The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-07-24, Page 1NO BED OF ROSES—Mark Consitt, 15 -month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Consitt,
Kippen, wears unusual "leggings" these days. He suffered a fracture Friday when
he fell off a back porch stair, landing in a flower bed. The break is about amid -way
between the knee and the ankle. Mrs. Consitt, above, is the former Margaret Camp-
bell, daughter of Percy Campbell. —T -A Photo
GOV'T BUYS KIPPEN STORE—General store of Emerson Kyle, Kippen, has been
purchased by the Ontario Department of Highways and will be demolished to pro-
vide better vision at the intersection of the county road and No. 4. Although highways
officials describe it as a safety measure only, speculation over widening of No. 4 is
widespread. Mr. Kyle, above, has operated the store .since 1931.----T-A Photo
Praise, Criticism
PIan: Police Poor -Wow"
Miffed over complaints ex-
pressed in a letter to The Times -
Advocate last week and reports
of a minor securing liquor from
a bootlegger in Exeter, Council-
lor Ralph Bailey said Monday
night he would meet with the
members of the force to discuss
enforcement problems.
Councillor Bailey said the com•
plaints were a "nasty thing"
for Exeter, "It's not the type of
publicity we want,"
Bailey, who is chairman of. the
police committee, revealed the
regular meetings between the
committee and the force, which
had been advocated earlier, have
not been held but he promised
to calla meeting soon.
Police. carne in for praise, as
well as criticism, during the
lively discussion sparked by
Bailey. " Several councillors re-
ported hearing compliments on
the efficiency of the force.
Mayor R. E. Pooley revealed
several charges have been laid
.Hensall Kin
Plan Show
Pretty blonde Hansen sisters,
TV's popular fiddling team, will
show sponsored by Hensall Bins.
shoy sponsored by Hensall Kins-
men club, President Harold
Knight announced this week,
The show, which will be- pee -
seated in Hensall on the holiday
• evening, has been booked by Lee
Paul, Kirkton, and it includes
five professional acts,
In addition to the }Jansen sis-
tees, who were featured guests
with the Guy Lombardo Show in
Las Vegas earlier.' this year, the
pregratri includes Jack Bateman,
comical magician; 13illy Meek,
popular coniedian,,who will ,also
emcee the show; Penny Nichols,
tap dancing star and aetebat,.
anti Jin itty McDonald, the
musical dlreetor.
The 1CitistiltM show, Which ret
places the ban festival, sport,
cored for several years, will
include games, bingo arid,
eltt O, for which the tiesjardirie
orchestra will provide the nit.tsic.
Proceeds Will AO teteatda the'
Club's service ectivitiesr
in regard to the throwing of
beer bottles from cars and other
offences which have been the
subject of criticism. He also
stated the town had experieced
less difficulty from teenage hood-
lums than other district centres.
Referring to the letter in The
T -A in which a citizen complain-
ed about the lack of control
over youth who make unneces-
sary noise with their cars, throw
beer bottles out windows, and
use abusive language, Councillor
Bailey suggested they "might
not be too far fetched."
He was concerned about I:he
recent report that a 19 -year-old
youth, who was fined at Grand
Bend for illegal possession of
liquor, had purchased it from
an Exeter bootlegger whom he
refused to identify.
"Do we have bootleggers in
town?" he asked.
The mayor: "We've had then
for a long time but I don't know
where you'll find one at the
mom ent."
Bailey: "I don't know either
but it isn't up to us—it's up to
the pollee,"
Mayor: "Since we're bringing
this into the open, I still don't
believe that a' man can he al-
lowed to have an open case of
beer in his car."
Councillor Farrow understood
there was nothing in the Canada
Temperance Act preventing theist
from having beer in the ear,
Deputy -Reeve Mawhinney: "If
some of these fellows start kick-
ing up a disturbance they can
get them on that,"
Where To
Find It
Announcements 11.
Clitrrth Netiees
Coming Events 15
Editerials . ., 2
Entertainment , 15
Farm News 3, 9, lb, ti
Feminine Farts .. ...., 12, 13
'Iiensaill 6, i'
Luton 14, 15
Sports 4, 5
Went Ad% 11
Looking' In W M'k Ali .,..... , 16
Councillor Bailey complained
he had learned of two or three
occasions in which people had
agreed to testify in court con-
cerning offenses but police had
done nothing about it. He said
one father had volunteered in-
formation about the sale of beer
to his under -age son but no
action was taken. "What should
you do about it?"
Pooley: "It's .the police's duty
to enforce the law."
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Eighty -Second Year,
EXETER,
ONTARIIO( JULY
1958
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SpeculationArAcat r #s Over Store Purchase
en
Rerouting Of No. 4
Cons ruction Booming,;
Hone TotalNew1'_. �
Construction currently in pro-
gress in Exeter is valued at over
a quarter of a million dollars.
While the total 'value isn't as
large as it has been in other
summers when large ]ndlvi.
dual projects such as schools
'have been erected, this summer's
building boom represents a peak
because of the number of pro-
jects under way.
Housing tops the list with three
new subdivisions started. There
are 14 units now in various stages RCA Promotes
of construction, more than there PFTS
has been for some time
Of the four commercial build -
vulvas equipment and furnish
Ings.
Other three commercial build-
ings are the 330,1100 Aleantuc
poultry buildings, along Highway
83, which represents a develop-,,
merit in mass production farmingi,
in this area; a cement -block ex
tension to Exeter Dairy Ltd.,'
William St. north; and the
cement.bloek machine shop being';'
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•
inns under way, one is the neDirector
w
North Land Turkey Hatchery
which represents the growth of
a district industry.
Although the hatchery itself
will be valued at nearly $200;000
when completed, construction re-
presents only about one-quarter.
The remainder of the cost in -
Air Force headquarters an-
nounced this week the promotion
to the rank of Group Captain of,
former Wing Commander G. R.
Truemner, AFC, CD, officers
commanding Primary Flying`.
Training School, RCAF Station,'
Centralia.
- Group Captain Trueurner has
Gliders Land in recent years been acquainted'
with and. direeuy responsible for -
manynitheexit pilott �oast rand Bend
G/C G. R. TRUEMNER I
Receives promotion , . .
Although rumors of a proposed
widening and perhaps re-routing
of No. 4 Highway were flatly
denied by Ontario:Department of
Highways officials, announce•
went of the sale of a general
store at Kipper this week tends
to strengthen the reports.
D. E. ,Kyle, Kippen, confirmed
Tuesday the sale of his Marc,
house and farm supply building
to the department. Transfer date
is September 30 of this year.
At the:same time it was re-
vealed by an authoritative source,
that farm land along the high-
way south of Kippen has been
purchased, presumably for
widening. Periodic reports of,
similar transactions coneerning
land between Lucan and Kippen
have circulated.
Department officials, however,
said the purchase of the Kippeni
store was a "safety measure" i
only. "It's to get a daylight
corner there," said A. D. Leitch,;
property supervisor of the Lon-
don
. division.
Reports of re-routing No. 4
around Luean and Exeter were,
flatly denied by John Walters, of
•
TV Star Joan Fairfax
In Biddulph
Several gliders taking part in
a Canadian competition on Sun-
day made forced landings on
Bidclulph Township: farms when
they failed to make a trip from
Brantford to RCAF Station Cen-
tralia and return.
One glider, piloted by E, A.
Bundy, of New York, landed
close to the buildings on the
farm of Hugh Davis, Saintsbury.
Two others landed on farms on
concession four.
The competition was sponsored
by the Brantford -Norfolk Soaring
Club. Gliders were towed by an
airplane to a height of 2,000 feet
at Brantford to attempt the round
trip.
It was learned that one of the
gliders completed the exercise.
Wives and friends of. those who
weren't successful, motored to
landing sites to take the crafts
backs to :Brantford.
Think He II
Take, It...?
A prospective buyer took a
car from an Exeter lot out for
a trial spin Monday and ended
up in the ditch.
The car, owned by Larry Sni-
der Motors J,,td., suffered $400
damage after it . rolled, in the
ditch: 'Robert Sockett, Elgin -
field, the prospective buyer, lost
control of .the vehicle in loose
gravel on Huron street, about a
mile west of Exeter. Sockett was
not injured.
The mishap was one of four
accidents in this area reported
by provincial police in which
damages totalled $2,500.
In Monday, two miles of Drys-
dale, Robert Gee of Stratford,
lost control in loose gravel and
rolled his vehicle in the ditch.
Damage was $600.
Car owned by Ray Glavin, R,R.
3 Dashwood, suffered $1,600
damage after a blowout caused
it to hit a culvert and land in
the ditch on the Mt. Carmel road,
Damages were estimated at
$400 in a two -car crash, two
miles west of Exeter on No. 83.
Police said John Brown, 75, of
Zurich, ,who was travelling west
on concession four, failed to
stop at 83 and was struck by a
car driven. by John Melnicik, 38,
of Ipperwash,
OPT' Constable Cecil Gibbons
investigated the accidents.
CEntraiia CNS Squad
Plans Colorful Show
Grandstand crowds at the
CNE will be treated to "sone•
thing a little different" from
the tri -service drill team which
is currently practicing for the
exhibition at RCAF Station Ceti-
tralia,
S/L F. S. Steele, Saskatoon,
comm ancling officer of the team,
said new drill patterns will be
introdueed to the performance
this year to provide spectators
with a more .colorful show.
"While our show will remain
basically military, we .re get-
ting away a bit from the straight'
arms drill and have come up with
about :five minutes of pattern
drill Which we think will appeal
to the public," S/L Steele stated.
The 1.30-nman team, composed
of equal numbers of navy, army,
and airforce personnel, has been
practicing at Centralia since
July 7 and will remain al the
local station until August 13
When it n1OVes to Toronto for re.
hearsals on the actual grand..
stand site.
In Toronto, the team will be
reined by the band of the Army
Signals Corps, now training in
Kingston, which will swell the.
squad 10 183.
On August 20, the squad will
form the guard, of tenor lot
l�ririrt
'Minister JSieftelbaker for
the opening r t _ f
,x�ii:, p h rig ae a ttenirs o the
CNE.
On Warriors' flay, it will lead
Lire Parade through Toronto'.
The regular grandstand stint
of the squad will last from seven
to eight minutes.
Navy personnel for rhe, squad
have been drawn from H;1ICS
Sheerwater, Dartmouth, and the
army members beloiig to the
first batallion of the RCit"s, Ip-
perwash.
Officers of the squad, include:
navy, Lt. F. J. Cops and Lt.
W.A, Schroeder; army, Capt.
;T. J. Hartnett and Lt. J. A. ('an•
yers; air force, F/L A. E. Slur -
gess and P/0 H. W. Sehweyer.
No Edition
Next Week
'i'he 'rimes -Advocate. will
not bo published next Thurs.
Clay, July 31, in order to al-
low members of the. staff t0
enjoy their annual holidays.
The office will be closed
from ,July 28 to August S.
Because of Civic Holiday
on Monday, August S, the
next edition will net be in
the mail until Friday, .Aug.
test 8.
Correspondents and con-
tributors are asked to sub-
mit their flews as early as
possible next week in order
to give the staff the elipor-
funity to iltelude an extra
week's clews ill the August
it edition..
s rob tram-
with
ing phases of the RCAF since •
his arrival al the local station in
December, 1954.
Prior to assuming his present
role, he was associated with the
Royal Canadian Air Force staff
!Toronto where :for e he was enior ial nembes r
of the directing staff of the
school.
The promotion, effective July •
1, is coincident with an an-
; nounced transfer to RCAF head -
i quarters, Ottawa.
Bog Grass Fire
Covers 15 Acres
Grand fiend firemen fought a
stubborn grass fire in the hog,
six milessouth of the village,
for two hours on iilnnday.
Fire thief Lawrence Mason
said the brigade used all of 'its
2 200 feet of hose to control the
blaze, which broke out on scrub
land but threatened vegetable
gardens.
He .said the fire spread over
some 15 acres.
Today, Thursday, is Joan Pair-I
crash crew on hand to see that
ably, .lust: to see.
She'll be met there by Erie
Mcllroy, president of Grand ?
l3end Chamber of Commerce.
and Bill Schlegel, Lions Club
president, and other dignitaries.4
Parade to the beach will begin
at the Brenner Hotel at 1.45 p.m.
The beach program will he
under the chairmanship of Len!
Evans of Radio Station CHLO,
L'''ondon -St. Thomas, and will be
recorded for presentation on.
Earlier she'll he guest of honor CHLO later that. day.
at a dinner at Oakwood :Inn and On the platform with Miss
then she'll parade down main Fairfax will he C. E. "Zeb"
street. in a convertible behind Janes, MPP Lambton West; G.
RCAF Station Centralia band. Ernest :Jackson. federal member
Miss Fairfax, who used to live
in Exeter when her husband,
Tom "Pinky" Higgins, was a
member of the RCAF at .Cen-
tralia, will return to the station
as a sort of conquering heroine.
An tl t t' 1 t tl tit
fax day at Grand Bends 1
she ands safely or, more pros
The TV singing star, who will
be the feature attraction at
Grand Bend Lions Club's Holi-
day Ball tonight, will tour the
summer resort during the day
in a manner resembling a royal
visit.
Several thousand are expected
to greet her at a public recep-
tion on the beach during the
afternoon where she'll sign the
village's guest book and he the
toast of visiting dignitaries.
en utas ti pro , to pee
songstress will fly her light,
white aircraft from Toronto to
Centralia. Although RCAF of-
ficials didn't confirm it, no doubt
there'll be an "extra large"'
for London South; Charles Mac -
Naughton, Huron MPP, Exeter;
and. Russell Watson, Warden of
Lampton County.
Reeve James Dalton and Coun-
cillors Wcllwood Gill. Campbell
Chapman, Eric M'ellroy and
William Cochrane will, represent
the village of Grand Bend.
Group Captain A. G. Kenyon.
commanding officer of RCAF
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the planning b� xna".r, Toronto.
"We're. not ina 1 any plane
wha`°iuever to bypass those
place. 1 heard about this in-
directly a wesk ago, but we have
no plans at ala," he told The:
Times -Advocate.
Mr. Leitch at London, however,
said a diversion of the Toad is
planned at Clandebo;e, but ria
date has been set -for the work.
"There is a proposed diversion
at Clandeboye," he stated, "be-
cause of that sharp curve where
so many people have been hurt.
There's no indication, though,. as
to when it will be built."
"it isn't going to be diverted,
very far away, that's for sure.
The plan is just to straighten it
out, flatten the curve."
Mr. Leitch said the purchase
of the Kyle store was "'strictly a
safety measure."
"The intersection is blind on
that side. The building sits right
out on No. 4 Highway and also
on the county road and you have.
to practically get the front end of
your car out on No, 4 before you
can see anything corning from
the north."
The buildings, he said, will be
put up for public tender and the
purchaser will have to demolisls
and remove them.
Mr. Kyle has operated the gen-
eral store since 1931 when he
bought it from the late J. P.
Bowey, who moved to Exeter.
Previous owners included Jake
Detwiller, Balfour and Cousins
and a 'Mrs. Mellis.
The store itself measures 24x60,
and the house attached at the
rear is 24 x 26. The farm supply
barn is 30 x 40.
Mr. Kyle operates an egg grad-
ing station in connection with the -
store.
At the moment, he says he has
no plans for the future.
At Exeter council meeting on
Monday night, several council -
lois had heard a report suggest-
ing- that the highway would be
rerouted around the town if
parallel parking was not estab-
lished on both sides of main
street to relieve traffic conges-
tionCo.
uncil decided to write the
department for official informa-
tion.
LEAVE FOR WISCONSIN
Mr. Gordon Hewlett and two
boys left Sunday rridrning fo>p
their new home in Wisconsin.,
Mr. Russell Collingwood accom-
panied them to New York and
flew home on Tuesday evening.
PLAN OF NEW HATCHERY --This sketch shows the type
of building being erected by North Land Turkey. Hatchery
on its site along Highway 83. The building will measure
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34x202 with a 40 -foot "L" on the west end. Construction,
is progressing rapidly on the building. Another structure,
30x100, will be erected behind this one.
CNE TEAM iiftlt,L$ AT CENTRAL A—r'etty Officer J 1'vr
, . y .
:�utl;exY RCN, ol]e of the instructors .on the ttlselvlce drill
teaitir is shown giving a few pointers on the rifle to navy,
army and air force members of the precision squad which
is training at lICAP Centralia for the CNE.
41,CAP Photic,