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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-01-10, Page 1MODERNIZE CHURCH— Redecoration of Zion United Church, Usborne, was corn- pitted last Weelc and the congregation held its first service in, the modern auditor- 111/11 Sunday The renovation, which cost $6,500 and took six months to finish, included; :construc,tion of furnace room,. at the back, an enyance• at the front, and .a basement 'Sunday School, New pews were by alt by Exeter Furniture Ltd. The work was done by Clifford. Salmon, Dashwood. Congregation lias met in. ,the school house since May: 4 —T-A Photo MOVE CHURCH SHED—This well-built shed, which for 50 'years harbored horses and buggies of members of Zion United Church, will soon provide shelter for sheep. The 70x32 building wag moved Wednesday from the church ground to the farm of Mitchell Willis, No. 23 highway. Despite its age, the building was solid enough to be moved without much —T-A Photo Everything But Four Walls enovated InZion Church MODELS FASHIONS—Marie Hodgson, Exeter, models dress she made during a recent fashion show at Mac- Donald Hall, Guelph. She is one of 'number of district youths attending 0AC this year. —BOAC Photo Councillor's Return Fills Hensall's Slate glihtY441cond Ylir EXETER ,ONTARIO, JANUARY 111; 195i t PAN Pow Os* eek Larger Pier, Dredging To Improve Resort Harbor STEPHEN COUNCIL—Members of Stephen township council gathered for a • group portrait following their installation Monday. Back row, left to right, are Councillors , Glen Webb, Edward Gill and Edward Lamport and Rev, Alex'r Rapson, who address- ed council. Seated are Deputy-Reeve Gordon Ratz, John Morrissey and Clerk F, W. Morlock. --Doerr Photo Exeter's financial situation is splendid work and guidance of in good shape the members of Clerk C. V. Pickard. "We are council were told at the. in- Lortunate to have a man of his augural meeting held in the calibre, and without his guidance municipal chambers on. Monday. We would be lost at times," he Clerk C. V. Pickard'reported a said. balance of $12,197.07 at the close Re welcomed the return of of the year. Outstanding ac- the old members and also the counts would reduce the amount new member, Murray Greene, to about $8,500, Increased pay- Mr, Pickard, in opening the ment of taxes accounted for the meeting, congratulated the mem- high surplus. Arrears of the 1956 hers on their election. "The fact taxes amounted to $15,662. that you were elected by ac- Last year the council administer- that 1947 would be a busy Year. Mayor Pooley told the council tchlaemartaiotenpaiyserasn winedriecatisoantistfitleadt wiRthevyousrarawhoerrx' etr ect something like $215,000 worth conducted the devotional exercises. "It is of business. "During the year unique that the world's week of there were controversial issues prayer should open in Exeter to deal with and I think they were dealt with wisely- and at the inaugural meeting 'of well," he said. "The record of council," Mayor .Pooley said. the council should stand up well Reeve William McKenzie said he expected that this would be with any previous record in Exeter," he continued. "I make a big year for Exeter,, "The building of the Morrison Dam no rash promises for the future, and increasing the water supply We will meet, problems that are is a step in the right direction. presented to us with courage Other projects such as sanitation and integrity," he said, The mayor paid tribute to the, and sewage .disposal started by the 1956 council should kept rolling." Each of the other members of council spoke, promising co- operation in giving the town of Exeter good government in 1957 The council met in the morn- ing and adjourned at noon for luncheon at Rether's restaurant. Appointment of committees was the first order of business in the afternoon. They are: Finance and court of revision, Mayor Pooley, Reeve William McKenzie, Deputy Reeve Ches- ter Mawhinney, Councillors Al- yin Pym and Glenn Fisher, Cemetery, McKenzie, Council- lor Ralph Bailey. Community Centre Board, Mc- Kenzie, Councillor William Mus- Roy Morenz was appointed re- presentative of the township to ser. the South. Huron District High School. board. Recreational council, Co.uncil- Town Starts 'Big' Year With $8,500 Surplus $$0. to $1,250. Attendance officer is will Pinney, Exeter, who will reteive a salary of $25. The officials were appointed at the •inaugural meeting Tuesday night, when plans. for the opening Of the new addition , were dis- cussed. The board hopes the five new classrooms will be ready for occupancy near the first .Of Feb nary. Tender$ for the conversion .of the music and art room of the school te a science teeth are wog called.. The board turned down a tender of $6,090 from the addition otintradthr, IdeKay.CoCk- er„..and decided to call for einii- petitlye bidding on the job. • . ‘• . itidots for drapes for the ad- /11 diti '-. Are .610 being tailed, Pr -Opal IT. L. Sturgis renert- oa th.'t student council is donating• pictures for the new Mina, „ The., board accepted the offer of agriculture -department, under Andre.* Diken,„10 landadane the grounds in the spring. Mr, Dixon furnishings of the five•room ad- dition and landscaping of the grounds. The 1956 financial statement, released •at the inaugural meet- ing Tuesday night, shows the board handled $220,000 of the taxpayers' money during 1956. Instruction Costs Up Major eXpen t re, ins rue on. totalled $86,785, an ,instruction. of $6,000 over last year. Reflected in the increase is the annual in- creMent Of 4800 fOr Members of the staff and the additien of two teachers this fall. Transportation of pupils, cost $34,250. approximately 2,000 more than lad year. Basic test of the service has not iriereated but more students are being transported,' Plant Operational teaft itlhoufit.l• ed to $11,150, about the' same aS , last year, i Purchase instruction sup. plies dropped from $4200 to' —'Please Turn to Page 31 supervised the landscaping of the original building and the work was done at a considerable sav- ing. Approval was given for the ex- penditure of $250 for new equip_ ment in the home economics room. The principal was authorized to secure additional supply teachers since only one, Mrs. H. J. Snell,' is available at the moment. Two are needed on occasions, Mr., Sturgis reported. Present enrolment totals 508. Board Plans '57 Projects Hensall Council is back to full strentth following Jim Sangster's dedision to withdraw his resigna. tion and accebt the seat he won in the December election. ' This latest turn of events in the Hensall municipal, scene elimi- nates the necessity of a second election which had been planned to fill the chair which Councillor Sangster had earlier said he would not take. Councillor 'Sangster was sworn into office Monday night before council reconvened to complete the agenda on its inaugural meet- ing which had started in the morning. Reeve Norman Jones and the other three councillors took their oaths in 'the council Sangster's resignation followed a row in- the council meeting which was held the night of the election in which he won the fourth council post by one vote over his brother Dave. Despite the circumstances of the resigna- tion, there was no ill-feeling evi- dent at the inaugural and a friendly spirit prevailed. New member of council is Gor- don Schwalm, an employee at General Coach Works of Canada. The two other members are Lorne Luker, who is starting his sixth term, and John Henderson, embarking on his second. Two standing committees set up for 1957 included: Roads, coun- cillors Luker and Schwalm; prop- erty, Henderson and Sangster. Other appointments included: Mrs. Edward niecminton to the library board for a three-year term; councillors Henderson and Sangster to the Parks Board, whose members include Howard Scane, Jim Clark, Bill Fuss, Har- vey Keys and Jack Drysdale. A number of organizations in the community have been asked to appoint representatives to- the seven-member Recreation Coun- cil, to which councillors Luker and Schwalm will be council rep- resentatives. Clerk Paterson reported 1956 tax arrears at $1,233, or less than three percent of the total. "This is tile best year for tax collections we've ever had," he commented. Said Reeve Jones: "1956 couldn't have been too bad a year when taxes are paid up like that." The clerkreporteda totalof slightly over $7,600 had been spent on roads during 1956—$4,500 on construction and $3,100 on main- tenance. Council agreed to apply to the Department of Highways for the 50 percent subsidy, •-t- Please Turn to Page 3 Usborne council took the ad- vice of its ratepayers and raised its members' salaries during the inaugural meeting Monday. Reeve Clayton Smith's fee Was increased to $225 and Om- . 'cis members will receive $150 during the coining, year. Each nicritbcr receives $5,00 for each apeeral meeting. , The, raise was suggested at, the nomination meeting in Nov- ember when ratepayers informal-, ly vete for the revision at the suggestion of fernier reeve, Verne Pincombe. Pintottibe said the salary . at that time didn't even pay for Out-Of-peek- et eknentot, the, reeve and councillors, ifarold Ne i ), Hugh Love, Hareld Hunter arid neWeeitter George -Frayne took the dole:ration of office front .Clerk H. If.. G. Strang, 'Rev.. W. 'Moores, "Thames Itoad:, led In prayer, chamber at 11-a.m. Although Councillor Sangster's about:4w came as a surpme„it did not upset•counell Proceedings. In Deceniber, officials were ad- vised by .the Department of Mu- nicipal Affairs not to plan an elec- tion until after the inaugural meeting was completed. Friendly Spirit Prevails lor Ross Taylor ,and Fisher. Glen Webb will remain Industrial, Councillors y m Stephen's representative on the and Mawhinney. Ausable Authority. Police and. fire, Pym, Other appoietments relief officer, Reeve Morrissey; Al lteknsz,ieFaisnhcierF, isiGhreerene, Taylor Crediton Library boadd re re- and Bailey. sentative Edward Lampert. . Public welfare, McKenzie and Pym. Sanitation, Taylor, Bailey and Pym. Streets and sidewalks,. Bailey, Mawhinney, McKenzie and , Greene. Drains and culverts, Mawhin- ney, Taylor, McKenzie and Mus- ser. Property, Musser, Pym and Greene. A communication was received —Please Turn to Page 3 Larry Snider, Exeter car deal- er, was elected chairman of South Huron District High School Board Tuesday night. He sup- ceeds C. S. McNaughton, Exeter, and becomes the third chairman since the board was organized in. 1948. As property chairman during the past year, Mr. Snider has overseen the planning and con- struction of the five-room addi- School ‘. attendance officers, tion which is nearing completion. Wilmer Wein, for schools 1-5, A county council representative, 14, U9, U13, Herbert Willert for he replaced Dr. H. H. Cowen, the 6, 7, 11, U15; U16, USS 6; Wil- first chairman, when the latter Siam Love, for 10, 12, U,17, U18. resigned'two years ago, Wages authorized were: $1,00 Vice-chairman is enneth an hour for the road superintee- Johns, Usborne, a veteran mem- dent and grader operators; 75 ber of the board. cents for helpers; fenceviewers, New members of the 12-man $4.00 per job; man and team, body include Allan Fraser, Exe- $1.00 per hour; tractor hauling ter, who replaced Mr. McNaugh- light loads, $1.50 per hour ton; and Roy Morenz,.Stephen, stock valuators, $2.00 and mile- who fills tbe chair left vacant by age. the retirement of Harold Walper, Granta included $25 to the Stephen. Huron County Seed Fair and $25 Committees appointed by the to the Salvation Army. board for the coming year in- At noon, Reeve Morrissey treated the council and officials to a dinner Rether's restau- rant, Exeter. Members of Zion Unit e d Church, Usborne, hardly knew the building when they returned there for services on Sunday. After a six-month absence, during Which worship was held , in the near-by school, the church has been completely renovated. Everything's new except the four brick walls. An entrance hall and a fur- : Nee mem have been added to the front and back of the build- ing, a basement Sunday School has been added. New ash pews were installed by Exeter Furniture Ltd., SOMA • Puten's newest industry. A new pulpit and seat were donated by ,members of the congregation. Other families are purchasing chairs for the choir loft. The inter* glistens with ;freshly-varnished w o o d and 'bright,• white plaster. And, to top it all off, there's small electric organ near the ''choir loft, replating the old I high piano. It was a happy arid proud congregation which gathered • to the service on Sunday which unofficially opened the new &etch. A ceremonial oPening is being planned for a later date. The. rehovation, Whith Started I anon and his mat ireiti Dash- weed, with volunteer help from the men of the 30-family congre- gation, Total test was approx- imately $8,500. A bequest from a former mem- ber, Mrs. Bert Fletcher, got the project under way last spring. For yeara, the congregation had discussed renovation but felt it could not afford it. Then, Mrs. Fletcher left $5;000 to the stew- arda to spend as they wished. A building eointhittee Was ap- pointed with Norman. Brock, who lives beside the church, as chairman.Members included Gerald Hern, Edgar taker, Ey- °rat Miller, Boas Here, Angus Earl, Tom Hern, Ken Hern and Ward Hern, Following a ,Mother's Day "closing out" service, the Men moved in on Monday With trac- tors, manure loaders, and acrap- ers to dean out everything in the building bid the four walls. Fent feet wag dug Out of the floor and then the men ailed in, the contractor. During the constructia, the Men helped the contractor when- eVer a major job had be dote. A ring Oa the telephone line brought the crew of WWI- teorg. By lowering the foundation and, raising the fleet three and One-half feet, a Sunday School room was provided. Meanwhile, the congregation met in the Zion school every Sunday. Rev. S. Slade,. of Woodham, Who spearheaded the prOjeet, did considerable work on the building himself. :The Saturday which was installed the before the first serviee, as a crowning touch to the renovation program. The congregation had not con- sidered an organ because it felt it woUld be too expensive. But when Mr. Slade Went looking. Or a new plane, he came across a good used organ at a reason- able price. Said Norman Brock, the build- ing 'committee chairman: 'It sounded pretty nice in the new building on 'Sunday." Last vestige of the old church teas removed Wednesday When a house-moving firm from Sat. nix carted the .big church- Shed tai the farm .of Mitchell Willis,' where it will be used as a sheep pen. , The 70k32 frame building, whose timbers were hewn eta of logs by church men around 1909, was iiiininted tWo .. seta Of *Wit. and pulled away by a heavy tritek.. The triginal shed Was buil( —.Please Tut& to. Page. S Crediton Community Centre Board: John ,Morrissey, Gordon Ratz; for one year; Lawrence Hull Albert Geiser, Harry Bea- ver, Mrs. Ross Kreuger, and Mrs.,John Wade for two years. Assessor, James Mawhinney, at a salary Of $700; auditor, A. M. Harper, Goderich. Road foremen: No, 1, Gordon Wilson; No. 2, I. Davey; No. 3, Joe White; No. 4, Henry Fink- beiner; No. 5, Eldon Smith; No, 6, Harry Hirtzel; No. 7, Ross Clarke; No. 8, William Schwartz; No. 9, Albert Regier; No. 10, Lloyd Eagleson; No. 11, Howard Clarke; No.- 12, Lorne Devine; No. 13, Elmer Pickering; No. 14, Harry Sheppard; No. 15, Orval Mellin; No. 16, Roy Mason-; No. 17, 18, and south boundary, Har- vey Walper.; ,No. 19, Harold Wal- per; No. 20, Ezra Webb; Cen- tralia, Gordon Wilson; Crediton, Lawrence Hill; Dashwood, Aaron Ross Krueger. Fenceviewers; Murray Elliott, Ed Chambers, Leslie Richards, Art h u r Finkbeiner, Edward Kraft. Stock valuators, Murray El- liott,William Love. ' Open Friday In Hensall Another from community hes Changed Saturday to Fri- day night shopping.. . Hetiaall stores will begin Pti-. day night opening thiS weekend On. a three-months trial basis. Stores,. will remain open until .0 p.no? --'iltidaY and close at 6.30 Sal•'2,•day,. Thirteen ••iri ehantg have agreed to. the new hintra. ,have include Itucly'S Preclude, Clark and'. Fuss. T. C. joint and ..Sen„ J. BOntliton, and Son, DryStialeta Hardware, Lorne Hay, Beaton's Bakery, Al's Super,Save Market, Irwin's Ladies" , Wear, Fink's andPlu in rnb Heating, BrOwn's IGA, George Rest Mid John Hen.dersen„ • .The. ineve. by Henget Mk- Chants by A ..tithilat SOP. taketi. Exeter businessmen last Week. Many other, intini. cipalities in • Western Ontarie We Wined the: SAM schedule. A number of. towns 'in Huron Offer he. the shopping hours doting the first quarter of the year. Grand Bend made its formal request for harbor improve* meets to an official of the 1* partment of Public Works Sol* lowing the inaugural owned meeting Monday. The resort asked that the north pier be extended in south-Westerly direction to pro- tect the harbor against north- east winds. Council also requeated 'that the harbor be dredged, and that the fill from the river bed he used to build 'up the bank on the south side to make more dock. a& for boats there. The requests, were made as result of last summer's expern,„ ences when boats were hardly able to navigate the harbor ia places. Several vessels suffered damage and the number of cab- in cruisers visiting 'the resort was drastically cut. Fisherman, too, have been driven out of the harbor, Some have moved their base of opera- tions Goderich and BaYfiekt* Council disciissed its. harbor problems with government en- gineer, W. L 'Slywelink, of Lon- don, who will make 'recornmen. dations to his department. At the morning session, Clerk H. W, Wainwright gave, the dee-- laration of office to Reeve James Dalton and his council. Members include two newcomers, William Dace and William Cochrane. and Norman Turnbull and, Her- bert Mlle, both of whom have served for several years. Rev. A. E. Holley, Grand. Bend United Church, addressed the council. Appointments included; Clerk, H. W. Wainwright; tax collector, Griffin Thomas; chief constable, Cpl. Neil,' Chamber- lain; fire chief, Lawrence Ma- son; weed inspector, Norman. Turnbull; road foreman, Chas. Reeves. Medical officer of health, Dr. F. P. Boyes, Parkhill; building, and sanitary inspector, Alwyn. Dayman; relief officers„ W. C., Dace, William Cochrane. Representatives: SHDHS board,.. W. F. B, MapLaren; Forest high school,. Mrs. Etnery DeSjardine; library board, Reeve Dalton:- Meetings will be held .-4tt • 7.30 On the first Monday dUring the first three months and the first and third. Mondays for ,the bal- ance .of• the year. Tuckersm• ith Ousts Reeve Ivan Forsyth, making his first bid fel the reeve's choir, scored,. a major Victory over incumbent James Doig in Tuckersmith's election Monday. Mr. Forsyth, a councillor: fer five years, polled nearly twice as many votes as Mr. Doig, who was seeking his fourth term as reeve. The score was 345 to 199, giving the challenger a 146 majority. A farmer on concession, nine, the victor defeated his opponent in each, of the six polls in the- township. Mr. Doig, who had been mentioned as a candidate for county warden this year, livek on concession six, south-east of sea-forth. James Landeshormtgh, the • school trustee who criticized oper- ation of the board during the past two years, was defeated in the school board election which saw four men 'running for three seats. Ross Forrest; chairman of the board, led the polls with 307 votes, Cleave Coombs, a garage Opera, for at Egmondville, came second with 279 and a newcomer, Ches. ter Neal, of concession two, Caine a close third with 265. At the nomination meeting last week, Mr. Landesborough charged that a survey of the schools had been called off by the secretary After the board had okayed it. Mr. Landerborough said the Sur- vey should be made every year, At the same meeting, he look the stand: "In spite of being tin. popular, I will qualify.,and stand for good, honest running of the board, even if I stand alone:" Only about 50 percent of the eligible voters used their fran- chise. . .. • , ; 41; % . ''''' ' ilor00:00•00,r , Snider New Chairman Of District HS Board in May,. was' done by Cliff Sal- List Officials In Stephen Stephen Council held its inau- gural meeting Monday. Clerk F. W. Morlock adminis- tered the oath to Reeve John don Ratz and Councillors Edward ' Gill, Edward Lamport and Glenn Webb. • Rev. Alex'r Rapson, of Cre- diton 'United Church, addressed council. elude: Transportation—Edward Cham- bers, Stephen; Morenz; Clarence Smillie, 'Tuckersmith; and A. J. Masse, Hay. Property--Carfrey Cann, Exe- ter; Vice-Chairman Johns; Al- lan Fraser, Exeter. Management—W. F. B. Mac- Laren, Grand Bend; William El- cafeteria kitchen to accommo- lerington, Usborne; E. L. Mickle, ! date an increasing number of • A. a, Hensall; and °sear Grebb, Hay, students. E. I), Howey will continue. as Some of the surplus funds may Ra i se Usborne Wages setretary. His salary was raised alsobe ss • to for As a result of the two•mill in- crease in its levy last year, South Huron District High School Board showed a balance of $33,799 at the end of 1956. The figure is more than twice the carryover from the previous year's operations. .1 • , The picture, however, isit t as rosy as it appears since the board has several major projects facing it in 1957. One la, the con- version of the music and art • ratan into a science laboratory; another is the extension of the Ta e Electors A vice Reeve Smith asked -Connell, for cooperation and assistance during .1957 and expressed the hope that the nosiness Of the township would he carried CM it the seine harmony as of former •• years. Appointments. included; ' , Clei•k-Aaseasor MTh G. Strait • . • $200. per month; . treasurer, , .,, G. 'Clarke. $450: road aliPatiti& terident, W. J. lOtitly, Ws per menth;, tax, collector,• William 1ohns., Side; auditor, T. A, WiSt, man, $1.60... . . Seliditer, W. G. Coehratie; 're- lief administrator, N,,„.G.. Clarke;. school attendance 'Offiter, 'WM, johns,:. livestock veluetor, Harry Cates caretaker of hell,. MTh. • lcellett, $100. . . Power Maintainer operotoro John Batten, 'Still .. crawler trott .. Ifou Pothale, ! $1.15 pc hour .4. Plea*