The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-02-21, Page 1• A
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INVASION FROM SPACE—Barb Harrison prepares to disintegrate Bob Russell with
her ray gun in this scene from "Father's Been to Mars", the farcial comedy being
produced by Exeter Players' Guild. The three -act play, a take -off on children's tele-
vision shows, will be presented in SHDHS Auditoriuin March 4 and 5. —T -A Photo
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PRISONER GREETS FRIEND—Ralph Patt on, Pittsburg, attended NATO graduation
. ceremonies at RCAF Station Centralia last week to see his French friend, Chief Cor-
poral Yves Leroux, receive his wings. The Leroux family in France helped Patton
escape when his plane was downed during World War II and since the French youth
has arrived in Canada, Patton has entertained him several times. —RCAF Photo
Prisoner Sees Graduation
Of Boy Who Aided Escape
An American airmanawho as
spirited out of Nazi -held France
during world war II, last week
watched proudly as the son of
the underground family which
helped him escape graduated as
a NATO pilot from RCAF Sta-
tion. Centralia,
In 1943 44, Yves Leroux was
a school boy in Brittany who
had a surprising number of
strange relatives visiting his
house. These relatives came from
the remote part of Franco \sthem
an inferior brand of French was
spoken—So inferior that Yves
could not understand Went.
It was not until the war's end
that he learned that these rela-
tives were downed allied airmen
front Australia, the USA and
Canada and that his Mother,
grandmother, and uncle had for-
med the last link in one of many
escape routes in Brittany. He
and his younger brother had been
told they were relatives for
fear they would unwittingly give
the secret away to playmates and
eventually to the Gestapo.
Downed airmen would be spa.
rited across country And hid at
or near his home until a motor
torpedo boat arrived from Eng,
land, They would then be taken
to a rugged spot on the coast
to a fisherman who knew the
tortuous route through the off-
shore Mine fields.
In January, 1944, Ralph Pat -
too, of Pittsburg, was one of
even survivors of a 10•man
crew of a B17 shot drown after
berthing Bordeaux, The seven
stilliVors were retrieved by the
underground and allocated one
to each of 7 escape routes. Even-
tually Ralph Patton arrived at
Leroux's house and Was hid
nearby for a week Waiting for
passage to England.
In March he was finally taken
to the shore one midnight by
Leroux's uncle and‘ the fisher-
man Moved him through the
tilled field to the waiting MTS.
Teti days later, the Gestapo
caught and executed the fisher- Pattons have extended him an
man. The escape route was bro- invitation to spend his mid-term
ken and the Leroux's lived in leave of two weeks and take a
dread of detection- but the fisher-
man had met his death' without
revealing his accomplices.
In 1954, Mr. and Mrs. Patton
visited France and the Leroux
home. Yves Leroux who now
understood English acted as in-
terpreter and maintained a cor-
respondence with the Pattons
when they returned home to
Pittsburgh.
Before coming to Canada for
pilot training last fall, Chief
Corporal Leroux wrote the Pa t -
tons in Pittsburg to tell of his
new career. Two weeks after
his arrivel at the language
school in London, he received a
return air ticket and an invita-
tion to spend Christmas in Pitts-
burgh which preyed a very 'in-
ter sting and 'profitable expert.
en e.
Chief Corporal Leroux gradu-
ated from Primary Flying Train-
ing School at Centralia on Feb-
ruary 13 and will be going out
west to Claresholta, Alberta,
where he will take flying train-
ing on Harvard aircraft. The
Fire, Foot Injury
Hits Police Chief
Exeter Police Chief Reg Tay-
lor was dogged by ill -luck over
the weekend.
Friday, fire caused about $100
dataage to his home when the
oil , burner exploded. Saturday,
when he was repairing the dam-
age, *stepped on a rusty hail
Winch punctured his foot.
The thief was on duty when
the fire broke out Friday. Call-
ed by his wife, he was able to
extinguish the blaze before the
fire dellartiricht arriatecl.
The ifijuty to his foot lett
hitt et IMMO fet several days.
He returned to duty Wednesday,
tour of the USA with them.
• Mr. Patton is an executive
with the Pittsburg Consolidation
Coal Co. The Commanding Of-
ficer of Centralia, GIC A. M.
Cameron, extended Mr. Patton
an invitation to be Guest of Hon-
our at the graduation ceremonies
on February 13, He warmly ac-
cepted theinvitation •and flew
from Pittsburg to be present
at the luncheon held in the Of-
ficers' Mess.
Dog Starts
Pigs, Imple
Although his short -haired farm
deg cost him an $8,000 fire loss
Monday evening,. Roy Mason,of
Stephen Township, isn't anry
with the mongrel,
"He's been a good dog," Mr.
Mason said Tuesday. "We've
never had much trouble with
him,"
The mongrel knocked over a
coal -oil lantern in the loft of
Mason's big hip -roof barn Mon -
clay evening and set off a fire
which razed the building in half
an hour.
The blaze destroyed 11 pip
ready for market, a stow due in
March, feed, grain, and some ha-
plemeras, A nearby henhouse and
30 chickens also went up in
'naiads,
"I was up in the loft getting
some feed for the tattle," said
Mr. Mason, describing how the
fire started. "1 had setae feed in
Mid Med and the lantern in an—
other and I set the lantern down
to open the door. The dog boon&
ed up knocked the lamp over and
it rolled into some straw tinder -
heath the wagda."
"The flames burst out like a
bomb. In five minutes the whole
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EIghty4iwood Yoor EXETER (*TAM, FESIWARY 211 1957
717,7,177,,,,r1 r.""Mr,
upport Pryde School Campaign
Council Supports
Discusses Legion Grant
.
Town council Monday night gion had helped the town con-
siderably, "No .one is against
the Legion," several members
said,
Council agreed to make the
grant again this year but a num-,
ber felt the matter should be
considered before another re-
quest is made. "I'll go along'
with whatever is agreed upon,"
the reeve said. "I'd ust like to
see it discussed."
Legion President Harold Holtz-
man made the request for the
tax rebate at council, meeting
but he was not present for the
discussion.
, Council's policy since the Le-
gion erected its hall has been
to rebate the taxes of the pre-
ceeding year, except for the
amount that is assessed by the
teloclueinatioa. rs cPaVield ' on in a number
said this prac-
of towns. Some municipalities,
he said, refunded all the taxes,
including county rates.
Reeve 'McKenZie was . re -ap-
pointed as the town representa-
tive 'on the MM -Western :Ontario
Development Association.
A grant of $2,100, $100 less
than last year, was approved
for the Exeter Library Board.
The board asked that the coun-
cil's amount equal 81 cents per
capital so that the library could
qualify for the maximum grant
offered by the Ontario govern-
ulent'
endorsed unanimously a move to
have all municipalities in Huron
•county petition the Ontario goy
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eminent to build its new school
for retarded children in the.
county.
Reeve William McKenzie re-
vealed .that the county office
was seeding out petitions for
all municipalities to endorse.
They will be collected and sent
in ,to the government together,
Discuss Legion Grant
A reguest that town officials
discuss with the executive of the
Canadian Legion the amount of
their annual tax refund was
made by Reeve William McKen-
zie during a lengthy discussion
over the matter.
The reeve pointed out that the
cost of policing and mainten-
ance of roads in front of the
Legion Hall was heavy and he
wondered if the Legion should-
n't contribute towards this •ex-
pense.
"They shouldn't be required to
pay for school taxes he said,
"but they might be eked to
contribute toward the general
cost of government since they
get the benefit of it,"
Other councillors, including
Bill Musser, Alvin Pym, Ralph
Bailey and Ross Taylor agreed
the reeve had a point.
"Taxes have become a burden
for people who have set in-
comes," the reeve continued,
"and I don't think it's lair that
we should ask them to beg' the
Legion's share."
The reeve pratsed the Legion
as a group of people who have
the hest interests of the town at
heart and they deserved con,
sideration as veterans, but he
felt the matter should be ^dis-
cussed with the branch's of-
ficials. "I think some of them
would see it as their duty to pay
part of this."
It was pointed out that with,
the addition to the Legion Hall,
the amount of tax rebate given
to the Legion would increase
substantially another year. It
was also pointed out that the
SH Orators
Split Honors
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SHIMS. orators shared boners
with speakers from Cathohc
Central Collegiate, London, Tues-
day in WOSSA public speaking,
contests at the local school.
Allison Clarke, Centralia, won
the right t& compete in regional
competition at Ingersoll by de-
feating her opponenl . from the
London school • in the senior
girls' division.
Dick Charrette, who substi-
Legion derived considerable in- 114%1a/ea.:Ron Carpenter when
come from the- hall.
the latter came down with the
Mayor R. E. Pooley and Coun- mumps, lost to Gerry Cadman,
cillor Murray Greene argued for of CCC,' in the senior boys' sec -
continuation of the Legion grant. tion.
Mayor Pooley said the branch . Aufaoti Clarke, in her prepared
spends thousands of dollars help- speech, described the life and
ing people who might otherwise achivements of Madame Curie
cost the town considerable money who discovered radium. Her im-
on relief. He also pointed. out Dromptu address was entitled
other service work done in town ''Yount•Drivers."
by the branch. Her opponent w a s Joanne
All councillors agreed the Le- Crowe, who spoke of '.'Growth
in Maturity." Her impromptu
subject was "Self Discipline."
Gerry Cadman, who orated on
the life of Winston Churchill,
won the boys' division. Title for
his impromptu was "United Na-
tions." •
Dick Charrette's speech was
on. the "Futility of War." He
talked about "Civilization" in
his second address.
Judges for the contest were
Rev. Samuel Kerr, Mrs. J. G.
Dunlop and Public School In-
spector John Goman, who an-
nounced the results.
Usborne Man
Fined $75
Lawrence Kellett, 41, of Elim-
ville, was fined $75 and costs
and his licence suspended for
three months when he was con-
victed of leaving the scene of
an accident which occurred on
December 23.
Magistrate Dudley Holmes told
the Usborne man: "Any driver
should know he is required to
stop when involved in an acci-
dent. He might be needed to
give assistance to others in the
accident who could die if they
did not receive immediate at-
tention."
Kellett said he drove away
from the crash because he was
nervous.
The Elimville man was travel-
ling south when he collided with
a' car travelling north, driven by
Bill Pincombe. also of Usborne. Friday south of Exeter.
Police say IVO Maurice Gob -
Damage to Pincoinhe's' vehicle
exceeded $600. iel, sports •officer at the station,
Kellett, Who's emoloyed by the drove into. town without notify-.
ing police after his car had
township, said he fell asleep at
the wheel. struck a vehicle driven by Rich-
OPP Constable John Forde In- ard Hoonard, R.R. 1 Centralia.
vestigated the case. The con- The accident ocaurred at the
intersection of Nb. 4 highway
stable found K '
elletts car in his and, the t. Marys road and
garage at Elimville, where it
had been kept since the acci- damages amounted to
. OPP Constable .John Forde
dent. said Goblet has also been charg-
ed With careless driving and
Barn Fire failure to report. an accident.
hended by police in Exeter seve-
ral hours after the accident.
Four young people were injured
Saturday evening when a car
driven by Earl Lippert, 21, Credt-
ton, Careened into the ditch. on
No, 4 Highway near the Huron-
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RUSHING SUMMER?—Pat Finley, 1,9, of Thedford, a stu-
dent at London. Teachers' College who has been training
in a local school,. couldn't resist the urge to try the beach
at GrandBendon a sunny day 1st week. The weather
was fine but she found the snow wasn't very comfortable
for sunbathing. Pat works at tbe resort during the sum-
mer and Was one of the conteitants..in. the "Miss Grand
Bend" contebt last Tear.. —NoSeworthy Photo
T -A Retains Trophy,
Judged Best In Class
For the second year in a row, cltss for general excellence, re-
The,taming Nolan Cup. Congratula-
. Times -Advocate has been
.,.. tions."
judged the best weekly news-
. • The trophy will be presented
paper in its class in Ontario.
The T -A retains the Albert V.
Nolan trophy, awarded for first
place for • general excellence
among newspapers pubished in
Ontario towns between 1,000 and
4,500, which it won for the first
time last year. •
Announcement of the award
was made Tuesday by the On-
tario Weekly Newspapers Assoc-
iation. T h e telegram read:
"Times -Advocate won first in
Police Char
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"IN NI
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An officer at RCAF Station
Centralia has been charged with
failing to remain at the scene
of an accident which occurred
ments Lost
li
building was on fire."
Only stock saved were four
milking cows which Mr. Mason Middlesex line,
had let out of the barn for a Lippert suffered broken ribs
drink just before he went up to and 'bead lacerations; his wife,
the mow. Jeannette, 20, received a brawl
Implements lost included a seed left ankle oand. eats to her head
loaded with beans,
drill and the wagon, which was and leg; Donald Bell, Exeter, 21,
suffered a broken jalv, and his
The barn megtared 40 x 50 and wife, also 21, Was, lacerated about
was in good condition. The 16x24 the head, ,
chicken liaise was on the *eat . All were taken to South Huron
side of the barn, Respite], Mrs. Lippert Was later
Flames taught the Mason's removed to London,'
farm house but the Grand Bend Damage . tO the car was esti-
brigade, which arrived soon after, mated:at 32;300 by OPP Constable
doused them quickly. The Dash- John Porde, •
wood brigade also car-- to the plummier injured
scene and both fire departments •—,
concentrated on saving the house. 'Passenger A ay Ccatper, Eiteteta
Two other brigades, Zurieh and Suffered
RCAF Centralia, tried to roach ,head laderationt and back in -
the fire but the road wits blocked
y s. spectators. , car driven by Donald Webster, 25,
RA. 3, Exeter, Went dat of eon -
Chief' of the Gram!. Bend liri-
it ade, isoloitto mason, is it trot MI NO, 4 .hi Way south of
Reiman and rolled over twice
in
a nearby field.
The driver wasn't hilured,
brother of Rey,
Part of the loss is covered by
lasurance. Mason Said Viet -
day he will build seine, kind of
striteture renlade the 'barn but
he hadit8i decided what it would
be.
MISS Kathleen. Hay.. of Tr*,
euait's Hardware, is Tottatiat
oh a buying trip. •
Friday at the annual convention
of 0.W.N.A. in Toronto. Robert
Southcott will be the recipient.
Judges for the Associatioft con-
tests, whieh include all weekly
newspapers in the province, in-
clude E. U. Schrader, director
of practical journalism, Ryer-
son Institute of Technology;
Richard J. Doyle, Toronto, and
Don Fairbairn, CBC "Neigh-
bourly News" commentator. ,
Cornmenting on the award,
Robert Southcott said: "Once
• again, we're proud to bring this
f
ge 0 icer honor to•Exeter and conuatinity.
We kook upon it as a community
hobot because only with, the co -
it
' operation of the entire area is possible to win this coveted
trophy."
Mr. Southcott paid tribute to
The Times -Advocate staff, now
10, whose teamwork contributed
to the production of the( prize-
winning newspaper.
"In addition we must give
credit to the excellent co-opera-
tion we have received from our
correspondents throughout the
area, our columnists and con-
tributors and our advertisers."
Damages, according to OPP Con-
stable George Mitchell, will
amount to $1,200..
On Saturday, a car driven by
tames T. Melville, London, rolled
over in a ditch near Shipka when
it went out of control on the slip-
pery pavement.y
The accident happened on the
Crediton road, west of Shipka.
Damage was estimated at $700.
Co-ordinated action is being
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taken by Huron rounkipalttiels
to petition the Ontario govern.
ment to build its retarded child.
ren's school in Huron County,
County council is asking All 24r
municipalities in Huron to en-
dorse a joint resolution pointing
out the advance of location in
Huron. Officials expect ottani.
mous support in their efforts to
lend support to the campaign be-
ing waged by Huron MPP Torn
Pryde in Toronto.
Other avenuesare also being
explored to press the case, ae-
cording to, Deputy -Reeve Jim
Donnelly, Goclerich, who is
member of the county council
committee which interviewed
provincial authorities recently.
Meanwhile, in Toronto on Mon-
day Tom Pryde turned the tables
on a bold Wallaceburg IrloYe to
get the school.
The glass town officials dump-
ed an impressive display of
sample products from that area
on members' desks in the legis-
lature in an attempt to promote
their location,
The Huron MPP promptly
pointed out that it was apparent
from the samples that Wallace.
burg already had sufficient .in-
dustries and that the govern.
ment should build the school in
Huron, which needed. a boost to
its sagging economy,
Mr, Pryde said: —
"We are not in competition
with any one in the manner in
which they should present claims
for this institution,
"We have nothing in Huron to
keep our people employed and
why help out a section of the
Province that doesn't need it '
when the riding 1 represent
justifiably needs something to
step up its econornY," argued
Mr. Pryde, who has battled long
and hard to get the Government
institution for Huron,
"If the members want to be
impressed with our claims I'll
send every member a bushel of
white beans," he concluded.
The Huron County resolution
which is beingdistributed to
municipal officials this week
reads:
Owners Seek
$200 Acre
Landowners, speaking Monday
at the expropriation hearlag con-
ducted by the Ausable Authority,
repeated their claims that the
land taken over for the Morri-
son Darn in Usborne township is
worth $200 an acre.
The owners were witnesses in
their own behalf in the hearing
conducted by the three-man
Authority committee. They at-
tempted to substantiate their
claims for $46,000 for the 77
acres which has been expropri-
ated.
The hearing terminated Mon-
day after the landowners' , case
had been presented by their
counsel, Frank Donnelly, Gode
rich. His' witnesses in c l ti d e d
David Jackson, Grand Bead real
tor.
Seek Compensation
Besides $200 an acre, the
owners ask compensation fpr
loss of water, pasture, fuel,
wood, springs and reforestation,
Last week, Huron County as
*sessor Alex Alexander told the
board he valued the entire area
at $3,370, He estimated addition-
al allowances at' $2,175 for a
total of $2,905.
• The land was expropriated
after the. owners refused the
Authority's offer of $115 an acre
plus other payments.
Authority Fieldman G.
Hooke said the three-inan com-
mittee, headed by Wellington
Brock, of Usborne, would meet
soon to decide on a fair price.
If the owners dont agree with
the committee's decisioa, they
may appeal to the Ontario Muni
own's Own Baden Powell
ember Of Original Troop
Baden Powell was once a Mem-
ber of the First Exeter Boy Scout
TrH"twasn't THE Badett,Powell,
however. Not the Lord Baden-
Powell whose birth 100 years ago
Is being celebrated by Scouts all
over the world this Friday. Not
the Eadert-Powell who founded
the largest and most respected
youth movement history has ever
known.
Nevertheless, Exeter's Paden
Powell did become a elebrity—
for a short time at least. Being a
Scout with the namesake of the
movement's fotider, he Was
featured in Toronto papers in 1921
when he atteaded a model' ceina
at the Toronto Exhibition. lie was
0110 Of a patrol of Hoy Scuts
from Exeter who Were cOttpli-
mented as being the neatest and
inlartest Scouts in the camp.
Exeter's Haden Powell, who is
now living in Sarnia,,,wits a
mp mem-
bet of the tewhich received'',
the 'first Scout .charter in Ontario
—a distinction prized by former
members of the troop, many of
whom are notv commuhity lead-
Aerma 6hreig. air,e1Sewhere iti North
History of the loaf troop is not
retarded in detail but fragitterits
of the story have been collected
this Week as the Scouts prepare
to celebrate a double occasion—
the fiftieth anniversary of the be-
ginning of Scouting and the cen-
tennial of ahe birth of its founder.
The actual- anniversary is Friday,.
but official observance will be
held Sunday with special services
in the churches.
Present leaders of the troop
plan to etunpile the history of this
colourful organization in Exeter
and put it on record for the first
time. Similar histories are being
prepared for other troops itt the
area.
Preliminary investigation re.
teems the first attempt to organize
a troop here was in 1915-16,
al-
thohgh Setae reports inditate it
was earlier than that. R. G. Sel-
doh, one of the promoters of the
first group, recalls the organiza-
tion at that time WAS not very
successful. -
Troop Active in 1021
Times-Advotate records show,
however, that the troop was Mike
active by 1931. Thomas Pryde,
now Huron MPP, was Scotties.
ter; J. M. Harvey, was his Assist-
ant; Mind W. Stuart Stanbury, who
has knee gained innitiente in the
Canadian Red Cross, was troop
leader. The group appeared to be
sponsored by Caven Presbyterian
Church.
In July. 10 Boy Scouts enjoyed
an overnight ramp at Kippen un-
der Troop Leader Stanbury, and
hi August, 14 members of the
troop held, a 10 -day camp at Bay-
field, where they were visited by
a Strathroy troop.
It was in Septertiber of the
same year that the Exeter patrol
was among tile contingent at
the Exhibition,
Beg Peavers, of Heavers Hard-
ware, Exeter, was bugler of the
troop end he recalls that among
the members were his brother
George, Ted Tartan, berry Boyle,
and Harold Whyte (who later be*
Came a Senttnatter himself).
Other nettles are mentioned in
An account of n banquet in Sao,-
tember 106, They iticlutied Hob
Ganibrill, who was presented With
a hie.elVing certificate; Heinen
Gower, And Kenneth Stenbur
At that same banquet,
Stenbuty received his Xing „
'Ord, the highest badge obit
Able. 4,
Bob GamriIT tenanted a
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