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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1949-08-18, Page 1Seventy-sixth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1949 Single Copy Report Urges Parks, Canals, Reforestation Lions Receive Plans For Tentative plans for a new South Huron District hospital at Exetei* were released by Lions Club officials early this week. The 25-room hospital is esti­ mated to cost close to $200,000. Architects’ preliminary plans were received recently by Elmer Bell, chairman of the hospital committee, and are now subject to the approval of the club when it meets again in the fall. . The T-shaped two storey hosT pital will include nurses' and staff Jiving quarters upstairs, and janitor’s1 facilities in the basement. ■ Approximately fifty rooms, including £he patients’ wards, operating, emergency, X- ray and laboratory rooms, , are ■designed for the building. Already ground lias been do­ nated for the site, Mr. Richard E. Pooley will give a section of his land on Huron Street east for a location. Definite arrange­ ments are still incomplete, how­ ever, Release of the plans came subsequent to .a concert in aid of the hospital fund held at Grand Bend Sunday night. The club’s fund, aided by proceeds from the last two annual frolics, now totals $5,500. Plans for an active campaign have yet to be drawn up but work will proceed when the Lions meet again in September. Members of the Hospital Committee include Charles Mac- Na u g h t o n, vice - president in charge; Elmer Bell, chairman; Thos. Pryde, M.L.A. for Huron- Perth; Dr. J. G. Dunlap, and Herb Eilber. In an interview Mr. Bell stat­ ed that “We are the only area in tho County of Huron without hospitalization”. Centres at Clin­ ton, Seaforth, W i n g h a m and Goderich were looking after the other areas of the county, he said, but South Huron must bank on London city hospitals for care. “Facilities for hospitalization,” he went on, “are becoming so strained that ’it won’t be long before no one will be able to get accommodation in these city hospitals except in extreme cases.” “New health schemes are in­ creasing hospitalization because people' can now afford it. A local Institution will remove the strain on families who must now travel back and forth to the city when someone has to be treated ovet" a length of time. “Hospitalization,” he pointed out, "is in most cases a matter of some time. We won’t be able to take care of all types of sur­ gery here. Nevertheless, this type of institution will relieve the pressure on larger centres and will take care of eighty-five per cent of our cases.” Mr. Bell, pointed out that grants were available from the dominion and provincial govern­ ments and the Huron County council, who Were in favour of hospital decentralization from larger cities. "The new trend is •to have satellites throughout the country to make more and bet­ ter service available.” "In order to aid municipalities in financing these institutions, the governments are revising hospital regulations to lower the costs of building.” The project started two years ago when the Lions Club decided to place proceeds of that year’s frolic into a hospital fund. Until recently the plan had not reached any definite stage. Now, with the architect’s preliminary design ready, the campaign is expected to get Under way in the near future. Two-Year-Old Breaks Thumb David Johnston, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lome John- ton, ibroke his thumb Tuesday when an electric motor fell on liis hand, David was in his father’s shop when he loosened a vice holding the engine. Dr, Milner treated the youngster. Return From Western Trek Mr. and Mrs. William Sweitzer have returned home after enjoy­ ing a six weeks’ motor trip to the West. They went to Calgary and took in the Calgary Stam­ pede and then visited at Banff and Lake Louise. Most of the .journey was made through the U.S.A, They visited over the Week-end with Mr. a n d Mrs. Glen Brenner at Grand Bend, Makes Addition To Plant The Ewicker Seed Co., Ltd,, of Crediton, recently completed an addition to its seed plant that Will now permit storage of eight carloads of seed. The company now has n modern plant in every way with better facilities for the handling of seed. ’Twas Bonnie, Not Betty! In the upper school results last week, we mentioned that Betty Gaiser wrote ten papers and passed them all. The credit for this accomplishment should have gone- to Bonnie McFalls. Bonnie was the only student in the class to write ten papers. Betty Gaiser tried nine papers. Our apologies, Bonnie! Inquest Adjourned 'Proceedings of the inquest in­ to the death of' Lillian . Goldie Perry were adjourned last Fri­ day for one week by Coroner Dr. E.: A. McMaster, Seaforth. ■Results of a po^t mortem have not been releasea. Exeter To Have New Rest Rooms Relief will be found, now and later, with the news that a pub­ lic “comfort ' station” will be •built in Exeter soon. Disgraced for many years with an outhouse health authorities would have hardly permitted anybody else to have, plans for a separate, cement-block build­ ing behind the town hall are be­ ing drawn up. The council organized a com­ mittee of the reeve and council­ lors Hern and Lindenfield to get the project under way at their regular meeting Monday night. Incomplete plans are to have an entrance off Main street and to have the two compartments, men’s and'ladies’, heated. Fire Chief Bill Chambers waited on the council and pre­ sented specifications and price for additional fire fighting equip­ ment. Councillors Hern and Snider were appointed to look over the proposed equipment with the fire chief and report back. Complaints were made in re­ gard to chickens running at large and causing, damage .to gardens. Council promised action in the matter. The necessary pipe for Storm Sewer is to be ordered from the Concrete Pipe Limited, subject to later cancellation if desired. Representatives of Turf Club waited ,on Council asking that a meeting be called of Council, Agricultural Society, Park Board and Turf Club to consider mat­ ters in regard to Park Grounds. Council instructed Reeve Sweitzer to, call such a meeting for Thursday, August 18 at 8 P.M. Meeting to be held in Council Chambers. Applications for building per­ mits were granted to John Ward, Apartment (Subject to inspect­ ion), Exeter District Co-op — Renovating .Store Building; Geo. Volland — Renovating house. The following accounts were read and ordered paid on motion of 'Councillors Lindenfield and Snider. Herman Hodgson •— General Accident Insurance Co. $386.22; Exetei* Public School Board — Part Appropriation, $4000.00; Supertest Station, C. Moore *—• Gas and Oil $16.39; Bell Tele­ phone Co. — J, Norry $2.05; F. Hall $4.0'0', $6.05;Tuckey Trans­ port t—• Cartage of Extinguisher $,70; Exeter Public Utilities —• Street Lighting $250.13; Doug­ las Brintnell — Crossing Road with Tile $7.10; Huron Lumber Co. —• Tile $133.89; Jack Doerr —' Maps $7.50; Gerald Cornish — Labour $48,25; Samuel Grainger — Labour $37.71; George Weatherspoon —• Labour $8,80'; Wm. Laverty —« Labour $25,14; Edgar Mawhinney —- Cleaning ..Streets $49.18. Communications were, read and dealt with as follows: Ontario Municipal Association — Vq convention. Filed Department of Highways —- re subsidy. Attention of Treas. Department of Health — re storm sewer and pumping station. Filed. Ontario Municipal Board — re storm sewer and pumping sta­ tion. Filed. Hydro Electric Power Com­ mission — re taxes. Attention of assessor. 6 Municipal Service Co. —• re street numbering. Filed. Ontario Provincial Police — re pensions. Councillors Snider and Hughes moved to have the Clerk write to Superintendent of Insurance re plans. County of Huron —re subsidy total, Filed, Consolidated E n g Ines an d Machinery Company — re mech­ anical Equipment .for Pumping Station, Filed. FIGHTS CROP DISEASE IN NOVEL WAY — On the staff of the Dominion Entomological Laboratory in Chatham, Ont., Albert Wood’s wax modelling now is helping to battle insect pests and plant diseases responsible for untold damage to Canadian crops each year. His belief is that if people recog­ nize plant pests and actually see the destruction ’caused by them, they are likely to be much more conscious of control measures. Here he works on wax potatoes and will .show on them the various types of moulds and bugs which de­ stroy, stunt or rot them in growth. With Wood’s lifelike models, identification of insects and moulds is instant and positive. —Central Press Canadian Club Carrying Out Extensive Campaign To Restore Pheasants Th© Exeter Game Conservation Club, since its inception on Mar. 8, of this year, has embarked on an extensive .campaign to restore pheasant life in this area. Working as a registered club in cooperation with the Depart­ ment of Lands and Forests, the local men have already released, 500 birds in the ais trict. Plans for future prorogation of the pheasants have been, set up to insure a supply, which added to natural generation and protected by proper conservation will keep local forests sufficiently stocked. Late in .May, 500 chicks were delivered to the club from the department and raised in local pens. On July 8, 383 of these birds were banded on the wings and legs with red .plastic ring­ lets numbered from 12,000 to 12,3 83. They were released shortly after. In addition to this, 24 old birds were sent .to members for generation purposes. These pheasants laid 225 eggs which have been distributed around the district. Allan Pfaff received 12, James McCarter 18, Ken Tuckey 15, F. Walters 70, Earl Witmer 4i0, Earl Rader 40 and Charles Martene 30. A hatch up to ninety- percent has been reported on these embryos. As these birds mature they are released in the district. Bunny Ford, Graham Arthur, Jack Can* and Dalton Finkbeiner have about fifty hens and cocke­ rels in captivity to .produce eggs for next spring. Plans are now to distribute these eggs to school children to raise and release next summer. One hundred were delivered by the Department of Lands and Forests on July 15 .and released from the farms of Nelson Shenk and Joe and Anthony Martene. These birds carry a white metal band on the right leg. The club found the number ,of birds too few to cover any more than half of Stephen Township this year’ but hope to cover more territory next season. Some of the marked birds re­ leased have already been found two and a half miles from their Starting point. Their range is ap­ proximately five miles. The birds include ring-necked Mongolian and a few Australian types of pheasants. A season will be set aside for them in the fall and game wardens from the district will supervise the hunt. Although the birds 4are provid­ ed free from the conservation farms of the government, the local clubs must furnish rearing facilities and feed. The .expenses for this have been provided tor by fees, donations and a spring campaign. The members of the club thank all who donated to this campaign. Until the scheme becomes self supporting through income from fall hunts, the club must still seek funds locally. An­ other .campaign to raise money will he initiated this fall, One of the numerous advant­ ages of the program is the at­ traction 'Tor American hunters who will supply revenue to mer­ chants and accomodators while here on drives. .Controlled by supervised operation,*the scheme will revive an old sport now al­ most 'extinct in the district. While^. the Conservation clubs will take care of stocking prob­ lems, the cooperation of citizens is .essentially needed to make the project a success. There is a definite season for pheasant shooting and all sportsmen will have their chance to hunt the birds. It is unlawful to shoot these birds out of season and to Shoot hens any time. Only if hunters abide by these rules can the scheme be carried out. In connection with game con­ servation, farmers are encourag­ ed to improve land for wildlife by the elimination of animal grazing in woodlots, by selective rather than clear cutting, by planting small groups of trees (incidentally farmers will find the department very cooperative in supplying these trees) and field .boundary hedges and by planting wildlife food patches. By the way, anyone interested in securing a permit to raise pheasants may contact the Exe­ ter club and they will see that the application reaches the prop­ er authorities. Breeders are al­ lowed to keep four or five pheasants each year. Cost of rearing each bird from day old to eight weeks or re­ leasing time is twenty-five cents, the work being all gratis. Exeter Girls Win First Playoff Tilt Exeter girls took the first game in their best-of-thre6 series by edging Lucan 6-5 at Com­ munity Park, Tuesday night. The second game will be played in Lucan Thursday. Hodgins bashed out a long drive that was bobbled in left field and scored on Pfaff’s in­ field roller for what was the winning tally in the last half of the seventh. In the first half Lucan scored two runs to tie the count at 5-5. Lucan took the lead in the second with a pair of runs and increased it by one in the fourth. In the last half of the fourth Exeter got two of them back and in tile fifth took ad­ vantage of five miscues to gain a 5-3 lead. The score remained that way until the deciding seventh. Lucan got but three hits off Pfaff, all singles but took ad­ vantage of twelve walks. Exeter, on the other hand, got but four off Morgan, one a double by Hunkin, but was aided by ten Lucan errors. EXETER: Essery, 2b; Sweet, 3b; Hodgins, If; Pfaff, p; Wein, lb; Taylor, c; Penhale, rf; Hun- kin, ss; McKnight, cf. LUCAN: B. Hardy, ss; Bobb, lb; Walls, rf; .Ewen, c; Watson, ef; M, Hardy, 2b; Atkinson, 3b; D. Hardy, If; Morgan, p. Concert Adds $875 To Hospital Fund ^Proceeds from the Exeter Lions Club's concert and draw at Grand Bend set a record for benefit performances at Lake­ view Casino, owner Eric McIlroy told the crowd Sunday night. Approximately $875 was real­ ized for the club’s hospital fund. This brings .the total to $5500. Neil McKay and his orchestra entertained with the help of re­ cording artist Don Harding, CFPL pianist , Frank Monohan, and McKay’s wife Marian. The pedigreed cocker spaniel puppy was won by Marion Cope­ land, an employee of the Public Utilities. Marian is going to keep the eight - week - old pedigreed and call it “Raffles”. Two Youths Sent To Reformatory With a truckload of evidence just outside the window behind him, Magistrate D. E. Holmes, K.C., sentenced two , London youths tp a year in reformatory for stealing a car and being in possession of stolen goods. The case was heard in Exeter Court last Thursday. The truck, which the magis­ trate could see quite easily through the window, was full .of car iparts, identified as belonging to the car stolen from Maple Grove, just north of Grand Bend on July 8. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Palmer, wife of a Toronto Type Foundary official, was using the car on her vacation at Grand Bend. Police charged that the .two youths, Donald Bradley, 20, and George Hutchinson, 19, had chopped up the 1947 sedan to get parts. Both .pleaded guilty. Two exhibits were produced by the crown to prove the case —one a list, over three feet long, of parts found at the boys’ homes, the other was pieces of licence 'plates, hacked and crumpled, identifying the car. The following Monday after the automobile was stolen, Lon­ don Township Police stopped a car on 'Western' road because it carred a faulty tail light. The two accused were in the car and in the back seat, were doors and ■parts. Questioning by police opened the case and the two were arrested. The body of the car was cut into countless pieces and some of these including three wheels, were dumped into the Thames river London. When questioned as to where­ abouts of the chassis of the car, not found by police, the two ac­ cused "couldn’t rem em ber” where they put it. Counsels for the defence, A. D. Murisou, and A. O. 'McElheran, London, pleaded for leniency on the grounds that it was the first offence of either boy and that each came from a respectable home in London. Donald Bradley had just received word that he had passed in liis senior matric­ ulation exams and was about to enter the University of Western Ontario. Although Bradley was charged with stealing the car, and Hutch­ eson with being in possession of stolen goods, the Magistrate, in administering sentence, said he could make “no distinction be­ tween tlm two.” "I’m amazed, frankly,” he said, “that two boys of their up­ bringing, background and intel­ ligence, could do a thing like this.”^Crown Attorney H. Glen Hayes prosecuted. Three Generations Same Date August 15 will be a day of triple celebration for the Law- sons of Exeter. On Monday, Mrs. Gerald Law- son gave birth to a son at Vic­ toria Hospital, London. On the same day, the father and his mother, Mrs. George Lawson, celebrated’ the anniver­ sary of their birthdays’. That’s three generations of them, all born on the same date. Mother and son are doing Well. No name has been given the boy yet. Sixteen Kids, Too, Maybe? The latest addition to the family of Mr. and Mrs. George Wright makes three sons, all i born on the sixteenth of the I month. Billy was born January I 16, Peter on July 16, and their] baby brother on August 16. Mrs. Amos Parker and Mrs. | Richard Parker, of Lansing, i Mich., spent several days at the I home of Mr. Frank Sheere last I week. Ausable Report Presented At Parkhill By Hon. Wm. Griesinger A 500-page prescription to preserve and. improve the Ausable watershed was proposed to the Conservation Author­ ity of the area last Friday night at Parkhill. Planning Minister, Hon, William Griesinger, presented his department’s report and recommendations, after two years of research, embodying flood control measures which might exceed two million dollars. Besides tackling water problems, intensified by the dis­ astrous 1947 flood, the report suggested corrective measures under the headings of recreation, wildlife, soils and land use, and forestry. Officially tabling the bulky re­ port, Mr. Greiseinger called it “a blueprint which can be used by the people of the Ausable Water­ shed to bring hack the fertility and beauty ,of this part of On­ tario.” The minister of Planning and Development spoke before a crowded house in the town hail, surrounded on all sides by maps, pictures and charts of the water­ shed and still decorated from the celebrations of the Parkhill Old Boys Reunion. “Shortly after the Conserva­ tion Authorities Act was passed in 1946” Mr. Greiseinger said, “the municipalities on the Au- ■ sable 'Watershed were among the first to take advantage of setting up an Authority. The reason f-or this urgency was the excessive flooding which had been taking place for many years in the Thedford Flats area and where the river passes through Port Franks. But the control of such flooding is not the complete answer to the conservatipn prob­ lems of the Ausable area. It is simply the evidence at the mouth of the river that corrective measures require to be carried out when and wherever water falls on the ground throughout the area. “Such corrective measures in­ clude, besides the problem of water control, other items such as the protection and care of ex­ isting woodland, the planting of trees on areas which are unfit for agriculture, and the retent­ ion and preservation of natural water-holding areas such as swamps and marshes. “■Intimately connected with water run-off is the problem ,of proper land use and improved methods of farming on gently sloping land, so that the sudden rush of spring rains and summer storms will not rapidly descend into the small creeks and tribu­ taries carrying valuable top soil down the valley, where it , be­ comes useless to any farmer and often does damage on good land. "If the three factors men­ tioned above are rehabilitated over any area, then wildlife such as small game animals, water fowl, song birds and fish find a ready home, and should be al­ lowed to increase only in so far as their presence does not inter­ fere with agriculture. Also, with the replenishing of such natural features in the area, places can be found and set aside for the enjoyment of the people. These include small parks, picnic grounds and swimming holes, especially for the rural jmpula- tion, which when created have proved to be a factor in keeping young people on the land. , “The above items are targets at which any Authority may aim when commencing to carry out an .overall conservation program. Most Authorities, however, have not the organization nor the technical assistance to analyse and set down what their needs really are, nor the proper se­ quence in which these should be carried out. “For this purpose the Govern­ ment has instituted a programme of conservation surveys after the people in the valley nave shown sufficient; interest in their prob­ lems t<>' establish an .Authority. These surveys are embodied in a report, and an analyse the pre­ sent status natural resources on .the area and indicate by the people of this area may come maps, pictures and plans how to grips with these problems. At the end of his speech, the minister presented & report to the chairman of tho Authority, Victor Fuller. Mr. Fuller and the secretary, Oliver Amos, then handed out the rest of the books to members of the Authority. Slides were shown to the crowd nt the conclusion, illus­ trating the soil conditions of the area by W. J. P. Creswick, an expert from the department. It is interesting to note that it was a farmer in the watershed who started the Ausable Con­ servation ball rolling. In 1946, L. C. Hamler hunch­ ed a $175,060 damage suit against six municipalities over alleged flooding by the Ausable, of his 7.000 acre farm. Munici polities in the watershed imme­ diately sprang into action, and formed the Ausable Conservation Authority the same year. The following year, the De­ partment of Planning and 'Devel­ opment started its survey, results of which are embodied in the report. Flood Control The-chief aim of the document is to combat damaging spring floods and at the same time quicken the slow summer flow of the river. If the project of channels,’ dams and resevoirs is .put into effect it will change the face of the Ausable river watershed, af­ fecting some 665 square miles .in the counties of Huron, Perth, Middlesex and Lambton. The minutely detailed report suggests alternative measures for flood control, distinguished by the intensity of water to be regu­ lated. If protection is sought against summer floods on. the same scale as those of 19 47, the suggestion is to excavate an 8,000 foot channel to enter Lake Huron at Port Franks,54 which would cost $276,396 with breakwaters, and to improve the Parkhill creek riverbed, from Grand Bend to a point nine and a half miles in­ land, at a cost of $276,501. However, if a greater degree of protection is desired such as against spring floods of the 1947 magnitude, the report Recom­ mends that, in addition to the channels above, a 60-foot dam and reservoir near Arkous, and — on the Parkhill creek system — a 31-foot dam at McGinnis and a 29-foot dam at Parkhill be erected. This greater protection scheme would cost close to $1,900,000. While taking into considera­ tion average protection for the area, the report warns the authority that “from the flow records of the rivers throughout Southern Ontario it will be noted that there has been a gradual increase in the magnitude of floods and when selecting a flood control scheme future require­ ments should be kept in mind.” On this consideration, it recom­ mends further measures. Hay swamp, near the head­ waters of the Ausable, is suggest­ ed for the location of a major storage reservoir. An earth and concrete controlled dam, esti­ mated at $200,000', with a water surface area, when full, of 2,700 acres is recommended. The report advises the author­ ity that in order to increase summer flow and for deep seep­ age for the watershed, they should plan a number of small dams located at Exeter, Whalen, Lucan, Cromarty, Greystead, Bowood, Nairn, Falkirk, Alisa Craig, Mount Carmel, Lieury, Keyer, Crathie, Adelaide, Wil­ liam Sylvan and Thedford. Recreation Predicting that the Lake Huron shore and the Pinery are "destined to be one of the more important recreation areas in Southern Ontario, if it is care­ fully developed and if its natural advantages are maintained" the Ausable report recommends ex­ tensive measures .to achieve that end. It suggests that more than 9000 acres of non-agricultural land be developed by the author­ ity for recreational use. Principal recommendation is the passing of a zoning by-law by the Township of Bosanquet in Lambton County, controlling 8,974 acres in the Pinery and along the Lake Huron shore. Establishment by the Author­ ity of three public parks within this area, and further develop­ ment of a half-dozen smaller parks and picnic sites throughout the watershed is also advised. "Catering to the recreational demands of the public is already one of the most important oc­ cupations in the watershed” the report states. "Therefore it is in the interests of a great many residents that the facilities of the Lake Huron Shore be .wisely developed," Recognizing the importance and revenue gained from the thriving resorts, especially Grand Pend, the report recommends "the simultaneous development —Continued on Page Eight