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NEWSPAPER WINS TROPHY—J. M, Southcott, publisher of The Times-Advocate, re
ceived the A. V. Nolan trpphy from George Ellis, left, a director of the Ontario Weekly
Newspapers Association, at the convention in Windsor last week. The award is given
to the best all-around paper published in towns with a population between 1,500
and- 4,500. The T-A also received the E. T. Stephenson trophy for best front page of
all weekly newspapers in the province. —LFP Photo
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OPEN COURTHOUSE TUESDAY—Huron County’s impressive new $700,000 court
house will be opened by Premier Leslie Frost in a special ceremony Tuesday afternoon.
The building will be open for inspection' to the public following the ceremony.
Police Warn All-Out Drive
To Curb Resort Rowdyism
Grand Bend police demon
strated over the holiday week
end they aren’t .going to fool
with’liquor and traffic offenders
in the summer resort.
In police court this week, six
persons were ■ fined on liquor
charges and another six paid
fines for traffic offences. An
other 12 charges were laid.
Two persons received $100
convictions for illegal possession
of liquor. One person failed to
produce a liquor permit and the
other was under age.
Corporal Neil Chamberlain,
who is in charge of the OPP
detachment, said- that, where
possible, liquor offenders will b.e
charged under a new section in
the act which stipulates a mini
mum fine of $100.
“We’re making an all-out ef
fort to quieten things down at
Grand Bend,” Corporal Cham
berlain said. “We don’t object
to anyone having a good time—
that’s what the summer resort
is for—but some of these people
Open Courthouse
Tuesday, May 29
A n i m.p r e s s i v e array of
government officials will accom
pany Premier Leslie Frost to
the opening of Huron County
courthouse in Goderich on May
29. The premier will officially
open the building at 2.30.
Attorney - General Kelso Ro
berts, Minister of Municipal Af
fairs W. A. Goodfellow and J.
C McRuer, chief justice of On
tario, will be among the prem
ier’s party.
County official? have already
moved into the $700,000 building
the Goderich square. The
^Bidding will house Children’s
^Aid Society, county health unit,
county library, and the new pro
bation office? in addition to
Other county officials.
Feature of the modern struc*
hire, which replaces t the art*
house destroyed by fire several
years ago, are the court rooms
and council chambers. The
court room is finished in wal
nut panelling and contains wal
nut fixtures. The council cham
bers have oak panelling or* two
aides With marble columns on
the othet two walls. •
Orville Taylor, East wawa-
nosh, chairman of the county
council building committee, will
be master of ceremonies for the
opening exercises.
go beyond reason.”
The corporal said most of the
trouble of the Victoria day holL
day .came from teenagers from
London and Kitchener.
Besides cracking down on li
quor offences, the detachment
will make a drive on traffic vio
lations. “For some reason, young
Work Land
Despite Cold
Farmers, braved biting cold
winds tihs week to work up and
sow the land °.fter the one-
month deluge of rain came to
a halt over the weekend.
Although temperatures dipped
to the thirties farmers donned
their winter garments to get at
the soil. - Tractors worked until
late evenings,
Wednesday the maximum
temperature was only 46.1 and
the minimum dropped to 38".
Only a trace. of ram has fallen
since last Thursday.
Highest temperature for the
week’ was Tuesday when the
mercury rose to 78.8.
Forecast for the weekend does
hot look bright, according to
Met. officials' at RCAF Station
Centralia. They predict a little
warmer weather but see raih
Friday evening and Saturday.
Although crops - have suffered
untold damage because of the
.late spring, farmers are- opti
mistic the losses can be recover
ed with good growing weather.
fellows come to Grand Bend
with the idea that the accelerator
must be on the floor and that
they don’t need tail pipes.”
Several were fined this week
foi* turning corners on two
wheels.
To back up the law enforce
ment campaign, the detachment
will have additional personnel
this summer. There will be six
regular men on duty through
out the season and three extra
men will be posted to the resort
for 11 holiday weekends. “If it’s
necessary we’ll have all nine
men on at the same time do
curb rowdyism,” Corporal
Chamberlain said.
Constable Hugh Mills has al
ready joined the force. Three
others are expected June 15 and
another on July 1.
Despite rather cool weather,
the summer resort was crowded
over the weekend.
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Variety Of Improvement
In New Times-Advocate
Different isn’t it?
This week’s New T-A brings a
variety of improvements to read
ers of The Times-Advocate.
These new features include:
1. Color.
2. New, easy to read type face.
3. New makeup style.
4. New headings.
5. Better classification of news.
6. More news, more features
about South Huron and North
Middlesex.
Let’s go ovei* these improve
ments one by one.
You’ve already seen the bright
colors on our front page; you’ll
find more on the back pages of
both sections. The Times-
Advocate hopes you’ll see an
ever-increasing use of color in
this newspaper as the years go
by.
This new type you’re reading
is called Corona. It’s specially
designed by the Linotype people
for easier reading.
„ Makeup changes include a
longer page, narrower* columns and elimination of lines at the
top of pages—all designed for a
Times-Advocate
Receives Award
, Two newspaper. trophies andTwo newspapex* trophies and a
third-prize certificate won by
The Times-Advocate wore pre
sented at the annual convention
of the Ontario Weekly News
papers’ Association which met at
the Prince Edward Hotel,
Windsor.
The awards were presented at
a banquet at which the Chrysler
Corporation of Canada were
hosts.
The Albert B. Nolan Memorial
Trophy was for the best all-round
weekly newspaper published in a
town of from 1,500 to 4,500 popu
lation. Second prize went to The
Milton Canadian Champion, and
the third to The Stouffville Trib
une, published by Charles Nolan,
donoi* of the trophy. This trophy
is particularly prized by ’J. M.
SoUthcott as the two editors were
very fast friends.
Best Front Page
The second was for the E. T.
Stevenson Trophy for the best
front page of any weekly news
paper in Ontario; The second
prize went to The Brampton
Conservator, and’ the third to
The Oakville-Trafalgar Journal,
For advertising, excellence the
Cockfield-Brown Trophy went to
The Oakvillc-Trafalagr Journal;
second, The Brampton Conserva
tor, and third, The Exeter Times-
Advocate.
Foi* the best all-round papei*
published in towns of over 4,590
population, The Aurora Banner
Trophy went to The Oakville-
Trafalgai* Journal; second, The
Renfrew Advance; third, The
Brampton Conservator.’
The Durham Chronicle won the
trophy for the best editorial
page.
J. M. and Mrs. Southcott
attended the convention, and the
former accepted the trophies on
behalf of the paper.
brighter, more readable appear-
. ance.
You’ll notice new headings on
regulai* features of The Times-
Advocate. These, too, are de
signed to make the newspaper
more attractive.
When you read through the
paper, you’ll notice the news is
divided into convenient sections
—stories of similar nature are
grouped together. For example,
you’ll find farm news on the
first two pages of the second
section; sports news on pages
14 and 15; women’s stories and
features on pages 8 and 9; Lu
can and Hensall news are placed
on separate pages. It will be
easier to find the news you pre
fer reading in The New T-A.
This week’s issue contains 20
pages or 75 percent more space
than previous editions. While the
future editions won’t be this
large, they will contain ‘more
pages and more news than ever
before. Just wait and see.
Change In Process
Responsible for all these
improvements in The Times-
Advocate is a change in printing
process. Instead of being printed
on an old flatbed press in The
Times-Advocate plant, the news
paper is being produced on one
of the most modern rotary
presses in Canada.
The change is in printing only,
however. Times-Advocate staff
will continue to set up the entire
paper as before but instead of
doing the final process in Ex
eter, The T-A will be produced
in the plant of Stratford Beacon-
Herald.
Besides, making possible all
the improvements you see in
this edition, the new process
saves considerable time. Where
it took The Times-Advocate 25
to 30 man-hours to print and fold
the paper before, the Stratford
press does the job.in less than
half an hour.
The press*one^f oixly 12
in Canada which can ’print a
full range of colors throughout
the paper. Features available to
The Times-Advocate in the Strat
ford press include many which
other cities do not have.*
This fascinating hew press can
print many thousands of papers
an hour from huge rolls of news
print. Where The Times-Advocate
had to print four pages at a
time and then assemble and fold
them on a different machine re
quiring two or three men, this
press does the whole operation
simultaneously, automatically.
Always present in any major
changeover, however, are ‘kinks’
which lake time to jron out. If
you notice some slips in this
edition, you’ll know that it’s be
cause it is the first of its kind
our staff has produced. The
paper will improve with exper
ience in the new process.
Anyway, the publishers hope
you enjoy The New T-A.
Reporter s Son
On Front Page
Lively looking warrior on
the front page of this special
edition is Calvin Edward
Rhode, year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. William Rhode,
R.R. 1, Woodham.
Young Calvin liked his
garb as a Napoleon swords
man — so well in fact, he
decided to act as well as
pose Mor the part. He ruffled
up Several Times-Advocates
before Photographer 1 Jack
Doerr was. able to take his
picture.
Mrs. Rhode is The Times-
Advocate’s correspondent for
Thames Road. Calvin is the
third son of the family,
I Exeter council is considering
purchase of a new site to dump
town garbage. '
Move io investigate another
location was taken at a meet
ing Tuesday night after council
discussed the pending court suit
over the condition of the pres
ent dump and the difficulties in
volved in disposing of garbage
in the already saturated ground.
The meeting followed on the
heels of a fruitless attempt to
arrange a conciliation with the
three plaintiffs who charge that
odor and smoke from the dump
are hazards to the health of
nearby families.
Any chance of settlement over
the dispute was apparently
doomed because of *a fire in the
clump at the time of the meet
ing. Smoke, pouring from the
blaze, engulfed the home of
George Shaw, the chief com
plaintant.
Both London lawvers who are
acling for the parties, town of
ficials and .plaintiffs watched
as the smoke swirled around
the house. Plaintiffs directed a
few bitter words at town offic
ials and the conciliation gather
ing was over.
Nothing Accomplished
Mayor R. E. Pooley and
Councillor Ross Taylor, who is
in charge of garbage disposal,
reported on the meeting a few
minutes later to council. “Ab
solutely nothing was accom
plished,” said Councillor Tai
lor.
Move to seek a new site for
the dump was taken not so
much because of the court suit
but because there is little room
left for garbage on the present
site. The latest attemnt to dig
a trench for disposal of the ref
use resulted in old garbage be
ing unearthed. Ground in n<hei*
sections of the dump is hard
and makes digging difficult.
A statement of defence to the
plaintiff’ charge has been filed
by the town with Supreme
Court and a reply and joinder of
defence has also been filed by
the defendants. It is expected
the case will be heard at the
court sitting in London which,
starts June 11,
In its statement of defence,
prepared by W. E. Bell of the
legal firm of Wright, Poole, Ste
phenson and Bell, the town said
it has been disposing garbage
at the present dump for 50 year*?
many years prior1 to the arri
val of the plaintiffs. The town
denied any negligence in its me
thod of garbage disposal.
“If the plaintiffs have suffer
ed any inconvenience (which is
not admitted),” the statement
said, “such inconvenience has
not been and is not continuous
of a substantial nature.”
The joinder of defence, filed
for the plaintiffs by Martin A.
Bitz, of Lerner, Lerner, Jeffer
son and Bitz, said, . in part:
“This method and system of
disposing, of refuge, garbage and
waste in the said dump is care
less and negligent in that the .
plaintiffs are exposed to smell
and unsightliness of uncovered
Garbage, waste and refuse and
the smoke fmm burnmg refuse
and the health hazards attend
ant thereto, all of which con
stitutes. •> men*"".”
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Receive No Objections
To Usborne Dam Plans
Vocalists Successful
Miss Maxine Reeder has__
cessfully completed the senior
singing examination of the Uni
versity of Western Ontario and
Miss Marilyn Bissett has com
pleted with first class honors
the intermediate examination of
the same university. Both are
pupils of Mrs. H. L. Sturgis.
suc-
Dispute Liquor Rights
In Grand Bend Appeal
Lands In Field,
Only Post Hurt
A NATO pilot trainee
crash-landed his plane into
a field south’ of Centfalia
Friday, but all that was
seriously damaged was one
fence post.
Sgt. Max-Marie D’Ammon-
ville. .of Versailles, France,
experienced engine trouble
shortly after his take-off at
12.25 p.m., and brought his
Harvard training aircraft
down on the farm of Percy
Knowles, Who is employed at
RCAF Station, Centralia.
Crash trucks and ambul
ance reached the plane in
less than six minutes after
the crash but crews found
the pilot uninjured and little
damage to the ‘aircraft.
Lawyers representing the
federal government and the
Ontario Temperance Federation
argued before the Ontario Ap
peal Court this week that the
Canada Temperance Act still
prevails in Grand Bend.
They told the court that the
federal act was not affected by
the changes made by the muni
cipality when it voted to move
into Lambton County, which is
Under the Liquor Control Act, a
provincial law.
An opposing argument was put
forth by Attorney-General Kelso
Roberts, D. P. Jamieson, counsel
for Grand Bend, and R. W.
Gray, representing L a m b t o n
county. They argued that the
area annexed to Lambton comes
properly under the Liquor Con
trol Act. The Canada Temper
ance Act applies only to Huron
county and both the dominion
and federal governments have
recognized Grand Bend’s move
to Lambton, they said.
The court hearing was re
quested by the Ontatrio govern
ment to clear up the confusing
liquor question at Grand Tend.
Before the summer resort in
corporated it was divided half
in Lambton and half in Huron
by its main street.
Ever since incorporation in |
still
Lambton county, police have
been enforcing LCA and a liquor
store has been established.
It is believed the Ontario
government wants a ruling on
the problem before it considers
the applications of a dozen or
more hotel and restaurant p**op-
rietors for cocktail licences.
the court reserved its
cision after listening to
arguments Tuesday.
Where To
It I
List Census
Enumerators
Dennis Bedard, South Huron
supervisor for the five-year cen
sus which starts June 1, an
nounced this week the names
of enumerators in this district.
They include:
Exeter — Stanley Love and
Glen Mickle.
Hens all—Donald. McKinnon.
Usborne—Ed. Westcott, Mrs.
Jean Hodgert, Mrs. Mabel Johns
Stephen—Winston Shapton, Ir
vine Finkbeiner, Leo. C. Regier,
William H. Love and Isaac Best-
ard.
Hay—James McAllister, Gor
don Surerus, Milford Schilbe,
Robert Horner and Bruce Klopp.
Tuckersmith—Mrs. Roy Belt
Mrs. Marjorie
Jos. Devereux.
Stanley—Roy
Hill and John J.
Enumerators .. ____ ___
ing courses throughout the coun
ty this week. Ephraim Snell, of
Clinton, is in charge of the cen
sus for the riding.
This year’s census, the first
to be taken for a five-year per
iod, will be less detailed and less
costly than the decennial one
five years ago. It will cover pop
ulation in the urban areas and
stress agriculture production.
Extra emphasis on farm acti
vity is being placed because
government officials have found
they need to have statistics
more frequently (han once every
10 years. The figures must be
available, officials say, in order
to assist in market analysis,
forecasting and production plan
ning and formulating govern
ment policy in relation to such
matters as price supports.
Broadfoot and
Lamont,
McAsh.
attended
Lyle
train-
Not a single dissenting voice
was heard at the public hear
ing conducted by the Ontario
Municipal Board. Wednesday tu
discuss Exeter’s proposal to
raise $57,000 by debentures for
its share of costs of the Morri
son dam in Usborne township.
Only a handful of ratepayers
attended—majority of the 15
people present were officials.
The hearing was called as a
result of Exeter’s application
for permission to issue the de
bentures without a vote of the
people. Approval must be given
by the Ontario Municipal Board
before the Ausable Authority
can proceed with the dam.
P.U.C. and town officials ex
plained the project to two mem
bers of the board, David Jamie
son, Hamilton, and V. S. Mil
burn, Toronto. Mr. Milburn is
a former secretary of the On
tario -Federation of Agriculture.
Mr. Jamieson, who conducted
the hearing, promised the board
would give early consideration
to the proposal. He said council
would know its decision within
a week.
Only information which town
officials could not supply about
the project was for an accurate
estimate of the additional ex
penditure required to provide a
filtration plant once the water
^supply is established in the
res er v oil* behind the dam.
P.U.C. members said they ex
pected such a plant would
an additional 855,000 but
could not supply accurate
ures.
The town is prepared to . _
the major share of' the Auth-
ority’s cost of building the dam
in Usborne in order to get rights
to water in the reservoir to aug
ment the present supply from
wells and springs.
P.U.C. member W. G. Coch
rane told the government offi
cials that the commission liaa
spent considerable money try
ing to locate additional wells in
the area but not had been founa
close at hand. One was discover
ed about six miles from the
town but the cost involved in
laying pipeline and providing
pumping equipment would run
around $90,000, he said. Even
if this were constructed, the
supply of water from the well
could not be guaranteed.
Mr. Cochrane said the town’s
consumption reached 100,000
gallons of water a day during
the summer and that this deplet
ed the supply to the danger point
as far as fire protection is con
cerned.
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Mass X-Ray
This Week
Join the crusade and be x-
Tayed.
That’s the slogan officials of
Huron County TB mass x-ray
campaigns are using as clinic
time approaches for South Hu
ron.
First clinic will be held in
Hensall on Friday, May 25, dur
ing afternoon and evening. The
mobile unit will then move,, to
Dashwood on Monday and to
Zurich on Tuesday.
Wednesday, the x-ray camera
will be in Winchelsea in the
afternoon and at Crediton in the
evening.
. Exeter will wind up the cam
paign for South Huron with a
two-day clinic on May 31 and
June 1.
In urging everyone to take ad- *
vantage of this free service,'
health officials point out that in
its early stages TB is accom
panied by no symptoms and
that x-ray is the only means of
early diagnosis. TB found in its
early stages by x-ray can be
cured in a short time.
^Officials also point out that it
is ‘ not necessary to disrobe for
the x-ray.
' Chairman • in charge of the
various clinics in the district in
clude: Hensall, Mrs. D. J. Me-
Kelvie; Woodham, Mrs. Ken
Johns; Zurich, Albert Kalb-
fleisch; Crediton, Rev. G. R.
Strome; Dashwood, J. M. Tie
man; Exeter, Mrs. J, G. Dun
lop.
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River Authority
To Discuss Dam
Question of expropriation of
land in Usborne for construction
of the Morrison dam will prob
ably come up before a meeting
of the full Ausable River Con
servation Authority Wednesday
afternoon in Parkhill.
Owners declined to accept the
Authority’s top offer of $100 <iti
acre at a meeting last week of
the advisory board appointed tn
purchase the land.
The Authority will also review
the revised plans for construc
tion of the proposed dam. Be
cause stool is in. such short sun-
nlv, the stool pates originally
planned for the dam have boon
f \T probably bo call*
gjto hope it can be
nlv, the * steel pates t originally
eliminate^
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To Enforce Bike Law,
Plan To Warn Parents
Town council has instructed | warning theme that if the child
police to enforce the by-law 1— • - —--------
which prohibits children from
riding bicycles on sidewalks.
At its meeting Monday night,
council approved a warning sys
tem to offenders which will in
volve parents. When a youngstei’
is. caught riding on sidewalks,
police will send a note to parents
WINS JUDGING CONTEST—Murray Dawson, 20-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dawson, R.R. 1 Hensall, topped
265 other contestants at Huron County Junior Farmers
Livstock Judging Competition in Seaforth Saturday. He
severed one point more than Bruce Coleman, Seaforth
district junior. Raymond Cann, R,R. 3 Exeter, came third
in the competition. —T*A Photo i
violates the by-law again prose
cution will be taken.
The parent-warning system
was advocated by Councillor R.
C. Dinney, chairman of the
police committee. He said that
warnings to offenders them
selves would not be sufficient
because they would not tell their
parents.
Monday night’s action was the
first definite stand council has -
taken on bicycle riding
walks for some years,
councils didn’t enforce
law because they felt it
zardous for children to___ ..
roads, particularly crowded main
street.
This latest move was prompted
by ’several recent accidents in
which pedestrians have been
knocked down and injured by
bicyclists.
Mayor Dooley offered :ome
first hand evidence. He said he
was grazed by a bicycle as he
came to council meeting that
night.
Councillor Dinney also advo
cated that a new bicycle by-law
be drafted but council rejected
this suggestion. Dinney said the
old law prohibited persons from
propelling any vehicle, bo; it a
baby buggy, wagon or tricycle,
on sidewalks.
Discuss Parking Tickets
Council discussed the use of
warning tickets for first offend
ers of car parking regulations*
but took no action, The question
arises periodically when oftend-
ers who have been issued park
ing tickets make violent object
ion.
During the discussion, Clerk'
C, V. Rickard revealed that
about 30 parking tickets were is
sued in- a year by police. “They
certainly are not tough on * pet)*
pie,” cemented Councillor Ross
Taylor.
A letter from the historic sites
advisory board of the Ausable
River Conservation Authority
asked if the town had any old
landmarks which might bo pre
served for historical reasons.
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