The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-08-09, Page 1to be the last steam-
Sixty-Seventh Year
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PUFFER BelievedLAST HURON
powered tractor in*Huron, this 42-year-old machine left the
county recently to go into active service near Leamington.
Bill Cooper, Kippen, the former owner, on the right, accom
panied the tractor to its new home. The puffer was used for
many years to run the pea viners at Brucefield. —Jack Doerr
Two Bend Proprietors Fined$50
For Illegal Possession Of Liquor
Fines of $50 each for .the»ance and fined $10 each,
illegal possession of alcoholic
-beverages under the C.T.A. were
imposed against Harold Klopp
and Wilbert Coulter of ’ Grand
Bend at Magistrate’s court, Exe
ter, Tuesday.
Provincial police raided the
Brenner Hotel, owned by Klopp,
’s Dine and Dance,
Coulter, on June 16
quantities of beer and
sale.
same night, police
and Wiib’;
owned by
and found
liquor for
On the
searched the Imperial Hotel in
a three-pronged attack on boot
legging at the summer resort.
In July, William Bossenberry,
proprietor of the Imperial, was
sentenced to two months in jail
at Grand Bend court for illegal
.sale.
At Exeter, Tuesday, Provincial
Constable Bruce reported finding
10 full cases of beer and ale
and one part bottle of whisky at
the Brenner House; and 13 full
bottles and one part bottle of
whisky as well as 204 pint bot
tles of ale and beer were taken
from Coulter’s establishment by
P.O. Keene. Magistrate Dudley
Holmes ordered that the beer
and liquor found be confiscated
and destroyed.
He showed reluctance to make
a decision on the case since
Grand Bend is no longer under
the C.T.A. and he remarked
“This is the last case we Will
have of this sort from Grand
Bend”. Appearing for the_ de
fence of the two men was Frank
Donnelly.
The magistrate reserved deci
sion for two weeks on the charge
against 75-year-old Joseph Flynn
of Zurich. Flynn was charged
with indecent exposure July 26
by Constable Zimmerman of Exe
ter after a number of Zurich
housewives complained. He plead
ed “not guilty” to the charge.
Magistrate Holmes told Flynn
if he was still in Zurich at the
time of the next court session,
his decision would not be so
agreeable. Defending attorney for
Flynn was Elmer D. Bell, Exeter.
During the same session of
court, Paul J. Laird, and Harold
Bruce Proutt were charged with
unlawfully causing a disturb-
Roy Hale, Exeter, was charged
with taking a truck belonging to
his employers, Exeter Salvage
Co. According to evidence, Hale
drove the truck to Grand Bend
where he became involved in a
Slight accident. Commenting on
the case, Magistrate Holmes
said: “In spite of a previously
similar offence, and since your
employers seem to still want you
to work for them, I’m giving
you a chance. I will suspend
your sentence for one year. If,
however, you ever face a similar
charge again, it will be a differ
ent story.”
The case against
Kuhn, R.C.A.F., on
of careless driving
missed.
Kenneth
the charge
was dis-
a
EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1951
to
the
the
best
war
Dump Rats Eat
Lots Of Poison
Like leading lambs
slaughter—that’s about
way to describe the painless
now (being carried on by council
against the town dump rats.
The vermin are eating up
about two and a half pounds of
poison a day, according to Coun
cillor Roy Campbell, who’s the
“general” in charge-of the fight.
Apparently it’s a pleasant “des
sert” for their daily meal.
Councillor Campbell describes
the dump as “lousy” with rats
but expects there will be a lot
of dead ones soon. The poison
takes about two weeks to kill.
Industry Inquires
For Town Site
An inquiry from an American
industry, made through the On
tario Department of Development
and Planning, for a plant site in
Exeter was discussed at town
council Tuesday night.
Details of the inquiry, received
by Clerk C. V. Pickard, were not
revealed for publication but it is
thought that the firm were con
sidering a large-sized factory.
Company officials visited the
town a few weeks ago and dis
cussed the possibilities of estab- I lishing an industry.
Deputy - Reeve William Coch
rane asked if there was not some
way in which council could as
sist in “selling” the town to the
industry. He was informed that
the Department would not re
lease the name of the firm con
cerned.
In an
form sent
completed
meeting, Mayor B. W. Tucktey,
Clerk C. V. Pickard and Deputy-
Reeve Cochrane were named
town representatives to handle
industrial inquiries.
Increase Cars
Lex McDonald, of Exeter Cab,
interviewed council and was
granted a licence for a third car
in the taxi business.
Doug Triebner waited on coun
cil iif regard to the laying of the
drain through the ditch behind
Snell Bros. Ltd. garage. It was
decided not to construct a man
hole and catch basin in the mid
dle of the block between Andrew
and Main Streets.
Main Thoroughfares
A communication from the
Department of Highways advised
council that the following streets
had been declared as main thor-
oughfares—H u r o n Street, An
drew Street, and Hill Street from
Andrew to Main. Council in
structed the clerk to especially
request that Sanders, Gidley and
Senior Streets, the route of the
high school busses, be designated
as a main thoroughfare.
A petition from residents on
Senior Street requested the lay
ing of a sidewalk. Council has
the work scheduled.
Councillor Snelgrove reported
that the toilet at Victoria Park
had been repaired.
Building permits were grant
subject to committee ap-
to the following—Eugene
garage; Ford and Far-
house; Snell Bros. Ltd.,
down house south of
and renovating present
and Art Whilsmith,
industrial promotion
by the department and
by the council at the
ed,
proval,
Howey,
quhar,
tearing
garage,
building;
Vouse.
„ Mayor B. W. Tuckejr presided.
Deputy-Reeve Cochrane and
cillors Beaver, Campbell,
Kenzie and Snelgrove were
ent.
coun-
Mc-
pres-
Car Rolls Over
Napoleon Geromette, 36, of
R.R. 8, Parkhill, was hospitalized
with head injuries suffered Sat
urday night, July 28, when his
car rolled over near Exeter.
Provincial
mette failed
turn known
bow” on a
road two miles west of Exeter.
The car skidded out of control
and overturned, pinning Gero
mette underneath. The man had
been freed by other motorists
when police arrived.
Mr. and Mrs. William Parker
and Mrs. M. Whitehouse visited
over the week-end with Mrs.
Charlotte Whitehouse and family
at Wainfleet, Ontario.
police said Gero-
to negotiate a sharp
as “The Devil’s El-
Stephen Township
Club Releases 1,500 Pheasants
For November Hunting Season
The Exeter Game Conserva
tion Club have released 1,5 00
■pheasants in Stephen Township
since the first day of July and
100 more will soon be released
on the farm of Dalton Finkbein-
er outside of Exeter.
Hay and Stanley Townships
have adopted similar plans and
all told some 5,00'0' birds have
been brought into the area en
closing the ’three townships.
The official date for the hunt
ing season has not as yet been
definitely decided but as in the
past three years, since the plan
has been in operation, hunters
should be given a free hand in
early November.
Hatched by the Department of
Lands and Forests at Carding
ton and Normandale, the birds
were brought in when they were
one day old on June L Their
care has been in the hands of
James GrosSick on the Finkbein-
er farm and he .
surprisingly low loss of 3 #
raising the birds.
When released.
be eight weeks old to withstand
the more rugged life on their
own aDd by November a good
healthy bunch of pheasants will
await the sportsmen of the dis
trict.
What’s The Yolk?
When Mrs. .Sheldon Wein
broke a rather large egg for
breakfast the other’ morning she
had no premonition that a hen
in these times of high prices
could possibly be so benevolant.
The egg had three yolks and
proved adequate for the break
fasts of her
and
It
the
the
burdened budgets of housewives.
Mrs. W» (Kay) Stewart reports
having a whole dozen double
yolked eggs in one batch. They
were
husband, their son
herself.
seems
district
spirit of aiding the over
that more hens of
have caught on to
all good yolks,
has
the
reported a
in
bitds must
and Mrs. Amos Warwick,
and 'Terry Lee Of Port
visited With Mr. and
Fisher and family
Ross Ro\ve,
Mr.
Gary
Huron
Clark
the week-end
has been visiting with the War
wicks, returned home with them.
Mrs.
over
who
Public funeral service for
Mrs. Thomas G. Dobbs, 20, and her
10-month-old son, Gary, victims
of a traffic accident on Friday,
was held at the C. Haskett and
son Funeral Home Lucan, on
Monday, A large number of
mourners attended the service and
there were many floral tributes.
The service was conducted by the
Rev. J. H. Getz., Dashwood assist
ed by Rev. M. Elson. Harry Hoff
man was the soloist ''
The burial was made in St.
James cemetery, Clandeboye. Six
uncles acted as pallbearers for
the mother. They were Thomas
Carling, Wilfred_ Anderson, Art
Ings, Leonard
London, Allan
chener, and
Dashwood.
Pallbearers
Bearers for
Shirley and Don Bender, William
and Connie Klumpp, Dashwood.
The young mother and her son
died in a car truck collision at
6 p.m. Friday at the intersection
of No, 4 Highway and the Cen
tralia airport road.
Still in hospital is Lome
Haugh, 22, of Exeter, driver of
the truck. He is suffering from
a fractured hip and other injur
ies. LAC Parkhouse of RCAF
Station Centralia, a passenger in
the truck, was treated at West-
mins tex* Hospital.
Thomas G. Dobbs, 22, husband
and father of the victims, also
received injuries.
The two vehicles struck at
the intersection. Haugh driving
a 19 49 pick-up. owned by Larry
Snider Garage for whom he
worked, was traveling south on
the highway. «
According to Provincial" Con
stable E. M. Zimmerman, who
investigated, the car was travel
ing east on the airport road
when the collision occured at
intersection.
The three occupants of the
were thrown several feet by
force of the impact.
was administered to
by passing motorists
transferred them to
Station-. They were
to Victoria Hospital
Bender,, all of
Faulhafer, Kit-
Gordon Bender,
the
can
the
First aid
the injured
who later
the RCAF
then taken
by RCAF ambulance and the T.
H. Hoffman ambulance, Dash
wood.
Went For Tire
Mr. and Mrs. Dobbs busy with
establishment of theii’ new farm
home two miles from the scene
of the accident, found it neces
sary to go to Centralia village
for tire repairs. Mrs. Dobbs was
reported to have -been at the
wheel of the car when it was
struck broadside by the light
pick-up truck southbound on
No. 4 highway. The left side of
the car was- crushed in to the
midline of the body.
Officers&of the RCAF station
a mile away gave all possible as
sistance at the scene and in the
station emergency hospital where
Mrs. Dobbs died. She was form
erly attached to the station staff.
Surviving Mrs. Dobbs, the
former Dorothy Cunningham, be
sides her husband, are her par-?
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cun
ningham, one sister, Mrs. Lloyd
(Ruth) Vougan, Listowel, and
one brother, Howard at home.
District High School, he is
places as Lake Louise.Mor-
Lake in the Valley of the
Peaks, Johnston’s Canyon,
Valley, Norway Mountain
held by cadet autho-
JuSy ’*22, to August
Creditor! Cadet
At Banff Camp
As a reward for all around ef
ficiency in his army cadet train
ing, Captain R. E. Wade, of Cre-
diton, Ont., is having the time of
his life at the National Cadet
Camp, Banff, in the heart of
the Canadian Rockies.
As a representative from Exe
ter
one of 150 boys from many parts
of *
the
the Dominion now sharing
thrill of a “tourist holiday”
camp being
cities from
12.
Training
is about 60
al”
at the special camp
per cent “recreation-
with the remaider adjusted
to fit the scenic surroundings,
j Things like map-reading, first-
aid, signalling, and even drill, I as well as other military activ
ities take on another flavour
J when carried out amid forests
and mountains.
During the course of their
stay at. the model tented camp
at the foot of towering Cascade
Mountain every cadet will visit
such
aine
Ten
Yoho
chair-lift, and Lake Minnewanka.
Swimming in the Cave and
Basin and Upper Hot Springs,
visits to Banff Springs Hotel,
boating’, fishing and mountain
climbing are listed in the special
attractons.
As in past years companies of
cadets will move out into a biv
ouac camp for
where bushcraft,
outdoor life will
game wardens of
several days
fishing, and
be taught by
the park staff.
i
■way
BENNETT’S GOAT “GOT” “Gordon Bennett’s got our
goat many times; now we’re going to give him one to take
away with him.” said Harry Sturdy, chairman of the fare
well party in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bennett at Clin
ton school Monday evening, July 30. The gaily decorated
Roggenburg kid was supplied by Jim Snell, Clinton, and pre
sented to the popular departing Agricultural Representative.
—Clinton News-Record
Locals Win First, Second Prizes
In Tip Top Doubles TourneyName Streets
Of RCAF Town
Streets of the housing area
RCAF Station Centralia
been named, according to Sgt. J.
B. Roy, mayor of the airport
town.
Emergency meetings were held
last week to have the twelve
streets designated so that con
tractors can get the posts up.
Typical names are Olympia,
Empress, Queens, etc.i vr ex o 1x1511 agaixiov
A committee under F/O Wig-, high. The weather was ideal and
gett has been appointed to name
the housing unit.
Another committee under ,Sgt.
O’Hearne is responsible for set
ting up of by-laws.
Clerk of the council is Flight
Sgt. Bud Phillips.
Minutes of each council meet
ing will be printed in the form
of a bulletin and distributed to
each householder, the mayor
said.
at
have
Merle Mode and Stan Frayne
will each sport a brand new suit
having carried off the first prize,
and the Tip Top trophy in the
biggest tournament of the sea
son on the local lawn bowling
greens, Wednesday. They had
three wins with a plus of 24, It
was the annual Tip Top Doubles
and forty-four of the top rinks
from Western Ontario competed
for the prizes. There was a full
(double entry. Three twelve-end | games were played, high against
as follows: Bartlett, London, two
plus. 17; Morton, Ailsa Craig, one
plus nine; Reid, Seaforth, 0;
Haley, St. Marys, 0; Johnston,
Clinton, one plus three; Harris,
London two plus six; McIntosh,
Ailsa Craig, one plus nine; Tan
ton, Strathroy, two plus four;
Truemner, Strathroy, one plus
two; Snelgrove, Exeter, one plus
three; Ronson, .Parkhill, two
plus thirteen; Hobden, Wingham
0; Vernon, Parkhill, 0; Sparling,
St. Marys, two plus ten; Has
kett, London, one plus eight;
Miller, Grand Bend, one; Rob
bins, Thamesford, one plus one;
Perrott, Watford, two plus nine.
Second Draw
Second Draw-Koch, Listowel,
one plus eight; Hockey, Exeter,
one plus three; Vodden, Blyth,
plus
plus
plus
plus
0;
the greens were in perfect con
dition.
The lady bowlers served a hot
chicken a-la-king
small tables beside the greens
and received many complimen
tary remarks.
Jones, McNaughton Trophy
Winners of second prize and
the Jones, MacNaughton Seeds
trophy were: W. H. Pollen, skip,
and J. M. Southcott, with three
wins
hind
They
kets.
Ball
with
Townsend and E. Allen, of Gode
rich, were fourth with three plus
19; R. G. Seldon and Russ Snell
won fifth with 3 plus 15; F. Wil
son and E. Dunn were sixth with
two plus 24 and the seventh and
last prize went to Dr. Brady arid
W. Smith, of Seaforth with 2
Belleifue. plus 23.
A big highlight of Sunday j Results of the first draw were
in Grand Bend was the
Boy” beauty contest, won by a
Detroit Lawyer visiting
sort.
The eight beauties
along the beach to the stage at
the top of the pump house where
they were judged. More than
one ton of human flesh was re
presented in the contest.
Ruth Smith, 11-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gor
don Smith of Granton suffered a
lacerated forehead when she fell
while playing in a barn.
The girl was removed to Lon
don hospital where her wound
required 14 sutures to close.
Burro Ball, Bulgers In Bend Burlesque
Three hilarious innings of
baseball played from the backs
of donkeys delighted a crowd of
some 9 00 persons in Grand
Bend on Monday when the local
Lions defeated the R.C.A.F. Cen
tralia team with a score of three
to one. Another Lions success,
the day’s program chalked up
$120 in proceeds for the club.
The game was played in the
open space behind Lakeview Ca-
sino and it was arranged by
Peter Eisenbach of Grand Bend.
The burrowing nine for Grand
Bend were; L. Mason, E. Desjar -
dine,
mer Webb, Leon
Bruce Stanwick, Rudy
and Hurley Shaw.
R.C.A.F. Centralia's
team were Goodriel,
McCurrie, Ruggles,
WiHiams Kahle, Wade and De-
Emmerson Desjardine, El-
Webb, Leon Desjardine,
Ravelie,’
bouncing
Sercuchi;
Prudence,
supper on
plus 23 only one shot be-
the first prize winners,
received lovely sport jac-
Third prize was won by W.
and J. Hooper, of London,
three wins plus 22. ‘A.
0; McDonald, Exeter one
three; Davies, Forrest, two
three; Cutting, Exeter, one
three; Francis, Exeter, two
five; Baechler, Goderich,
Brown, Wingham 0; Sutter, Clin
ton iO1; Baker, Goderich, two plus
20; Rivers, Exeter, 0; Dale Sea
forth, one plus ten; McTaggart,
Watford, two plus 11; Munroe,
Seaforth. 0; Crawford, Wing
ham, two plus 12; Moore, Gode-f
rich, one plus twelve; Newcombe,
Clinton, 0: Besse,’Goderich, two
plus twelve.
Messrs. Paul Balkwill and
Jack McKnight returned Satur
day from a week’s tour through
the eastern coast.
“Fat j......................................................................................................................
the re i Three Teams Tied For Second
paraded
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HONOR POPULAR
a farewell, gathering
dent of the Seaforth
cultural Representative,
Boys’ and Girls’ Club work.
As Baseball Schedule Nears End
Three teams are deadlocked in standing, Clinton RCAF and
second place in the Huron- ~ ‘ ........................'
Perth Intermediate B a,s e b a 11
League as the season’s schedule
draws to a close.
Mitchell
out front
wins, two
30 points.
Trailing
Legionaires are easily
with a record of
ties and one loss
14
for
are
“AG REP” —- Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bennett received many
in Clinton Monday evening. July 30. Russell Bolton (centre), presi-
Agricullural Society, presents a wrist watch to the departing Agri
who now becomes Associate of Ag Reps for Ontario, in charge 0:
—Clinton News-Record i
at
with 22 points
Exeter, Dashwood and Clinton
Colts. Dashwood has the (best
chance to clinch the runner-up
spot with three remaining games.
They play the
Centralia RCAF
night. The game
be forfeited since
not been able to
lately. Dashwood
postponed game
Colts and one protest game with
Lucan which may be replayed.
Only chance for the Colts to
boost, their total would be to
beat the Dashwood nine in their
delayed tilt.
Protest Game
Exeter has a protest game
pending with Goderich which
will probably have to be played
to determine playoff positions.
The first six teams in the
league will pair off for two-out-
of-three series: first and fourth,
( fifth, third and
uJ,-*lIIrJ3U1 •*’ / second and
1 sixth.
almost-dofunct
nine Thursday
will probably
Centralia has
field a team
has also one
with , Clinton
[Goderich will be eliminated,
leaving either Zurich or Hensall
in sixth spot. Lucan is definitely I assured of being in the semi-
j filial round.
Zurich Vs. Hensall
Zurich and Hensall play Fri
day night. If Zurich wins, they’ll
clinch the play-off position. How
ever, if Hensall wins the two
teams will be tied and there’ll
have to be a deciding tilt. Hen
sall has had difficulty getting a
team' on the field these days due
to harvest.
Results
In games played since July
25, Exeter blanked Clinton Colts
a record
Lenahan,
Haugh
the win-
Paterson
the Colts
The two “A” teams in the
4-0, giving Joe Mitro
of 31 scoreless innings.
Mitro, Holtzman and
clipped two bingles for
ners, Woodcock and
accounted for four of
six hits.
Lucan edged Zurich
close tilt, in the Irish town. The
Colts galloped past Goderich 12*
4 and Exeter whipped Zurich
10-4. Two .games saw Lucan and
Clinton RCAF deadlocked at 8-8
and Dashwood and Goderich
clinched
faulted games to Zurich
Clinton
field a
to Clinton Radio for the same
reason.
6-5 in a
at 4-4. Centralia de-
and
Colts when they didn’t
team. Hensall forfeited