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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1968-07-18, Page 13 5 0 .7* Wbele Nu. 5200 109th Year SEAFORTHI-OMPARI. g DAY, JULY 18, 1968 - IO PAGES Neighborliness Means Much in Tuckersmith Bales of hay were mOved fast and furiously as neighbors i of Seaforth area farmer Doug Wallace, Who was injured in a two -truck collisien May 29, got together to gather in all 4,500 bales of hay on Mr. Wallace's farm while he recuperates in hospital. From left, Jim Rose, John Miller, Allan Wynja and Peter Swinkles unload one of the many wagons during the hot Tuesday afternoon. In all 20 farm families were reprei sented in the co-operative community effort. (Photo by Cant, ley). Friends .Sla.gei....Flayingaee' T� Aid IFICipitalitted. 'Farmer Farmers and their sons, all with haying equipment, came from miles around Tuesday af- ternoon to gather in the hay of a friend — Seaforth area farm- er Doug Wallace. Mr. Wallace is in hospital re- covering 'from serious injuries received in a two -truck colli- sion" May 29. On that day, a Seaforth Farmers Co-op fuel truck, which he was driving and a gravel truck, were in Collision at an intersection a mile and a- quarter,west of Egmondville en, the second of Tuckersmith. Reports say he may not be re- leased for at least another three weeks and it is at a time when, tkeWallace hay had to be baled. Neighboring farmers led by Peter Swinkles decided to hold a "haying bee" Tuesday and somehow other farmers who had not been asked to take .time from their Own. farm work, heard of the one -day operation. By Mid-afternoon, •over 20 dif- ferent farnlers had brought tractors, balers and wagons to the farm on the Seaforth" to Kippen county road, about a mile and a quarter south , of 'Egmondville. In one steady Operation, youn- gsters and their fathers moved over 4,500 heavy bales in the hot sun from the field into the barn. They operated from both sides of the barn at the same time. Some 10 men were stationed in the loft, more helped unload the bales from the wagons onto the elevators and at least anoth- er dozen worked in the field be- hind six balers to 'load- the wa- gons. Police Charge Two With Church Theft Two men were arrested in Kitchener Tuesday afternoon at the requeSt of Seaforth Police. Leo Beamlette, 16 and Henri Dehaime, 20; of St. Vincent, P.Q: will appear in magistrate's court Thursday charged with the theft of three microphones from St. James' Roman Catho- lic Church, Seaforth on Monday. Father H. J Laragh said he discovered the theft when he entered the church Tuesday morning. The instruments, val- ued at $100 were taken from the, front area of the church. Clerk Dies John M. Eckert, veteran clerk of McKiliop Township, passed away in Seaforth Community Hospital. on Wednesday, July 17th. He was in his 80th year. Funeral arrangements are in- complete." Venture of Two Young Ladies "Country Studio" "The Iinpossible "Dream" has become the "Country Studio" and now all it needs 1 people. Two enterprising young lad- ies, Anne Fairservice of Londes- boro and Claire Taylor of Blyth Purehaped the old coun- try sehool located about five miles west of Walton on the Walton to Blyth county road, three years agonnd after debat- ing what they were going to, do with the old pled° decidedto use it for teaching and,develop- Ink arts and crafts in the area. When they started the task 'seemed like.the title to the Song "The,• Inipossible breinn'' be- cause working ott a limited bud- get and with plenty et work to do on the 'schoorthe-girls had to work hard before getting the place operating fast 'summer. It is now called the "Country Studio" but it Success or lack of success 10-be1inglneaeured bY the interest of area residents. "Unless the ptil/lic begins to take Dninterest there's really no • u$e," Said' .0n. Last au/ - mer was their ffrst full year in, operation and, they enjoyed a reaSonable muottut Of Wow but, this year, With the ittidie established, they Were hdPing Police were called and con- stable John Sinnarnon in his in- vestigation obtained a descrip- tion of the men who neigh- bors had seen in the area of _the church on Monday. This in- formation made it possible to follow the couple eastward and resulted in their arrest early Tuesday afternoon. The missing microphones were recovered. When Legion president Charles Wood was on his way to work on Saturday morning, he noticed that the south fire exit door in the Legion Hall was open. When he investigated Mr. Wood discovered thieves had not only smashed open the door sometime during the night but in a rampage through the building had smashed open four other locked doors. Presumably looking for beer the thieves ignored cigarettes and other stock. Constables Keith Ruston and John Sinnamon of the Seaforth Police Force are investigating. for even greater things. Regis- tration to -classes and attendance at their first of three or four concerts has been kept down to a minimum and it is stumping the girls, Their Program They have everything to offer. The girls are well qualified to tetiela arts .and crafts. Anne is a graduate from Wayne State University in Fine Arts and Claire is a public school, teach- er (in Toronto) and they bring in the finest teachers available for special lessons. They also go • about to ,makifig the setting as intimate and as enjoyable as possible. ' Courses Or this year include pottery, children's art,, painting and sketching as well as art appreciation sessions of slides of the Most famotts of world artists, acting, sculpture, flower arranging, rug btaiding, puppetry, Weaving and tours of some of the world faMOtts gal - The, summer session ends August 81. tray Saturday arts and drafts are placed On display for the public, Costs for the &news ire nem - „Ind end basically Met' Mater- ials and expeiriseil of the tied - 1 Youth • Posted to Germany Bombardier • ,Wint McGitth, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Mc- , Grath, Egmondville, will . leave Canada for a three-month post- ing to the Canadian Armed Forces in Germany on August 12. A member of the Wingham Battery of the 21st Field Artil- lery for the past three years he was selected to represent bat- . WILLIAM ,McGRATH goes to . 'Germany teries 4liroughotit the area. A younger brother, James, 16, al- so is a member of the Wingham battery. Bombardier McGrath was hon- ored earlier this year when he was presented with the Centen- nial Medal. ssive or. A massive search continued Wednesday in an attempt to lo- cate the bodies of Fergus Coombs, Egmondville an, Jack Dallas, RR 1, 13rucefield, wko are missing and presumed drowned following a "boating ao, cident early Sunday mormpg. (Searchers recovered a body late Wednesday . afternoon about half a mile west and north of Bayfield harbor which has been identified as that of Jack Dallas. The search is continuing for the body of Fergus Coombs.) At least six pleasure draft, together with OPP service craft patrolled the waters of Lake Huron near Bayfield and a num- ber of men joined the search on” shore as the intensive hunt con- tinued for the two meh whose 16 -foot fibre glass motorboat flipped over about 1 a.m., about a mile from shore at Bayfield. Three - other companions, James Racho, 25, Stratford, Wayne Bennewies, 27, Seaforth and Murray McLeod, 28, Strat- ford, managed to cling to .the craft and reach shore after struggling in the waters for ov- er three hours. "Murray McLeod and Jim Racho hung on to the boat; they could not swim. Young Bennewies, the only One who could swim, hung on the back of the boat and paddled his feet like a dog paddle to move the boat," said Mrs. Cleave Coombs, whose husband is a brother of Fergus CooMbs, in explaining how the men reach- ed shore. The three men contacted a Bayfield cottager who took them to the Goderich OPP. The pol- ice began the search immediate- ly.- The men said Mr. Dallas went New Play Area at SDHS Construction. ofa multi -use play area on the grounds of Seaforth District High School is under way, this week. Designed to provide accom- modation for a number of spells the 120 by 100 foot paved area will be fenced with an 8 foot fence. Provision is made for two tennis 'courts, four badmin- ton courts, three volley 'ball courts and basketball. The play area will ease the demands which are placedon the school gymnasium according to Trus- tee D. C. Cornish who heads a committee of the board in charge of the project., The combination of hot wea- ther and kids with bikes could create some prbblems according to Trustee Frank Sills, who urg- ed children to stay off the new surface until it had set proper- ly. He said the hot weather re- sults in a longer time being nec- essary for the black top to set. The work was carried out by Hardtop Paving Co. of Strat- ford at a cost of $3,600. The 8 - foot chain link fence will be $1,720 additional. School for Arts and Crafts ialists that they bring in. ' There's potential in the area according to the girls and noth- ing Would please them more than to see work of area resi- dents placed in art- shops in centres such as Toronto and Ot- tawa. So far their children's classes have received- the great- est responseand Anne, who does most of the teaching, has discovered a lot of talent. "Wel* not stingy with our knowledge," said Anne. "We'd do a lot for people if we could get them to come out." 1. "I sortof feel there are a lot cif these local craftsmen who have a skill and just 'need a push," she added. . .k They feel that once their es- tablishment gets going they , will be able to attract people froni the, city if the people from the area continue, to lack intereat in art. "We've got some- thing the clly doesn't have,"; said Anne. According to Claire, more people from the city are expressing •interest and will drive more than ' a hundred miles just to .take a course. ' The girls are even thiuking Of residencefor City people but this is a leng-range future pos- • sibility. They have colne along way since the day they decided to buy the old schoolhouse at an auction in the fall of '66. It cost them $1,000 but they just about had it for $450 until someone came in and started to raise the bid. . Lady Fix -Its Since then Anne and Claire with the help of a few friends, have done 111 the work them- selves in fixing up the place. They've built stone walls, dug postholes, painted the interior, landscaped, put up signs, done the necessary repair work and decorated the interihr with hand -spun rugs, paintingcs, etc. They try to use as much free labour as possible because it is more of a hobby to them' and $100 on a nothing budget is a lot of money. The materials cost them a great deal and they try to make use of what local materials there are such as clay which they are' eXPerimentind with and old clothes which they rip up for quilts, Claire has been ,nutting pres, Sure On the geVernment for a,. possible ',grant which. will en able- them to carry on to cap. L. . acity. • While Claire is thinking of, giving up teaching to concen- tratt on art, Anne is presently an ftemPloyed interior decora- tor. After she graduated in 1963, she Worked at Eaton's in Toronto as an interior decora- tor but gave it up as Claire kid- ded, "Because she was tired of telling people what colodr of toilet seats they should put in their bathroom." Now she does some freelance decorating -work in the area but her love is in arts' and crafts and music. She once bought an A. CassOn (one of the group of seven) painting for two dol- lars in a "lucky deal". - Claire, the public relations -girl for the studio, has been teaching for 10 years except for a couple of years whith she took off to travel in Eastern Europe and Africa. She spent considerable time."' studying na- tive erafts and paintings of the countries she yiSited. " CUrlosity Lost In teaching she's ,careful to gite her students a chance to • study •iitt by taking them on field trips around Toronto. • On/tinned on Page 4) • • SingAPIS 12 COMAS PA) A Yes: Li AdvaRge . under and was not seen mom- ents after the mishap. Mr. Coombs, 37, lost his hold on the boat and disappeared. Mr. Dallas was co-owner of the craft along with his brother William of RR 1, Brucefield. Goderich police said .the search has been hampered by the conditions of the lake bot- tom which is rocky and un- even. They said water tempera- ture and under water currents are also, causing some difficul- ty as dragging operations are carried out. One spokesman said the prevailing winds in the area may have carried the hedieS as far north as Gciderich. Mr. Coombs is the son of Her- bed Coombs" 0,,f Egmondville and the brother of Patina' of London, Cleave and Raymond of Egmondville, Kenneth of Sea - forth _and Wesley, of 11R 2, Seaforth. Re was an employee with A. X. -Wright Transport in Seaforth. Mr. Dallas' is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Russel Dallas of RR •FERGUS COOMBS JACK DALLAS , New Fire Area Talks Produce Headway A move to establish a, new fire area agreement in which townships of Tuckersmith, Hut, lett, Hibbert, McKillop and the town of Seaforth be united as a single area received its first serious discussion Thursday night. At a special meeting between representatives of the councils, pros and cons of the idea for the fire area which .would be controlled through a, central outlet in Seaforth were discus- sed. At the end of the long session, the meeting decided such an agreement would be feasible but only subject to rep- resentation being on an assess- ment basis, the same—as costs are shared. This "representation on an as- sessment basii, the same as costs are shared", was, repre- sentatives pointed out, • only their opinion and would have to be taken up with each council. "We could be sitting out on our tractors tomorrow and all change our minds," said Reeve Elgin Thompson•rof Tuckersmith who was opposed to the estab- lishment of an area. Under the present agreement which was set up with the Sea - forth volunteer fire department in 1951, the rural areas pay for the costs of individual fires in their area which the Seaforth truck attends. Reeve Ken Stewart and coun- cillor Allan Campbell of McKil- lop;•Jteeve Hugh Flynn of Hul- lett, Reeve Elgin Thompsim of Tuckersmith, counciller Clif- ford Miller of Hibbert, and conncillors J. C. MacLennan and R. S. McDonald of Seaforth gath- ered .in Seaforth Town Hall to sound out possibilities of updat- ing and improving the district fire protection services. Seaforth councillors proposed an agreement similar to that set up by Mitchell with turroun- ding townships in which a com- • mittee was established with rep- resentatives from the townships and Mitchell handling all issues affecting fire protection. Under the agreement eosts of housing fire engine, equipment, wages, etc. are shared by the munici- palities. Dr. MacLennan, who was ap- pointed chairman, queried each representative, who in turn, gave his views. Reeve Thompson questioned the benefits which Tuckersmith would receive by setting up the area. He said Tuckersmith al- ready was Supporting costs of new fire engines in Hensall and .Clinton as well as paying in Seaforth for fire protection. If the new agreement were set up, he feared Tuckersmith would then have to support thepur- chase of a new fire engine • in Seaforth as well and said: "We can't afford a new engine in Clinton, Hensall and Seaforth." He pointed out Tuckersmith would' then have to reduce as - (Continued on Page 4) 1; 11114cOielc1.14,c brotli.er of Wil- liam, Pres- on of. RR.4, Seaforth. , He was in Partnership with ,his -rather on their farm in i3rucefb31d. Previously bc had Nvorke4- in the Simelactoryin Seaforth aucl- assistpd In operating the Sun- oco Service StMaiL Neither man was married, Mail Will Flow . Seaforth The mail freeze is on as of this morning but Seaforth is bile of few municipalities where mail will continue to flow. However, mall which the Sea - forth post office does handles basically will consist of local mail destined for local and rur- al residents. Seaforth rural de- liveries will continue as Well as rural deliveries in Hensall, Kippen, Brucefield, Dublin, Wal- ton, Cromarty and Staffa. The post' office will also handle any mail which comes in from put- ' side sources. Because of the str&e,-the Hur- on Expositor regrets delivery of subscriptions to 'outside points affected by the strike will be • delayed. However, Seaforth and rural subscribers will continue to receive their copies on time and arrangements have been made for Expositors to be truck- ed to area outlets so that sub- scribera in these centres as well will receive copies as usual. Correspondents are asked to phone news material or arrange to have copy delivered by hand to the office here..• Recall 0141-thne Business A Seaforth hardware firm of eighty years ago was recalled this week while Elmer Rivers was shingling the residence of Frank Jordan at the corner of East William and Side Streets. , Attached to felt paper under . the old shingles being removed • was a large label with these words: "For Johfisort Bros., Sea - 1 • - forth, Ont., Hardware Mereh- ants, Dry and Tarred building paper, 2 and 3 ply ready roof- ing, cool tar, roof paint, etc." Johnson Bros. occupied the two -store block on Main Street now owned by Stewart Bros. The firm was the first tenant following construction of the Week in 1872 by Ludwig Meyer. • Samuel and David Johnson continued their business as par- tners until 1880 when Samuel moved to Winnipeg. The busi- ness was disposed of following the sudden death of David John- son in November, 1899. Arts and Crafts at Walton Claire Taylor (left) of Myth and Anne Pairservion, Londesboro, co-aPerators of "Country .4/.. Studio" just west of Walton, demonstrate the art of cora/nip, The girls have set up thelitudio,"' In an old schoolhouse purchased to help in, the teaching aid development ot efts and trattir In the area: (Photo by Cantley).