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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-09-07, Page 1 (2)• Three rescued before car bursts into flamirig inferno A passing motorist saved three St. Thomas residents from their car involved in an —accident two miles south 01 Exeterat 9:30 a.m., • Saturday. John Vanderweg, RR 2 London who was following the vehicle which swerved sideways and rolled over RESCUER WATCHES John Vonderweg, right, RR. 2 Lon- don, watches os police and ambulance attendants -administer to four people injured in a one -car crash south of Exeter on Saturday morning. Vanderweg rescued three of the St. Thomas people from their burning car. The driver of the vehi- cle was tossed clear. Staff photo several times before coming Desjardine, Grand Bend, to rest in the west ditch, collided on Highway 83 west pulled the three from the of Huron Road 2. - wreckage beforeit burst into Damage amounted to only flames. $125, but two passengers. in _ The driver -_of the Vehicle, the Bick .vehicle suffered Cheryl Williams, of St. minor injuries. Theywere Thomas, was thrown clear of Anthony ,Brya at and the wreckage and elided -UV t both of in a field. She remains in Stratford. Constable Jack critical condition in Straughan. investigated, University Hospital': . In another Saturday crash, Also suffering major in- Kevin Hawruluk, Moncton, • juries was Ivan Juric,*one of N.B., received minor in - the three passengers. - juries. when the "motorcycle • • The other two passengers, he Was driving went through Barbara Edminston and an intersection at County Michael Proctor, were Road 6 and concession -12 in treated at South Iluron Usborne. Hospital for cuts and bruises. The Exeter fire depart- •-ment was callectto the scene to extinguish the flames. - Damage in the accident was set at $1,000 by OPP Constable Bill Osterloo, who was assisted by several other officers at the scene. It was one of seven ac- cidents investigated over the Labor Day weekend, the first :occurring on Friday night when a vehicle driven by Richard Bitterhoff, Hyde Park. struck a mailbox on Highway 21. just south of Highway 83. Constable Al Quinn set damage at $1,000. On Saturday, vehicles driven by Larry Bick. Stratford, and Michael • Exeter firemen extinguish car flames Boats burn at GB loss set at $25,000 A fire late Tuesday night in Grand Bend completely destroyedtwo cabin cruisers and damaged three others with a loss estimated, • at $25.000 _ In the blaze. cabin cruisers awned by David Pratt of London and Dr Bruick Swieger alsoof Lon- don were destroyed while boats owned by Raymond Solman. London. Paul /Skinner of London and Tony Relouw of RR 2 Grand Bend received minor damage. The loss for the Pratt boat is estimated at $8.000 while the Swieger boat had an es- timated value of $12.586. The fire was believed to haye started aboard the Pratt boat following an ex- - plosion. The fire then spread to the adjoining boat owned • by Swieger. According to Grand Bend's assistant fire chief Prospzr Van Bruaene. his departmenfresnonded to the Bylaw iofractions result in penalties Three charges laid under area Municipal bylaws were heard by .fustice of the Peace Douglas Wedlake when he presided in Exeter court. Tuesday. An Exeter couple, Carry and Ruth Ann Luther, were fined a total of $103. after pleading guilty to a charge of failing to connect with the town's sewage system as covered by a town bylaw. Works superintendent Glenn Kells was -the com- plainant on behalf of the corporation. It was the first conviction under the bylaw-. A second charge of tam- pering with the sewage system was dismissed. Two Stephen toVanship rasidents paid $53 each on charges of permitting their dogs loran at large. Charged were Larry Cronyn. Cen and Bill Theophi lopou los. R.R. 2 Centralia. . --.....The..charge„s ha_d_been Iaid by Judy Finch, employed Tay • Stephen Township as an animal control officer. Two other charges laid by Ms. Finch were set over t� October 3. A charge laid under ' the Exeter animal control bylaw was dismissed When it was found the charge was- laid under the wrong byhw. An incident related to the • Fleck strike resulted in a fine of S108 against Donald Mercer. Lucan, who was charged' with failing to - remain at the nem of an accident on March 3. Mercer told the court that he pulled to the right to avoid, a car at the Mt. Carmel Road and indicated'he was afraid to stop because he thought it may have been striking Fleck workers. Mercer drove the Fleck company vehicles on several occasions taking workers to the strike -bound plant. He was driving his own car at the time of the incident which resulted in the court appearance. In other cases heard Tuesday, Mr. Wedlake handed out the following fines: Michael W. Brannon, Dashwood, $54 or five days for having liquor while under the legal age. * Jack Mervyn McKenzie, TrensalE1TITorTW15 dayaldr— beiag intoxicated in a public place. Police investigated after receivingaihone calls of a person lying ori a road on .luly 7. McKenzie was found to be intoxicated. Ervin 11. Pfaff, Crediton, $54 for having liquor in a place other than his residence. call. at 11:45 p.m. Van Bruaene who lives about a quarter of a mile from the Manure docks which are on Deviatke street, said that he heard the explosion but. didn't knew what it was. Firemen stayed on the scene initially for two hours but were called back at 4:45 a.m. when fire broke out -in one of the other boats. Investigating officer Bill Elliott, of the Pinery Palk OPP detachment said no irregularities in the fire was suspected. • Damage was listed at 5250 by Constable Frank Giffin. There were two crashes on - Sunday. one involving a vehicle driven by Reginald Finkbeiner,• RR 1 Crediton. -He- struck a deer which bounded into- his path oh the ed tan _Read ..itt_s_t_eas1.7ot. Highway 81. Damage to the vehicle vas . estimated at $450 by C_pnstable Giffin. The deer took off. The other crash involved a vehicle driven by Randy Quesnel, Crediton, which veered off Victoria St. in Centralia and ran into a corn field. . Constable Straughantisted damage at $.O0. 1 14101...ik, '1 .4 '0,•• rt 4 r -i•--',1- 7'.. i A.cno ;1410 _. .. . \ , .,. • t'• V' 11" .‘• -• . • DRIVER ASSISTED — SheryP/Villiams; St. Thomas, driver of the car which hit the ditch and burned south of Exeter, Saturday, is carried on a stretcher by ambulance attendants, OPP and Exeter firemen. The woman ended up in d field and the stretcher had to be hoisted over o fence. The car is shown on the right, while to the left is on injured passenger, Ivan Juric. Staff photo it• Imes Serving South Huron, North Middlesex One Hundred and Fifth Year & North Lambton Since 1873 EXETER, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 7, 1978 Price Per Copy 25 Cents Ask Exeter homeowners to separate their garbage Exeter homeowners will be asked to separate their garbage in the future so glass and newspapers can be -recycled. The program, however.will be strictly on a voluntary basis. at least at the outset. Councillor tossy Fuller. who had been asked to check into an offer by Thames Valley Recycling to pick up glass and newspapers, said there would be no charge to the town other than the cost of an advertisement ad- vising ratepayers of the program. Neither would there be any revenue for the town in the project, although Mrs. Fuller said it could reduce the amount- of gar- bage being picked up by the town crew and deposited at the local dump. She said the firm would probably pick up the special refuse on a once -a -month basis. possibly on the same day as special garbage pickups are held by the town. "There'll be more work involved for the housewife." Mrs. Fuller_ noted. sayihg that it would take a little ex- tra time to sort the glass and, newspapers for the pickup. "How about the househusband?" Councillor Derry Boyle asked. Councillor Ken .Ottewell said he was happy to hear that Mrs. Fuller was imply- ing that garbage was the task of the housewife and in- dicated he would take that message home wittthim. There was sqme discus sion whethet the project should be put on a voluntary or .mandatory basii/apd -councillors agreed to try it on a voluntary basis at the outset, although Mrs. Fuller wondered if this would • • • _promptenough people to un- dertake the task to make the pickups worthwhile. Details of th program will be outlined 'when final arrangements have -been made with the Londofarea firm. While the suggestion that the project may reduce the load at the dump was 00t one of the major considerations in approving the idea. it may reduce the poor reports given the dump by inspec- torsfrom the ministry of the environment. At Tuesday night's ses- sion. a report of an inspec- tion made on August 23 was received and the invection- drew sharp criticism from ministry officials who said the facility in Hay Township • was -unsatisfactory-and un- tidy'•. Clerk Liz Bell read through much of the report which noted that provincial regulations were seldom met and lhat refuse was left uncovered for up, to four weeks tit is supposed to be covered twice a week). "It goes on and on ," Mrs. Bell advised council part way through the report. • However. it failed to spur . council into any corrective action. "The durap's in wonderful shape," Deputy -Reeve Don MacGregor advised, adding that the report was ap- parently pr red by people -who hav nothing better to do with the' time". Councillo Derry Boyle ' wasn't wor ied about the report either. He suggested council write the ministry and qties- t.tion -why they have softened some of their regulations about pollution problems that are far more dangerous than the local dump. His reference was to the ministry extending a= deadline for some industries' to- reduce the air pollution they create in areas such as - Sudbury. Playhouse draws over 20,000 patrons The 1978 season for the' Hann -Country Playhouse has proved to he a record year in terms of attendance according to artistic director James Murphy -• According to Murphy over 20.000 'people had attended the .Playhouse by the time the curtain fell for the final time Saturday night. This compares to a final "attendance figure for 1977 of7 15.000 Murphysaid. Ile staled he was very pleased 1 OFF TO SCHOOL — Mark and Monica lindenfield, Elizabeth Coates and Tim Von Dom head merrily u Exeter's Main street Tuesday morning for the first day of school in the 1978-19 term. 4 T.ftphoto -with the overall increase this week's season was one week longer than last year's. The biggest hit in terms of attendance was Oklahoma! which had over 7.000 theatre goers at its, two week run. Oklahoma! also set the record for the largest at- tendance for one week with the last week. of the musical attracting 4.000. The biggest surprise of the season said. Murphy was Parlour. Bedroom and Bath which attracted the second largest crowd of the season. Ile said the Playhouse was somewhat leery about "diggrng up this otd play but that popularly of the show which featured tor me r C1214. radio and TV per- sonality Judy Savoy was a. bonus 'for the syason. Murphy added he was pleasantly surprised with the response !ha 4 Two Below. the new Canadian play by George Roberton received. from the audience Man gets 30 months A 2.5 -year-old Huron Park man. Milton Terris Park. was sentenced to 30 months ,in jail when he appeared in Goderich court before County Court Judge F. -G. Carter. Thursday. Park had previously been found guilty on a charge of wounding arising from an incident on January 12 when two Exeter OPP coastables found an Exeter v.7oma9 with severe1erati6fl 1O- throat and hands on .a side street in Huron Park. He had originally been charged with attempted murder and rape. Park had been undergoing tests in Penetanguishene Prior to his Thursday ap- pearance.in court. • ' = 1= • fr CEMENT FALLS -- Two men received serious injuries Wednesdoy when the roof of o silo be- ing constructed collapsed on the form of Joseph Ondrelicka in Stephen township MTichAphoto oOtno- drejicka is shown in front of the structuie. Two seriously hurt in fall from area silo A larrn construction ac- cident Wednesday afternoon has hospitalized two Blenheim area men. The mishap occurred on the Stephen township farm of 'Joseph Ondrejicka when the two men were completing thy construction of a 50 foot silo The two men Harvey iinkerson and Harry Voets are in University Hospital. London suffering serious" 'Nunes. They „were pouring a cement roof on the silo when the wooden decking they were standing on collapsed. They fell 50 feet to the groiind with the five and a half cubic yards of wet cement., Ron McClinchey of 11011 - man's Ambulance one of the first -Oft- the --scene -seid-144e• two men were tangled in the wet cement and steel. The two injured men were . employees of Thomas and Dorssers Silo Limited of Blenheim. Inspectors- of the Ontario Ministry of Labour have been on the scene since the accident but have refused to A make comment on the cause • - Fred Thomas. part owner 01 the construction firm said he did not know why the' deck ing4coi la psed The tindreiicka farm is located on Lot 1l Concession :10f itephen township. a mile and a ,quarter' south of Ei(afer and t ho, same distance wes). Delay halt grant .. • solicitor decisions • ' TKo contentious items of o d business" were 'quickly passed over by Exeter coun- til this weekThey included a suggestjon thade earlier in the summer that the town change its firth of solicitors and the other pertained tn a municipal grant for the restoration of the local town hall. When the discussion started on the suggestion to change solicitors. Councillor Derry Boyle said a report was to have been received on the rvices Provided to the town for the retainer fee they. now pay That report was to have been made by the executive committee and Mayor_ Bruce Shaw indicated it had nist been prepared "I suggest the executive 'comn1ittee make a recommendation for next year's council." Shaw said. ' "Vaur skates are sharp." Boyle replied Consideration for a town grant to the -town hall pro- ject had been tabled during the summer as well when the-Ontefie-Heritag;e_Enun.,____ dation indicated they would provide up to $15.000 more for the project if the amount was matched by council. Shaw suggested a decision be delayed on the matter un- til a formal. written request for a grant is made to coun- cil by the local heritage society. 45 • (.) •