 3 Dashwood, May 5. The accident occurred on William St. and was investigated by Constable Brad Sadler. Constable Sadler investigated another bibycle-auto collision May 14, Katherine Jolly, 255 Huron St., Exeter was riding her bicycle on Gidley St. when she collided with a vehicle driven by Margaret Johns, RR 1 Woodham. Other area accidents included a collision between a vehicle driven by William Thompson, William St., Exeter and a hit and run vehicle May 7. Constable Brad Short investigated the accident and estimated the damage to the Thompson car at $300. Exeter Police investigated a missing person call from the Epps home on Albert St. May 9 and the youth was found in the area, Two vehicles collided on Main St. Exeter May 11 and Constable Brad Short investigated. A vehicle driven by Herbert Blue, Exeter, collided with a car owned by Carmin Schlenker, Kitchener. The estimated damage was $500. Constable Kevin Sadler in- vestigated a collision between cars owned by Lester Heywood and Garnet Shipman, both of Exeter. He estimated total damage of the May 13 collision at $1,400. FLAG BEARING INSTRUCTIONS — Prior to Wednesday's parade for the Legion Auxiliary Zone rally, parade marshal Phil Campbell gives final instructions to flag bearers Norma Jones and Irene Jackson. Hughes brothers buck in business One Hundred and Fourth Year GRADUATION AT CENTRALIA — The eighth annual graduation ceremonies were held Friday at Centralia College of Agricultural Technology. Above, principal James MacDonald welcomes Dr. Clay Switzer, dean of Agricultural College at the University of Guelph; Dr. J. C. Rennie, executive director of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food; Dr. Ralph Topp, Animal Health Co-Ordinator and Dr. V. E. Currie, Co-Ordinator of Home Economics. T-A photo Council agrees to water costs EXETER, ONTARIO, MAY 19, 1977 Motorcyclist dies in district crush LEGION BREAKFAST CHEFS *The annual Exeter Legion bowling tournament held Sunday was preceded by d breakfast. Shown in the kitchen are Jim Young, Ray Hunter, Oliver Jaques and Lee Webber. T.A photo