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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-05-15, Page 1 (2)4 Jr' 41; • • GAINING BUSINESS EXPERIENCE — Debbie MacDonald, a com- mercial student at South Huron District High School is spending this week at Huron Tractor in Exeter during work week. Watching Debbie operate a TWX business machine are SHDHS commercial director Don Webster and Grace Merner and Dionne Hodge of the Huron Tractor office staff. T -A photo AN ASPIRING MECHANIC — This week a number students are gaining practical experience at Exeter businesses. Above, Bruce Hodge, a mechanic class student works on on engine of Snell Bros. Looking on are SHDHS teacher John Remkes and Mark Heywood of the Snell Bros. staff. T -A photo of SHDHS and area Budget up 19 percent for Middlesex schools The Middlesex County Board of Education this week adopted a 1975 budget of $18.823.865. a 19 percent increase over its 1974 budget. The increase is at- tributed mainly to inflation. While mill rates in the county's 22 municipalities vary. the average increase will be ap- proximately 8.71 mills. about $43.55 on a home assessed at $5.000. In 1975 the largest expense, 56.6 percent of the budget. will be for instruction which includes teachers' salaries. Building Carroll seeking third nomination Paul Carroll, twice a loser as the NDP candidate in the provincial riding of Huron. this week announced his intention to seek the nomination for a third time. Noting that his past efforts "have not been fruitful," he said "the opportunity for presenting a sound alternative has been successfully undertaken and I am prepared to continue that effort with all the conviction of my political beliefs." A second candidate who has already announced his intention to seek the NDP nomination is Philip Walker, Grand Bend. Thieves hit area twice Two thefts are under in- vestigation by the Exeter OPP this week. Both were reported on Tuesday morning. About $200 worth of items were taken from the Exeter Golf Course club house. Included in the loot were a coffee pot. hot plate, toaster. radio, cigarettes and candy. Constable Bill Lewis is in charge of the investigation. The other theft involved a *100 tape player and speakers from a car owned by Terry Keller, Huron Park. The car had been •parked at Huron Park at the time of the theft. It is being in- vestigated by Constable Bill Glassford. maintenance and operation will take 9.8 percent and tran- sportation 9.7 percent. Last year. local taxpayers paid $3.991.422 to the public and secondary school system; this year's requirements total $5.235.888. with the remainder, approximately 70 percent, of the budget being covered by provincial grants. The increased cost to ratepayers will be more this year because the rate of provincial grants has declined due to in- creased equalized assessment in the county in relation to the provincial average. Trustee Jack Hunter of North Dorchester Township declared a conflict of interest in budget matters and said he would refrain from discussing and voting on the budget. He also said he was resigning from the board. The other trustees asked him to reconsider his verbal resignation and he agreed to do so. Trustee Ruth Griffin of Glencoe also declared a conflict of interest and did not take part in the budget discussion. In other business, the board — Please turn to page 3 Exeter church buys home for retarded trainees' use The Exeter United Church congregation Sunday morning approved the purchase of the Southcott property at the north- west corner of James and Andrew streets, directly across from the church. The property was offered to the church last October by the owner Mrs. J. M. Southcott for one-half of the appraised value if it would be used for community work. After furnishing has been completed the house will be leased to the South Huron Association for the Mentally Retarded. The residents of the home will be trainees of the ARC workshop at Dashwood. The new ac- commodation will allow the workshop to handle trainees who formerly could not attend the workshop because of tran- sportation problems. Roland McCaffrey chairman Qf the Exeter UC Mission and Service committee said "hopefully these trainees after a time at our Exeter residence will be able to advance to private homes." McCaffrey in commenting on the purchase said "This is a challenge to our church to become more involved with the needs of individuals in our community." Continuing he said, "We want members of the church to become involved as more than landlords. They will be able to contribute through volunteer services and contributions to furnishings for the home." The head office of the United One Hundred and Second Year Church of Canada has offered financial assistance in the way of low cost loan. These monies are specifically earmarked by the United Church for local com- munity mission projects. A steering committee com- posed of Rev. Andrew Blackwell, Alma Godbolt and Helen Kneale of the South Huron Association for the Mentally Retarded and Earl Long and Mavis Atthill of the UC congregation is in charge of getting the project underway. McCaffrey said he expected the house would be ready for oc- cupation by mid -summer. In closing McCaffrey added, "I would like to thank everyone who has worked on the various committees on this project and especially the property and finance committee ." EXETER, ONTARIO, MAY 15, 1975 SELLING BROWNIE COOKIES — Members of the Exeter Brownie pock were on the streets Saturday selling Brownie cookies. Above Mrs. Edith Richard, Huron street west mokes a purchase from Barbara Armstrong, Judy Cootes and Debra Brunzlow. T -A photo Price Per Copy 25 Cents RAP give approval to schedule for Canada Week celebration An itinerary for Canada Week was tentatively approved by Exeter's RAP committee this week, setting out a host of special activities to be conducted from June 24 to July 1. The program had been prepared by Ruth Durand and recreation director Jim McKinlay. 11 will include such activities as a bicycle parade, kite flying competition. film festival, essay or poem contest. recipes contest, a summer dance with Joe Start canvass for sewer work Inspectors from B. M. Ross and Associates Ltd. have commenced a house-tb-house survey in Exeter to determine where residents want their sewer services connected. The Goderich company is the engineering consultant for the town. Aztec Contractors Ltd., of London. will be doing the sewer work. Workers from Ron Sutherland Construction of London were working at the lagoon earlier this week. also part of the sewer project. Burns Ross, said it is hoped that through the door-to-door canvass it will make the work of connecting sewers easier. He said advance notice of the in- spector's inquiries would speed things. The first area in town where - work will be done, and where the canvass will be starting is the south east section, in the Huron-Simcoe SI areas. Mr.Ross said he did not know where the contractor would be working next. Overholt, picnic in the park, music festival, bike races, family roller • skating. saddle club display, baseball games, tug of war and possibly a fireworks display. However, the latter my be dropped due to the cost involved. McKinlay said he had no idea of the amount of money it took for a fireworks display. His comment came after . members advised him a display of any size would cost around $2,000. The kite flying competition may also have to be droped because there is no place in Exeter that is safe to fly kites. Lossy Fuller advised that PUC manager Hugh Davis had stated that there was no way youngsters should !ly kites in town due to the proximity of hydro lines. "The worst place is the com- munity park." Bob Pooley added, stating that a 27.000 volt line runs near the park. Other than that, members thought the program suggested was excellent. "I think it looks good," chairman Jack Underwood stated. Reeve Derry Boyle was less optimistic. particularly after learning that assistance from other groups would be required to conduct some of the special programs. ' He said that as Exeter's cen- tennial chairman he found that such assistance was not readily vailable and that committee had to pay for most of the people required for duties. "There's no way I'm getting involved in the programi." he said. "Once in a lifetime is enough!" Boyle also suggested the program would run into some stiff competition due to the fact centennials in Seaforth and Clinton would be staged around the same time as the Canada Week activities here. McKinlay said the cost in- volved in most of the programs was minimal so there would be no great investment on RAP's part. In their budget. RAP an- ticipated a profit of about $2.200 on community events. with this AT CENTRALIA COLLEGE GRADUATION — The guest speaker at Friday's graduation at Centralia College of Agricultural Technology was Ontario's Agriculture Minister W. A. Stewart. Above, the Agriculture Minister, College principal James MacDonald, Dr. J. C. Rennie, executive director with the Ministry of Agriculture and Jack Underwood, College program co-ordinator chat before the exercises began. T -A photo Students advised to keep open mind program being the main sourze of that revenue. The official opening of the Lions tennis courts has been scheduled as part of the activities and it is expected some top calibre players will be secured for exhibition matches. Truckers strike wires in Hay Two of the four accidents in the area this week involved trucks spreading gravel on Hay Township roads. A truck operated by Dwight Jennison, Grand Bend. struck a hydro guy wire on concession 2 on May 5 with resulting damage "if $'150. This Monday, a truck operated b , Mr.‘hyrd lel tttswri; - Grantl- Bend. hit a hydro wire while dumping gravel ' with damage listed at $25. The accidents were in- vestigated by OPP Constables Frank Giffin and Dale Lamont. On Thursday at 11:30 p.m., a car driven by Gerald Waller, Huron Park. struck a parked car owned by Joseph Regier. RR 8 Parkhill. The accident occurred on Victoria St. in Centralia and damage was set at $165 by Constable Don Mason. The other accident happened on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. when a car driven by Gerard Ducharme. RR 2 Zurich. collided with a parked car owned by Kenneth Farquhar. London. The latter was parked on Highway 84 west of Zurich and Ducharme was westbound. Damage was listed at $1,200 by Constable Lamont. During the week, the detach- ment officers charged 21 people under the Highway Traffic Act Graduates total 583 in seven years Long term planning needs flexibility "Due to tremendous change in recent years in Canadian agriculture, long term planning will not solve all the woes," Ontario's Minister of Agriculture William A Stewart, said Friday. Stewart speaking at the seventh annual graduation at Centralia College of Agricultural GETS UCO PLAQUE — Jim Lynn was named the top academic stu- dent in agricultural business management at Centralia College of Agricultural Technology this year. At Friday's graduation he received the United Co -Operatives of Ontario award from district director Bob Down. T -A photo Technology said flexibility is the answer to long-range agricultural plans. He said critics advocating long range planning as the cure-all forget about the historic grain sale to China in 1960 which led to huge surpluses in the mid 1960's When the surplus developed. the Less Inventory For Tomorrow program was in- stituted in which farmers were paid to grow less. The minister suggested export development under a long range program must be flexible enough to take care of uncontrollable conditions. He also said he was concerned about criticism of farmers who suffered heavy losses last year when strikes halted the movement of box cars carrying grain. Several research programs to be held at Centralia College in 1975 were announced by Mr. Stewart. Ile said white bean test plots would be established at Centralia along with research on pollution. Fertilizers and herbicides will also be analyzed to determine the proper crops for rotation Research will also be carried out on rutabagas. Stewart said the white bean crop in Ontario has suffered losses of $3 to $4 million in the past five years because of in- dustrial pollution. Stewart advised the graduates 'to keep an open mind. be willing to listen and weigh all the alternatives when charting their business course." College Principal James MacDonald during his welcoming comments reflected on the changes at Centralia since the school was established in 1967. McDonald said Friday's 111 graduates increased the total student number over the seven ears to 583. The principal said the courses offered had expanded from the original agricultural and home economics to include special options in both laboratory and transfer of the animal health course from Ridgetown in 1969. He paid tribute to the many area businesses. farmers and practicing veterinarians who became involved in the various courses. Ron McRae, RR 1 Denfield was named the best all- round student at Centralia and received the student council trophy from Neil Ilemingway. James Lynn of Woodham received the United Co - Operatives of Ontario award as the top student in agricultural business management. The award was presented by IW('O district 'director Bob Down. Karen Brown of Mt. Brydges received the Middlesex Women's Institute award as the top academic student in home economics from Mrs. Calvin Carmichael of Ilderton. Darrell F inkbeiner. Crediton won the Plant Food Council of Ontario trophy for proficiency in soils. The Canadian Food Super- visors Association national bursary went to Linda Strauss of Teeswater in the food service management course and Gilda Theurer of Dundas was named the top academic student in animal health technology. WINS TWO AWARDS — Ron McRae of RR 4, Denfield won two awards at Friday's annual graduation exercises at Centralia College of Agricultural Technology. He was named the best all-round student and was tops in the form analysis project. Above Ron, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Murray McRae, receives one of his awards from Doug Jamieson of the College stuff. T -A photo t3 Eaton will seek PC nomination Robert Eaton, MPP Middlesex South, announced today he will seek the nomination for the provincial riding of Middlesex for the Progressive Conservative Party. Eaton was first nominated four years ago this month when he defeated two other candidates on the first ballot for the PC nomination in Middlesex South. He was subsequently elected in October 1971, defeating the in- cumbent NDP member. Mr. Eaton has served on a number of committees of the Legislature and was appointed parliamentary assistant to the Hon. William Stewart, minister of agriculture and food in March 1974. The nomination will be held in Delaware on May 22. Four homes start in April Permits valued at $264,135 were approved by building in- spector Doug Triebner during the month of April. The largest portion of that was for four new homes, three of which are being erected on Churchill Drive by Zwart & Graansma. The other home is being built by Len Veri on Riverside Drive. Veri also received a permit for an addition to Exeter Produce. Other commercial permits were: The Times -Advocate, renovations for apartment at 424 Main: N. Whiting, renovations for office at 63 Main; W. May, renovations to store at 3:'; Main; Dave Corrie, addition to Zip car wash. Residential renovations and additions were as follows: D. McIver, panel two bedrooms and utility room at 363 Marlboro: G. Hodgert, eavestrough at 168 Main; R. Stover, erect greenhouse at 188 Andrew; D. Penninga, renovate living room at 95 Huron; J. Schroeder, instal new verandah at 172 Huron: H. Green. veran- dah awning at 193 Ann. R. Topp, shingle house at 527 Main: Fred Dobbs. new siding on garage at 101 John: G. Vincent, siding on house at 103 Gidley; W. Batten. ,repair verandah at 64 Sanders: J. Willis. re -roof house at 395 William: Ella Bailey, erect carport at 401 Marlboro; B. Preszcator, aluminum siding at 21 Huron; Gord Smith. utility shed at 88 Gidley. Want lottery distributorship Delegates at the weekend conference of the Ontario Municipal Recreation Association in Niagara Falls urged the Ontario government to give 'recreation groups top priority as sales agents for Wintario tickets and also that the Association be allowed some input on how the profits from the lottery will be used. Attending the conference from Exeter's RAP committee were Ruth Durand. Lossy Fuller and recreation director Jim McKinlay. McKinlay explained that RAP is now selling lottery tickets and expect to realize $40 a month in commissions. However,he said, if they had been given the distributorship for the entire area they could anticipate profits of upwards of $700 per month. He suggested that a substantial difference and the money would be better used in recreation than going into the pockets of some private individual. However. Reeve Derry Boyle said the naming of distributors from among community recreation groups would be nothing more than a political football and would end up with the rec groups complaining if they weren't the ones chosen as distributors. In another comment on the conference. McKinlay said the delegates "kept asking the government for more money." "What they're doing is asking the people for more money," Boyle replied. Mrs. Fuller said she thoroughly enjoyed the conference and the tour of Niagara Falls parkland made her aware of the fact' that money must be available each year to maintain the local park system. She also recommended that RAP and council have a workshop each year to explain the committee work to new members of RAP. Mrs. Durand commented that many delegates were amazed at the extent of the programs available in Exeter. She said the town has an A-1 program. The conference dealt with the effect of regional government on recreation and McKinlay said in most cases it resulted in deterioration of programs "because the voice of the people was taken away." He hinted that RAP was moving in the right direction in their attempt to form an area recreation council, because the government would step in and force such a move if the people wouldn't provide the necessary cooperation on their own.