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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-09-14, Page 1The Seaf�rth News WHOLE SERIES, VOL,83 Snowdon Brae, Agblieherr PI1C118 84 Seaforth, Ontario, Thursday, September 14, 1961 11.50 a Year Authorized 18Offica nd ClansP. ORDER CRACKDOWN ON RECKLESS DRIVIlVG Following a number of com- plaints about reckless driving, par- ticularly last Friday and Saturday nights, Mayor Daly, chairmen of the police committee informed council this week that he had instructed Chief Hutchinson "no more warnings", Issue a summons every time- cut out the warnings, Mayor Daly said he had told the Chief. The time is past for leniency. . Squealing tires and cars car- eening -around corners brought a flood of reports from irate citi- zens, The police cannot be every- where at once, the Mayor said, but all they need is the license number of the offending car. Cit- izens can do their part too by se- curing license numbers. A •councillor said a citizen should be prepared to give evi- depce in court, Mayor Daly said he had sug- gested that the police oar be parked out of sight at strategic points and a policeman Petrol - on foot might be able to '''✓!(Itch a few speeders. To get the other side of the -matter, The Seaforth News this week asked some youthful drive` ers what they thought. The an ,swers in effect were that many of the offenders were from out of town. Seaforth was not near as bad as nearby towns, some, said. • 35TH ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs: Joseph Grum- mett quietly observed their 85th wedding anniversary on Septem- ber 8th. Mrs. Grummett was the former Lillian Hutton of Kincar- dine Township. They were mar- ried by the Rev. A, B. Milne of Chalmer's United Church. They had a family of three children, Danny of Wingham; John, de- ceased in 1956, and Margaret, s, F. R. Cantelon, Goderich awnahip, There are four grand- children, ENGAGEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Daniel John Scherbarth, Monkton, Ont., wish to announce the engagement of their daughter Laurene Gertrude to Robert Charles Regele, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Regale, R.R. 5, Seaforth, Ont. The wed- ding to take place - on Friday, October 6, at 3 p.m. in Redeemer Lutheran Church, Monkton, Ont. ENGAGEMENT . The engagement is announced of Joyce Arlene, daughter of Mrs. Katherine Hamilton and the late Mark Hamilton, to Mr. Jack Wakem, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wakem, St. Marys, Ont. The wedding to take place Saturday, Sept. 30th at 2 o'clock at Calvary United Church, London, Ont. BOWLING TOURNAMENT FOR SOOLE TROPHY Winners for the Soole trophy and first prize, Lorne Dale, skip, Dorothy Parke and Peter Mal- colm. 2nd prize: Neil Bell, Katie Phillips and Bill McLean. 8rd prize: Bill Ball, Marie Muir, El- mer Larone. DAMAGE TO NEW CAR G. McLaughlin, . of Brussels, driving his new car with mileage of 1,000 miles, collided with the fire hydrant at the corner of. Main and Market street on Tues- day evening. The car suffered more damage than the hydrant. - CLASS REPRESENTATIVES Election of class 'representat- ives to the students' council took place at the high school during the past week as follows: Grade 13, Lloyd Pethick; Gr. 12A,, Jos. Steller; Gr. 12B, Barb Talbot; Gr. 11A, Larry Burns; Gr. 11B, Darrell Schneider; Gr. 10A, Gordon Hoggarth; Gr. 10B, Ken Cardno; Gr. 10C, Barbara Holland. Gr. 9 representatives to be appointed. The executive were elected in June: President, Dorothy Boyes; secretary, Gwen Storey; treasur- er, Marie Strong; vice pres., Rob- ert Sharp. REAL ESTATE CHANGE Mr. Amos Corby announces the sale of Donald Wallace's house on George St., Seaforth, to Peter --• Innyben, of Seaforth, possession Oct, 1st. HOME AND SCHOOL The Seaforth Home and School Association will meet in the school auditorium at 8:15 Tues- day, Sept. 19th. Mr. Geo, Jeffer- son of Clinton will be the guest speaker. The 1961 Grade VIII graduates will be honored. _ Girl Guides To Meet Next Thursday Girls 12 to 14 years of age in- terested in Guiding, be. at the Town Hall, third floor, Thursday, Sept, 21. at 7 o'clock, Leaders—Mrs, Julia Ranson, Mrs, Elsie Southgate, Mrs. Joan Mcllwain, Mrs. B, Longstaff, Mrs, Veronica Vincent and Mrs. H, Onbelet. Leaders ask that one parent' accompany their girl 'to this first meeting. A brief outline of Gull- ing 'will be explained. FERRIS WHEEL This flower, pot Ferris wheel might be described as something new from something old. Built by Ed. Regele, 12th concession of McKillop, it attracts ranch at- tention at the road side in front of his home, especially on Sun- days when it is turning. Two steel wheels from a discarded hay tedder, painted aluminum, hold three suspended flower boxes of brightly colored petun- ias and marigolds. An old wash- ing machine motor supplies the FOR FLOWERS power through a 12/1 gear box from a soda fountain. A belt goes up around one of the big wheels, turning the ferris wheel slowly at a rate of six times a minute. The flowers seem to thrive on the free rides. Mr. Regale has another set of rake wheels and plans to build the next ferris wheel with six flow- er boxes instead of three. He has also made several of these tree -like flower pot holders which are popular now, using the tines of a horse-drawn hay rake. To End Main St Garbage Fires Garbage collection for Main street was talked about at the regular September meeting of Seaforth council Monday night. Councillors decided that the pre sent bylaw forbidding burning of rubbish ;behind the stores would serve the purpose if strictly en forced, The subject arose when Fire and Water chairman, Conn eillor John Flannery reported that Fire Chief Jack Scott 'was' going after the problem Of open fires behind the stores. 'There had been some request that be- cause the business places pay a business tax the town should do something such as a Saturday morning collection of cardboard boxes and paper by the town truck and burn the stuff at the dump. Councillor Cardno said incin. oration of refuse is a Dig prob- lem and he was fed up with it at his Main street property. The man refuses to clean up lately because of the litter left around the incinerator. Some other means of disposal of old vegeta- bles and other non burnable re- fuse must be found. He had built an incinerator for the tenants. but a 24-hour guard would be needed to keep out all the refuse dumped into it, and around it, Mayor Daly said the fire area is defined as from south of the tracks to Alex Boyce place at the foot of James street. 200 feet or more on each side. Some coun- cillors said we had better make it a garbage collection instead of just flamable materials. Councillor Cardno said Clinton has a private contractor who has a monopoly and keeps the dump locked, Councillors thought col- lection would mean employing another man as the town men are not hired as garbage collectors. It would involve a lot of problems. Present conditions are a fire ha- zard as many bonfires are left unattended: Prosecutions would be needed to enforce the bylaw. Council decided to enforce the bylaw and "something would come out of it." Man Injured in Sunday Accident Two motor vehicles went over the embankment at the Egmond villa bridge about 8 o'clock Sun- day evening, and, a passenger was injured. The accident occur- red when the brakes on a car being towed by a pickup truck failed to hold on the hill, The front of the car smashed into the rear of the, pickup truck. Both ended up at the foot of the grade, Both - were travelling north. Police reported the vehicles were owned by Donald Squires east of Walton, Mrs, Squires was driving the truck and her hus- band was steering the car. Injured in the accident was Mrs. Squires' father, John Mc- Cauley, aged 79, of Walton, His left forearm was broken, He was taken to the Seaforth hos- pital, A wrecking truck from a local garage rescued the vehicles, The occurrence was investig- atedering,by OPP Constable A, )30w- 85 Cubs to Form, Two Seaforth Packs On Monday night 85 boys turn- ed out for the first Cub meeting, in the town hall. The following are the Cubs as- signed to each pack. The First Seaforth Pack meets on Monday nights and the Second Seaforth Pack Wednesday nights. First Seaforth Pack— Meets Mondays Blue Six—Russell Adams, Da- vid Broome, Lief Lauriston, Jim Snowdon, Gordon MacLean, Bob (Jarnochan; . Garry Montgomery.. Black Six—Bill Carnoehan, Bill Boussey, Bill Carter, Ricky Wood, Robert •Taylor, Ron Dal- rymple, Stewart Carter. Yellow Six—Colin Haney, Lau- rie Kruse, Paul Muir, Jim Rowat, Ken Wood, Roger Bennewies, Bill Moore. White Six—Paul Stephenson, Doug Bray, Danny Bennewies, Jos. Ball, Ken McLean, Cam Ha- ney, Wayne Loney. Red Six—Robert Powell, Paul Southgate, Brian Price, Leonard Muegge, Grant Carnochan, Mark Ranson, Stewart McLean. Green Six—Jim Dalrymple, Da- vid Longstaff, Bruce Lamont, Jim Holland, Bruce Wilbee, Danny Cornish. Brown Six — Brian Hodgert, Glen Nicholson, Larry Broome, John Gorwill, Ralph Smith, John Moore. Second Seaforth Pack— Meets Wednesdays Blue Six—John McLean, David Harvey, Fred Onbelet, Mac Wet- terworth, Norman Sim, John Munro, Black Six—Gene Kruse, Danny Muir, Ray Mennell, Bill Mowat, Doug Hildebrand, Jim Rivers, Red Six—David Brady, Donald Bettger, Ron Henderson, Jim Cardno, Ralph Onbelet, Allan Ro- bertson. Green Six—David Bettger, Lar- ry Park, Roy Dalton, Bruce Mal- colm, Steven Smith, Charlie Smith. Special Six — Steven Brady, Dennis Hodgert, Frank Brugger, Gary Nicholson, Gordon Beuten- miller•, Doug Dalrymple. Pack leaders for Mondays are: Ann Carnochan, Corrie Snowdon, Nora Gorwill, Ron Broome, Charles Dungey. Pack leaders for Wednesdays: Tom Wilbee, Helen Wilbee, Bill Hodgert, Laverne Scott, John Onbelet. Boys and girls committee of Lions Club: L. P. Plumsteel, chairman; E. Larone, treas.; An- gus MacLean, Harvey Travis, The residence of Moses Erb, Zurich, on the corner of Market e and Louisa Streets, Seaforth, to s Gordon Nobel, possession Oct, 1, h 1961. c May Set Peddler's Licenses Up to $75, Council Told The regular meeting of Sea - forth council was held on Mon- day night with Mayor Daly pre- siding. Present were Reeve Ball, Councillors Cardno, Dalton, Riv- ers, Turnbull and Flannery, Letters to council included a statement from, Harold Jackson that he did not feel justified in paying for the ramp at the liquor store. Councillors said they un- derstood a ,principle was involv- ed, that Mr, Jackson felt some such work had been done free. Council on -the other had felt if no charge were made, all rate- payers would be wanting free driveways, No private work was done free, they said, A memo from the Dept. of Highways was read re highway link on Goderich Street, A request from Mrs. Russell Broderick for use of third floor of town hall on Saturday after- noons for dancing class 'as in the past brought on discussion about reviewing rental of the town hall rooms, in light of present day costs. Council unanimously concurred in a request from the County of Peel for support for national hos- pital sweepstakes in Canada. A letter from Seaforth P.U.C. requested permission to add three fluorescent lights on the west side of Coleman Street in northwest section of Seaforth. tront of the high school. Rebuild•( To Seek Agreement ,On Sewer Work A deputation from Seaforth council will go to Toronto on Fri- day afternoon to review with OWRC and engineers tile plans for sewer extension in Seaforth, Sewerage committee cheirinan John Turnbull will be accompan- ied by Mayor Daly and possibly other councillors, The meeting is set up for 2.30 .pm, Councillor Turnbull explained that the county intends to rebuild North Main Street next year and once a new pavement is laid it would be 20 years before there could be any thought of tearing it up again to lay a sewer. It was urgent therefore to arrive at a decision and be prepared to pro - coed when the road is being torn up by the county. A limit of around. $170,000 bor- rowing had been mentioned by an official. The council wanted to fled out what could be done besides North Main Street and keep within that amount. Councillor Turnbull thought a sewer the length of North Main Street, then east on Side Street to Coleman Street, south on Cole- man from W. J. Cleary's corner to Goderich Street B., a pumping station, and a force main up the hill on E. Goderich street to con- nect with the existing sewer on either the east or west side of Main Street, would meet present needs and provide potential drainage for the north east and ng of distribution lines is in pro grecs and the lights can be put up. The new lights will illumin- ate a dark corner, and the school iss t. The Goderich Street west and James Street schemes could be dropped for the present. The annual cost of the scheme would be between fifteen and eighteen rn use often at meet. (thousand dollars and would put $50 was granted the highI a heavy burden on North Main school girls trumpet band for Street because there would be hotel' accommodation at'Belle- little revenue from Side Street vine during their' visit to the` and none from Coleman Street. plowing match in October. About In the event of a new hospital $400 will be needed to meet ex- being built at the east end of penaea, town, however, 'sewer connec- The October meeting of ,council tions could be made if needed. will be on the 10th to .:avoid. The OWRC might not be agree - Thanksgiving Day on Monday,, able to the new plan as Dr. Berry the 9th. wanted the town to try for the or - A Clinton,t from Bailiffs bait- iginal scheme of $340,000. This cry, Clintoto peddle bread in would mean an annual cost of Seaforth wast dealt with censeun• around $27,000 which councillors oil offering to grant license n if .agreed was too heavy for the town Bartliff's engage a local' mal and to -carry. have him apply for the license. East Goderich street is a better There was criticism of the lie: location for a pump than West then lo- cal man, and ense granted lest'month the bread to a to William Street, because the nat- ural flow is in that direction, the company sent in outsiders to sell councillor said. bread. The explanation was that • There must be compromise, be - these strangers are making a• cause even if the town had no survey of reajitrenhents and will cause t all, it couldn't do it all at turn the- peddling over to the to one. time.. cal man."I would like to have things•set A draft of a : •peddler's ' Bylaw up by the end of the year," Conn - has been 'obtained , by the town' cillor :Turnbull said,' "because I from Toronto' and consideration want to be relieved". Construction will .be given to a new bylaw date. should be held till next which will permit peddler's lie- spring when the county is ready enses to be set up to $75 instead to proceed with their work. of the present $2 fee. A force main could be run up A new system of committee re- side of Goderich St. E. to the Sun - ports was introduced at this oco station without cutting any meeting. Each committee chair- pavement. Depth would be five man finds a file folder at his feet. The short length of pavement place at the council table con- to cut to reach the present sewer Wining the accounts of his com would not exceed the distance if mittee for the month, also a the old plan were used, from the ' statement showing how ...,much end of West William street. The' has been spent of 'his budget, pumping station would be about whether he has overspent or un- 8 x 10 feet and would be located derspent the monthly'allowance at the Seaforth Motors used car to date, and how much remains unspent for the balance of the year. His committee report and other required information are also there, Finance chairman Cardno re- ported $30,485.62 in tax arrears paid to date, with $20,295.00 out- standing taxes, besides the cur- rent taxes, He reported that a calculating machine was install- ed in the town clerk's office for testing. It will produce the tax notices in a matter of two or three days instead of the month previously required to make out the tax notices. Cost of the ma- chine is $685. A new typewriter cost is $270. Both machines can be purchased at 10% discount. Councillors agreed that the present equipment was out of date and not working too well and believed the purchase worth consideration. Purchase can be made by the property committee with approval of finance commit- tee. The old equipment would have a trade-in value of $75, Councillor Rivers reported for the streets committee. Patching, catch basin repairs, tops on side- walks, oustom work had been done. Ten dead trees will be re- moved but a bigger saw is re- quired, Rental of a saw from a McKillop farmer was suggested, The school asked for a 4 x 60 black top. Lee Learn wants a etch basin. Councillor Turnbull recommended against running urface water into the sewer as t, overflows on the flats when here is a flash flood. We are making money on oust - m work, Councillor Rivers said, and suggested hiring another man for a couple of weeks to get the- work done. We have the quipment and it is a service to the taxpayers. Mayor Daly said e believed the cost is only about ne third what outside .firms barge. Harold Maloney is doing a ood job, too, Councillor Dalton aid. Reeve Ball, relief chairman, aid Seaforth was still fortunate having little relief. He explained about the new Minty bylaw setting out in- peetion fees for plumbing. This ad been passed at the recent ounty council meeting. c REAL ESTATE'CHANGES r Joseph McConnell, real estate s broker, reports the following pro- i party transfers: til The Bruce Walters residence on the corner of Centre and Wil- o Son Streets, Seaforth, to Mr, Jo- seph Taylor, Fullerton Twp. Mr. . Taylor and his sisters, Miss Ida Taylor and Miss Elizabeth Tay- e 1or will take possession of the property on the 15th of October, 11 Mr, Walters is moving to Sarnia o having received a promotion with c Superfast in a managerial capac- ity The property Of Mr. Frederick s Knetsch, Market Street, Sea - forth, to John Boyes, R.R. Sea- s forth, possession September 15, in lot. Councillor Turnbull asked if council wanted them to argue for this pumping station on Friday. He suggested a special meeting of council next Monday night to dis- cuss the outcome of the meeting in Toronto. TEXAS WEATHER South winds from the Gulf of Mexico bringing warm air gave this area unusally high tempera- tures for this time of year last weekend and first couple of days this week. On Monday some of the oil well drillers stopped in town for their lunch. They were asked if there were such warm weather in Texas. "Oh brother" they ex- claimed, and then thinking it over.one said: "But this is a pretty warm day", S Little folks will love these beautiful gifts from Bent, Straight or Feeding Spoon— $1,65 each THE FINEST SILVERPLATE 2 Piece Baby Sel and Humpty Pumpty Rattle— $175 each 2 Piece Baby Set $3,25 each Bent, Straight or Feeding Spoon with. Clothes Pin Rattle-.. $2,25 each 3 Piece Toddler Set $7.95 each 3 Piece Child Set with H.H. Knife $5.75 each TUDOR PLATE BABYSPOONS AS LOW AS $1.00 SAVAUGE'S JEWELLERY GIFTS FINE CHINA Seaforth SOCCER' PLAY-OFFS Winthrop Eliminates Clinton RCAF Winthrop eliminated Clinton RCAF from the playoffs in the HFA when they scored a 6-1 vict- ory in a game played in Winthrop last week. This was the third game of the series with Winthrop winning it, two games to one. Win- throp will now meet Goderich in the finals for the championship. Ron'McClure scored 2 goals for Winthrop with Tom Love, George Love and John Boven scoring. sin- gles. Winthrop -Goal, Hank Boven; def. Bill Kerr, Mery Pepper; halves—Bert Dennis, Earl - Dol - mage, Neil Dolmage; forwards Geo. Love, Tom Lovie, Ken Mc- Clure, Ron McClure, John Boven. Alt., Wayne Dolmage, Paul Mc.' Cluskie. WINTHROP LEADS SERIES Winthrop girls rallied for two runs in the last of the seventh inning to score a 6-5 win over Ex- eter in the second game of the best of five Huron, Senior Ladies Softball League finals played in Hensall „on Thursday night. Mari- lyn Archibald with a home run and two singles and Joyce Mc- Clure with two singles and a dou- ble were best for Winthrop. Jean Taylor had three hits for Exeter. Exeter 101 000 3 — 5 Winthrop .. 110 002 2 — 6 Carey and Jorgenson; Hannon and Elliott. Winthrop defeated Exeter 9-4 in the third game of their best of five series to take a 2-1 lead in games. The game was played in Hensall Tuesday night, Don- na Hannon struck out eight Ex- eter batters while Rose Carey fanned five Winthrop hitters, Ruth Ritchie with a triple and a single, and Marilyn Archibald with three singles led the Win- throp hitting attack. The next game of the series will be played in Hensall on Tuesday, Sept. 19 at 9 p.m. Winthrop 003 051 0 — 9 (Exeter 012 100 0 — 4 Hannon and Elliott; Carey and Jorgenson. REBEKAHS MEET A pot -luck supper convened by Mrs, Keith Sharp, preceded the first autumn meeting of Edel- weiss Rebekah Lodge, Monday evening., Following the meal Sunshine Pals were revealed with the exchange of gifts. Mrs. Margaret Messenger, N. G. pre- sided for the meeting which fol- lowed at which nominations for several offices were held with all offices being filled by acclama- tion. Installation of these and the appointed officers will take place on October 23rd by Mrs. Carmen McPherson of Clinton D.D.P. of Huron District No. 23 and her staff, Mrs. Leslie McClure was ag- ain Sunshine Pal Convener. The members received an invitation to an international rally to be held at Sarnia on Oct. 1 at which Rev. Duncan Guest of Centralia, is to be the guest sneaker, Plans are to have the initiatory - degree conferred in early Oct.. gs -4 ST. COLUMBAI4 • Mr. and Mrs. Sam Love and Steve Kwasnitza of Wadena, Sask., visited with Mr. and Mrs. Leo Murray over the weekend. They also visited Mr. and Mrs. Gerrard Marchand and Miss Ann Murray of Windsor and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Murray of Stratford. -E G. Coutts Awarded $400 Bursary Glenn Coutts of Seaforth High School in grade 13 has been awarded an Atkinson Bursary of $400. Glenn is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Coutts. 1000th MEMBERSHIP CARD ISSUED AT LIBRARY Miss Brenda. Ross, Seaforth, had the honor of being issued the 1000th membership card a.t Seaforth Public Library, during the past week, With the in creased number of borrowers, the circulation reached the highest recorded figure, the librarian, Mrs. Gordon Wright, reports, • 'has Above, Miss Ross Is receiving her card from Mrs. Wright,