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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-09-01, Page 1PROMOTED — Superintendent A. R. Edwards, Ontario Provincial Police, No. 1 District Head- quarters at Chatham, announced the promotion of Sergeant Major George W, Mitchell to the rank of Inspector. Inspector Mitchell attended the Arthur High School and joined the Ontario Provincial Police Nov. 13, 1951, He has been stationed at Kitchener, Ex- eter, Sauble Beach, Grand Bend and Forest Detachments. In 1976, he was posted to No. 1 District -,,Headquarters as Sergeant Major an` 1 on August 15, 1977, received the Commissioned rank of Inspec- tor, remaining at No, 1 District, Ch thorn, pver 15,000 at Playhouse The Huron Country Playhouse wound up the 1977 season last week, although it was the shor- test season since 1974 with only eight weeks of productions as compared to 10 in 1975 and 1976. Despite the short season, the Playhouse attracted more visitors than any other com- parable period of time with over 15,000 persons attending the plays this year, George Washington Slept Here was the most outstanding box office attraction. The least popular seemed to be the import Show The Phoenix Threatre from Montreal and its production of Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill, Playhouse manager James Murphy said this week that 54 percent of the 28,000 seats were filled for the 56 performances. Several hundred youngsters attended the four shows brought in for children, Murphy said it was too early to know exactly how the Playhouse fared financially but is an- ticipating a break even budget for the year. Murphy continued, "It was a good steady year. The years of hard work are beginning to pay off. We will be looking at more • two week runs for next season," f He concluded, "We will offer a p 1 eine week program next year with the same number of shows, six in all." FIRE ORIGIN — A fire which caused $20,000 damages to the Stephen township, home of Adrian Kester on Concession 14 started on the kitchen stove. The damaged kitchen area is shown above. T-A photo Most enrolments down School opens next week PORK PRINCESS — Joann Ondrejicka, RR 1, Exeter was named Huron County Pork Princess recently. From the left are Joann and two other area contestants Karen Kernick and Beth Keys, photo by Wilma Oke PUC to make application for hydro rate increases REPAIR ROOF — Fire early Monday morning extensively damaged the farm home of Adrian Kester on Concession 14 in Stephen township. Workmen are shown repairing the roof. T-A photo f FLYING FROM A DISTANCE — The honour of flying the longest distance to Sunday's Fly-in at Sexsmith airport goes to Ed Greb of Kansas City, Missouri. The 421 Cessna owned by Grab landed at the Huron Park airstrip. Above, Leonard Greb who owns Sexsmith airport welcomes Ed and two other brothers Gordon of Kansas City and Wesley of Wichita at the extreme right. In the centre is another brother Harry Greb, Ex- eter. Family unites at fly-in ei-eferciMinessaktuoca One Hundred and Fourth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 1, 1977 Price Per Copy 25 Cents GOLD MEDALISTS An area brother combination won gold medals in the recent Ontario Summer Games in Kitchener by finishing first in the expert marathon canoe race. Shown with one 01 their racing craft are Xavier Boogemans, Grand Bend and Rene t oogemans, Henson. F I RE GUTS DASHWOOD HOME the Huron Board of Education and up a bit at South Huron Secondary School in Exeter, Board superintendent Bob .Allan told the T-A Monday, the number of public school students in the south will be down by 16 to 2,033 while South Huron enrolment would be up to 1,020 from 990 at the end of June. The only increases in public school attendance will be at Exeter up five to 445 and Zurich up to 160 from 152. Showing drops are Hensall Public School down nine to 144 and Huron Centennial decreasing by 20 studentssto 478. The other three schools have no change in regular grades one to eight enrolment. They are Osborne Central 276; Stephen Central 285 and J.A.D. McCurdy at Huron Park at 245. Kindergarten registration is also down somewhat from 249 to 229. The decreases are at Exeter to 46 from 60 and Hensall down to 12 from 18. The other five schools remain at the closing figures in June, Superintendent Allan reported very few staff changes. Robert Payne will replace ,Jane Love as a French teacher at Exeter Public School and Andrew Fraser takes a position at McCurdy vacated by Judy Simmons. At Stephen Central Mary Ellison will get a year's leave of absence and Elizabeth Kennedy An area wedding and the 15th annual Fly-in at Sexsmith airport Sunday brought together a reunion of the Greb family. The fly-in 15 held each year on the Hay township farm of. Leonard Greb, a mile and a quarter north of the Exeter Cemetery and the honour of flying the farthest goes to Ed Greb of Sun City, California, Ed Greb left the Exeter area in 1922 and about 10 years later established the Greb X-Ray Company with he arid his wife as the only employees. The company has grown and new employs more than 150 persons, Ed retired three years ago and his brother Gordon is now the owner and president of the company, Another brother Wesley, now a resident of Wichita, Kansas is also involved in the firm, The Greb Company located in Xansas City, Missouri distributes and services x-ray ,equipment to hospitals and doctors in the states of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, The balance of the Greb family lives in this area. In addition to Leonard at Sexsmith airport they are Harry, RR 1, 1-lay; Melvin, 11112 Dashwood and Lily and An early morning fire Monday, caused considerable damage to the Stephen township farm home of Adrian Kester. The Dashwood volunteer brigade was summoned to the Kester farm which is located on Concession 14 about three miles west and south of Dashwood at about 7 a.m. Mr. Kester had arisen a few minutes earlier and turned a stove burner on underneath a kettle. He came back less than five minutes later to find flames spreading up the wall in the kitchen of an addition to the house which was completed only a short time ago. He called the fire number and then tried unsuccessfully to fight The South Huron Recreation Centre will be officially opened, Thursday, and by the time the Labor Day weekend is concluded, it is expected most area residents will have visited the new facility. In addition to the Official ceremonies, a full weekend of special events is planned, in- cluding three dances, a bingo, barbecue and gospel service. Emcee for the Thursday night grand opening, to which the public is invited, will be Carf Cann. Speakers on the brief program will include Huron warden Doug McNeil, Huron-Middlesex MPP Jack Riddell, Huron MP Bob McKinley, rec centre committee chairman John Stephens and the WINS SPECIAL AWARD — Master Corporal Glenn Alblas of the Huron-Middlesex Cadet Corps is one of five Canadians selected to visit Germany next summer on a cadet exchange. He recently completed a summer course at Forces Base Camp Borden where the selections were made. T-A photo Lucy, Exeter, Members of the Greb family from the United States flew in to this area in the company plane, a 421 Cessna GoldenEagle,Because of landing field restrictions at Sexsmith, the Cessna landed at the Huron Park airstrip, The Cessna requires a runway of at least 3,100 feet to clear obstacles of 50 feet, The maximum runway distance at Sexsmith is 2,350 feet. The Grob family attended the wedding Saturday of 'Mien Greb and Scott Green at Dashwood United Church, the blaze with the help of his family. The kitchen was completely gutted and the roof was burned and smashed by firemen in an attempt to get at the source of the fire, Damage to the balance of the house was from extreme smoke and water. Mr. Kester estimates his loss at about $20,000. Rebuilding of the roof' and kitchen has already begun, Mr, Kester said he was trying to get a lot of the reconstruction com- pleted before two of his sons return to high school next week and one to Fanshawe College, Mr. and Mrs. Kester and 10 children living at home have found temporary shelter with neighbours. heads of the three contributing municipalities, Exeter Mayor Bruce Shaw, Osborne Reeve Bill Morley and Stephen Reeve Cecil Desjardine, Representing the minister of culture and recreation will be London South MPP Gordon Walker, The keys for the centre will be turned over by Northside Con- struction to engineer George Naom, who will in turn present them to the heads of the three councils. A ribbon cutting ceremony will involve the council heads, John Stephens and Gordon Walker. A wine and cheese reception will follow the official opening and after that, the Walter Ostanek band will commence the special events for the weekend. A monster bingo is scheduled for Friday, while Saturday's program consists of a dance with the band ,of Tommy Dorsey. On Sunday, a barbecue and gospel service will be held and the weekend activities conclude ,,n Monday with the rock band, Liverpool. Members of the rec centre board of management and the building committee met with officials of the engineering and contracting firm on Friday and were advised that the building will probably not be completed until later this fall, It had been anticipated that ice would be available by October 1, but that now appears doubtful. The contracting firm representative indicated it would take over three weeks to have the boards erected, and with the time lost due to the official opening and the upcoming fall fair, said he could not envision ice until near October 15. YOUTH BITTEN Another dog bite was reported in the area this week. The victim was 13-year-old Danny Gower, RR 1 Centralia, who had his right arm injured. The incident occurred in Centralia at the residence of Herman Gower. A brother combination from this area won gold medals at the Ontario Summer Games at Kitchener over the weekend. Rene Boogemans, Hensall and brother Xavier of Grand Bend were first across the finish line in the expert marathon canoe race. The Boogemans duo edged Jul uis Langpeter and Ted McCabe of Windsor by the narrowest margin. They were timed in one hour, eight minutes and 44 seconds over the nine mile course. The Windsor pair who were only two-fifths of a second back in second place battled the winners all the way. There were four other contestants. The same opponents met in the Regional Summer Games in Windsor June 26 and the Boogemans won by almost a minute, The nine mile race was charted around Guelph Lake, The local pair led for about the first four miles, They told the T-A, "it's hri- portant to get out in front, It's difficult to paddle in the wake of a canoe in front," The race tightened as the two canoes battled side by side for the last half mile, Xavier Boogemans com- mented, "it was a close finish, We • Exeter PUC this week ap- proved making an application to Ontario Hydro for a local rate increase to be effective in January. Ironically, one of the reasons for a rate increase is the added cost being faced by the PUC in billing customers for the hydro they use, Last year, for instance, it cost the Commission about $5,000 to have hydro meters tested in accordance with federal government standards. Manager Hugh Davis indicated the cost would be about the same this year. Meters have to be tested every eight years and Davis said this cost the PUC "an arm and a leg". Oddly enough, he noted that when meters do work improperly, it is usually in the customer's benefit, He said the meters often slow down, but seldom speed up. There are over 300 meters to test this year and each test cost $8 plus whatever parts or total replacement may be required. Commissioner Chan Livingstone suggested the OMEA should look into the possibility of were a shade behind with about 10 feet to go but a final push gave us the narrow margin of vic- tory." He added, "We normally go at a rate of 65 to 70 paddles per minute, but in the stretch drive we must have been close to the 80 strokes a minute mark." The Boogemans practice three times a week in the Ausuable River at Grand Bend and have New wells ready soon The new wells in Usborne Township will soon be ready to put into production, Exeter PM manager Hugh Davis reported this week. He told the Commission on Tuesday that both wells have been tested and only a few odds and ends have to be changed, Some equipment still has to be installed in the pump houses. He also reported that seeding and sodding along the pipeline had to be completed, but noted that Usborne Township council appeared to be satisfied with the shape of the construction area in general. petitioning the government to have the tests every 10 years. He also said the-PUC may have to consider having their own equipment and personnel make Could have been serious situation Vandals recently caused considerable damage to the PUC pumping station in Riverview Park and the situation could have been "real bad" according to manager Hugh Davis. Apparently the youths managed to get some picnic tables piled up to gain access to the roof and some shingles were damaged. They also started a fire that scorched the eaves. Had the building caught fire, water service could have been lost to the community. Davis said the shingles were repaired as best they could, but told the Commission this week they should consider putting a new roof on the building next year. competed in about 20 races so far this year. This is the first time the expert marathon canoe event has been included in the Summer games. Rene Boogemans will be the tests, or at least combine with other area'Utilities to provide for the work. He said when the area association of Utilities was formed, this was one of the suggestions, although nothing has ever come about in that matter as yet. The Commission also learned that the office employees have been required to work overtime to keep up with the office workload, including billing. They were advised that the budget billing being offered to electric heat customers is par- ticularly costly. Livingstone suggested that the meters for customers on budget billing should only be read every second month in an effort to reduce costs. He said this was one of the ideas he presented in asking for budget billing in the first place. Another costly item is the compilation of statistics required periodically by Ontario Hydro. Davis said some Commissions refuse to do the work and Livingstone suggested they Please turn to page 32 travelling to Shawinigan, Quebec this week to compete in a three day 118 mile race, He will be paired with Warren Knight of Brussels as Xavier will be unable to make the trip. When school doors open next week enrolment will be down slightly at the seven public schools in the southern part of the county under the jurisdiction of is leaving. They will be replaced by Betty-Jean MacLean and Marlene Thornton, Pat Soldan, vice-principal at McCurdy will be transferred to Seaforth Public School to assume a similar post and Lenore Latullipe will be a new teacher at Zurich. She is returning after a year's leave of absence, At South Huron District High School Majorie Park has retired and Wanda Graham is leaving. The only replacement is Susan Nancekievill. The recently completed co- operative evaluation report recently completed under the direction -of EPS principal Jim Chapman will be released to the Huron Board of Education at its regulir meeting Tuesday af- ternoon. Superintendent Allan said he expected some of the proposals would be adopted by the Board. Principal Fred Berdan at Biddulph Central and Lucan Public School report enrolment "down at bit" at 517. Five new teachers will be on staff starting Tuesday when the schools open, They are Lynda Olson, Mrs. Sharron Barnes, Mrs. Diane Dance, Mrs, Barbara Farlinger and Robert Eaton, Not returning to the staff are Mrs. Marion Hamilton, Mrs. Mary Lake, Mrs. Janet Williams, Mrs. Milli Hildebrandt and Tim Boyce. Rec centre opening provides fun for all Best canoe team at Ontario games Area pair win gold medal