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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-08-03, Page 1Cassidy visits Fleck again but most action is in courts For the first time in over two months there were more than just the feet of striking Fleck workers who pounded the pavement in the area around and adjacent to the strike bound plant as provincial NDP, leader Michael Cassidy paid a brief ' visit to the Huron park plant Friday morning. Cassidy was welcomed by a group of about 30 strikers and two cars from the Ontario Provincial Police. Following his arrival, Cassidy went on the now traditional walk around the plant with about 15 strike supporters. In an address to the gathering, Cassidy said the “eyes of Ontario are on you” and what the striking workers are doing here is aiding across The leader the Ontario labour relations board to allow the prosecution of Fleck vice- president Grant Turner, MPP Jack Riddell and OPP Corporal William Mclntryre was an acknowledgement that a mistake was made in using the OPP to control labour. While he expressed pleasure over the decision of the board, Cassidy said he was disappointed that it took the board four months to come down with its decision. With regards to the public’s attitudes towards the strikers Cassidy stated “the climate has changed since March.” He said the Huron Park UAW local now enjoys widespread support across the province and that the (J the cause of labour the province. New Democratic said the decision of Picnic tables are missing Exeter police aren’t certain if the disappearance of 11 picnic tables from Riverview Park is part of the recent rash of picnic table and patio furniture thefts in the area recently, or whether the tables were merely borrowed by someone and not returned,, • At any rate, they are asking local citizens for any information which may lead to the return of the tables. Chief Ted Day said it would take someone with a truck to remove that many tables and he hopes someone may have some information to enable police to locate them. Seven of the tables were the small six-footers and the other four were green eight­ footers. Rains came in time for most area crops Recent rains have put Huron County crops on the road to recovery, according to area mill managers. “The rain turned the situation around. We were losing yield potential in the dry weather, but most of the crops have come back to an almost average year,” said Wes Petch, manager at Hensail. Petch said barley, which being harvested, is of very good quality in general. There, have been a few ex­ ceptions, he said. The corn crop is quite uneven in the area, and both the corn and bean crops have been slowed up by the dry marketing Cook’s in the malting is currently weather. An early frost could cause severe damage to both crops, Petch said. Archie Cooper of the Hensail Co-op said' this year’s harvest looks to be about average. “The rain we have got will increase yields for corn and beans to about average,” he said. Lloyd Whitesell, assistant manager at W. G. Thomp­ sons, said the dry weather had taken its toll. His mill found the malting barley crop to be l'ow on weight and plumpness. “Half of it may end up in the feed tank,” he said. Whitesell said there' may be a 20 percentgeneral drop in yields this year. attitudes towards them have changed for the good, in this area. Lay charges Charges of breaching the Ontario Labor Relations Act were filed at the courthouse Friday by the United Auto Workers against Huron- Middlesex MPP Jack Rid­ dell, OPP Constable Bill McIntyre, Fleck Manufacturing Ltd. and its vice-president, Grant Turner. Harold Rolph, a lawyer who filed the charges with Karen Sturdy, a justice of the peace, said it is the first time in Ontario labor history that a member of the provincial legislature and an OPP officer have been • charged with breaching the ■ act. The charges against all four parties carry a fine of up to $1,000 for an individual and $10,000 for a corporation or trade union convicted of violating the act. All four are charged under a section of the act which states that ho one will “in­ terfere with the formation, selection or administration of a trade union or the representation of employees by a trade union.” ' Fleck Manufacturing and Turner face an additional charge under another sec­ tion which forbids the use of “intimidation or coercion to compel any person to become or refrain from becoming a member of a trade union.” Rolph said the union is also charging Fleck with bargaining in bad faith. Mrs. Sturdy said that subpoenas have not been sent out because it is not known yet whether the cases will be heard in provincial court in Goderich or in Exeter. The UAW’s decision to lay the charges follows a decision by the Ontario Labor Relations Board granting the union consent to prosecute in court. Given remands Twenty-nine people charged with 52 incidents in connection with distur­ bances at the picket line at Fleck Manufacturing in Huron Park have been remanded until September trial dates will be Chercover of lawyer for the NDP LEADER RETURNS TO FLECK — Provincial NDP leader Michael Cassidy returned to the site of Fleck Manufacturing in Huron Park on Friday. Fj*rior to giving a brief address, Cassidy continued the custom started by other strike sympathizers and marched around the almost deserted plant with striking Fleck workers. photo 11, when set. Barrie Toronto, United Auto Workers (UAW) appeared in. provincial court in Goderich Monday on behalf of the 29 people. The following persons were, charged dating“ back to the beginning of the strike in March: Ricky Abbott, 54 Woolley St., Cambridge; Walter N. Armstrong, 10 Wellington St., Kitchener; Pat Barrett, R.R, 1 Crediton; Paul Emile Beauline, 76 Brubacher St., Kitchener; Richard Bar- trand, R.R. 3 Delaware; Please turn to Page 2 One Hundred and Fifth Year imes - Advocate Serving South Huron, North Middlesex & North Lambton Since 1873 EXETER, ONTARIO, AUGUST 3, 1978 Price Per Copy 25 Cents A MIGHTY SWING — Neil Froats takes a mighty swing dur­ ing a softball practice as part of a Lucan summer school ac­ tivity Monday morning. T-A photo r.' Policing cost idea debated by reeves the Ontario Government the proposal. The proposal is contained in a confidential list of possible cuts cir­ culating among government ministries. Grand Bend reeve Bob Sharensaid the proposal was “not unrealistic.” But more than just policing urban areas should be looked at, he said. “It would have to be charged to the rural areas as well as the urban. They get as much police protection as urban areas do,” he said. “Right now municipalities can keep asking for more police services and not pay for it; It is easy to keep asking for it when you are not paying,” he said. Sharen said the proposal would be difficult to apply to the village of Grand Bend because the population fluctuates widely between I “The idea bears a lot of looking at before going An Ontario Government proposal for towns receiving policing from the Ontario Provincial Police to foot the bill hasn’t brought any cries of outrage from area municipalities. Both the reeves of Grand Bend and Lucan said the idea was realistic but required more study. “If we were goihg to start paying them, we would expect to have some say in what they do. An agreement would have to be worked out between the police force and the village,” said Lucan reeve Ivan Hearn. At present the village has no say over how the village is policed by the Ontario Provincial Police. Lucan has a bylaw control officer to enforce the village’s bylaws. “It may be just someone’s idea that will be kicked around but never followed winter and summer, up,” said Hearn, Hearn has received no official correspondence from ahead,” he said on Stephen ask county help Stephen township council has asked the executive committee of Huron county for any assistance which may be required if an­ nexation® proceedings started by the village Grand Bend. Grand Bend council expecting to receive consultants report on an­ nexation in the very near future. After Grand Bend called for the consultants report, the townships of Bosanquet and Stephen offered to amalgmate with the summer resort village as an native to annexation. Stephen reeve Desjardine said this that his council SfcW.>• ■&’ i alter- Cecil week and Bosanquet had agreed a few weeks ago to join forces if Grand Bend made any at­ tempt for annexation or adjustment of boundaries. The Stephen reeve com­ mented. “There doesn’t seem to be any point in split­ ting up a municipality, but, I don’t see anything wrong with joining up.” He continued, “If Grand Bend does apply for annexa­ tion, we and Bosanquet are prepared to join forces to defend our territory.” A few weeks ago, Bosan­ quet reeve John MacDonald called a meeting of the coun­ cils of his municipality and Grand Bend to talk about adjustment or amalgama­ tion. Desjardine was invited as an observer. According to Desjardine Bosanquet stands to lose about one million dollars in assessment if Grand Bend is allowed to annex the properties in question. He continued, “I don’t know exactly what they were proposing in Stephen, but, it will likely be quite considerable as far as assessment is concerned. It would likely be all of both sides of Highway 21, north of Grand Bend, part of Conces­ sion A and some near the south-easterly border of Grand Bend including the proposed Walden sub­ division.” In conclusion Desjardine said, “It’s up to Grand Bend to make the next move. We have thrown the ball back to them.” The recent letter from Bosanquet said amalgama­ tion would be satisfactory if the boundary adjustment proposals were not in the best interests of the residents of the township. Grand Bend reeve Bob Sharen has said he would withhold any comment until a consultants report on annexation is received. It is expected to be completed in a few weeks. The area Grand Bend is considering for annexation would increase the village population and more than double its assessment. MODEL PLANE WINNERS — Two Exeter brothers were winners in the recent annual competi­ tion of the National Model Aeronautics Association in Winnipeg. Shown above are Mark and Paul Perry who were third and second, respectively in the junior division. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Perry, Edward street. T-A photo /Wore Stephen residents want Lake Huron water Residents from two areas in Stephen township have approached council asking to obtain water from the Lake Huron pipeline. Bill Regier representing a number of farmers north of Mt. Carmel was told to do a survey of the interested owners and submit same to council. A similar survey was returned by Ross Brown for those property owners in­ terested in getting water in the Highway 81 area north of Greenway. Brown was told to obtain costs of the proposed water installations while council checks with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment Fairly quiet for GB police Incidents of crime and liquor infractions are down sharply in Grand Bend this summer, according to Ontario Provincial Police. “We’ve been very pleased with the activities this summer,” said Sergeant Ted Boon. “There have been no incidents of gang activity at all.” The number of liquor in­ fractions are only half of last year’s total for this time of the year. General oc­ currenceshave dropped by one-quarter, said Boon. Grand Bend has been very busy this summer, but there have been more families visiting the resort village than usual. Boon attributed the peaceful summer to this Change. Traffic accidents occurrences were the area which increased previous years. There have been about 25 percent more occurrences but none has been serious, said Boon. to determine a proper connection location, Huron county planner asked and received approval from council for an amend­ ment to the county official plan. Status of the land to be used in the proposed Walden subdivision near Grand Bend will be changed from agriculture to residential. Contracts were let for two municipal drains and the supply of culvert pipe. Hodgins and Hay ter of Parkhill will do the open and closed work on the De Block drain for a combined total of $10,359. The same firm will receive $1,537.50 to do the open work on the Khiva drain while the tile portion was awarded to Robinson Farm Drainage for $5,282. Council appointed C. P. Corbett as the engineer to prepare a report on repair of the Fahner drain at Lot 32, LRE concession in Hay township. Koppers International Canada was awarded the contract to supply culvert pipe for work on sideroad 20, concession 10 for $4,764. Land severances were granted to Roy Sweitzer, Lot 15, Con. 16, Mabel Guenther, Only one case at Exeter court FredLot 10. Con. 16 and Hicks. Lot 35. vS.B. Con. A request from the Ministry of the Environment to convert to the metric system for the township’s water system by April 1,1979 will be adhered to. and only over Only one case was dealt with in Exeter Justice of the Peace Court Tuesday morning by Mr. Werris. Nine other charges were either withdrawn or remanded to a future date. In the only decision made, Wayne V. Smith of Alliston was fined $28 for failing to stop for an amber light at the intersection of Highways 4 and 83 on June 21. He was driving a tractor-trailer. Five injured in collisionsr all involve only one driver A Zurich woman started a chain-reaction when she lost control of her vehicle while turning into a lane at the new senior citizens’ apartments in the village Tuesday morning. A vehicle driven by Madeline Rau struck a parked vehicle owned by Robert L. Reynolds, Huron Park. The latter vehicle was then pushed into a fence and struck another vehicle owned by William Ziler, Zurich, which in turn rammed another parked vehicle owned by Elmer Leibold, also of Zurich. Investigating officer Constable Bill Osterloo set total damage at $1,650 to the four vehicles and the fence. It was one of five accidents investigated by the Exeter OPP this week, all involving only one driver. One of the others resulted in major injuries for a London man, Ralph Thomsen, despite the fact his vehicle sustained damage of only $50. The car rammed into a tree at the Highlands III subdivision along Lake Huron on Saturday at 6:15 p.m. Constable Jack Straughan investigated. Two of the other accidents were reported on Wed­ nesday, the first at 4:35 a.m., when a car driven by Dennis Powell, Goderich, went out of control on Highway 23 near Kirkton and hit a hydro pole. The driver and his passenger. John McIntyre, also of Goderich, minor injuries. The driver said he fell asleep. Damage to the vehicle was listed at $1,500 by Constable Al Quinn and $425 to the hydro pole. The other accident was reported at 9:30 a.m. when a truck driven by Joseph Varley, Crediton, was in­ volved in a collision at the junction of concession- 2-3 and the Crediton Road in Stephen Township. Varley was driving a truck owned by Quality Produce and when he was unable to stop at the intersection, pulled off onto the shoulder and the truck rolled over in the south ditch. Damage was listed at $500 by Constable Osterloo. The other accident of the week was reported on Sunday, involving a vehicle driven by Ernest Hohner, Main Street, Exeter. He told police he swerved to avoid a small dog on sideroad 20 near concession 10-11 in Stephen and his vehicle then went into the ditch, hit a tree stump and came to rest on its side. Hohner and a passenger, Thomas McVeeney, Ailsa Craig, suffered minor in­ juries and damage was estimated at $2,100 by Constable Don Mason. No inquest planned in area man's death suffered No inquest is planned into the death of 22-year-old Ron Kirk, Dashwood, who was killed early last Tuesday when he fell from a tractor while drawing hay on a farm just south of the village. Kirk was standing on a tow bar hooking a converted pickup truck box to the tractor when the tractor hit a bump and he fell against the fender of the machine. The fender then caught in the tractor tire lugs and Kirk lost his balance and was run over by the tractor. An autopsy report revealed he died from multiple internal injuries, was rushed University Hospital, but was dead on arrival. The mishap occurred shortly before 7:00 p.m. The coroner was Dr. E.S. Jeffery, London. Funeral service for Kirk was held from the C. Haskett and Son funeral home in Lucan on Friday. The dead man is survived by his mother, Florence Irene Kirk, R.R. 2 Seaforth; brothers Stephen, R.R. 2 Lucan and Jim, R.R. 3 Ailsa Craig; three sisters, Connie and Cathie and Mary Ann, all of R.R. 2 Seaforth. Interment was in St. James Cemetery, Clan- debove. LEARN HEART SAVER TECHNIQUE — Several area swimming instructors, medical personnel and Red Cross officials attend­ ed a program at Grand Bend, Thursday, in which Coronary Pulmonary Rescuscitation was demonstrated.Instructor Paul McPherson, London, helps Exeter pool supervisor Deb Wooden position her hands on the dummy used for the teaching program which cab enable lay people to assist victims of cardiac arrest before professional he’p turivr Looking on are other Exeter pool instructors and members of the bronze class, fiom the left Debbie ’avlor lytmo Beaver. Leslie Campbell, Patti Shapton, Mary Helen Linsdell, Scott Batten and Dianne Boetsma. Ihc domu * Jratiun was designed to en­ courage people to enrol in the short CPR courses available. Staff photo